Weekly Flylady Thread 20th January 2025

Slinky

Well I've managed to do some cleaning this week! Monday was all the hard floors and kettle descale. Tuesday hoovered lounge and hall, dusted the hall and lobby including the skirtings (unheard of) and most of the lounge, and tackled part of a grot spot. The bedroom stuff for today doesn't really work for me as I changed the bed at the weekend. Been out and fed the birds earlier. 

Just contemplating filling a bucket with soapy water and tackling finishing the ensuite. I cleaned the shower and floor on Monday, just the loo, tiles and basin need doing. Wish me luck, I'm going in......

Note to self, need to find somewhere to order a new seal for the bottom of the shower door. Think of it every time I get out of the shower, as it's tearing, and keep forgetting.

Slinky

Ensuite is now what passes for clean in this house. Bins have been sorted and put out for tomorrow, won't have the panic of the wagon coming up the street.....

We are lucky to live a few miles from the coast on a river, well technically an estuary, so our lunchtime walk when OH is working from home, is alongside the river with its varying height according to the state of the tide. Today was very foggy, but a good collection of birds feeding on the mudbank.  We used to live way inland and still appreciate this changing vista daily.

ionafan

Valli, where did the rabbit disappear to? 

At last!  I dusted and hoovered all through downstairs (except for DH's hovel, which is his job) while Rosie was out for her walk with L, and that means I've finished off everything that was on my to-do-list yesterday.

My little car is home again and my bank account is over £300 lighter - however, the money was already sitting in my Car Fund, so thankfully it's not a hit to my food budget.

I also did the food shop on the way home, with the result that the FF and larder have been re-stocked and we shouldn't need any more food apart from milk before the end of the month.

Now to see if I can get the gov.uk probate and wills site to accept my order for the downloads of 3 historical wills - I've been getting error messages on Chrome, so will try a different browser first.  Wish me luck!

Cloth_of_Gold

Hello everyone.

Alastair's 80th went well. Because he can't get down the stairsa t the moment becasue of his arm fractured arm we had to have the celebration at home. He seemd to enjoy it. The private physio came to seen if there was a way of him managing the stairs safely but she siad not so he will have to ewait until his arm has healed, or if it doesn't, he's had an operation on it. We go back to the fracture clinic next week so we will know more after that.

Yestreday some friends came over for tea but as the falt was fairly clean and tidy I just whizzed around with the vac. Today Alastair spilled a cup of coffee and a lot went onto the tablecloth, which I'd only put on yesterday after washing it. I took it off and washed and dried it and it is now ready to go back on. The coffee stain came out, with the help of the wonderful Napisan.

Some firends bought him a subscription to the National Theatre Online, where but I can't get it to work on our smarrt TV for some reason.

Honey_Bear

Glad to hear that A's birthday celebration's went well CoG, and I hope his fracture clinic appointment goes smoothly.

I've decluttered as much as I can from the filing cabinet.  I've counted each chucked sub-file as one item, regardless of how many pages were in it/them, and I'm counting paperwork as in the Stationery category.  

A full declutter of a category is 498 and I have 42 items left to find by the end of 31 January.  I'll think of something, but in the meantime I'm happy with what I've achieved even if I don't find an additional 42 items.

I simply don't have any more clothes I can get rid of, so I'm woefully short on the clothing front.  150 items went, so I'm about 349 items short and that's more than I own! 

I'm 377 short on books and not at all clear about how I could get rid of that many because, again, I don't think I own 377 now.  I absolutely did, I had thousands, but I've been decluttering books for 20 years.  I thought I had boxes and boxes of them in the attic but they've all already gone.  There's a reason there are books on my shelves - I like them, each and every one, so I probably won't be letting any more of them go.

I need to find 132 more Household items.  Not sure that's possible but I can keep going on that category, but all the out of date food is long gone, and I was 224 items short. 

In all, so far, I've decluttered 1,365 items.  If I have to stop now to do a bit of straightening out of areas that have been decluttered and didn't for some reason restart again, I'd be happy with that many items leaving the house.  The whole place needs a good dust, it needs a tidy up, but it's a lot better than it was.  Very chuffed with what I've achieved.

Tomorrow it's the tip, and a few errands, Friday I'm taking a neighbour out to lunch so I may give the decluttering a bit of a rest until next Monday and fit it a bit of actual cleaning and more marmalade making until then.

Slinky

Shower seal has been located and ordered. In fact I ordered two, as there was a £4.95 postage charge and I can see it being the sort of thing we'll need to replace again given the first one started splitting within a few days of use. I trimmed it down which stopped the splitting, but it started again a couple of weeks ago.  The trick will be A, remembering that we have a spare seal and B, knowing where we've stored it....

I cannot remember whether I bought some spare toilet seats. The new loos a couple of years ago are a particular shape that I don't think your average loo seat will fit. I know I looked a while ago at buying some spares whilst the loos are still being made, but I cannot for the life of me remember whether I actually got around to buying any........ if I did, I don't know where they are, not that they are needed just yet.

Valli

Slinky said:

Note to self, need to find somewhere to order a new seal for the bottom of the shower door. Think of it every time I get out of the shower, as it's tearing, and keep forgetting.

I got one from Scr3wf1x

Dizzy_Imp

Gah! Wrote a long post then one of my dogs knocked the keyboard and it was totally deleted...

I was trying to say how impressed I am with your flingage HB and am thoroughly enjoying the daily reveal from the OoD Eltee!!

Anyway - got a sulk on now, so having a cuppa.  TTFN x

Narc0lepsy

Another day done but several eye leakages.
- packed and took 9 boxes of china to auction house.
- took 2 suitcases of clothes and 1 box of ornaments to charity shop. Lovely lady in shop very appreciative.  Struck by whimpers so came back via clifftop and watched the sea for a while. Poor Mr N.
- vacuumed bottom of wardrobe, emptied last things from bedside tables. Mum's bedroom now totally clear. Watched 2 foxes walk along her wall, sit for a while and walk across the garage roof.
- almost emptied bookcase in spare room, lots of books now boxed for CS. Knitting patterns sorted for passing on or recycling as many are very old and creased. Lots of slides, holiday diaries and photos gathered up, I'm going to look through them at home and be custodian. Odds and ends from bedroom cupboards sorted so now empty apart from our clothes.
- most pictures and photos taken down, not quite all as I need to get used to how it's beginning to look. 
Had a half price carvery voucher so that was dinner.
Tomorrow bil is coming to help clear the garage, which will be a challenge. We've promised to reward him to a meal at the local Italian as I certainly don't have any inclination or energy to cook, nor much food or utensils. 

Glad celebration went well CofG.

weenancyinAmerica

@Narc0lepsy - patterns can usually be ironed out. You might ask if someone wants the older patterns even in the shape they are in. A lot of these are being put online, but someone needs to locate the patterns to put on first. Maybe yours would fit the bill.