Weekly Flylady Thread 30th September 2024

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!

Right now the thread is looking very quiet...but 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!!!8217;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 ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
Declutter the floors
Vacuum decluttered floors!
Tidy coats and shoes, put summer ones away for next summer or in the bin or charity shop bag as required!
Level Two
Declutter and dust the tops of any units and dust ornaments
Wipe the sofas if needed or wash covers as required
Wipe and water plants, dust and deweb
Declutter and wipe fire surround
Level Three
Check house for draughts and make a plan to plug them before it gets REALLY wintery cold!
Hang pictures/mirrors etc that you have had for AAAAGES and not got round to doing yet!
Empty and clear out a cupboard or drawer..

Extras

• HHI or HHC doing some task you ALWAYS put off!
• Binbag dance
• Wipe the skirtings and window frames
• Empty and wash out bins and fill coal/kindling baskets as required
• HHI

Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Shine the sink!
Level Two
Wipe fronts of appliances and units
Get out your toothbrush and scrub the grout and taps!
Wipe table and replace cloth if needed
Level Three
Clear and wipe window sills
Clean the oven and hob..
Scrub the fridge

Extras

• Sort the childrens undies.. what needs replacing/flinging/hitting with a stick?
• Wipe skirtings
• Wash windows
• Thoroughly clean out the jars and spices and cereal shelves

Wednesday ~ Surprise Day Off

As a lovely surprise..You can all have an unexpected day off today... Do whatever room/level you wish to do today. !

 

Normal service resumes tomorrow

Thursday ~ Master bedroom and landing
Level One
Declutter the floor
Strip wash and replace the bedding.. do not wait until you want to get in it!!
Level Two
Vacuum floors
Dust and deweb
Empty and clean out bins
31 fling boogie!
Level Three
Clear the floordrobe.
Sort through your cupboard and get rid of those items of clothing you no longer wear or need or are worn out.. memories are in your heart not in things you no longer use!!
Declutter some of the stuff you have stashed under the bed, in the bottom of the wardrobe

Extras

• Wash windows
• Wash curtains or other soft furnishings that need it
• Straighten your shoe and bag collection.. can any be rehomed?
• Sort through a box of general junk that is lurking

Friday ~ Bathroom, loo and study!
Level One
Declutter floors
Scrubify the tiles
Level Two
Clean the bath, loo, shower etc...
Defrag comp while you vacuum/mop
Wipe chairs keyboards, mouses monitors etc..
Level Three
Wash shower curtains/bathmats etc
Clean the radiators and paintwork
Shine the taps and descale the shower head!

Extras

• 15 minutes filing
• HHI
• Delete 100 useless junk emails!
• Dust, deweb and wash some windows

ionafan

Thank you Natty - I shall be flying again from Wednesday x

(((Hugs))) to all especially Fayolle and YL xx xx

Glad you had a great celebration, HB xx

Jazee

Morning all.  Thanks for the list.  Wordle done in five, connections with one life lost.

DGD2 is here, just having breakfast while watching p@w patrol.  The other grand kids will be here later this morning so flying will commence tomorrow.

Have a great day everyone.

roundtuit

Good morning my lovelies xx 

Thank you for the thread as always 😘

I'm up, made my bed, got weighed, completed Wordle in two ( impressed myself 🤣), completed Connections with two lives lost,  and supped my first brew. 

I lost 0.5 lbs this week. That's 11 pounds off this quarter; 3 stones and 4 lbs off since 8th January. The wedding is less than five weeks away now. How did that happen? 😳 

Brew 2 required then I'll formulate a plan for today.

Rxx

Valli

Morning all

thanks for the thread Natty, and here’s to another week of flying…or not.

HoneyBear it sounds like you had a fabulous time!

My car goes in for its MOT test tomorrow but i plan to drop it off later, so they’ll have it first thing as first thing in the morning is somewhat tricky.

Work today so might not get much done.

DW x 1

Honey_Bear

Thank you for keeping Fred going Natty and Valli.

Fabulous work and achievement on the weightloss front Round.

Thanks for saving me journey to the old threads to look for the Napisan solution CoG.  It's on the list.

Connections solved with no lives lost (first time ever but the third line was a lucky guess) and stumped by Wordle at the moment but I'll get there eventually.

I'm in this week, but gently.  The last few months have been very hard work, all of which was needed and to a certain extent enjoyed but I need to pace myself from  now on.  I will flit around the sitting room with a duster and do a bit of vacuuming in there as well.  It's one of two rooms in the house that looks reasonable and I don't want that to slip.

Other than that - a lot of thank you notes need to be written, and a good luck card to lovely neighbour who starts her new job tomorrow.

kazwookie

Thank you for the thread and kists.

Well done Round.

Hoovering done

Bed stripped and remade

Bins done

Toilets done

Workmen inspected next door to check what they are up to, as new neighbour is away until mid Oct, sent NND text to tell her wheat is gonig on, she is happy with it all.

It is chucking it down, so I am not doing the washing or wet floor mopping today

Fire cleaned out.

Loads of other small stuff done

roundtuit

Brew 2 supped and breakfast eaten. Taken meds and turned over the calendars. Done a laundry shuffle and put away the airer. Got dressed. And phoned through the request for my repeat prescription. 

It's raining and it's forecast to do so all day. So I won't be tackling the pampas today. 

Round 1
Feed the birds 
Put out the recycling 
Put hoe in shed 
Put fan away 
Put extension cord away 
WUDUPA *

* after P & S have been for coffee

Call at PO- pay rent and C Tax 
Call at Mr C00p - bananas 

Rxx

roundtuit

roundtuit said:

Round 1
Feed the birds ✅
Put out the recycling ✅
Put hoe in shed 
Put fan away 
Put extension cord away 
WUDUPA *

* after P & S have been for coffee ✅

Call at PO- pay rent and C Tax ✅
Call at Mr C00p - bananas ✅

I've bought all the birthday cards I need for November and December. No birthdays in October. Just got Pops' card to buy for January. He'll be 90 on 4th Jan. 

Rxx

roundtuit

roundtuit said:

Round 1
Put hoe in shed ✅
Put fan away ✅
Put extension cord away ✅
WUDUPA ✅

And I've S&S kitchen worktop and draining board. 

Rxx

Honey_Bear

It's always the small things, isn't it.  I spent the whole morning in the kitchen doing what I thought would be a quick job but turned out to be about four hours.  It's fine, it needed to be done, and it's completely done, but the dusting felt like a marathon afterwards and I didn't bother to get the stop ladder out to do the tops of the pictures and the picture rail.  Bad me.  But at least the fridge is clearer, and I have a listy of the expiry dates on the leftovers from last weekend so nothing will go to waste.  I'm not toooooo fussed about expiry dates on dairy but meat, I am.

And there are some desserts!

We've signed the terms and conditions for updating our wills, which were invalidated by the CP so that'll happen this week I think.

The car's just failed its MOT because the ABS warning light has intermitently been appearing since we had a tyre changed.  They can't trace the fault either to that's going to have to go back to the dealership to be traced.  Annoying.  And the loo seat Belovéd bought and tried his hardest to fit has broken so that's going to have to go back to Bee and Queue.  Fortunately the dealership and DIY place are very close to each other.  A job for Belovéd tomorrow.