Weekly Flylady Thread 24th March 2008

Fi27

Have caught up from not doing much yesterday, did manage to clean the bathroom while colouring my hair before going to my nephews party yesterday so felt quite efficient for once.

Party went really well, mum got bus to brother & SIL house and they all went to party together. Mum couldnt wait to tell me bro & SIL had big barney before they left the house bla bla bla I said kids and birthdays are always stressful and best to stay out of it. Mum came back to mine after :eek: but she had tired herself out with all her ranting and raving in the car on the way back and had a nap on the sofa for over an hour so :T By the time she woke, a quick cuppa and then I deposited her at the bingo on my way to collect OH at 5.30pm, Phew!

To do today;

Get food shop
Put WM on
fold & put away dry laundry
Put wet laundry on airer as raining outside
S&S kitchen
wash breakfast dishes
Make beds
Post letter
pay CC bill
make quiche for tea


Study or other reception room & bathrooms - Thursday
Level One
[strike]Clear the clutter from all these rooms!! No mean feat in my house!
[/strike]5 more for ebay...
Level Two
[strike]Vacuum the floors
clean bath, toilets, shower and sinks
[/strike]Wipe down the tiles and defragment the pc while doing this.
Level Three
[strike]declutter and dust the pc desk
Wipe away cup rings and sticky things
wipe the keyboard, mouse, cables and sockets and suchlike.
[/strike]Clean the windows.
Extras

• Vacuum under movable furniture
• HHI..
• Clear a hotspot
• Read 5 stories!!

Childrens/Spare rooms - Friday
Now it is Mummies time to help YOU!!! Today we are going to tidy your room.. if there are more than 1 room that needs doing.. I have 4 bedrooms for my children. We will choose the one with the youngest children in first... their rooms are usually tidied quicker and more easily.. and we will help the older ones a bit later.. after a cuppa.. or it might have to be another day but we will come help if you want!
Level One
Clear the floor
Finally the last 5 ebay items.. get them on and listed!!!
Level Two
Drag the junk from under the bed.. the children should be home today so they can do this!
Sort out a box of things to give to the local nursery for the little children.. or for charity shop.. or a friend.. FLING!! The local GP surgeries, hospitals etc often need nice toys for the sick children..
Level Three
If they are able the children can vacuum their own rooms!! 3 is grown up enough!!
While the children are home.. go through their wardrobe and get rid of everything that no longer fits.. as they are being so wonderful and helping they can try the things on so you can be sure before moving them down a child or moving them on.
Extras

• Wipe sticky marks from walls and doors
• Clean any tv's, pc's playstations in the room
• Put the discs in the correct boxes and books on shelves

Hmmm, may have to venture into DS bedroom to tidy as he is not well today and lying under a blanky on the couch. Nothing new there then! Apart from being not well

Fi x

gunsandbanjos

I've never listened to the cd, only read the book. Did happen upon the cd recently when i was flinging so may stick it on, dont even know what it says

hex2

Thanks gunsandbanjos - our library has the book so I might take the boys and borrow that later.

erm, I have a guilty confession:

You know the room I cleaned yesterday, well....



I had to move the contents of our bedroom somewhere didn't I? If I hadn't sorted that room yesterday then I wouldn't have been able to strip our bedroom would I?

I did bin quite a lot but had a minor binbag problem:




Our bedroom is almost clear ready to start stripping paper and the polystyrene hard off the ceiling. DH will be pleased....

nicki_2

sue-y wrote: »

Nicki, can I join you with the Davina HHE challenge? I can do Mondays too. DVD been sat ontop of the tv so I can't forget it, but not used it since January! Congrats to all the weight loss!

No problem, not sure when I'll be doing it as I'm going to be up to my ears in decorating but I WILL do it *grits teeth* I need to. I've hit that horrible stage of loosing weight where neither a 20 or a size 18 fit me properly :mad: Although today I'm wearing crop pants that were a little snug last summer and now I can pinch 2inches in on the waist band :j I really need to work on the toning up

SAV3R

cha97michelle wrote: »

MFI are ******** insert own expletives here.

Apparently the missing piece from our wardrobe is in transit, and can possibly arrive anytime between now and the 12th of April, and apparently there is nothing they can do about it. I must be stressed, as it made me have a bit of a cry.

So i got DH to ring them, where they admitted that it has only been dispatched today. So they can't give us a consignment number yet to try and track down when the blooming thing might be delivered.

so i have had to ring the joiner and say MFI are being pants - we will ring you to rearrange the fitting when they have finished being useless.

That is a complete bummer. I want all the rooms sorted before DS finishes nursery on the 18th of April, and the rate it is blooming going we have no chance. Plus i also need to try and work out when the new carpet is going to be fitted, which involves us fully emptying a room again. As if we have all the time in the world and all the energy to go with it in the 5 weeks between now and D day.


Why are big national companies so poo????

Michelle, x

This reminds me of when we put fitted wardrobes etc in DS2 bedroom. Our problems were with B&Q, we had deliveries cancelled, when we got our first delivery it was all the trims, handles etc, no carcasses, what's the point of that? We had damaged parts which we had to wait to be replaced. We spent New Years Day 2007 doing DIY, we'd had enough and wanted it done.

On a positive note, we emailed customer services, the lady who dealt with our case was very helpful and we did get quite a bit of money knocked off at the end. Maybe you could try that.

But like you say;

Why are big national companies so poo????

pigpen

stefejb wrote: »

btw pigpen - third dd said "yay" when I told her you were thinking up some special jobs just for her - it's not even the end of the week yet but i thought I'd let you know that she's "not your friend now"

They aren't just for her!!!

They are for all the young people we have... poor lamb probably thinks I have it in for her... mean mummy telling her that!!

How old is she?? and I'll see what I can manage.. lol.. has she seen this weeks lists???

pigpen

sue-y wrote: »

I recommend you go over to Gingham Ribbons 'Confessions of a very tired old styler' thread!!! (Thats if you haven't already). Pigpen's post (no 363) has just completely creased me up!!

Now I have to go look...

pigpen

oh.. that one.. lol..

pigpen

juliejim wrote: »

pigpen - DD wants me to pm you - I've told her if she's really helpful today, I will do as she has been helping at other times in the week.

I'll look forward to receiving a PM telling me how good & helpful she has been then!!

pigpen

hex2 wrote: »

Pigpen - believe me I empathise! We did the Snug one and put a wood burner in. Our DR wall is naked, but the bricks are still in the fireplace as there is a huge crack in the wall and the supporting timber is rotten. The LR needs doing and has a gas fire to go, but I do have a reclaimed fireback cleaned up and ready to put in. Have you got a skip lined up or is there not too much mess? Are you plastering back? What are you doing about a fire? Do you have a thin layer of dust everywhere (or was that just us). Sorry so many questions - but good to talk to someone who is doing the same stuff without builders. DH can plaster etc but doesn't have that much free time to do things.

My hubby can't plaster.. but we have the number of someone who has does.. he made a grand job in the bathroom but hell does he TALK!!!! He'll do fine though I guess.

We have a thin layer of soot and dust but it appears to be confined to the middle room.. we did kep the door closed and opened the french doors so the dust went out there thankfully!!

I am looking at fires today and hopefully getting 'the' one ordered.. hubby is 'designing' the fire surround today and making it next week.. so that should be fixable by next weekend .. or the one after depending on what else comes up.

We haven't sorted a skip so everything is dumped out the front at the moment.. hopefully that will disappear shortly.. but we will sort it once we have finished I think.

we have kept the fireback and surround to put back in our room when we get to doing that.. it all came out in its proper pieces so things are looking good.. I need to strip a bit of paint off the cast iron surround and re-enamel bits but job's a good 'un.

I can't quite understand how 'decorating a room' has become rebuilding a room...