Weekly Flylady Thread 30th December 2024

twinklie

Todays list:
1. Fold and put away laundry. ✅
2. Meal plan. ✅
3. Food shopping. ✅

4. Wash down windows upstairs. ✅
5. Finish tidying boys room. 

6. Take photos to start putting some clothes on Vinted. ✅ Put 6 items up. 

7. Hoover upstairs. ✅ Will need doing again once I start going in the loft for the Christmas decorations to go back. 
8. Research dehumidifier - want one for upstairs.
9. Take down Christmas decorations. 

10. Put Christmas decorations away. The kids have said they don’t want this to happen whilst they are there (they aren’t ready for it to be over), so will likely taken them down when they are in bed and then put them away tomorrow. 


Question - are window vacuum’s worth it?  

eltee2

Morning All, beautiful day here but 🥶

Today's getting-back-on-it list....

Open windows✔️
Air ✔️& remake bed✔️
Go to SW WI✔️ - pull this face 😬✔️
Meal plan✔️ & shopping list for next week✔️
Scrub bathroom tiles✔️, loo🫤, sink✔️, bath/shower✔️
Sweep ✔️& mop floor✔️
Towels & bathmats to WM✔️, hang out overnight✔️
TD yesterday's hung out overnight bits✔️
DW x2✔️ on first load now
FUPA clean laundry ✔️made a start - tbc
Begin 3 day de-Christmas manoeuvres✔️ - (took cards down)

🙂

redofromstart

twinklie, I have a window vacuum, does a great job of clearing condensation from windows and mirrors.  

kazwookie

I would fill the list in as I go, then have fun crossing things off when done, also I would write random thoughts down as well.

New saw is assembled and works well, well I just had to have a test run with it, I will do more tomorrow as the heap has been  growing.

It is very cold here, the gritter lorries are out already.

Jazee

Hello.  Re the to do list I would put things with actual deadlines in the priorities side and everything else on the right.

 I have a window vacuum.  It's great and has lasted years.

This afternoon I took Poppet for another walk, read some of my book and sorted the dressing table and bedside table drawers in our bedroom.

Honey_Bear

I don't remember the idea of writing down five things for the next day Fayolle but I've used so many strategies over the years to get myself motivated that it could have been me.  It's not one I'm currently practising but I might give it a go too, alongside you.  

I've no idea how to tell the difference between Priorities and To Do Twinkle.  By the time anything makes it to my To Do list it is already a priority because I'm always playing catch up.

I have not decluttered anything today because I've been busy catching up wiith things I needed to get done today because I've been concentrating all my energy on decluttering and things had been left.  I had to make sausage rolls, a flan, pea and cucumber soup before the pastries and the cucumbers went over, so that's done, but that coupled with a Foodbank session and being out last night means I'm absolutely shattered now.  I'm not feeling guilty about it because I'm ahead on the numbers for decluttering at this stage, and the priority over the weekend is to finish The Plan and clean the shelves I've emptied so far, rather than just bunging the stuff I'm keeping straight back on them - oops.

Strands without hints, Wordle in four or five, I forget which, and hopeless on Connections, one line only.

ionafan

@twinklie 

Jazee said:

Hello.  Re the to do list I would put things with actual deadlines in the priorities side and everything else on the right.

I would write the To Do list first and then put just the three most urgent things into the priorities list (as Jazee says, look for the ones with actual deadlines, or anything that could be a danger to life/limb).  When you have done those three, pick your next three priorities.   In my experience, you've got more chance of getting them done if you limit the numbers.

Today
- my friend cancelled our rearranged trip to  Millennium City to see the NT Christmas decorations, as she needed to go and help her daughter who yesterday had a minor op which turned out to be more complicated than expected
- the vicar rang to say that our Epiphany Camel Drive is postponed until 11th because of the iffy weather forecast (we're on the border of snow/no snow)
- Rosie went out for her walk with L and came back very bouncy
- I've almost finished restoring my phone diary: I even found the receipt/printout from the dentist which gives the date of my next appointment, which leaves just the podiatrist to phone next week.
- I persuaded DH to throw away a 2024 poppy brooch from which he has lost the clip section: he still has another, with the same date, which is complete
- DH took down the baubles from the DR light fitting, and I took down more strings of lights and other decorations.  Only the 2 light bridges, cards, carved Nativity, tree and outdoor lights are left up now, to be dealt with on Monday or Wednesday (when I am expecting J the gardener, who will take down the outdoor lights for me).  Removing things bit by bit has worked well for me this year, satisfying my craving for less clutter without it being a shock to the system!
- I cleared my desk and sorted through the last pile of loose paperwork
- I have cooked a big batch of mince, some of which we ate for tea, leaving three double portions boxed up and ready to go in the freezer once they're cold.  That's used up the last of the turkey stock, but I won't need to go shopping until Sunday or Monday.

DH has now gone out to his war games.  I shall do the last bits of washing up, then sit down with a mug of coffee and some chocolate ginger to watch the finals of the Only Connect and University Challenge Christmas specials

Narc0lepsy

Joining the decluttering, I decluttered most of my assessment resources to my ex-manager who is updating her training. Granted, most of it is on long-term loan but I won't be using it at least for the next month, and having it out of my study has started me on that room. It is a real project as it has been my workplace for years; now I'm partly retired, I need to sort it out.
- packaged up all assessment paperwork currently on the shelves; 2yrs worth. Took it up to loft.  Removed from loft any of the same which I'm allowed to (I have to keep paperwork for 6yrs post assessment - that's about half an inch thick for each student).   Took off the slide-on spine binder from each one and put paper into a large box for confidential disposal i.e. a big bonfire.   I now have loads of spine binders; I think I must have forgotten the annual clearout last year! 
- went to Step class.
- deleted lots of old emails. Still have way too many, but I'm going to keep chipping at it. 
- lots of up and down stairs to advise/comment/admire the progress Mr N is making with my 'coffee bar'. 
- renewed library books online
- did an NHS survey
- set up payment for cc bill

Really not looking forward to taking down decorations; Christmas has seemed too short this year.

I don't think we are due much more than sleet, but could be a chilly swim in the lake tomorrow!

Valli

new phone looking better, never managed the data swap but turn out you can save contacts to sim.  lost most recent what’s apps.  And problably last text mum sent, she can’t use a phone now to text.

friends cancelled tomorrow in case of snow.  which means i have 4 portions of lemon posset to eat.  at least i didn’t buy meat.

roundtuit

Morning all xx 

Typical! Thursday and Friday mornings car needed deicing before I could set off for work. Saturday: no work AND  no ice!!!! It's a conspiracy!

I'm up, made my bed  turned over the calendars, taken my meds, completed Strands with no hints,  completed Wordle in three,  completed Connections with one life lost, put tv magazine in recycling pile, texted Happy Birthday to you to Pops (90 years young today), caught up with the thread, filled tea jar with tea bags, and I'm supping my first brew.

Very impressed by all the flylady industriousness going on. I have lots of flying ideas in my head but struggle to put them into action. Maybe this year will be the Hovel to Haven year? 

We're having a surprise get together at the village pub for Pops at 6. But I'll need to pop round and take his card and present (Euros - he flies out to Benidorm on Monday. For eight weeks ☀️) at some point today or he'll wonder why I haven't been. I hope other people realise and do the same....or he's going to think that everyone forgot! 

Saturdailies 
Brew 2 
Get dressed 
Feed the birds 
Put out the rubbish and recycling 
Put new bin bags in bins 
WUDUPA 

Visit Pops

Later
Shower 
Get changed 
Pub 5.45 for 6 

I'll do the laundry tomorrow. It can be a Sundaily for a change. 

Have a good day.
Rxx