Weekly Flylady Thread 19th February 2018

pigpen

Well I wouldn't have a Dyson if they paid me to take it off them.. I had one once it was utter rubbish.. lasted about 3 months and even the repair guy said they were rubbish, it went through belts like wildfire and blocked every 15 seconds.. it spent more time broken and unusable than it did functioning, CF smashed it to pieces when he was having a tantrum when I hoofed him out. I had an electrolux which was ok but nothing marvellous.. though it slurped up so much filth even after I had been over the floor with the Dyson so was definitely suckier.. I have a Hetty upstairs and a Henry downstairs and they are amazing.. but you can't just leave them running while faffing on your phone because they overheat.. I have replaced the cord on mine after the solder went and I have replaced the noonoo tube. I have a cheapy Next 1700 useless thing.. it is nice and light for cobweb removal.. I also have a huge Dalek industrial monster which sounds like a jet but sucks the floorboards up.. I'd probably go that route if he can't be trusted with them. I just remembered I also have another purple thing.. but that isn't much cop either and the canister is way too small for my level of cleaning and it blocks too easily.

3/4 beasties in bed.. Flop is missing so Twinkle will not play ball.. off to find a Flop!

Valli

I have a vax Air - replaced my electrolux which was ok (I thought!)
I love it; it's the best vacuum I have ever had and comes with tools attached and you can open the brush section and remove entangled har (with scissors) easily. The dust it got out of my carpets when I first had it had to be seen to be believed. The only extra (ie unattached) tool is the little brushhead for the stairs.

This is the updated version

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Vacuum Cleaner duly ordered and should be here on Monday. He's all chirpy because his eldest has just got their first mobile phone and is using it to bombard him with messages. So much for 'he doesn't want to talk to you' every time he tried to call. Which meant he didn't ask too many questions about how much I spent on the vacuum [whispers - Miele - on special offer] - I worked out that when he could easily blow up a £120 vacuum every 9 months, if it lasts two and a half years, we're ahead. And if it does die a death, at the sort of money it cost, they will be getting it back with a shirty email or five.

Too tired to bother with mopping floors, but reorganised the shelving rack in the bathroom. If it weren't for the fact it's all gummed up with glue (why? It only lost a screw), I'd put the toilet roll holder back together.

Jazee

Morning all. Welcome back Iona.

Usual Sunday jobs today - change bedding, hoover/sweep/mop through, walk dogs. Still need to dig up the leeks, it's milder here today so MUST get this done before the big freeze.

Have a great day everyone.

Valli

Morning all, Bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning but feeling the 'Sunday dread' at the prospect of going back to work in the knowledge that I have not done everything I would have liked to. But no change there - I'm getting 'better' in that more gets done now. I do have a couple of frogs I really ought to crunch - and it occurs to me that, when it was apparent I was struggling with a volunteer role (due to how down I was) someone could have offered to help. So next time I am 'spoken' to I just might point that out. Just because I'm out of the house, clean, dressed, ready for the day ahead it doesn't, actually, mean I am coping and everything is alright.

roundtuit

pigpen wrote: »

no you wont.. Roundtuit scoffed a big bag of M&Ms

It's true ionafan, I did . I've got the headache today to prove it, if proof were needed.

Bed is made and WM is swishing jeans. I've had a cuppa and porridge for breakfast. The plan is to take a couple of parrots, get dressed, do the dailies, replace bag in shredder ... parrots first

Hope everyone is enjoying the sun; and anyone else in the East (like me) is battening down the hatches ready for the Siberian week ahead that's been forecast. Hopefully the Pennines will shield those of you further west from the worst of it.

Back soon

Rxx

kazwookie

Morning

Lunch made for work, that is every day this month and last, so very MSE :money:

Bed made
Cat fed and flee treated.
I've orderd more flee treatment on line just now, as that was the last one I used.

Off to work

pigpen

Round.. drink lots of water to help flush the chocolatey toxins out of your system, it will help with the headache too probably. It was really warm here yesterday, I was baking on the swimming run.

Todays jobs... scrape the mess to the middle of the room and get everyone else to pick it up... Clear my knitting pile at the side of my chair and the bunch of 'retrieved from the baby' items on the radiator and swap chairs over.

OH is at work until 9 so I need to bath some stinky girls.. or delegate to DD3 to help out.

I AM going to catch up on laundry and get the kitchen emptied. I want to clear the sides a wee bit more and get all the sides clear.

OH can use the filler in the bathroom ceiling too. I want to repaint in there but it is full of rubbish at the moment.

Would it be really bad if I were to empty the toy boxes into binbags and donate all the toys to charity shop or school without even looking at it? These never play with toys and I hate them.. I am aiming to donate a trofast unit to DD1 when she moves along with 4 huge binbags of clothes, a sofa and 2 arm chairs and all the baby gubbins.. so hopefully that will happen soon.

I want to get some more knitting done too.. donating wool in the form of baby cardigans is a great way to destash!

I have slurped my cuppa so best make a move todays action plan is greater than the time I have!

pigpen

TD x2
WM x3
DW x1
Worksurfaces cleared
dirty laundry all now fits in 1 basket!!
Wet stuff hung up to dry
Floor in middle room cleared..
cuppa slurped (second one! )
OH sammiches made and sent him off to work in the knowledge he IS filling in the holes in the bathroom ceiling I cannot reach..

Paint colour decided on for DD3 .. I decided she can have 3 walls a dark amethyst colour and the other wall silver glitter to bring some light in.. I need to have the light replaced though as that is broken.. but I want to clear the landing first so I can have an electric socket put on there too.. why would anyone have a landing with no socket? it is madness!

OMG!!!! I just got a text from school telling parents to dress their children in appropriate clothing and footwear as it is going to be cold!!! Talk about not crediting parents with having a brain.. it shows how stupid the schools think parents are! We are just parents so obviously thick as pig droppings!! I am rather insulted.. I could run rings around them intellectually!!! How flipping rude! ... and a second one.. if it does snow the children will only be allowed out if they have gloves and boots... tbh, if it is snowy I don't want my children out because once they are cold it takes forever to get them warm and how are they supposed to learn if they are cold and wet?! I have only ever seen staff dressed inappropriately and parents, the children always look well prepared!.. and I am super observant about such things.

Valli

pigpen wrote: »

OMG!!!! I just got a text from school telling parents to dress their children in appropriate clothing and footwear as it is going to be cold!!! Talk about not crediting parents with having a brain.. it shows how stupid the schools think parents are! We are just parents so obviously thick as pig droppings!! I am rather insulted.. I could run rings around them intellectually!!! How flipping rude! ... and a second one.. if it does snow the children will only be allowed out if they have gloves and boots... tbh, if it is snowy I don't want my children out because once they are cold it takes forever to get them warm and how are they supposed to learn if they are cold and wet?!

You would think...we regularly have children turn up sans coat - because they come in cars.

Ironing basket IS EMPTY:T:T
Meters read and input/updated on line. Bunny hutch cleaned and mended. He has started using the 'understorey' as a toilet so his bed area is all dry :T
And *drum roll please* bank statement info input and half of receipts checked and shredded...they go back a l-o-n-g time!