Weekly Flylady Thread 25th February 2008

moo2moo

OK here goes with todays challenges:

release and feed chickens, quick clean of all houses done whilst in pjs
kids up, buns iced for school now setting whilst they eat breakfast
school on time, hopefully early to set up cake stall trolley for Y6 before dinner lady notices i've "borrowed" it
muck out friends horse
clear and clean kids room 1 to the point I can get 2 beds in it
clear and clean kids room 2 fit for guests tonight, febreeze and make bed
clean 2 bathrooms
stick something in slow cooker for tonights dinner
do the paperwork for school that I didn't get round to yesterday done before guest arrives
2+ loads of laundry
Lots of ironing ready for monday
Vacuum[/]
Wash front door and front and side windows. Covered in cow s**t from the muck spreaders. Lovely! Gale force wind and rain renders this unlikely!
man cake stall after school, count coins and prepare for banking by which time bank will be shut

soappie

Morning ladies hope you're all well. Another nice day working from home today

List is below with comments. In addition, I also need to do either today or over the weekend:

• Do some Work work
• Phone BT and change my options
• Ironing - reduce pile by at least 50%
• Research for bloke in Somerset
• PAYE to taxman
• More onto ebay
• Research for book
• Get foot spar out and do feet
• Write stuff for Divadee
• Bed linen
• Bath dog
• Prepare plan for garden

Finally Friday- those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms This will be my front room
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!! I'm having my nails done this morning as usual
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
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 & pillows need freshening up too!![/STRIKE] No bed in front room
Level Three
Rummage ALL the junk from one shelf and sort through it..
[STRIKE]Sort through a toybox chuck out all the things they don't need any more.. charity or freecycle or whatever.[/STRIKE] No toy box
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extra Task List

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
• End of week fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
• half an hour in the garden clearing the mess and making it nice for spring to arrive.. the sooner your garden is nice the sooner it arrives! Honest!

FrankieM

Morning everyone....
This is my list for today..I'm not sure if I'll do bedlinen. I did it last week...

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Level Two
mop floors


Finally Friday- those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!! I'm having my nails done this morning as usual
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets & pillows need freshening up too!!
Level Three
Rummage ALL the junk from one shelf and sort through it..
Sort through a toybox chuck out all the things they don't need any more.. charity or freecycle or whatever.
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extra Task List

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
• End of week fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
• half an hour in the garden clearing the mess and making it nice for spring to arrive.. the sooner your garden is nice the sooner it arrives! Honest!

The weekend list will be up tomorrow!

I've also got a dentist appointment this morning and then I'm going to go and see a friend for a couple of hours..
The 2 youngest have a non un iform day today and cause of Mother's Day on Sunday, its Mother's Choice....which seems to work , right up until the point that I choose something they don't like....:rolleyes:
Will catch up in a bit, when I've managed to do something!!

gunsandbanjos

Morning all, hope everyone is well:D

Just going to start some dailies then will think about a list:o

Kimberley

I have a question, my new cooker arrived yesterday, very nice it is. It is a 5 burner gas hob range gas cooker. The knob to the cooker has different cooker number settings then the normal gas cooker ones. All i have is 130, 160, 245 and max and a few dots in between instead of the normal gas mark 1234 etc. How do i know which setting is which gas mark? Any ideas? The manual doesn't give me any clues

Morning all

No one know my question

soappie

Kimberley, It looks like the dial is degrees centigrate rather than marks probably graduated by 10 degree blocks (so each dot would be another 10 degrees)

I always reckon that 140 deg is gas mark 1 and 200 is gas mark 6

Kimberley

soappie wrote: »

Kimberley, It looks like the dial is degrees centigrate rather than marks probably graduated by 10 degree blocks (so each dot would be another 10 degrees)

I always reckon that 140 deg is gas mark 1 and 200 is gas mark 6

Why do they not mark them as we have always known them grrr? thanks so i guess i will have to estimate

pigpen

fallen_angel_shelley wrote: »

i know what a ILP is, i even have one at colleg but DS seems to live on another planet and looks at me like i'm daft when i ask him about his ILP :rotfl:

To the children they just seem to call them their 'targets'.. try asking him about those.. ..

FrankieM

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Level Two
mop floors


Finally Friday- those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!! I'm having my nails done this morning as usual
Level Two
[strike]Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc[/strike] Children do this themselves
[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 & pillows need freshening up too!!Not doing it this week!
Level Three
[strike]Rummage ALL the junk from one shelf and sort through it.. [/strike] they do this themselves
[strike]
Sort through a toybox chuck out all the things they don't need any more.. charity or freecycle or whatever.
[/strike]they do this too
[strike]Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors[/strike]
Extra Task List

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• [strike]Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames! [/strike]
• End of week fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
• half an hour in the garden clearing the mess and making it nice for spring to arrive.. the sooner your garden is nice the sooner it arrives! Honest!

The weekend list will be up tomorrow!

I've done well so far, though I do get the kids to do as much of their own stuff as poss.
We do a score system and everyday I check there room. If the y get a 3, no pocket money, 2 2's and no pocket money...they go for 1's as much as poss....

Going to finish my cuppa and think about mopping something if I have time...

ChasingButterflies

Morning everyone,

Congratulations to likklegibbon & your OH

My only jobs from the list today are to hoover kids rooms and change bedding in the girls rooms (did ds's last night) Although this will probably take way longer than it should because I have done something to my shoulder - not quite sure what but it is just a little bit sore...

Then I am going to start a declutter the the rooms I have stopped going into 'cos they look so intimidating moo2moo I didn't quite have time to explain that the u/s bathroom I cannot *actually* open the door fully anymore - in the last week something has fallen down.

I can't *actually* look in the playroom anymore either - everytime I tidy it, it just gets trashed... it also doesn't help that when we moved it upstairs I didn't take into account that we were moving it into a smaller room - but trying to still fit in the same amout of stuff.

The garage will have to wait as I think there are more gales forcast this weekend - but there is *almost* a path from the door to the freezer at the back.

On the plus side our bedroom isn't really that bad - just more stuff to pass on - so I am going to start in there - create some more room - so that I can sort everything else into bundles before taking to their end destination.

I am also going to takle the mountain of dd1's clothes that I have insisted on keeping for dd2 - will thin through. I guess old habits are hard to shift. Remebering how things were when dd1 and ds1 were tiny - and there was more going out than coming in - the only thing I could do to help was ebay everything they had grown out of (and not leave DH in charge of the finances :rotfl: ) I have managed to negociate (with DH) a small numbers of items that I can ebay...

So - sorry for waffling - I needed to give myself a pep talk though... and it all kinda makes sense (like most things - only to me )