Weekly Flylady Thread 19th November 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.

Thank you to Valli for last week's thread

There are 3 levels per day with depending on how much time you have. Feel free to mix and match to suit your own personal circumstances.

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

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!

Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide

Some of our abbreviations: DH- dear husband, OH- other half, KH/CF- affectionate term for ex husband or partner DS/DD- dear son/daughter, DGC- dear grandchild, WM- washing machine, DW- dishwasher, LR/DR- living/dining room, RoD- room of doom, 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

Ok here goes this week!

Monday ~ Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One...
Clean floors in these rooms
Clean baths, toilets and sinks
Level Two...
Clear any clutter from desk and file the necessary bits and shred the rest!
Pull out PC desk and declutter/vacuum behind it, making it all pretty and clean..
Descale shower head!
Dust wipe and vacuum keyboard! Polish screens!
Level Three...
Wipe down tiles and mirrors
Clean shower screen/curtain.bath mats etc if required
Sort towels and dispose of raggedy ones

Extras

• HHI!!
• Tidy airing cupboard!
• Binbag dance!
• Wipe any chairs/sofas in these areas

Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining room
Level One...
Declutter and mop/vacuum floor
Clear and wipe work surfaces
Level Two...
Wipe units and large appliances
Give one small appliance a good clean!
Wipe out the fridge and get rid of anything gross and slide the stuff that needs using now into your meal plan
Level Three...
Wipe the table, replace the cloth if needed and dust and deweb!
wash windows and any other glass.
Clean through the cupboard full of crockery.. throw out any chipped plates/mugs etc
Extras

• Clean the oven and hob
• Wipe down all the paintwork
• Clean blinds and light fittings
• Dust and deweb.
• If you want a christmas supermarket delivery you need to book it this week!
• You could make a start on christmas baking and freeze bits.. once your freezer is free from frozen frost that is!!!

Wednesday - living area, hall and stairs
Level One...
Declutter all these areas
Vacuum these areas
Level Two...
Wipe/vacuum sofas
Wash windows
Dust.. inc electrical appliances
Level.Three...
Wash any soft furnishings in need
Binbag dance
Tidy coats/shoes bags etc
Extras

• Spend half an hour doing something for yourself
• HHI
• wipe and water plants
• Wipe down all the paintwork in these areas

Thursday - Master bedroom & landing
Level One...
Strip and wash bedding
vacuum mattress and replace clean sheets
Level Two...
Wash windows
HHC on the landing
floordrobe clearance in the bedroom
Level Three...
Sort out your present stash.. less than a month to go now!!.. Do you have enough paper?
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Dust and wipe any paintwork
Extras

• Write those christmas cards and sort stamps for those to be posted
• HHI
• Binbag dance
• Plan your shopping list for your christmas goodies.. don't forget the turkey! If you are ordering stuff from local shops.. pork pies/meat etc get it done this week!

Friday ~ Kiddies room.. if you have no kiddies do another room!
Level One...
Declutter the floors
Strip the bedding get it washed dried and the beds remade!
Spend half an hour loving yourself!
Level Two...
Vacuum the floors
Straighten a cupboard of clothing
Wipe the paintwork
Level Three...
Tidy a box of 'stuff'
Binbag dance!.. See how many toys you can fling before the large guy in red arrives.
Dust and deweb
Extras

• HHI
• Wash windows
• Fill a binbag for charity shop!
• Wipe over ALL the upstairs doors!!

Natty68

Flylady 2018 Challenges - GO FLYERS GO

SCRIMPERS (no spend November)

atypical blonde
Lamewolf
Pigpen
Natty (was a naughty flylady..lol)
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
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 9lb (hope that's right!) Excellent work
donnajt 3 st
Rosemary7391
Mrs Chaos 16lb
Faete 2st
Natty 1st 7Ib {9lb lost}
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

dancemum

I will try again to do more this week x

Thank you for the thread x

Valli

:xmassmile:rudolf::xmastree::xmassign::snow_laug:


If you want to take part in the Flylady Secret Santa please PM me with your real name and postal address.

If you've any special requests e.g. nut free, please let me know that too.

As in previous years suggested value of gift up to £5; keep it light as you've to pay to post, too!

Many thanks Ionafan for doing this in previous years!:T:T

Will be closing this at the end of November.

Thanks for the new thread, Natty x

Sniggers as has been working hard on "study area"

pigpen

Ty all concerned.

My house is a bear pit.. I shall attempt to be in this week.

I am kicking OH to fit the new-to-me DW tomorrow.. and switch about inlet pipes to the WM, tighten 2 nuts and go to Lidl.

I have an ebeast parcel to post, a social worker to get shirty with and a bank to rob.

Fayolle

Thank you Natty, and Valli for last week. X. I'm in, but behind as ever. House is showing that at best I only seem to manage a s&s. Still, the green bin is full, so something must have been achieved I suppose.

kazwookie

Thank you for the lists

Off to work for 2 more weeks
Kitchen is done
Recycling is out
Bedroom done

MrsPoyser

Morning all!

Thank you Natty for today's list, and thank you Valli for all your work last week - I can already see the difference. :T

I have a really manic week at work this week, so it is going to be touch and go on the house front, but I am going to try not to lose the plot totally ...

Hope you all have a good day!

shirlgirl2004

Hi everyone came on looking for a Flylady group. I have done the official Flylady essentials today but can I ask why this group has different daily tasks? I might be worn out doing both.

GreenQueen

Morning all,

Life really got in the way last week, just managed the basics - "must do better"!

Noticed yesterday evening that we are short of crockery and cutlery, so think tonight when I get home from work will be mucking out DD's (12) bedroom while she's at guides. She swore that she didn't have anything in her bedroom that shouldn't be there, but I'm not convinced.

[Deleted User]

Hi folks, I'm in again this week. Won't be much happening housework wise today as it's my birthday and I have visitors coming round tonight.

Thanks Valli and Natty for running the thread:)