Weekly Flylady Thread 5th January 2026

Valli

All dec boxes upstairs ready to go in the loft - when there is someone here to help, that is.  Lots of stuff has hit the bin *FLING* and won't be missed.

twinklie

My day has been spent at work mainly. DH was meant to cook so I could do some housework this evening. He did not, so cleaning the kitchen general style - not a deep clean - has been the extent of my efforts today. 

I may fold some laundry if it’s dry. 

MadamMim2013

Happy Birthday to Mr HB 🎉 

Its been a busy couple of days.. today was shopping and housework day for Ma..
Once home made a chicken, leek and mushroom pie with mash topping for tea, also threw in some chocolate cupcakes to use up oven space.

Washing off the airer, packed away.

Kitchen cleaned and lunchboxes prepped for tomorrow.

Have poorly sick DS1 & 2.. 🤧🫣 Dosed them both up with Vitamin C, DS1 also had an Epsom salts bath with eucalyptus & Lavender oil.. “sent” him to bed and then re-cleaned the bath as it was still a little oily..
Hoping not to pick up whatever it is they have as really cannot afford to pass anything on to my Ma. 😣

Tomorrow I will do my best to follow the list and catch up with a few things I may have missed 😇

kazmeister

Evening

Welcome back mumofjusttwo, sorry to hear about the stroke.

Busy couple of days, yesterday was a full day with both grandkids. Woke to an inch of the white stuff but luckily apart from his road it main roads all the way and we do have a 4x4. Everyone was taking it easy and keeping speed low and distance between big which was a relief. Did worry about DDiL has she quite a way to work across fen roads which are treacherous and have unprotected ditches. I always worry about them this time of year as a few years back they totalled one car when DS was dropping DDiL off before his training when he hit a patch of ice and was heading into the unprotected river but managed to correct out of that but rolled it into a field in the other side of the road. They used to say more people were killed on the little fen roads than on the motorways in Cambs and it’s east to understand why.

Sorry got side tracked there, played hairdressing, baked sausage rolls and cheesy squares (Grammy apparently makes the best sausage rolls) and chocolate chip cookies, read books, DGS went outside for a play in the snow, and we played with new STEM style toys which he was very happy with. Emptied their DW and washed up the mess I had created, we even tidied the toys and were having quiet time when both came home to a calm household. 

Came home and created dinner from the freezer and in protest to lack of positive actions from either DH or DS while I was out, left the pots in the sink after we had eaten.

Today was an office day.  Again disgusted that 2 people not working this week have not managed to empty the DW from Sunday or washed up last nights pots (he got sidetracked) during the time I was out. I created another freezer tea and have since emptied DW and reloaded and washed up the bits that have to be hand washed. Work surfaces cleaned, and broken cup binned (DH wanted to keep it as he measures rice with it and said he could glue the broken handle back on!)

Bathroom is cleaned as it is still in the ‘nearly new’ period and the shower and bath are always wiped down after use, god help them if they don’t, and iI can quickly wipe the sills etc to keep on top of it. Bottles are not allowed to be left out other than the soap on the sink and the 3 bottles by the bath now. Luckily they are sticking to it.

I need to sort DH’s birthday present for this weekend and don’t have anything in mind, plan for sending flowers to a friend and a card to my cousin for her 60th which I had forgotten about. I also need to make a peppa pig cake topper for the week after!

Oh and we have a lovely and very warm radiator in the new room.

eltee2

YORKSHIRELASS said:

El hope the funeral goes OK x

Thanks YL, funeral went well and no shenanigans between estranged BiLs thank goodness.  Worrying if it was going to kick off has been bothering OH so much, he's been having trouble sleeping.   He's relieved it's all done with.   

Flying wise, this morning I vacuumed downstairs and also completely cleared the chair which acts as both the base for mount ironing-pile and the transition area for clean laundry which has been FUd and awaiting PA .  I'm aiming to keep up the good work by immediately FUPAing anything which doesn't require ironing.

Feel worn out

El

ionafan

Shock!  Horror!  There is a space in the under-stairs cupboard where DH puts his outdoor shoes when he comes in.  Since our little shopping expedition at the end of November there have been two pairs living there - the old, worn-out ones and the new pair.  A month ago I asked him to decide which pair of shoes to throw away to make room for the new ones.  Today, as he was putting on his new shoes to go out to SW, I noticed that there was nothing else in the space.  He told me that he had THROWN THE OLD ONES AWAY without being reminded

This afternoon I braved the sleet and by then only slightly icy drive to go to MrAl for a big shop, which has left me with both shoulders aching badly.  I also bought a few things that NNDN needed; took them round to her and stayed for a cuppa and a chat, which was very pleasant.  While I was out the sleet turned to rain, and it is horrid now.  If it freezes tonight the pavements will be lethal.

We have taken down all the Christmas decorations except for the outside lights (which J the gardener will do when he next comes) and the tree in the LR (but I've switched off its lights).  All the greenery has been taken out: some went in the green bin this morning, and the rest has gone at least as far as the utility.  All the cards and other decorations are lined up on the DR table, ready to be put away in their boxes tomorrow morning and the (single) crate then stowed back in the loft before I do a quick S&S throughout the downstairs rooms.  I have even managed to find a couple of things to declutter to the CS next October.
xxx

Narc0lepsy

- dropped off the 'consolidation' flower arrangement this morning to a sick friend
- proceeded to gym swim
- one of my 'work' tasks was to take the decorations off one of the college Xmas trees and fish out all the baubles scattered among the large logs in the fireplace; admittedly they had looked attractive but were devils to be captured.   Rest of the 'work' was archiving, interrupted by watching snowfall. Some of our international tutors and students haven't seen it before.  Amused by one work colleague (I share an office with 3 ladies and had given them each a small flower arrangement for Christmas) reporting that, out of her arrangement, had crawled a silver-sprayed small spider which happily spun a web round the flowers until she put it outside (unharmed). See, I even decorate wildlife!
- did a load of admin tasks at home, caught up on a few flagged emails, checked bank details.
- Mr N had done a good job putting all the Christmas decs in boxes so we have most of them in the loft now. 

MinnieMousesMummy

Morning all, Well, the snow from yesterday has been replaced with rain and ice. 

My list for today
Attend uni meetings
Do the required uni work
Do paid stuff
Check banking and update dds
Look for the paperwork that I need for volunteer work
Put festive decorations away in the cupboard
Dust the living room
Hoover the living room
Take DD to the stables so she can feed and check on her pony
Take DS to his drama group

I think that is everything that I need to tackle today. I hope everyone has a lovely Wednesday.

Honey_Bear

Thank you all for the kind wishes for Belovéd's birthday yesterday.  I passed them all on.  He said he had a fab day, the best birthday so far this year.  

Strands completed, only one line on Connections, six attempts to get Wordle.

Dog walked, fifteen minutes dusting in the dining room and various places near it so I'm patting myself on the back for that and am about to jump in the shower.  I'm not going to beat myself up if I don't carry on with the idea of 15 minutes a day M-F Flying; the longer I can keep it up the better the house will be so it's all good.  

Huge bag of carrier bags donated via me from a neighbour to the Foodbank all folded flat so that I can take them in tomorrow, along with all the chocolates and an M&$ Christmas pudding she says she can't have in the house.  She's diabetic, her family knows that, she's overweight and has been prescribed a weightloss jab to deal with her blood sugar levels and yet STILL her family keep giving her sugary things.  I hope the f'bank can find a suitable recipeint for the pudding because it expires in April.  We don't want it in the house because it's got palm oil in it, or I'd freeze it and donate an appropriate sum.

I'm doing a Pantry Challenge over the next three months to see if I can deal with the food stash.  I'm tired of the space it takes up, and while we don't have a lot of storage space in the kitchen so it inevitably spreads elsewhere, I'd like it corralled in one place.  That's the ambition.  I was surprised there wasn't a Pantry Challenge Thread but I think there are several that kind of cover the idea of it, but this is not Reverse Meal Planning or a Grocery Challenge; it's quite specific and I'm going to have to get inventive to use some things.  I'd rather do it here if no-one minds - it's housekeeping so it might be considered a kind of Flying.  Today I had to buy milk and eggs but resisted all the yellow stickers - I saw some mushrooms we could have used in a turkey with leeks in cheese sauce supper planned for tomorrow night but I've got a tin of them so if it does need bulking out (sauté potatoes planned, Belovéd's favourites) the tin will get chucked in.  (After I've opened it.) 

eltee2

Honey_Bear said:

 (sauté potatoes planned, Belovéd's favourites) the tin will get chucked in.  (After I've opened it.) 

That made me chuckle, thanks HB 😃

Am going to continue with PUPA, S&S, DW and general tidying🫡 today.  Might do a WM load of don't-need-ironing items, which WILL be FUPA'd as soon as it's all dry 😲

EL