Weekly Flylady Thread 1st October 2007

nearlynewbie

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
[strike]Vacuum floors [/strike]and sofas ddin't manage sofas this week
Level 2
[strike]Dusting, even if around everything [/strike][strike]
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
Water any thirsty plants, wipe their poor neglected leaves!!
[/strike]plant looks very gratefulLevel 3
[strike]Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister[/strike][strike]
[/strike]Clean any other glass like mirrors, [strike]pictures[/strike] etc
Tidy shoes, coats and bags .. wash any that need washing in preparation for cold weather!! See if there are any that don't fit, past their best or just plain uncomfy which could leave the house!
Put up linings or winter curtains to keep out those draughts.
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

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• Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.
• [/strike]doing about 30 minutes a day due to neccessityVacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
• Clean a window or two.
• [strike]
  
• Get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be, or better still give them to their owners to put away themselves
• [/strike]Deep Clean Challenge
  [strike]Clean light fittings, [/strike]skirtings even the ones behind furniture. Clean fire-surrounds. Wipe sofa's down. Clear as may hotspots as you can.. see if you can get it all into one pile instead of 15!!!

Have also done dailies
WMx2
DW x2
S&S kitchen and bathroom and downstairs loo
Turbo listed 5 items
Cut up red cabbage and salted to pickle tomrrow
made mustard and quince relish (from How to Eat) to start chutney and relish Xmas hamper for my sister

pigpen

After my 6 hours defleaing children yesterday.. DD4 has come home with huge great monsters again!!!! I never even got the stuff washed off her hair and she has them!!!!!! I have chucked a strop at the nursery.. in front of ALL the parents, said it is not good enough and parents HAVE to be told.. they may not be allowed to say ' your child has lice' but they can say ' I saw something in your childs hair today while they were playing beside me. Obviously I couldn't have a closer look but we have had reports of lice in the nursery'.. no 'diagnosis' made and the parents are informed. AND all the louse letters are sent out on English.. in a school where 25% of the children aren't and many of the parents have very little English so probably don't understand the letters.. maybe that is something I can address in the Governors meeting next month..

Anyway.. more tea.. more tea!!!

Oh I sent DS1 to post the remaining bag of parcels.. I have 2 more to go, one is in the TD and the other has disappeared!

nicki_2

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clean floors
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] Wipe dining table.. (clean table cloth if necessary) [/STRIKE]
Level Three
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
[STRIKE] Wipe and replace all those small appliances.. kettle, toaster etc [/STRIKE]
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards..

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Level 3
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
[STRIKE] Put up linings or winter curtains to keep out those draughts.[/STRIKE]

Thats me for the night. :wave:

Mum_of_many_4

Right this is what I have managed to do, just going to cook tea now before Dh and the kids come in.

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
[strike]Vacuum floors and sofas
[/strike]Level 2
[strike]Dusting, even if around everything
[/strike]
[strike]Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
[/strike]
[strike]Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
[/strike]
Water any thirsty plants, wipe their poor neglected leaves!!
Level 3
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
[strike]Tidy shoes, coats and bags .. wash any that need washing in preparation for cold weather!! See if there are any that don't fit, past their best or just plain uncomfy which could leave the house!
[/strike]
Put up linings or winter curtains to keep out those draughts.
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• [strike]
  
• Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.
• [/strike]
• [strike]
  
• Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
• [/strike]
• Clean a window or two.
• [strike]
  
• Get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be, or better still give them to their owners to put away themselves
• [/strike]
• Deep Clean Challenge
  Clean light fittings, skirtings even the ones behind furniture. Clean fire-surrounds. Wipe sofa's down. Clear as may hotspots as you can.. see if you can get it all into one pile instead of 15!!!
• Dailies
• WM X3, 2 loads pegged out
• DW
• TD
• Washed bottles and sterilised x2
• Washing up x2 and dry/put away

embb

lil_me I getcha now
pigpen I feel your anger, it happens at our school all the time, there's just no need for it. It takes hours to wet comb DD2's hair thoroughly, and I wouldn't care even after being lotioned the little blighters are still alive and kicking, I just wet comb them now till they're gone.

Took me ages to summon up the energy to make the tea, it's not as if it's anything hard, hot dog buns and chips, not healthy or nutritious but I really can't be bothered tonight, hoping to catch a bath later. x

FrankieM

A mum I know shaved her daughters heads because she was tired of the constant nits.....

pigpen

embb I combed their little heads off last night.. I had 3 (aged 2, 4 and 6) of them crying by the time I'd done and they get them straight back.. hopefully enough of the parents heard me having a strop earlier and will sort their little treasures tonight.. and I'm not averse to standing at the gates shaving heads as they go in!!!! I think it is about time they had drops for the backs of their necks that last a month like I use on the cat.. or a spray.. or a sheep dip.. Of the 8 children, 6 had lice.. 2 were REALLY bad and hubby had them too!! only me and DS1 didn't have them!! I just don't think it is fair these have to spend every evening being combed just because of some parents are too lazy or simply don't care..

anyway.. enough stropping frmo me.. I MUST Get these curtains made for the middle room it is freezing in there and the bunnies have frost bite!

nicki_2

pigpen wrote: »

all the louse letters are sent out on English.. in a school where 25% of the children aren't and many of the parents have very little English so probably don't understand the letters.. maybe that is something I can address in the Governors meeting next month..

Pigpen - that is a very good point I hadn't thought of in our school - we have a VERY high number of EAL (english additional language) kids, I might bring that up at our next proper meeting :think: I know the website with information on is only available in English cause I'm the webmistress and I only speak English :rotfl: I am looking into ways of translating things into other languages though

TNG

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http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=566163

doddsy

doddsy wrote: »

Hi Ladies and pigpen, I hope you can help me get 'on track'. I work 3 days a week - mon, weds & friday. I thought this would give me 2 days to keep the house nice but somehow they just get frittered away. I am going to try your schedule for encouragement!

As you can see I have made a start - let's hope I can keep this up. I wonder how to do the days that I work though.

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
[strike]Dusting, even if [strike]around everything [/strike][strike]
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
[/strike]Water any thirsty plants, wipe their poor neglected leaves!!
Level 3
[strike]Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister[/strike][strike]
Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
[/strike]Tidy shoes, coats and bags .. wash any that need washing in preparation for cold weather!! See if there are any that don't fit, past their best or just plain uncomfy which could leave the house!
Put up linings or winter curtains to keep out those draughts.
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• [strike]Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.[/strike]
• Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
• Clean a window or two.
• [strike]Get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be, or better still give them to their owners to put away themselves[/strike]

Deep Clean Challenge
[strike]Clean light fittings[/strike], skirtings even the ones behind furniture. [strike]Clean fire-surrounds[/strike]. Wipe sofa's down. Clear as may hotspots as you can.. see if you can get it all into one pile instead of 15!!!

Didn't get too much of the list done, but did do a HUGE pile of ironing, finished my pickled onions and put together ~(and sent) a parcel for my daughters boyfriend who is feeling lonely at uni.

Thank goodness my kids have gone past the 'coming home with lice' stage. I remember going into school to complain after my youngest came home repeatedly with them. Her teacher told me that it was one little boy in the class, she said that when she looked down on his poor little head his hair actually moved with them! The parent was told but did nothing.