Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd August 2020

Valli

Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread.

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.

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 Natty 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 content! (i.e. it should be on-topic)
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’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- that’s 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 former Flylady 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 stopping, 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!
Frog (or other amphibian) ~ google 'eat that frog'
Spoons ~ google 'but you don't look sick' and/or 'The Spoon Theory'.

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
Marvellous Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Level 1
Open some windows for some fresh air.
Wash up, dry up and put away (or remove all pots to DW) 
Clear sides and wipe down - wipe small appliances and caddies etc.  Don't forget the splashbacks or tiles!
Replace what lives there, wiping as you go
Empty bin and clean it out too - put it outside to dry in the sunshine, if you can.
Clear and clean sink and accessories - don't forget those out-of-sight places - under plugs and under draining racks - and shine those taps - or clean them!
Clean/polish table - wipe mats/change cloth
Check fruit and wash bowl
Throw away your manky dish cloth or sponge and replace with a new one!  get a new hand towel and a new tea towel too
Good slug of bleach down pluholes and in overflows
Clean cruet, salt and pepper, wipe any sauce bottles that are used on the table

Level 2

Wipe down all cupboard and drawer fronts inside and out, not forgetting handles and tops and bottom as well as fronts!
Clean hob
Clean microwave
Sort fridge and wipe seals; weave stuff that needs using up into your meal plan; update shopping list as appropriate
Wash and wipe fridge shelves and baskets.
Dust dining area/room
Descale kettle if needed
Clean WM , TD and DW filters; remove WM detergent drawer and wash it out.
Wiipe inside of washer drawer and DW door

Level 3

Pick a cupboard or a drawer; empty it, clean it out and put back its contents tidily
Sweep/mop/vacuum floor
Clean chairs (and highchairs) - don't forget under the seats where sticky fingers linger.
Clean windows in both rooms.
Go round the whole house wiping door handles, light switches and banisters - we WILL be germ-free!

EXTRAS

HHI
S&S bathroom
Paperwork/admin up to date
A new month has started - do you need to post card?  Buy cards? 
Check your 'prepping' stock - winter is not far away and COVID still rears its ugly head.
Meal plan for the week.

Twinkly Tuesday The Lounge, Hallway, stairs and landing

level 1

deal with flowers and pot plants
empty bins/ashtrays
clear gibble
plump cushions
wipe sofas with leather wipes or vacuum - look for all those dust-catching crevices

level 2
clean windows 
vacuum floors - and use an edging tool to get into all the nooks and crannies

level 3
dust all round - don't forget sills and skirtings
Wipe door handles, banisters, light switches and sockets - and the bits of the door where people hold to close it
Check for cobwebs and eliminate!
Clean lightshades and lampshades; check all lighting is functioning as it should
stand in the doorway and look back into the room - is it clean?

extras
S&s kitchen
s&s bathroom
make a shopping list for 'standby' stuff - (as per yesterday's prep check) eg extra petfood, tinned goods, UHT milk/juice and add to shopping list 1/2 items a week
Check your draincovers are free from anything yukky - I stuck mine in the old washing up bowl with boiling water and household soda
MONTHLY SMOKE ALARM TEST

Wipy Wednesday - bathrooms, cloak rooms and en suites

Level 1
Open window
flush loo and squirt cleaner down it
put towels in wm
wipe windows and shower screen, polish mirrors
empty bin
clear outshower cubicle or bath edge
Clean bath/shower don't forget hoses and taps
Wash toothmugs etc
wash shower curtain and let it blow on the line!
level 2
scrub inside of loo and wipe outside
clean bath and/or shower
dust sills and shelves
scrub sink
glug of bleach down wastes, overflow and toilet bowl

level 3
wipedown tiles and scrub grout
polish or wipe towel rail
wipe, sweep and mop floor
put out clean towels

Thursday Thrills the boudoir,

level 1
strip bed
open window
clear floordrobe, chairdrobe etc
empty bin

level 2
vacuum headboard
dust bedframe
flip mattress if it's not been turned for a while - do any mattress/pillow protectors need washing?
remake bed, plump cushions, straighten throws
Clean window
remove as much clutter as poss - we are aiming to close WAC due to massively falling numbers - a restfu; room = a restful night (we hope)

level 3
dust everywhere
vacuum, sweep or mop floor as appropriate 

extras
s&s bathroon
s&s kitchen
use up some of your products in a beauty session. FCe mask anyone?
HH!

FRIDAY FLOURISH - Kids room/spare room/guest room 
Level 1
Open window
strip bed
clear detritus from floor
occupant of room to assist if available
Empty bin

level 2
anything that needs to be homed -put away occupants of room to help
vacuum floor
If spare/guest room check all lighting fully functional

level 3
clean window
wipe sockets and switches
dust all around

extras
S&S bathroom
S&S kitchen
HHI

[Deleted User]

Thank you Valli for this week and Natty for last week, I am very much in. 

WM and DW both on now to give me a head start on tomorrow. I am working in the morning then have errands to run so will be out from 7am until noon. Three huge bin bags of clothes in the car for chazza 👏🏻👏🏻

Will check in tomorrow PM, sleep well all xx

pigpen

TY for Fred.. we are away from tomorrow so no flying will be done at home..

I've not even packed and we need to be away by 11:30 at the latest.. This will be interesting!

Valli

Ho hum...WAC

skint_breeder_5

Valli said:

Ho hum...WAC

Morning .....I am with you in WAC, and I am starving too! Thank you Natty and Valli for consistently providing these lists to motivate me to get on track x. I really need to keep pace with Listy this week, as I lost the weekend pulling stuff out of one of my RoD, and now have a big pile of stuff to take to the dump...that could be 3 hours sitting queuing waiting to get in that I won't get back, and I have froggy paperwork to do aswell,
Hugs sticks and spoons for everyone in need......I am off to forage and make a start xxx

Jazee

Morning all.  Thanks for the list, will report back with any progress.

Have a great day everyone.

kazwookie

Morning

Thanks for the lists x

So far

Bed stripped and remade

WM x 2 on 1st lot out on whirly

Whole house hoovered, before workmen get here as they put down dust sheets in the hall way so I have no chance then, I am leaving the dusting for now.

Today's workmen are tilers................they were here all weekend and are getting on well, yesterday they told me they 'think' they will be finished on Tuesday and in my uneducated eye I would agree with them

Jazee

Garden is watered.

Fayolle

Good morning
Thank you for the lists. Flying will probably be a panicked attempt towards the end of the week, but I will try to flutter before then. Another one in the WAC, from 3am. DH is currently emptying the dw - very noisily, he may be trying to make a point.  It’s wasted on me, he should know that. Towels in wm, should be on the line before we have to leave for big city.

roundtuit

Morning xx
WAC here too - I was awake around the same time as you Valli. 
Thank you for the lists Natty and Valli xx Hope all goes well today Fayolle xx
I've made my bed, sorted the washing (first load has just finished swishing by the sound of things), paid the rent online, ordered more Vitamin D tablets and DS's GF's birthday present, told a supplier that I still haven't received my package which should have arrived on 25th July, told Mr M that I didn't receive the kitchen roll either - I expect it was in the same 'box' as the missing toilet rolls. If I'd had a paper invoice I would have checked stuff off as I put it away - note to self: check email receipt very carefully in future.

Round 1 =
get washed and dressed
feed birds
put out rubbish and recycling
peg out WM load 1
set second load swishing
breakfast

Rxx

ruby_eskimo

Morning all, I'm going to sneak back in and join this week.  I've followed the FL method on and off over the years but if lock down has taught me anything it's that I need a routine and chipping away at a little cleaning each day will help me get there.  I've already knocked a few things off the list this morning as it's bin day and I was in the supermarket at 7am this morning!  Will update later on once I've finished my working day and got a bit more done.  Off to work in the garden since the weather is so nice outside.

Marvellous Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Level 1
Open some windows for some fresh air.
Wash up, dry up and put away (or remove all pots to DW) 
Clear sides and wipe down - wipe small appliances and caddies etc.  Don't forget the splashbacks or tiles!
Replace what lives there, wiping as you go
Empty bin and clean it out too - put it outside to dry in the sunshine, if you can.
Clear and clean sink and accessories - don't forget those out-of-sight places - under plugs and under draining racks - and shine those taps - or clean them!
Clean/polish table - wipe mats/change cloth
Check fruit and wash bowl
Throw away your manky dish cloth or sponge and replace with a new one!  get a new hand towel and a new tea towel too
Good slug of bleach down pluholes and in overflows
Clean cruet, salt and pepper, wipe any sauce bottles that are used on the table

Level 2

Wipe down all cupboard and drawer fronts inside and out, not forgetting handles and tops and bottom as well as fronts!
Clean hob
Clean microwave
Sort fridge and wipe seals; weave stuff that needs using up into your meal plan; update shopping list as appropriate
Wash and wipe fridge shelves and baskets.
Dust dining area/room
Descale kettle if needed
Clean WM , TD and DW filters; remove WM detergent drawer and wash it out.
Wiipe inside of washer drawer and DW door

Level 3

Pick a cupboard or a drawer; empty it, clean it out and put back its contents tidily
Sweep/mop/vacuum floor
Clean chairs (and highchairs) - don't forget under the seats where sticky fingers linger.
Clean windows in both rooms.
Go round the whole house wiping door handles, light switches and banisters - we WILL be germ-free!

EXTRAS

HHI
S&S bathroom
Paperwork/admin up to date
A new month has started - do you need to post card?  Buy cards? 
Check your 'prepping' stock - winter is not far away and COVID still rears its ugly head.
Meal plan for the week.