Weekly Flylady Thread 26th March 2018

Natty68

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.

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!

Please do remember we have to abide by MSE rules; each post should, ideally, include some mention of flying.

Thank you Valli for last week's thread

Please follow the forum rules 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!!!8217;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!
MAD half hour
- 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!!

Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide

Here goes this Week...

Mondays are Marvellous!! - Kitchen and Dining Area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor
Declutter and wipe the worksurfaces
Level Two
Wipe the table
Degunge the fridge
Wipe the units and large appliances
Level Three
wipe any drawers that are grotty and cluttered
Wash the windows and sills
Run WM's and DW's through a clean cycle.. don't forget to scrub out the drawers and filters.

Extras

• Deweb and polish
• Clear out a cupboard of junk!
• Wash any curtains/table cloths that need it
• S&S the hob & oven

Twinkly Tuesday - Living room, hall, stairs and porch!
Level One
Declutter ALL the floors!!
Clear the mantle of junk
Level Two
Dust those flat fluffy surfaces
Vacuum/sweep all the floors.. stairs too!
Vacuum/sweep under furniture you can safely move!
Vacuum sofas
Level Three
Wash the windows
Wash any soft furnishings that need it
Wipe down ALL the paintwork!

Extras

• Wipe and water plants
• Dust all the electricals.. carefully.. don't want anybody getting fried!!!
• Wipe front door.. inside and out!
• Binbag dance
• HHI

Wiggly Wednesday- Master bedroom and landing!
Level One
Strip and wash the bedding
Clear the floordrobe
Level Two
Air the duvet....
Clear the floors and vacuum them!
Wash windows
Clean out pets/wash beds
Level Three
Sort through a hotspot
Organise your toiletries and make-up stash, do you really need 6 lipsticks!!!!
Sort through a cupboard.. make it neat and tidy
Empty and wash out all the bins

Extras

• Half hour... FILING... meanness I know but it won't do itself!!
• Deweb and dust
• 36 fling boogie!! .. GO
• Empty and wash out all the bins!!
• Quick one.. check those smoke alarms - no that doesn't mean burn the toast/bacon to check !

Thursday Thrills - Bathroom and Study..
Level One
Declutter the floors
Wipe down sofas and seats
Level Two
Dejunk the desk and wipe off the gunge
Vacuum/mop floors
Scrub the bath, sinks, toilets, showers and tiles etc
Level Three
Wash the windows
Empty out a cupboard clean it out and put back only the bits you need to keep
Defrag the pc and delete 50 useless emails

Extras

• Collect all the laundry from upstairs
• HHI
• Change any lightbulbs you have been leaving.. !!
• Sort out the coats and bags and shoes..
• Do a cupboard stock take,sort a meal plan and shopping list
• Fill a binbag for charity shop

Good Friday - Guess what it's catchup day!
Level One...
S&S the kitchen and bathroom
Make time to do something for yourself!! A haircut, a long bath, a facial... whatever it takes.. do it!
Level Two...
Whizz over the main living area.. make it presentable
Change any smelly bedding that needs doing
Clean the fluff out of the TD filters.. or clean the WM/DW filters
Level Three...
HHC clearing the messiest room in the house
Wash any windows that are needy
Complete 1 task you have been 'meaning' to do for ages and not done it!!

Extras...

• Make sure you have everything ready for the weekend...Easter Eggs, Small eggs for easter egg hunt etc...
• Clean out a cupboard..
• Polish all your electrical appliances.. tv's, stereos etc
• water and wipe any neglected plants
• Collect all the dirty laundry strewn about the house.. bedroom floors are the worst!
• Sort through your most used handbag.. get rid of those receipts and used tissues!
• make a note of any calls you need to make or appointments that need keeping this week!

Natty68

Flylady 2018 Challenges - GO FLYERS GO

SCRIMPERS (no spend March!)

atypical blonde
Lamewolf
Pigpen
Natty
Kazwookie
Jazee
Honey Bear
Valli
Fayolle
Yorkshirelass
Lynnejk
Mumof2

SLINKIES - weight loss challenge

Lynnejk - 9lb
Narcolepsy *some*
Valli 2st/28lb
Dizzy Imp 2st/28lb
FurryBeastOz 2st/28lb
nannygladys 3st/42lb
Fayolle 2st/28lb
atypicalblonde 2st/28lb
Princess Money Penny
Ionafan
Lil_me 5st/70lb
JojotheTightfisted
LameWolf 2st/28lb
Roundtuit 56lb
Jazee 2st/28lb
Pigpen *some*
MrsMoneypenny 1st at least
Froddington 2st
Dancemum 3st
Mademoiselle about 2 st
Ionafan 1st 11lb
donnajt 3 st
Rosemary7391
Mrs Chaos 16lb
Faete 2st
Natty 8lb
Kazwookie 2st tbc
Honey Bear 5 kgs


Flymarketeers

FurryBeastOz
Pigpen
Valli
Mumof2
donnjt - £1k for hols

H2H (hovel to haven)

HoneyBear
Froddington
Roundtuit
Mumof2
FurryBeastOz
funfairprincess
Mrs Moneypenny
hex2
Fayolle
lynnejk
riotlady
donnajt - by Summer
Mrs Chaos
Natty

pigpen

Thank you xx

Monday..
Swapping mothers chairs
making nail fix appointment
dropping gubbins at CS
Tip run
figure out the CoD/bookcase problem
Boss OH to find the dust sheets
buy filler for bedroom ceiling and fill holes, sand.
Emulsion ceiling in DD3's room.
2nd gloss coat in bathroom..

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Monday

DAY OFF WORK!!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!


Bathroom floor now looks like floor rather than cat midden.

I heard the vacuum cleaner fire up briefly earlier - possibly the bedroom rug?

Horror that is the kitchen about to be sorted whilst he's out of the way upstairs.


Should really make it out into the garden for some judicious chopping before the house is swallowed up by rambling roses this summer. The weather's been too bad to get out there and the unchopped bits are now bursting, which means spiky jungle over fifteen foot long in many places if I don't do it now. Not looking forward to trying to do it whilst the massive houses are being built over the wall - it's depressing seeing how much daylight I'll lose (all of it).

Might get to have a bit of a burn up from the last lot of chopping I did before Christmas. I do love that.

roundtuit

Hugs to LW and YL xx and thank you Valli for your kind words xx

A little more bimbling has been done: two pillows gone to a friend of a friend for dogs to sleep on; DS's karting overalls taken to mum and dad's (where all karting paraphernalia is kept); crime scene tape returned to DS's friend; 3 note books put with stash ; lanyard binned (another one!); various disposable cups / straws / plastic shot glasses / ping pong balls put in drinks cupboard.

I'm going to bin an attachment for the old hoover which I've just spotted, then up the wooden hill for me.

Good night. Sweet dreams.

Rxx

Fayolle

Thank you for the lists, ladies, it is so much appreciated. Xx.
I'm feeling a bit of a flylady fraud atm, the days are whizzing by in a flash of general "stuff". I need to get back on track. I forgot to report in on the Slinky weigh in this weekend - 3lb somehow lost, so for the first time in an age, I have gone below the 12st mark. It may not last, but thank you ladies for your inspiration x.

froddington

I'm in this week - thanks Natty :A Only working Wednesday morning so should get some flying and decluttering done.

Mind you, I'm in a T'lodge in London at the moment having just seen Def Leppard at the Royal Albert Hall. Amazing!!

Hugs for all who want or need one xx

Should go to bed but have lots of songs buzzing round in my head - live music is a great thing for chasing my BD away!

dancemum

I will probably on dailies this week. I am on the mend but have little energy. I need to help dp & dg.

Thank you for the threads x

Piggers people here seem to offer to deliver fb sales if they don!!!8217;t want people showing up at their door.

pigpen

dancemum wrote: »

Piggers people here seem to offer to deliver fb sales if they don't want people showing up at their door.

I don't drive so couldn't deliver either and OH is even worse than me so wouldn't deliver either. I had anxiety going to the parents house of DD1's partner!

Jazee

Morning flyladies. Thanks for the new list.

I'm not sure how much flying I'll get done this week, really busy with meetings, college and interviews.

Have a good day everyone.

Dizzy_Imp

Day one of the Easter holidays. _pale_

Roped into having a friend's daughter for the day. Hmmm....this may be a stressful experience.

Having a cuppa back in bed for 10 mins enjoying the calm before the storm. I think the builders are here today too. Yippidy-do-dah!

Thanks for the lists and hugs to all flyladies x