Weekly Flylady Thread 15th October 2007

pigpen

Tomorrows list is up!

rach

just have to say....my baked apple is divine

hollyh

Hi all

I've made a good start at least. I'm not doing any more today cause i still feel rough and have to open Toddler group in the morning:rolleyes: and mornings are not my strong point.

Monday Mayhem - Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
[STRIKE]Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
Water any thirsty plants, wipe their poor neglected leaves!!
[/STRIKE]
Level 3
[STRIKE]Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures 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.
[/STRIKE]
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• 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.
• Binbag dance.. Get a binbag.. fill it and bin it!!!
• [/STRIKE]
• 30 minutes ironing

Deep Clean Challenge
Empty, clear and clean the inside of a cupboard. Sort the magazine/newspaper heap. the one big pile of 'hotspot' we merged last week.. give it a more thorough sort through.. you do not need bills going back the last 24 years or invalid insurance policies!!

Terrible Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clean floors
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front, clean out any spills or grots in there!
Wipe dining table.. (clean table cloth if necessary)
Level Three
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe and replace all those small appliances.. kettle, toaster etc
Clean oven if you didn't do it last week
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards..
Check those washing machine filters and drawers for ickiness!! Tumble dryer and dishwasher filters need to be done too!!
[/STRIKE]
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• [STRIKE]
  
• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• Wipe down any tiles and shine those taps.. a toothbrush is great for cleaning away the gunk!
• [/STRIKE]
• Write an inventory of your cupboards contents and what needs using first
• Empty the cutlery drawer.. clean it out, wash the cutlery tray, chuck those baby spoons you don't use any more.. how many medicine spoons do you actually need? get rid of everything you don't use and make the drawer look nice again!

Deep Clean Challenge
Get in that junk/spare stuff/'quick.. hide it in there' cupboard. Give it all GOOD scrub out before placing the things you need to keep.. I bet 90% of that can go in the bin!!. If no junk cupboard do a foody one! Feel free to get carried away and do more cupboards

torianut

Hugs to poohbear xx
Great news Tia about your dad
Michelle - don't beat yourself up about work/life balance I worked full time with 2 kids until I was pregnant with ds and it was hard work, almost split me and OH up - you just feel you can't give 100 % to everything, just remember your family is more important and work is just a necessity!

Well LO loved his 1st birthday party and has had a really good day gone to bed shattered so hope he sleeps past 5!

Back to flying tomorrow xx

pigpen

Right I am off to make my kitchen beautiful before the morning.. I am allocating one house to get it perfect.. and anything left homeless is being binned...

I mean.. do I REALLY need the mop sitting in the sink??

nicki_2

Right, sorting out a list for tomorrow now before I go to bed.

Dailies

• Beds
• Bathroom S&S
• Dishes
• Kitchen S&S
• Packed Lunches
• Evening meal - Stew in the slow cooker I think - will get some turkey steaks out in the morning, chop them into chunks and throw them in there
• Listen to a Paul McKenna CD
  
• Exercise DVD x 1 routine a day
  
• Set up ab-trimmer in livingroom
  

Wednesday

• Aldi - Cola!!! (much cheaper and just as nice as Coka-cola :money: )
• ME TIME - by order of Pigpen :rotfl:
• Ironing
• Wash load - DD needs socks for Thursday! :eek:
• Dry all laundry - TOP PRIORITY - Bedding & some jeans still wet :mad:
  

Week list

• Inventory "household" items in all rooms as I clean
• Work on computer photos
• Christmas Lists
• HGP lists for deep cleaning each room, including decorating projects
• Sort paperwork - once our postal service is back to normal :mad: (I do support them being out on strike though - just blooming annoying!) Realised today our new TV licence should hopefully be in the post waiting to be delivered
• Pack-up DD's dolls house and put away.
• Get charity shop stuff together ready for run to shop on Saturday morning.

Livingroom

• Vacuum
• Dusting
• Clean window

Kitchen

• Clean floor
• Oven :shhh:

Kids room

• Hoover
• Dust

Don't need to declutter DD's room as we did that at the weekend - only half a bin-bag of rubbish She's a very tidy girl :j I do need to do the ironing though. Will have to iron DD's blouse though so the ironing board will be out anyway :rotfl:

Right, off to facebook to see what my mates have left on my wall this time (no doubt more !!!!!! from one of them ) see you all tomorrow :wave:

Solwaykid

liloandstitch wrote: »

- but, hey, babysteps - there is a kitchen day next week!!!!!:D

My sentiments exactly, Lilo.
Rach, baked apple never occurs to me but I used to really like it. Glad you've got AF to stay finally; the power of worrying....!

20 mins in the kitchen, floors and visible surfaces wiped and that's all it needed. Plus Monday's dishes of course. It's nice not to be tearing around for an hour when I get home from work but I'm wondering how long a deep clean will last until? Won't be Flying tomorrow as I have Blokey over for tea. Yum yum. But I'll play catch up on Thursday.

I need to get another early night if I'm to be up reasonably early tomorrow. I need a hairwash urgently, I hate drying my hair with a passion and styled by car heater isn't a good look for me. We had some quite dishy workmen at work today and normaly we all go for a (not so ) subtle gawp, I looked like a fright so I didn't dare..

Have a good Wednesday. TTFN

sexymouse

Well I haven't done any flying today apart from descaling the kettle, but I'm not feeling too bad, as I had a go at the kitchen on Sunday as I was catching up again, and apart from cleaning the floor and the surfaces, it is pretty clean, as I did the fridge etc on Sunday. So, luckily for me, I'll be able to catch up tomorrow, as I don't have a spare room or kids room to do (thanks pigpen - I don't feel so guilty when I have a day to catch up - think I've caught the can't be bothered to fly Tuesdayitis bug). Did have an hour catch up with my elderly neighbour and we both put the world to rights which was nice. Am awaiting an email from a friend who is already in a teaching job, with her letter of application to give me some ideas for where I may be going wrong. Hope she's remembered, as she had parent's evening tonight and she said she wouldn't be home til 9.

x_raphael_xx

Baked apple sounds scrummy (I'm guessing it's quite healthy too) at the risk of sounding dim how exactly is it made. I understand the 'apple' and the 'baking' part! But how long? wrapped in tinfoil? anything sprinkled on top?

Well, kitchen is nice and clean (apart from the floor which was clean for about 1 hour, then it was time for muddy walkies!:rolleyes:).
Whites are just finishing in the WM, then the darks will go in. Will hang them up around the house tonight, then iron tomorrow ready for work.

As for tomorrows list, well I don't have kids, or spare rooms, so I think I will catch up on todays deep clean challenge ~

Deep Clean Challenge
Get in that junk/spare stuff/'quick.. hide it in there' cupboard. Give it all GOOD scrub out before placing the things you need to keep.. I bet 90% of that can go in the bin!!. If no junk cupboard do a foody one! Feel free to get carried away and do more cupboards!!!

The understairs cupboard needs doing, and also the undersink cupboard in the kitchen can do with a scrub.
Also...

Daily Tasks:
Dishes
Brush dog
Walkies
Clean yard

Weekly Tasks:
Clean fish tank
[strike]Do Meal Plan for the week[/strike] ~ Done for the rest of the month!!
[strike]Bins emptied & rubbish out ~ Tuesday nights[/strike] Hunt the backalley for my bin and rescue it from wherever the dustmen have left it.

To do list:
Wash and vacuum car. Check oil, tyre pressure etc.
Sort out the pile of [strike]junk[/strike] quality items that didn't sell at the boot sale.
Ring local paper and list some of ^^^ for sale. List rest on eBay.
Get some plaster mix & fix hole in the kitchen wall (made by poochie!)
Ironing

ShirleyPark_2

Right never did go back to the kitchen, but heck it'll still be there tomorrow. Had some much needed me time and some rat time, I built them a tower out of cardboard boxes, they loved it so much they wouldn't come out.

Borderlakland your girls are getting big now and turning into toe nibblers, I'm going to miss them when they've gone but I'm sure they are going to have a great time with you.

ooh spare room and kids room tomorrow, so pretty much a day off for me, or more importantly catch up day

Monday Mayhem - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Deep Clean Challenge
Empty, clear and clean the inside of a cupboard. Sort the magazine/newspaper heap. the one big pile of 'hotspot' we merged last week.. give it a more thorough sort through.. you do not need bills going back the last 24 years or invalid insurance policies!!

Terrible Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Clean floors
Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces - one side done
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front, clean out any spills or grots in there!
Wipe and replace all those small appliances.. kettle, toaster etc
Clean oven if you didn't do it last week
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards.. - one side done
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• Wipe down any tiles and shine those taps.. a toothbrush is great for cleaning away the gunk! - one side done
  
• Write an inventory of your cupboards contents and what needs using first

Deep Clean Challenge
Get in that junk/spare stuff/'quick.. hide it in there' cupboard. Give it all GOOD scrub out before placing the things you need to keep.. I bet 90% of that can go in the bin!!. If no junk cupboard do a foody one! Feel free to get carried away and do more cupboards!!!

Wacky Wednesday - those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Extra Task List

• Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!

My list for the week (alternatively known as the stuff i've still not done)
Put cover back on sofa - decided to put it back in the wash !
Move drawers back into bay window in lounge - in lounge but in the wrong place
Get 4 boxes - charity shop, [strike]freecycle, sell, return to owner,[/strike][strike]and clear stuff from understairs, [/strike]storage room into the boxes.
Get smoke alarms put back up
Tidy tools and stuff from spareroom away - moved out of the room but that's about it
Clear paperwork on desk - getting there
Sort out bills - sky, water, gas, elec, phone, insurance done
Contact mortgage guy as to why there is an admin fee - left message for him to call me back
sort out with K&D about their wedding photos
studying
washing
sort out rats paperwork
get name and address from FF - sent PM
sort out plans for Cheltenham show
get ex's life insurance cancelled, or account details changed - I'm not paying it !