Weekly Flylady Thread 27 January 2025

Slinky

I don't know about called away, but I waited about 2.5 hours once when the dentist I was seeing for the first time had a patient with a 'difficult extraction' in the chair. The receptionist eventually called in another dentist from their afternoon off and I was in with her for about 45 minutes as it was a first appointment, and the other patient was still in the chair when I left....

roundtuit

Ahhh. I assumed called away like a GP on call might be, it didn't occur to me that it was an emergency in the same building. But that makes sense. And explains a lot of the toing and froing that was going on upstairs. Thank you.

Kevin is now safely on the drive. Coffee is by my side. Parrots may be required. 

And I cured the leaking overflow of the outside toilet....not even a random drip now. Call me Mario 😊

Rxx

eltee2

Valli said:

Extras


(Eltee - your big task is to clean the oven!)

Dah, dah, daaaaaah!  Took an hour & half of soaking, scrubbing & rinsing but it is done 🎉🥳

I am no longer frogmella of the oven-world🐸

Slinky

Level 1

Clear sides and wipe down - wipe small appliances  DONE
Replace what lives there, wiping as you go DONE
Empty bin and clean it out too DONE
Wipe sill, DONE
Clear and clean sink and accessories - don't forget those out-of-sight places - under plugs and under draining racks DONE

Throw away your manky dish cloth or sponge and replace with a new one! DOES ANYONE CLEAN THEIR CLOTH IN THE MICROWAVE? 40 SECONDS BLAST AND A GOOD RINSE GETS IT SMELLING CLEAN AGAIN.

Level 2


Clean hob DONE

Clean microwave DONE

Bread was a little flatter than I'd hoped but very tasty.  Have wiped up all the breadcrumbs.

Towels in from the line, mostly dry. Looks like it's about to tip down outside. Very dark.

Honey_Bear

Bad enough having to go to the dentist without all of that faff Round.  Glad you did actually get to see someone before you left.

Wren had a very disturbed early morning and has only just calmed down.  She's been going nearly mad, nicking things to chew (it was a mistake putting my passport on the floor ...) and I've had to bribe her with all kinds of treat balls and extra Kongs for hours, so eventually I put her Thundershirt on and it took a while but she's now calmed down.  The cats are behaving as if they've got a bat up their nightdresses so I imagine it was all about the weather.  Lightening, gales, hail and I haven't heard it but I think Wren did - thunder.  So, all of that resulted in me getting up at 6.00am and getting stuck into my Urgent In Tray which I've now bottomed, updated my spreadsheets and am finalising the Declutter 2025 Six Thinking Hat plan. 

I had hoped to deliver the four CS boxes in the car, but as the weather is beyond vile I'm not venturing out so tomorrow looks busy when I will probably have to as I have a Reserved book at the Library and that has to be picked up within 10 days or it'll be reserved for the next person on the list and I'll lose the opportunity to read it.

I cleared three shelves in the upper part of the dresser in my RoD and they've now been restocked with stuff I wanted to get out of the corner cupboard, which will be the sewing cupboard in due course.  I can't wait to get the sewing stuff down from the attic but I need to clear the decks a bit more before introducing more gibble into this room. 

I've ditched three things today but I really have come to the end of the first 2025 round of 'Thing Declutter' a lot earlier than I thought I would.  The final total is 1384.  I thought I'd get to 2,500 each month for three months, but it turns out I've been decluttering more than I thought over the past couple of years very gradually.  The house still felt far too full though so I'm glad I've blitzed it this January.  I hope never to have to do that much in one go again.

For the rest of the month the decluttering is going to be electronic - emails, Bookmarks, and computer files.  I decluttered the photos on my computers a couple of years ago because there were thousands and that included far too many duplicates, and I realised I never looked at them anyway.  I've never missed any of them, either.

Fayolle

HB, fwiw we have had thunder, lightening, hail, torrential rain, sunshine and gale force winds. Wren might have been able to hear our thunder. It is currently light again, but who knows for how long. 

Kaz, thanks for that, much appreciated. I do keep telling myself that it has only been a month, was not necessarily in the plan and it will take time to adjust. Sometimes I just don’t seem to listen to myself!

We are the proud owners of a new front door. I swear it is already warmer, but that might be wishful thinking. I decided to start on the utility cupboard of doom. Oh my word. It is a start but certainly not finished. 5 bottles of washing up liquid should do me for a time though. Some bits have been flung, empty bottles to the recycling, a couple of new prettily wrapped candles to the cs bag. It’s a start. I also found some floor wipes from who knows where or when, as not something I would normally buy. They were still damp, so the hall  and downstairs toilet floors are now clean(er).  On the down side, I have just ripped put 3 recipes from a  magazine which might be a backward step in my never ending mission to reduce the number of recipes / cookery books that I have.

Slinky

Finished off a fairly productive day with clearing the ironing basket.

I do need to get a proper hold on this cleaning malarkey as in a couple of weeks time I'll be starting my volunteering job again. Initially 2 hours on a Monday then at the start of April, adding in 3 hours on a Tuesday.  I don't know why it's so hard to get my cleaning routine, or desire to clean, sorted at home, when the Monday volunteer job which I enjoy doing is helping in the pot wash at a National Trust cafe.......

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

Shhh don't tell anyone because we are keeping it quiet but DH has applied for a new job.  It's a stretch because he doesn't have all the right experience but it's something he would love to do.  The closing date isnt for 2 weeks so now we have to wait.  This could mean that he will be at work full time during the main tourist season, which means that he is not going to be around to do housework cooking and cleaning so we are going to need to be much more organised.  And I don't want it all to fall on my shoulders.  Well plenty of time to think about that.

Full day at the paid stuff so not much flying, but DH is home tomorrow.  I will go and pack my lunch for tomorrow in a bit. 

Jazee

Evening all.  Fingers crossed for your DH YSL.  HB, you have done an amazing job of decluttering this month.

Wordle in three, strands with no hints, connections with no lives lost.

It was my last regular weekend of looking after grandchildren today.  Obviously there will be odd bits of babysitting but after more than three years, it will now be a year until I'm required to care for DGD2 and DGS ( who's due soon).

My back is finally beginning to ease so as well as flying I intend to get back to my exercise class tomorrow.

Just the dailies done here today.  Oh, and dusting behind the bed when DH pulled it out and his dusting wasn't to standard.  It was yucky behind there.

eltee2

Kitchen/dining room

Level 1

✔️Clear sides and wipe down - wipe small appliances
✔️Replace what lives there, wiping as you go
✔️Empty bin and clean it out too
❌️Wipe sill, sockets, door handles and switches
✔️Clear and clean sink and accessories - don't forget those out-of-sight places - under plugs and under draining racks
✔️Clean/polish table - wipe mats/change cloth
✔️Check fruit and wash bowl
✔️Throw away your manky dish cloth or sponge and replace with a new one!

Level 2

✔️Wipe down all cupboard and drawer fronts, not forgetting handles and tops and bottom as well as fronts!
✔️Clean hob
✔️Stop putting it off & clean that blooming oven eltee👍🐸
❌️Clean microwave-haven't gotbone
✔️Sort fridge and wipe seals; weave stuff that needs using up into your meal plan
✔️Dust dining area/room
❌️Descale kettle if needed
✔️Clear WM , TD and DW filters

Level 3

Pick a cupboard or a drawer; empty it, clean it out and put back its contents tidily, discarding anything lying unused.  Do you really need a melon baller/butter curler/42 tea towels/a box of half burnt birthday candles?
Sweep/mop/vacuum floor
✔️Clean windows

Extras

Month end looms … time to check budget, update spreadsheets/accounts
Cards for February? 
HHI
S&S bathroom
Toots list update - can you start chipping away at a big task?
✔️(Eltee - your big task is to clean the oven!)
Pick a recipe book you've yet to use and select a recipe to weave into your mealplan - or get rid of the recipe book - if you don't use it it's just a dust trap!