Weekly Flylady Thread 11th July 2022

Natty68

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.

Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. 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 Valli for last week's thread

It is your responsibility to read the forum rules, please follow them 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 something Flylady-related!

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- 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

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clean the sink, drainer and taps
Wipe the work surface you can see
Level Two
Hoover and mop the floor
Sort out and wipe out the fridge
Level Three
Clean the WM filters and drawer
Wash the window
Wipe over the hob and oven door
Extras

• Clean some shoes
• HHI
• Deal with a hotspot

Drink plenty of fluids...it's going to be a hot one today.

Tuesday - Living room, Hall and downstairs Loo
Level One
Drink plenty of fluids...it's going to be a hot one today.
Hoover/wipe the sofas
S&S the sink and toilet
Level Two
Dust the electricals, front, back, sides and underneath
Hoover the floor
Wipe the window ledge
Level Three
HH tidying, decluttering, sorting
Wipe some paintwork, skirting boards, behind the toilet/sink
Extras

• Order pet supplies or make vet appointments
• Clean out pets/pet bedding
• Check you know when sports day/end of term is
• No pets or kids? Read a book or do some craft...

Wednesday - Master Bedroom and Landing
Level One
Drink plenty of fluids...it's going to be another hot one today.
Change the bed, hoover the matress, turn it if you can
Level Two
Hoover the stairs, landing and bedroom
Wipe the window ledges
Level Three
Dust any dusty bits
Deal with hotspots/floorobes
Wipe the bedstead
Extras

• Arrange for boiler service or chimney sweep
• Recycle any paper/magazines lying around
• Do something you want to do rather than feel you should

Thursday - Bathrooms
Level One
Drink plenty of fluids...it's going to be another hot one today.
Clean toilets and sinks
Level Two
Change the towels
Hoover and wipe the floor
Wipe the splashbacks
Level Three
Clean out the plug holes
Shine the mirrors
Clean the bath and shower
Extras

• HHPaperwork
• Declultter a drawer
• Me Me Me time

kazwookie

I'm in thank you for the lists.

Weeds killer now down

Garden pots watered

Hair coloured metallic steel! aka blue! it will wash out

Sewing done, mended 3 items that had been hanging around waiting for sooooooooooo long.

ionafan

Thank you Natty.  I need to be in this week, as the floors are covered with Rosie's under coat and the furniture is covered in dust.

DH had managed to walk about 20 yards this afternoon with a zimmer frame, but afterwards he was exhausted and very confused. 

It was worth driving a total of about 90 miles today, to see DS2 and family and pay my last visit to that house - next time I see them they will be just over 100 miles further south (but accessible by motorway).

Hope everyone has a good week.  Round, enjoy your days off! xxx

Narc0lepsy

thanks for thread.
Managed to walk to church and back without melting but was fit for little else in the afternoon. 
Sorted out a few more things for next week's hols.
Watered greenhouse.
Flowers etc all poised to quickly assemble tomorrow morning for SIL, hoping they won't melt/wilt/squish on the train/underground/bus.

Good news on walking Mr Ionafan.  Ionafan  glad you managed to have some pleasure with family today before you are playing full time nurse and physio.....

YORKSHIRELASS

Morning all

Glad Mr Ionafan is making progress.  

We are back from a lovely week away and I am most definitely not looking forward to the paid stuff today, but I have done 15 minutes yoga and will now prep dinner before getting ready to cycle in to the office.  It's going to be a long hot day but I will try to fit some flying in somewhere.

Hope everyone has a good Monday x

Jazee

Morning all.  Thanks for the list.
Birthday here today. We were going to go out but it's too hot already so DD is popping over with DGD2 instead.
 I'm about to take the dogs for a very short walk. Other than that I shall do dailies and potter/rest in the garden.  Washing machine is already whirring.
Have a great day everyone.

kazwookie

Happy Birthday x

Whole  house hoovered, bagless thing emptied

2 x Wm out on line

Bins all done

Bleach sloshed down toilets

Cats fed

Windows open, curtains on the sunny side closed

Weight loss this week none, total gone 26 lbs

Steps for July 139348 so far.

Have a good day

roundtuit

Morning all xx 

Thank you for the lists. 

Thank you iona - I'm soooo pleased I can sit the heat out at home today. Your DH sounds to be progressing well. xx

Just wondering what time kaz got up to get all that flying done by 7am? I half decided to get up early and fly before it was too hot to do anything,  but the other half decided it needed more sleep. Guess which half won? 🙄

Anyhoo. I'm up, made my bed   glugged bleach down the loo, taken my meds, and I'm having a brew.

To Do Today 
Shower
Get dressed 
Feed the birds 
Put out the recycling 
WUDUPA 

The house faces East - kitchen / West - living room. South is the side attached to my NNs. So I am somewhat protected from the heat. I'd look for an igloo but a they've all melted and b I'm claustrophobic- even the thought is making me blip. So rural semi with a fan it is then. 

Happy Birthday Jazee or someone at Jazee's house. Not entirely sure which. Xx

Hope Dot is OK this morning piggers. Xx

Much love to all
Rxx

roundtuit

PS. I switched on my phone to find a message from DS. Just about to get on the plane. He'll let me know when he arrives in Spain.
Eh? What? You mean he isn't at home getting ready to go to work! He's on a plane. Going to Spain. 
Tbf he did mention a lads holiday in Benidorm this summer. This conversation was had as we drove to piggersland last weekend. You'd think he'd have said 'next week' not 'this summer'.....or is that just me?

DS and 4 friends - 3 of whom are called Tom. I believe the plan is that DS and R are going to be honorary Toms for the week. Five Tom's in Benidorm on a last lads' holiday. 😱. And breathe...

Flying - every evening I refill the bird bath, and the hedgehogs' dish,  then water the hanging basket. It's a new routine and quite pleasant in the cooler essentials of dusk.

Rxx

ionafan

Morning all.

Happy Birthday to whichever one of you is celebrating in the Jazee household x
I hope Dot slept well x

I woke up before 4.00, got up at 5.00 and so far this morning have
- flung open the widows and pulled down the blinds
- done the finance check
- found a box for Sunday School
- tidied my desk
- tidied the piles of papers on the spare bed and filed some of them - the rest are WIP
- watered the garden
- done QHI (4 pillowcases and a pair of my trousers)
- had breakfast and 3 cuppas
- tidied all through downstairs - except that DH's bed is not made up, but K is coming to help me make beds and clean windows tomorrow morning
- hoovered half a dog off the lounge carpet and the edges of the sofas
- mended (re-hung) a broken curtain ring
- mended (sewed up) a pair of DH's shorts
- tidied the bathroom
- re-stocked toilet rolls wherever they were needed

I am unlikely to achieve my aim of finishing the flying before 9.00 so that I can go back to sleep for a couple of hours in the relatively cool hours, as I have to visit DH this afternoon and want to go to the Old Wives' meeting this evening.  Now that we only meet once a month, I really don't want to miss it.  I won't list my remaining flying aspirations as there are far too many!

Keep cool and hydrated xx

pigpen

TY for the Fred. I hope all is well in Nattyland

Iona.. excellent news on the walking. The confusion should hopefully get better as he recovers.

Round.. is it going to be like a mutual stag do for the 5 of them?

My back feels like I pulled something so I can feel every breath.. fun times.

Dot is alarmingly calm this morning.. but she has a maths test at 10am..

I have just been informed Twinkles has a trip tomorrow.. joy.. thanks for the warning!

Dinner money/breakfast club paid up to date.

And todays job.. find birthday presents for OH.