Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd August 2020

Valli

Kaz - keep an eye on your credit report 'just in case'.
Raining here (bad) means I don't have to water the garden (good).  Missed seeing an ebay sale on Sunday - must get it packed as today's last dispatch day!  
Spoke to sis about my party ... she's suggested I defer until next year, which makes sense but I'm not sure I can be bothered and just feel like totally cancelling.  I'm definitely not having it this September.  Need to inform venue.

Dizzy_Imp

Aaarrrgh! So much to do so little time!

Just lost a long post as messages keep pinging in and I accidentally pressed back on my tablet.  Gah! Oh well, I'll try to recap my progress later... just finished cuppa, now need to spot treat 8 week old chicks and move them to the outdoor kennel area, which is a stepping stone to being free-ranging when they are a little older. Then the stable can be cleaned, ready for the huge batch of 5 week old birds who are needing more space. 

30+ chicks hatched yesterday, which is lovely, but creates a shed load of extra cleaning too, and I only got about four hours sleep last night, so am the walking dead.

MrsTeaDrinker

Newbie to the forum here. I used to do the Flylady thread years ago, but under a different email address that I no longer use. My house is complete chaos and I am fed up of always feeling behind with it. So, I'm coming back to Flylady to try and take baby steps towards a cleaner home. Missed Monday, so will try and do both today as I have a day off. Will come back in and cross off as I do them!

Marvellous Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
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
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

roundtuit

Valli - I've always said that I would have a party on my 60th birthday - that sort of dissolved into a meet and greet and sarnies at the village pub sounds like a good idea, but I didn't do anything about arranging it with the covid scenario descending. Now the date is rapidly approaching and nothing seems like a good idea....what are you going to do? Part of me is thinking just forget it and the party girl in me is stamping her foot and insisting that we do something.

Would all flyladies please pray, wish, cross fingers, blow flylady purple dust. ...DS has an interview for a job with the Council at 12.30pm. He's nervous. I feel sick!!! 

Round 1 is completed + clean clothes taken upstairs.

Round 2 = lunch: I'm going to be an ill sitting hen until DS comes home. Going to lose myself in a book while he's gone.
Rxx

MrsTeaDrinker

Lol oops, I didn't realise that because I'm a new member I can't edit my posts yet. Sorry for the really long post before. I'll just pop a post in here to say when I've done everything!

ruby_eskimo

Welcome MrsTeaDrinker, I've also taken the plunge to come back to Fly Ladying this week because I was fed up of my house being a mess!  

Sending all the good luck vibes to your son Round!  

Taking a quick lunch break before an afternoon of virtual calls and have convinced DH to do the vacuuming once he's finished eating!

ionafan

Afternoon all (just!) and welcome back MrsTeaDrinker.

Yesterday disappeared in a haze of tiredness, though I did manage to wrap about 15 parcels and post a large box containing 6 of them for DS2 and family - fortunately not as pricey as when I posted 1.5kg of bread flour to them near the start of lockdown!

Today so far I have
- made some phonecalls
- sent some emails
- sorted out washers, keys, plastic blocks etc for twiddle muffs for men, being made by members of our local scrubs group
- hoovered upstairs and down
- finished hoovering out my car (started yesterday but had to give up when the Dy$0n ran out of juice) and replaced mats, shopping bags, de-icer (!) etc
- sorted out where we might meet DD&Co next week: Blenheim is equidistant, and Rosie is allowed in the grounds, so  Fayolle it's unlikely that we shall go as far south as the M4, but thank you so much for your offer to doggysit.  Another time, maybe, when we're nearer to you?

Good luck to your DS, round.  Sorry to hear about his GF's job going up in a puff of smoke: hope she gets another soon.

(((Hugs))) to YL, all who've had to cancel birthday celebrations / holidays / hairdresser's appointment or anything else because of the wretched Covid, all who got woken up rudely this morning or didn't get enough sleep - in fact, I'll just make that (((hugs))) to everyone xx

Valli

Ironing done; cards writen and parcels wrapped.  One hasn't been paid for yet but I really need to go.
I was having a buffet and music and dancing with a carefully curated playlist.  I had arranged to borrow the disco speaker from work, too.
I could have had a sit down, plated buffet for 30 people -but now they've cancelled receptions etc for 30 even that can't go ahead now.  In the grand scheme of things it's nothing o make a fuss about. 
Welcome Mrs Tea Drinker - I'm wondering who you were... 

Jazee

Welcome returners.

Took the dogs for a quick walk then the heavens opened so I needn't have watered the garden earlier.  I've entered a competition and that is it.

kazwookie

Garden men been and gone

Skip is here and I've put the bulk of steptoe's yard in it,, re homed 3 frogs to the field at the back which were under the rubble, digging out a planter now

Both sparky and tiler are getting on with job in hand........