Weekly Flylady Thread 11th February 2008

pigpen

28 posts to go.. and.. if you don't get next week's list your houses will devolve into their former CHAOSishness and you will have no visitors and eventually.. you will be house bound because your mess will block the doorways and you'll starve to death because there is only so much stuff the tesco delivery guy will stuff through the cat flap!!

Bread is rising for the chimps bread bombs and the next loaf is in..

Best go reload the TD's and WM's.. I WILL have the kitchen in some resemblence of a kitchen.. and as Tiddles is in bed I'll have to sort the boys room.. woohoo!!

Pollybear

I just work my dailies in as I go. As soon as I get downstairs I pull the curtain back from the front door, then the living room curtains, open the window to let it air (however cold it is), go round the room tidying remotes, magazines etc into the right places, take the throws off and put them back tidy, same with cushions, feed the fish, plug in the cable box to boot up and then shut the window. Takes about 2 minutes and it looks nice. It gets dusted/vacuumed later in the day.

Same principle with kitchen. If it looks fairly tidy it spurs you on to clean it. At least that's how it feels to me.

And so on

OK. Roast dinner eaten, washed up, dishes put away. Watched something I taped last Sunday night ready to tape again tonight. Went to go outside to check washing and found b****y cat had killed a pigeon and mostly plucked it outside the back door. He came in covered in feathers before I could stop him. Made DH pick up dead pigeon (I don't do dead birds unless I'm here on my own and have no choice). Ended up having to vacuum in the garden because there were so many feathers and it was impossible to dustpan them up.

Sometimes I hate cats.

Most of washing dry and folded and put away. After I changed the vacuum bag I vacuumed through downstairs.

Tired now!

pigpen

KM.. I blitz the house once or twice a year and do the whole lot.. it is a killer and last year took 10 of us 3 days!!!

NOW.. I have tried to keep on top of it since then.. you have to live and you have to work but you don't have to live in Utopia.. it is allowed to be 'homely' I would die if I had to live in a show home.. I simply couldn't. I like mess.. hhmm.. another issue!

Most of my dailies I whizz through while the kettle boils the 400 times a day it boils lol.. they tend to follow on as well.. td-wm-dw-bm-sc.. which makes it easierI do those before attempting anything else.. the dailies are what keeps the house running. I love the flinging we do.. getting rid of my clutter is my ultimate goal in life.. one day I will have nothing but that days post and today dust and laundry.. and then I'll go tidy the garden.. lol

It is all about finding a balance.. using the time you have wisely and getting into some kind of routine.. it is great in principal.. but isn't happening too fast in here though there is an improvement..

Keeping_Motivated

Thank you... I am lucky in that I am not a hoarder EXCEPT in the bedroom and study
So every other room is clutter free so relatively tidy its just keeping them clean that i fail on. BUT, like I mentioned, the bedroom and study a different matter! Bedroom full of clothes and toiletries!!! Study full of books, papers, boxes all in the right piles ready to be sorted in albums, folders, ebaying but NEVER gets done Arrrrrr. So they are defiantely my worst rooms :mad:

pigpen

Moving my list so I know where it is.. I have loads left from this week..

[strike]WM[/strike] x7
[strike]TD[/strike] x4
[strike]DW[/strike] x2
[strike]BM[/strike] x2
[strike]hang out fold and put away laundry[/strike]
2 binbags for charity shop
2 binbags for the wheelie


What's left from the weeks list..

Meddling Monday- Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 3
Tidy shoes, coats and bags ..
Extra Mission:

• Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
• Clean a radiator or two.

Tripping Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Three
Clean out the cupboard full of tins and jars.. Mines vile!
Extra Mission

• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms

Wednesday walkabout- Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level Two
Clear any clutter from desk
Level Three
Wash your bathroom mats
[strike]Clear a mega hotspot!.. shred it.. and fling it.. or just hide burn it!
[/strike]
Thrilling Thursday - Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 2
[strike]Air the duvet[/strike]
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Extra tasks list, as usual choose one or more

• [strike]Clean windows in these rooms [/strike]

Fearsome Friday- those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Done DD1's room so far.. and halfway through the boys room and the girly room
Level Two
[strike]Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
[/strike]Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Extra Task List

• Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!

WEEKEND Frolics

• Extra 30 minutes ironing.. school uniforms? work clothes?
• Change any bedding you didn't get chance to do over the week!
• Meal plan for the next week and make a shopping list... based on what you found in the freezer and those things that need using from weekly cupboard sweep
• Work yourself to level 3 in your messiest room!! Tackling the girly room... :eek: Work in progress!!!
• [strike]S&S the kitchen and bathroom! [/strike]
• Make sure you have everything ready for school/work for next week.. pe kits, socks, homework done etc. It is half term for some next week.

AnW'sMum

Grrrr can someone else check the discount forum for me to see if there are any codes for John Lewis , it just comes up with an error for me. Think I have decided on a dishwasher from there, with 6% via quidco and 1% on the cashback card I am keen to see if I can get any more off!

kazmeister

Proud to admit it, I've given up on this weeks list again !!!!

Have just come back from shopping (blown this months grocery budget with 11 days to go!) and have to put that all away and update my new list at the same time. Then Ive a roast to cook, oodles of laundry to sort, uniforms to iron, baking to do and I might just hoover through downstairs but thats enough, so forget the list. But I will try again next week as I've only a week then until our little french student comes to stay for a fortnight and dont want her to think our home is a hovel.

Anyway best get started - kettles on, anyone want a:coffee: :rotfl:

AnW'sMum

Better check it will fit before I order it!

Dustykitten

I'll have a look for you AnW'sMum whilst I have my cuppa

£10 off a £100 spend - New Customers
Expires 31/3/08 4HOME7

£20 off a £100 spend
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I've not actually tried these myself. Came from another site.

Stebiz

from the magazine thread:
£10 off a £50 spend with your first John Lewis online order. Simply log on to www.johnlewis.com/pregnancyandbirth to take up this offer, which ends 30 April 2008

£20 off first order at www.johnlewis.com - with £100 spend - just log on to www.johnlewis.com/she Discount valid until 28/02/08.

I saw this in SHE magazine this month.

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Dustykitten

This week I need to clean the wooden venetian blinds in OH office. I won't tell you how dirty they are or how long they took to get like that. Any tips please to make this less arduous - I have tried vaccing - no difference