Weekly Flylady Thread 28th August 2017

Natty68

[FONT=&quot]What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole task easier and quicker. We also accept that, sometimes, life just gets on top of us and we can't keep up, maybe because we're time-poor, not in the best of health and/or we have littlies who need us. We are definitely NOT control freaks aiming for perfection and utterly spotless show-homes.[/FONT]
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Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. You're more than welcome to join us in the everlasting battle against dust, grime and gibble. The aim of our thread is to make those onerous tasks less daunting, and to support each other - and to make time for the finer things in life!

Right now the thread is looking very quiet...but please do remember we have to abide by MSE rules; each post should, ideally, include some mention of flying.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Thank you Honey Bear for last week's thread.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And what a grand job you did too

It is your responsibility to read the forum rules, please follow them on this thread as Flylady has been here a LONG time and is a fabulous support and resource for lots of us. All posts should have some Flylady-related (ooh a compound adjective) content!

The idea is that even if you are really busy you don't need to fall off the wagon!

Every room comes back around next week so please don’t stress about catching up

These lists are only suggestions and not a must do list; you are more than welcome to post and follow your own lists.

Also adding a declutter mission each day will help to gradually clear the clutter and make flying easier.

A few of the basics before we start the week

Hotspots are areas where if one thing gets put there, loads of other things follow!

Daily routines are anything you need to do on a daily basis like washing, swish and swipe kitchen and bathroom, ironing, making beds, vacuuming high traffic areas, making meals etc.

Night-time routines are all things which make getting ready in the morning easier, preparing clothes for the next day, making lunches, swish & swipes of the kitchen and tidying the living room before you go to bed plus personals like shower/brush teeth etc.

Fling Boogie - stick on some loud music, grab a bin bag and whiz around the house finding items that can go out with the rubbish, recycling, for charity shop, basically anything that will stop it cluttering your home.

Swish and swipe/S&S means have a quick wipe over an area such as a sink or toilet to prevent the build up of dirt. This is usually done on a daily basis

HHE/HHC/HHI Half Hour exercise/challenge/ironing ... run around for 30 minutes to the Benny Hill music frantically cleaning exercising or ironing.. other music may be used if you prefer!
WM ~ Washing machine
TD ~ Tumble dryer
SC ~ Slowcooker
BM ~ Breadmaker
DW ~ Dishwasher
SOAADFA ~ Sit on 'bottom' and do 'nothing'
KH/XH/FW ~ Ex-husband and other not so polite versions
DH/DD/DS/DW/DP ~ Dear husband/daughter/son/wife/partner/whatever
OH/SO ~ Other half/significant other
NN ~ nice neighbour
Toxic (friend/mother/sister/whoever) ~ person in your life that seems to exist to make your life miserable
AF ~ Aunt Flo 'time of the month'.. nothing to do with flying but it comes up often.
ETA ~ Edited to add
Gibble ~ miscellaneous crap that appears forever homeless
Dot-to-dot ~ pick a small area (not a whole room) like a chair/coffee/table/shelf/worktop or wherever- thats your first 'dot' - totally clear it - clean it - and only put back what should be there - deal with what you have removed (not just move it somewhere else) then if you have time move on and do the same to another 'dot' -the idea is just like a dot to dot puzzle, you aim to join up all the dots and have a tidy room. The trick is to keep each dot tidy until you get them all joined up! All credit to AnW's Mum for this one
RoD ~ Room of Doom, the one room that feels like it is a permanent pit and cannot be used to its potential!
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]MAD half hour[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
- Mad is the abbreviation for Make A Difference.
The idea is that you have a Forth bridge (ie never-ending - or just huge) task but that you work on it in half-hour bursts. This way you know you ARE stooping, and that you won't get it finished but you will make a difference - so it might be clearing out - the garage or shed, or clothes sorting, or weeding - you get the picture - but rather than keep going until you've lost the will to live you do half an hour...but, eventually those half hours will get the job done!

Mr S/A/T/M/L/Al - supermarkets Sainsburys, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl, Aldi. You get the picture!!

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Ok here goes this week

Monday ~ HAVE THE DAY OFF AND DO SOMETHING FUN WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!!!

It is bank holiday (though not in Scotland I believe?)
Do your dailies
Tackle a frog or 5

And spend the rest of the day doing nice things with your family!

Tuesday ~ pick a room...
Level One
Declutter and vacuum/mop the floor
Pile up all the hotspot into one mountain and pend 15 minutes sorting through it!
Level Two
Dust and deweb
Wash soft furnishings that need doing.. throws, curtains, blinds, nets.. whatevers..
Tidy up a cupboard/drawer or other storage vessel
Level Three
Wash stinky pet bedding/clean tanks etc
Wipe doors and skirtings and paintwork
Binbag dance

Extras

• Start your ascent of Mount Ironmore - aim to reach base camp today!
• Arrange services on fires/boilers etc..
• Scrub and demould doorseals! Don't forget the ones in the WM
• Tidy the top of the fridge/freezer
• Empty and wash out bins!
• Get those final bits sorted for back to school/work

Wednesday ~ Bedroom and Landing
Level One
Strip and wash the bedding, remake bed before bedtime!
Declutter the floor and vacuum it! See if you can find a bit of floor you've not seen in a while!
Level Two
Binbag dance
Sort a box of junk/cupboard/drawer
Dust and deweb
Level Three
Wash any curtains/nets/pillows etc that are in need
Tidy up the shoes and clothes that are scattered about
Tidy the linen cupboard

Extras

• HHI
• Wash windows
• Wipe paintwork
• Catch up on a job you've been putting off... phonecalls, filing etc..
• End of the month looms - get September's cards ready
• Start thinking about pack lunches or dinner money, are the lunchboxes clean and where have you put them?
• IRONING IRONING and More ironing - or fold diligently and PUT IT AWAY!
  

Thursday ~ pick a room...
Level One
Declutter and vacuum/mop the floor
Clear window sills
Level Two
Dust and deweb
Scrub down kitchen units/table
Tidy up a cupboard/drawer or other storage vessel
Level Three
Clean filters and door seals on relevant appliances
Wipe doors and skirtings and paintwork
Binbag dance

Extras

• Wash windows
• Sort out having chimneys swept/boilers serviced etc ready for winter
• Organise car tax/MOT/insurance papers, household insurances extended warrantie.. make sure everything is up to date and filed appropriately!
• HHI.. or HH-something else if you don't have any ironing!!!!
• Collect tea towels and table cloths for washing
• Put out fresh tea towels..
  

Friday ~ Study and Bathroom
Level One
Spend half an hour doing something for yourself! Coffee with a friend, hair appointment... whatever
Declutter the floors!
Level Two
Vacuum/mop floors
Wash the bathmats/shower curtains or anything else that needs it
Scrub the fixtures! polish the mirrors and taps
Level Three
Clean and sort a cupboard or shelf and recycle all hose empties
Dust and defrag the pc and declutter 50 unwanted emails and 5 links from your favourites.
Wipe over the desk and any chairs that are in these rooms

Extras

• Empty and wash out bins
• Wash windows
• Wipe doors and paintwork
• Wash any stinky pet beds.. or the pets themselves if you wish

atypicalblonde

I'm in thanks for the lists ladies xx

Duckydo

I'm in this week, thanks for the list Natty.

Jobs for tomorrow include:
meal plan for the week
write shopping list
do shopping
HHI ironing

and if the weather holds:
finish weeding terraced sections of garden
give fence a coat of paint
paint outdoor chairs with wood preserver

Hugs, sticks and spoons to all that need them.

MinnieMousesMummy

Hi, Thanks for the list, please count me in for this week and as usually I will be partly working from my own list.

Monday
Let the chickens out, feed animals and collect eggs
Take kids to schools
Go into the office for a few hours
Hand in expenses paperwork
Wipe the kitchen surfaces
Sweep and mop the floor
Encourage dh to paint the sitting room
Encourage ds1 to help in the kitchen by cleaning out fridge (trying to get him helping more in the house)
Check survey sites
Sort through the main cupboard in the kitchen and clean shelves
HH decluttering the master bedroom
Fill in online enrolement for uni
Collect the kids from school and childminder
Close the chickens away

Hope everyone has had a good weekend and enjoy a new week.

greent

Thanks for the lists, Natty

I'm in. Tomorrow I plan on a quick smkt trip, an hour finance & admin stuff, lots of ironing and a trip somewhere with the small 2
x

lynnejk

Evening all

I'm in and thank you for the lists ladies

Monday ~ HAVE THE DAY OFF AND DO SOMETHING FUN WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!!!

It is bank holiday (though not in Scotland I believe?)
Do your dailies
Tackle a frog or 5

You're quite right Natty, we do not have the BH here, so it's a normal weekend/week here for us.

Hope you all enjoy your BH. Hugs all round
Lx

ETA Sorry Bossy - meant to say HAPPY HOLIBOBS !!

Valli

I'm in.

Thanks Honey Bear for stepping up and thanks for this week Natty

Valli's Last Week of the Holidays (BOO) list

Take sodding car in for battery check
Resist temptation to kill offspring
Empty allotment of raspberries and make jelly thereof
Do shedloads of work stuff
Sort out money
Pay in replacement cheque (PTA)

Wash, iron and repeat
Buy more washing up liquids and ponder how it all got used when, going by state of hovel, NONE had been done.
Plus do all Flylady lists and check over rather over ambitious holiday 'things I will achieve this summer' list.
Go to SW and attempt to persuade consultant that wine/champagne is EXACTLY like eating grapes and is therefore syn free.

froddington

Thanks Natty :A hope you are Dave are ok xx

Having breakfast out with Dad tomorrow then am going to collect the school guinea pigs as the person who was having them for the week has had to pull out. So that's my morning sorted!

Have a great time bossymoo x

I think I might achieve tomorrow's list :rotfl:

YORKSHIRELASS

Morning all

So the plan for today was to get up early and try and do at least 4 hours work and take the rest of the day off.

But despite getting a good nights sleep I am really tired so its a struggle at the moment. Off to make some coffee.

ionafan

Morning all.

I fell into bed at 9.00 last night and slept almost all through until 7.00 this morning. Still tired, but a cuppa is waking me slowly

Main thing on the to-do list today is more of my essay - the weekend was a washout, as far as that was concerned. But I now have an opening for part 2, so I hope it flows. I shan't get much done tomorrow, between SW and taking DH to the dentist. Roll on Friday, when it has to be submitted.

Also need to do WMx2, and might persuade DH to hoover downstairs, in which case I will quickly dust the LR (not done any dusting for a week except in our BR when I moved the furniture round on Friday, when I gave gave the carpet, skirtings, walls and ceiling a thorough going over).

Brought back one coffee cake and one tray of brownies from the church cake station for the Glass Biennale, as they still had lots of cake left over from Saturday. Numbers of visitors have been very much lower this year, as we didn't have any exhibits in church Still, it saves me baking again for Friday evening when DS1 and family are coming to tea.

First cuppa finished. I feel the need for another....

See you later. Hope everyone doing Bank Holiday activities or on holiday has a nice sunny day. Good start here! x

Dizzy_Imp

I'm still here, just lurking as DH is on his second week of holidays...

Granite worktop going in tomorrow, then I can order a range cooker and tiles for the splashback. Kitchen is nearly there!

Operation builder's clean has started, but OMG the dust is unreal. DSS has said he will come up on the train to help me. Love that boy