Weekly Flylady Thread 29th January 2018

Mumof2_2

Just spent 30 mins in the kitchen picking up the stuff on the floor and on the dining room table and sorting it according to whose it is. WHY does everyone dump stuff everywhere?

pigpen

Mumof2 wrote: »

Just spent 30 mins in the kitchen picking up the stuff on the floor and on the dining room table and sorting it according to whose it is. WHY does everyone dump stuff everywhere?

because they can and we allow it.. and if I am honest, I do it too so it could well also be learned behaviour.

8 things listed on ebeast.. one of the things I listed because it was in my hand has miraculously disappeared!! NOT happy... and I will tear the house apart finding it.. I have found several more things that were missing but that isn't helping!

Off to create lunch.. and hopefully miss pest will go for a nap. OH at the gym, he isn't at work until 4 so he might as well go get buff.. you have no idea how hilarious I found typing that.. :rotfl:

loo.. cuppa... lunch.. baby nap..

atypicalblonde

Thanks so much for your comments ladies, it means a lot. There is an awful lot to think about, that's for sure. Piggers - I hadn't realised you didn't get child benefit for a third child. Thanks for your post - it means a lot xx

The house is presentable, so once I have scoffed lunch I am ebaying like a good 'un.

YORKSHIRELASS

atb oooh exciting, my advice would be to follow your heart and if its absolutely what you want go for it. However, couple of random thoughts. My SIL had an unexpected baby when her eldest two were already at school. I know there have been times when the age gap between the three of them has been hard and she has had to make an extra effort to keep everyone happy, especially when the eldest two got into their early teens and the youngest was 7 years behind them.
But she does say she enjoyed the time with the baby when the other two were out all day at school and quite independent, and now the eldest is old enough to look after her younger brother that's a bonus.

From a very practical point of view I never expected it to be costing us so much to have a 17 and 19 year old. DS1 is doing an apprenticeship so only earning £3.50 an hour and needs to run a car, buy equipment for work etc. DS2 wanted to do A levels that werent offered by our local sixth form so we are paying to send him to a different college. Of course we choose to live out in the sticks which is part of the reason for this but DS2 may go to university so that will be another cost. Our children are costing us about £350 a month at the minute (without food!) and a third would really stretch us.

But look how Pigpen manages so well with her brood. I was never keen on the tiny baby stage but there is nothing in the world like looking at my two gorgeous sons living their own lives and making their own way in the world.

I have a feeling that we may see a new little baby in the flylady family before too much longer!

Off to job no. 1 soon. Freezing here. Could quite happily curl up with my book. Mud swept from utility (again), bit of paid stuff done, washing sorted and put away, bath scrubbed.

Best get moving.

pigpen

atypicalblonde wrote: »

Thanks so much for your comments ladies, it means a lot. There is an awful lot to think about, that's for sure. Piggers - I hadn't realised you didn't get child benefit for a third child. Thanks for your post - it means a lot xx

The house is presentable, so once I have scoffed lunch I am ebaying like a good 'un.

you get child benefit (£13.70 currently) but not tax credits. It is ridiculous.. so many children will be going cold and hungry because of societies prejudice and the British hatred of children.. I think they all forgot they were children once.

atypicalblonde

Thanks YL. Part of the reason I am so intent on paying our mortgage down as quickly as possible is because I am very conscious how costly these kids will get in time! At the moment they are happy with a kinder egg treat :rotfl:

I can already hear the cries of 'are you mad?!' from both my parents and the in laws, they would panic I would ask for help wth childcare (which I wouldn't, I never ask as I know it's begrudgingly given).

Back onto flying - I'm cooking DH a late lunch and then will walk the dog, then I will eBay!

LameWolf

Mumof2 wrote: »

Now off to declutter a dog walk; Whiz is right by my side because I accidentally said the W word!!

Aww. please give Whiz a cuddle from his Auntie Wolfy. It's standard procedure here when referring to the W word to say "perambulation". I haven't (yet) come across a dog who knows that word.

Valli wrote: »

'tis my acid test. I pride myself on my trips because so far NO-ONE has EVER upchucked on my coach...ever!

Careful Valli.... Loki, or Coyote, or any one of a dozen other Tricksters could be reading the Fred.

Mumof2 wrote: »

WHY does everyone dump stuff everywhere?

Not here they don't.... possibly because if they did, they'd very soon be wearing it..... as a suppository.

atb good luck with whatever you decide. I'm not qualified to comment; like Kazwookie I am childfree by choice (I must've been in the loo when maternal instinct was dished out).:D
But.... if I have a major decision "of the heart" to make and I'm struggling, I toss a coin. No, seriously, it works - because your reaction to what the coin tells you to do clarifies what you really want in your heart. HTH. x

The Flying Bit (yes, there is some) - more files weeded and stuff put for recycling as whole bits of paper or shredded, as appropriate. I now have a whole pink recycling bag full of shreddings!! :eek:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

[sobs]

Came in tonight expecting a kiss, a cup of tea on the sofa and a quiet evening.

I came in to a noxious odour, which I tracked to Himself attempting to disconnect the deaded DW, having not washed up, not swept the floor, not cleared a space and not actually knowing what he was doing.

So I ended up knee deep in manky water, checking he'd switched the mains water off (which he hadn't), disconnecting it from the sink trap Heath Robinson pipework, dealing with cobwebs an inch thick, all manner of foulness that had been festering down the back of the machine and unscrewing the pipes he insisted couldn't possibly be removable. Ugh.

If we're lucky, emptying the sink won't result in water forcing itself up through the now open outlet.

And I expect this means I'm buying a DW this week. And then plumbing it in myself (hoping that he hasn't lost essential connecting pieces in the intervening period).


Going by the state of the kitchen now - sink cupboard contents over the floor, a lovely tear in the lino (he took exception to my suggesting that he put it on some cheap fleeces to get it across the laminate without damaging it - he'd ALREADY THOUGHT OF THAT, apparently :cool:), a nice feline sized hideyhole behind the units, a big gap that I was eventually planning to shove the fridge in when I had got around to planning and capping the DW supply/drain off - and the lemony smell of disinfectant that is both not ecofriendly and inherently poisonous to said felines -

He'd better be going to fetch me a bloody takeaway.

Valli

atb...my suggestion was going to be to ask Piggers...she is wise beyond her years...

weird days, weird stuff happening

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

AAAAND WATER IS P*SSING OUT OVER THE FLOOR.

He now has two photos on his phone and a very carefully worded text message to take to the plumbing supplies shop to cap the damn things off first thing in the morning.

At least I have a clean pair of trousers for tomorrow - and there is a launderette round the corner for whilst the supply to that hose and the WM is securely turned off.


Taking this, the shattered special CFL bulbs that he tried twisting out with brute force rather than pulling out and can't be found for love nor money online (there are two types of 4 pin CFL and no way of being sure which is the correct one), plus the electrical wirings, carpet fitting, tiling, decorating, dealing with blockages of food in the sink every couple of weeks and everything else - I really wish he'd just leave anything practical/technical to the person most able to do it.


ME.