Weekly Flylady Thread 6th March 2023

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.

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 (ooh a compound adjective) content!

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

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One..
Clear and wipe work surfaces
Open the windows and let in the spring!
Level Two...
Sweep and Mop the floor
Clean the icky filters and drawers from DW's, WM's etc
Wipe the cupboard fronts, all the appliances and all those manky corners!!
Level Three...
Wipe the table, replace cloth if needed
Empty and clean out the fridge.. including the drain hole bit at the back..
Clean oven/hob
Pick a cupboard and empty and clean it out and replace only what you wish to keep!
Extras

• 32 fling boogie!
• HHI .. I really need to do this!!! 
• Clean the grill pan.. 
• Clean windows and sills

Twinkly Tuesday ~ master bedroom and landing
Level One...
Clear the floordrobe
Clear the landing of gibble
Level Two...
Dust and deweb
Wash the windows
Vacuum the floors.. and the mattress before remaking the bed
Level Three...
Strip and wash the bedding
Wipe any grotty paintwork and furniture
Check those smoke alarms!
Extras

• Binbag dance
• HHI
• 15 minutes filing
• Fill a binbag of old winter stuff for charity shop!!

Wacky Wednesday ~ Study or other reception room & bathrooms

Level One...

Clear the clutter from all these rooms!!

Ring someone you love just to tell them so.. we never do this enough!

Level Two...

Vacuum the floors

Clean bath, toilets, shower and sinks

Wipe down the tiles and defragment the pc while doing this.

Level Three...

Wash any curtains/blinds/mats etc that need doing

Declutter and dust the pc desk

Wipe away cup rings and sticky things

Wiipe the keyboard, mouse, cables and sockets and suchlike.

Clean the windows.

Extras

• HHI..
• Clear a hotspot
• Degunge around the bottoms of the taps!
• Wipe cupboards and polish mirrors!

Thursdays are Trilling!! - Living pit, hallway, stairs!! 
Level One... 
Declutter the floors! 
Vacuum/mop floors & stairs! 
Level Two... 
Wash the windows and the front door.. inside and out! 
Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move! 
Level Three... 
Clean the sofas 
Declutter the inside of a cupboard or drawer! 
Wipe all the paintwork! 
Dust mantle and polish all the trinkets upon it.. and get all the junk off it! 

Extras 

• Wipe and water the plants
• Clean out the pets, get rid of that smelly bedding and replace with lovely smelling bits 
• Wash any smelly soft furnishings 
• Get a pile of filing done!! 

Friday - those frightening Friday kids rooms and spare rooms

Level One...
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see..
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Level Two...
Binbag dance
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade!!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Time for the Friday Flylady Fling, in the toy box!!!! Aim for 27.. if no toy box you’ll have
to choose another area!
Level Three...
Strip beds and replace with fresh linen ..
Check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are no longer wearable, too small or out of season!
Extras

• Wash a set of curtains, nets or throw
• Make all those necessary phonecalls!
• HHI
• Make a half hour time out for yourself!!
• Tidy up the garden! Trim hedges and grass etc...
• Bake a cake
• Spend an hour or so with the family having some lovely special family time.. just talking or watching a film with popcorn etc..

pigpen

TY for Fred.

I have many things to do this week plus opticians appointments and dentist and all the things..

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One..
Level Two...
Wipe the cupboard fronts, all the appliances and all those manky corners!!
Level Three...
Pick a cupboard and empty and clean it out and replace only what you wish to keep!
Extras

• 32 fling boogie!
• Clean windows and sills.. I have done 2 of 3 so will try to do the third.

Twinkly Tuesday ~ master bedroom and landing
Level One...
Clear the floordrobe
Clear the landing of gibble
Level Two...
Vacuum the floors.. and the mattress before remaking the bed
Level Three...
Wipe any grotty paintwork and furniture
Extras

• 15 minutes filing
• Fill a binbag of old winter stuff for charity shop!!

Wacky Wednesday ~ Study or other reception room & bathrooms
Level One...
Level Two..
defragment the pc while doing this. ~ Does anyone have a pc old enough to require this any more?? I've not had to do it since Vista!
Level Three...
Extras

• Clear a hotspot

This weeks appointments :

Tuesday 10am ~ my nail appt.

Tuesday 4pm  ~ Dot Dentist

Wednesday 4pm ~ DS2 Optician

Friday 3:40 & 4pm ~ Moomin and EC Opticians.

After this week..
 
Mon 13th 4pm ~ Boog opticians

Mon 13th 3:30pm ~ Squeak neurology.

Tuesday 14th 4:20 ~ Meem opticians

Monday 20th 10:50 ~ Squeak Dentist.

Thursday 23rd 11:40pm ~ Twinkle dentist

Jazee

Morning all.  Hope you're all ok today.  Thanks for the list.

 I'm just having a cuppa while waiting for DGD2 to wake up.  I may even have a chance to get dressed before she does.

Any flying today will be when she has a nap.

Have a great day everyone.

roundtuit

Good morning my lovelies xx

I'm up, dressed, made my bed, had a brew and breakfast,  dropped Feargal at the village garage for his MOT, and walked home.

Round 1
Feed the birds
Change water in the birdbath
Put out the recycling
HH Admin

Happy Monday 😊

Rxx

Crazycatlady2

Started with ironing so the week can only get better right?

also cleaned up kitchen and got washer going and sorted tablets out….need to collect some and order some 

hope everyone has a good week x 

pigpen

Squeak had a panic and wouldn't get on the bus.. so we had to take her to schol and it was 9:45 before OH got logged in.. we said we would pick her up at lunch time

I ordered prescriptions x3

I have a DW to run and some washing to hang out in the rain.. the cats are all out there looking for worms.

Valli

Morning all

wfh today (for a few hours).  Have made a veggie chilli for tea which is in the SC.  Pitta bread out of the freezer to go with it so it doesn't matter when DD gets home from placement; it will be ready.

Aired, ironed bedding brought upstairs.  Washing on the line.  DW stacked and WUALTD

kazwookie

Eby parcel posted

WM x 2 done

Whole house hoovered

Bed changed

Cats fed

Food shop done

Picked up prescription

Mopped floors that needed it.

There is the most enormouse piece of machinery in the road, with a hugh arm lift on it, just waiting to see what is being lifted over the house 3 doors up, what ever it is it is very very big...............(wait for crashing noise when whatever falls off the hoist)

pigpen

Anyne care to join me for a HHC???? We are picking Squeak up at 1 we think so I have just got time to squeeze one in.

I wan't to get the kitchen put back together and hang out laundry.

Mogs all hating life because we bested their fleas!!

Christmasshopper2

Good afternoon everyone,
I’m home from a night shift and seriously lacking motivation. I’ve turned the water heater on and made a cup of coffee. I’d better get cracking before my enthusiasm runs out completely. Please send positive vibes. 

pigpen

Manic dash about but I got the DW loaded, the maggot bin filled.

washing off the line.. it decided to bombard me with hail halfway through bringing in the first lot.

TD on airing some bits off.. and I have more to hang out now it is drying up again.
And I bought some meat.

Squeak collected.. that took FOREVER!!!!!!! OH back to work I thrust a coffee at him.

squeak told we cannot pick her up tomorrow because Dot has dentist.. which she does.. at 4pm.. lol. I have a nail appointment at 10am too so unless OH sorts her out, I cannot.