Weekly Flylady Thread 11th April 2022

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!
Glug some bleach down the plugholes.
Clean/polish table - wipe mats/change cloth - don't forget the legs and places where sticky fingers can reach.
Clean chairs/stools - and don't forget legs and rails!
Check fruit and wash bowl
Throw away your manky dish cloth or sponge and replace with a new one!  Put out a new hand towel and a new tea towel too
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 shelves etc and check running temperature 
Dust dining area/room
Descale kettle if needed
Clean WM , TD and DW filters; remove WM detergent drawer and wash it out.  Scrub doorseal.
Wipe DW door paying particular attention to manky crevices

Level 3

Choose a drawer, shelf or cupboard for special attention.  Empty, clean out, replace what is needed or useful and fling what is unused and/or out of date
Sweep/mop/vacuum floor
Clean chairs (and highchairs) - don't forget under the seats where sticky fingers linger.
Clean windows in both rooms.

EXTRAS

HHI
S&S bathroom
Make sure PE kit and school uniform has made its way into the laundry basket.
Meal plan for the week - Friday is a Bank Holiday!

Twinkly Tuesday - Bathroom (s)

Level 1

The washbasin
open window
remove all gubbins around it
scrub out
ckean and polish taps
clean plug, chain etc
wipe mirrors
clean pedestal/cupboard

level 2 
The loo
scrub inside and out
wipe cistern
wipe loo roll holder
dust sill and clean window

level 3
clean Bath/shower
wash curtain or wipe and shine screen
clean taps or showerhead
clean and clear drain
wipe towel rail
replace towels
clean floor

extras HHI
How are those Toots lists doing?

wednesday Hump day

master bedroom

level 1

open window
strip bed
clear chair and floor drobes
empty bin

level 2 
Dust/vacuum bed frame
Rename bed

level 3
dust all round
clean wondows
vacuum/seep/mop floor

extreas
press small people into service
s&s kitchen
s&s bathroom
hhi


thursday thrills Living room


level 1

open a window
empty bin
deal with flowers
deal with fire - rake out and relay
empty any ash trays

level 2
dust everywhere - lift what you can
vacuum sofa etc.  Lift seat pads/cushions

level 3
ckean window
vacuum/sweep/mop floor

extras
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
hhi

ionafan

Thank you for the new thread and the aspirational list, Valli.  I will do what I can.  My to-do list is as long now as it was last Sunday night, just a few different things on it.

Welcome to the madhouse, basketcase!  FYI, a lot of my clothes are purple or grey, and so are some of my pegs.  The rest (mixed colours) brighten up DH's black socks - properly paired, of course.  

I hope everyone has a good - or at least better - week.  (((Hugs))) spoons and sticks all round, as needed xxx

Jazee

Morning all.  Thanks for the list but I'm wiped out by Covid.  Will be making one essential phone call at nine then going back to bed.
Have a great day everyone.

ionafan

GWS Jazee x

I have shined (?shone?) my sink, wiped down the tiles, cleaned the MW and cleared out the bins and cupboard under the sink.  Must get on with other things now.

The window cleaner is here to do the outside - it will show up how much dirt there is on the inside!

mumtoomany

Hi all. Been MIA again for a couple of weeks. Lazarus, the sheep that we thought had died, is slowly improving. We had a ewe that had a prolapse, that's interesting to fix, pushing all her lady bits back in! Another that miscarried triplets, then died. Been an interesting time. On top of that we've had the chickens and plants/seeds to sort, and the grandchildren. Very little flying done! 
My kitchen is beautiful! Not clean, not tidy, just beautiful. DGS1 made birds nest Easter cakes at beavers, covered in edible glitter. So much that "they ran out of it". Two DGDs had one each, and found that if you blow on the cakes and the plates it's just like fairy dust!!!! The whole kitchen now looks like we've had a frost! But it's beautiful. Much cleaning to be done.
Natti, hope your feeling ok, love the flowers. Valli, congratulation on the new job. Hope you can start soon and it's less stressful for you. Dizzy, hope you and goes are ok, we're all missing you. Pigpen, I didn't manage to lost anything for sale last month. Need to get one of the younger people to help me. I did make £30 room surveys, found 50p Kim the floor and sold two boxes of eggs. So I'm 1st month a partial success at £32.50. To everyone else, hugs. Mumtoomany.xx

[Deleted User]

Morning all

I haven’t read back, playing catch up here so I wanted to pop in and send love to you all. Have more kids here today so it’s mayhem!

Thank you for my lovely Easter card it has made my day. Better go and dispense more snacks!

Take care all xx

Dizzy_Imp

Urgh, first day of the Easter holidays after a 9 hour night shift.  One whole hour of sleep before deciding getting up was better than clearing up blood from scrapping children later.   Annoying YouTube videos blasting from different rooms and the collie pup keeps finding stuff to try to eat and die from.

I totally missed last week's flying (sorry) the new dishwasher has a faulty float switch, Mount Ironmore has reached new, colossal heights, still no heating downstairs or running water in the kitchen and my lovely energy company say I used £735 of electricity last month (how, as no heating or showers!?)  so I'm slobbing on the sofa with my miniature bull terrier snoozing on my lap.

I need to sleeeeeeep!

kazwookie

Thank you for thread x

Whole house hoovered

2 x WM, done out on whirly

Food shop done

Hair coloured gone metallic steel this time, how ever it has signs of blue

Plants out pavers in wild garden

Toilets cleaned

Cats fed and sorted

Wraps made for lunch

Loads of other small stuff done

Walking to do................!

Valli

Been to my new work for a meet and greet.  
Line dried lots of washing.

otb666

Visited and sorted meds out for Inlaws, put away DS clothes/ Ordered repeat prescriptions then felt exhausted so chilled for rest of day.  Tomorrow should cut grass/ change sheets / stack 5 boxes of DVDs under my bed again./ clean windows. I think i will have to spread that over next 4 days

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

Out for 2 hours on the bike at 7.30am then 8 hours at the paid stuff.  Doggie blankets washed and another load in.  Think thats about it for me today.