Weekly Flylady Thread 4th June 2018

Natty68

Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us.

Thanks to Valli for [URL=" https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5848103/weekly-flylady-thread-28th-may-2018 "]last weeks thread[/URL]


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

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

Right here we go!!!

Muggles Monday ~ Kitchen & Dining Room
Level One...
Open the windows and let in the light
Clear and wipe the work surfaces & table
Wipe the units and appliances
Clear and wipe table, replace cloth if necessary
Level Two...
Wipe the little appliances and put them back in their homes
Wipe over the cupboards and large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor
Clean out drawers and filters
Level Three...
Thoroughly clean the cereal/baking
Shine the grotty windows
Clear and wipe window sills
Wipe the inside doors.. inside.. and out!!
Extras

• HHI
• Fill a bag for charity shop
• Deweb the downstairs of the house!!
• Wipe out the fridge.. meal plan for June!
• Scrub the sink and tiles
• Clean the lightshades
• Bake a cake/buns or prepare a new meal for our family!

Thumping Tuesday ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level One …
Open the windows and turn on some music!
Wipe and water the plants
Wipe over sticky sofas.
Level Two…
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, any fluffy electricals and defluff behind the radiators!
Level Three …
Wipe paintworks and any grubby marks off walls etc
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
Tidy shoes, coats and bags .. wash any that need washing and putting away not we have warmer weather!!
HHC in the porch

Extras

• Clear a hotspot or 3!
• Clean light shades/fittings and lamps
• Clean a window or two.
• Wash any smelly soft furnishings!
• Clear one hotspot, or just spend at least 5 minutes tackling it
• Wash a pair of curtains, or some nets or a throw from a chair or bed
• Groom the hairy pets... or the children lol
• 29 fling boogie

Whistfull Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level One …
Open the window and air the room
Strip off smelly bedding and sling it in the wash, replace well before bedtime!
Clear some floordrobe
Level Two …
Vacuum the mattress and air the duvet (I have been known to dangle mine over the whirly gig if it's nice)
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
Find 10 things to get rid of!
Level Three …
Make sure those smoke alarms are working!!! (do not set fire to anything.. just press the button!!)
Vacuum the landing and bedroom.. starting at the bottom of the stairs!!!!
Remove anything that should be elsewhere.. your bedroom is NOT a shed!!
Remove some dust bunnies and wipe over the light shades

Extras

• Wash any curtains that need doing
• HHI
• Clean the windows
• 15 minutes sort out of the landing gibble.. see if you can find something to rehome
• Sort out one cupboard, just the one!!!

Thursday Scrubfest- Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One …
Clean & wash floors in these rooms
Air the room.. fling open the windows and let in the summery air!!
Replace sponges and toothbrushes that need doing!!
Level Two …
Clean baths, toilets, don't forget the outside and under the rim and sinks.. shine the taps with a toothbrush!!!!
Dust PC and clear any clutter from desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Clean the windows in these rooms...
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
Level Three …
Wipe down tiles in bathroom.. defragment your pc while doing this.
Empty and clean out all the upstairs bins!
Clean shower screen/curtain if you have one/if required
Collect any stray laundry from upstairs.
HHG.. if your garden is already beautiful go out and enjoy it for half an hour!!

Extras…

• Wipe the skirtings, door and window frames in these rooms
• Fling all those empty bottles and tubes
• Binbag dance.... ready.. set.. go!!!!!!!!
• Empty out the bathroom cabinet.. clean it.. fling what you don't need and stash the rest in a beautiful manner.. in alphabetical order please!
• Wash your bathroom mats, nets, clean blind/curtains etc whatever needs cleaning.
• Do any toothbrushes/sponges etc need replacing?
• HHI... a bit more gone!
• Throw out/get rid of 3 things from every room in your house!!

Freaky Friday- those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Level One …
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!!
Level Two …
Vacuum the floor
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Level Three …
Drag everything out from under the bed too.. there is floor under there!!
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are no longer wearable, too small or out of season!
Wipe the grotty patches of the walls and woodwork
Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!

Extras

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• Sort through one box or toys.. if you have no children find a box of junk.. is there anything that needs to go?
• End of week fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
• Clean out any pets!

Natty68

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Valli 2st/28lb
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Mademoiselle about 2 st
Ionafan 1st 11lb
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Faete 2st
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Fayolle
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Mrs Chaos
Natty

Dizzy_Imp

Ooh, ooh....I'm first!

I'm in please x

wishingthemortgaheaway

Forgive me all, for I have been awol for months (I was only 'around' for about three weeks, so I've not got high hopes, but I'm trying again)

Life got in the way, I had an awesome January, deep cleaning and decluttering most of the house. However....
I decluttered to the cellar with the intention of doing a car boot in April- the cellar is now my 'room of doom' Back in December I booked the painter and decorator to come and do our bedroom in July. I've stripped 1 and a bit walls and not sorted the wardrobes or under the bed at all....

My life has no routine due to my weird working arrangements. I've stopped writing to do lists, this is bad do me.
This is a bad time for me to get back on the fly last band wagon as Work is about to go crazy

Help me please?!?

So... this is the start of a new week.
This week:
Monday: work from home
Tuesday: Extended family day out
Wednesday:Work from home
Thursday: reserved for supply teaching
Friday: Be a Mum
Saturday: family day
Sunday: Family day

To do

Must
vac pack spare bedding
Take cardboard to recycling at the tip
Take things down to the cellar
Wash bbq trays
Write Pickle's birthday present thank you cards

Should
Strip the rest of the bedroom wall paper
Sweep front yard & tidy planters out

Could
Take clothes to cash for clothes/charity shop
Sweep back yard and tidy it up

I will try and do some of the daily cleaning things too.

ionafan

Welcome back, wish :wave:

Thank you Natty for the new thread and Valli for last week's lists.

After yesterday's marathon, today I have
- rubbed down, 2nd filled, rubbed down again and painted the holes in the LR wall
- sorted the shelves and put all the books in tidily, and all CDs in alphabetical order so that I can find what I'm looking for!
- hoovered the LR, DR and kitchen
- fed us both (DH enjoyed his wargames show)
- taken Rosie for a walk
- watered the pots

Tomorrow I must concentrate on college work, but I will aim to do Level 1.

Hope everyone has a good week x

Valli

I'm sort of in...as per

Thanks Natty x

supersaver1000

Flying slowly if a bit unsteadily - training wheels still on But all the little bits I'm doing are really starting to pay off.

Finished all the washing off and more today - throws and cushions too. Then cleaned the bathroom mirror and window and I'm not sure if I mentioned the super vacuuming yesterday in the heat. :rotfl:

Got the sewing machine out and sewed up a hole in DDs PJs - they'll last a little bit longer now. And that reminded me that I bought a whole reel of wide elastic from the fleabay, so I added some fresh elastic at the top of my PJ bottoms - two pairs had both lost their springiness and started falling down :rotfl::rotfl:

Managed to finish off my worky work as well, so all set for the week.

Oooh and a bit of tat sold on the fleabay, its china going global so I need to figure out how to pack it securely for the trip so it doesn't break. Just several more bits of tat to go and I can get rid of the unit. Slowly but surely

wishingthemortgaheaway

ionafan wrote: »

Welcome back, wish :wave:

Thank you. This evening I've prepared myself as much as I can for tomorrow to hopefully fly and work to the best of my ability (it may mean getting up with the birds though. )

Night all

Wish.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Feeling sorry for myself. But probably in.

Have agreed to buy an old game from an ex colleague which I'll collect on Tuesday, will try and get out of a lot of crud Friday night and Saturday is working a gig as a favour to a mate.

Which leaves Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings to do stuff. Good help the person if they don't clean up after themselves this week.

pigpen

I'm here... ty.. loads to do..


Muggles Monday ~ Kitchen & Dining Room
Level One...
Clear and wipe the work surfaces & table
Wipe the units and appliances
Clear and wipe table
Level Two...
Wipe the little appliances and put them back in their homes
Wipe over the cupboards and large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor
Level Three...
Shine the grotty windows
Clear and wipe window sills
Wipe the inside doors.. inside.. and out!!

Thumping Tuesday ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level Two
Remove clutter
Level Three
Wipe grubby marks off walls etc

Whistfull Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level One !!!8230;
Clear some floordrobe
Level Two !!!8230;
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
Find 10 things to get rid of!

Thursday Scrubfest- Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One !!!8230;
Clean & wash floors in these rooms
Level Two !!!8230;
Clean baths, toilets, etc
Level Three !!!8230;
Extras!!!8230;

• Binbag dance.... ready.. set.. go!!!!!!!!
• Throw out/get rid of 3 things from every room in your house!!

Freaky Friday- those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Level One !!!8230;
Level Two !!!8230;
Level Three !!!8230;
Drag everything out from under the bed too.. there is floor under there!!
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers
Extras

• Sort through one box or toys..
• End of week fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!

Valli

Rotten night. Hot flushes which kept waking me up and me not wanting covers on but achy hip which was better when warmed up under the covers and then less achy. I'm still not up.