Weekly Flylady Thread 24th March 2008

embb

Afternoon :wave:

Done my Saturday clean through the house so just catching up on here. Loving all the photos guys, and big well dones for the room clearances :T

I got the right to buy price off the council for my house and after working out the figures looks like it's a goer, it's such a big step though especially as I'm on my own I think I'll be umming and arrring for a while yet lol, it's too big a discount to knock back though in reality. There'll be no homeowner loans on it though - which is sensible but I would have liked to have been able to do the house up - guess I'll be saving for one thing at a time instead (grrrrrr lol)

Still got the floors to mop, which I'll do once I get myself to Asda for a proper mop and bucket (those sticky pad mop things are crap) but here's my list

master bedroom
strip bed
hoover mattress
replace bed linen
wash skirts/doors
wash wardrobe/bedside cab. chest of drawers
wash electricals
put few bits of clothes away
hoover floor

littleys room Big STAR for littley as she mostly did it herself :T

clear floor of junk (you couldn't see it)
wash cabin bed
wash dressing table/bedside cab.
strip bed (I did)
remake bed (I did)
shake rugs
hoover floor
bring bag of rubbish down


bathroom
wash bathroom suite
clear empty bottles etc
hoover/clean floor
wash paintowrk doen
wash door handles

stairs/hall/landing
de-junked
hoovered
paintwork washed
mop

cloakroom
wash toilet/sink
wash window and frame
wash skirts/door/light switch
hoovered
mop

living room
de-junked
hoovered and mopped (with crappy mop) under furniture
washed EVERYTHING
wash settees
mop rest of floor

kitchen

emptiy DW
reload DW (both delegated to teenie)
wipe down benches inc. under everything
wipe down kettle/toaster etc
wipe microwave
wash cupboards/fridge
hoover
mop

dining room/pc room

de-junked
emptied bin
washed everything
hoovered

I'm ready for a snooze now, though my new book is calling me......

Solwaykid

Spare room is tidy again but the airer is up in there again - the sunshine didn't last and it's now tipping down. I've run out of Flying steam so I've only Dysoned the livingoom and nothing else. Apart from hotspots and ironing I do believe I'm up to date indoors! Sit down finance update next and write a mammoth shopping list for payday. Then I'm off out for the evening, the ex Mr Messy is having some friends over and it seems I'm still one of them. Which is nice.
TTFN, good luck with decorating/room clearing/stock taking/ generally surviving a wet Saturday. Solway x

Mudbath

hello
jill - your auntie and uncle are lovely. they're probably playing polly pocket as we speak!!!

inlaws going to caravan in an hour and i'll clean up the paw marks when they've gone. i've been very good and not got too precious. mind you, they thought it was really funny when one of the dogs got into a cupboard and went to sleep on the table clothes etc. infact, they kept opening the door to let it in the cupboard and now they tell me the dog has fleas!!! i am not amused!

right, off to pack some muffins, bread etc for them.

speak soon xx

chunky79

Well i have decided to try and get started to go back to the start of the list from Monday to Wednesday and see what is a achievable.

The jobs i would like to try get done by Friday are: I cheted i finished some of the jobs today it was beautiful this morning so tidied up garden this morning, i have managed to get all laundry and ironing out of the way too:j .

[strike]Ironing
[/strike][strike]Clean & Tidy laundry area
[/strike][strike]Clean Leather sofa
[/strike]Vacuum all way through House
[strike]Clean kitchen Cupboard fronts[/strike].
Dust Picture rails in bedrooms and living room. Will vac them off:p
Windows throughout
[strike]quick tidy up in garden
[/strike]clear this awful desk of clutter
[strike]do the book keeping and send of expenses[/strike]
clean the windows inside Doh i put this twice, was getting excited about those windows wasn't i lol


Well i don't think i have done bad at all. I managed to get most of the jobs done and also cleaned out the Gerbils and i went to town this morning with all 4 kids, i had to top on gerbil bits, I was gone for just over an hour:T which is a massive acheivement in itself.

This thread certainly does motivate, Mark is due home from the airport in the next 30 minutes and all i have to do is make him a cuppa and sit down a relax. Thats a first. The dinner is all prepared. :eek:

Thanks ladies for the support and i am more than sure that i will be logging in on Monday at some point to get me going xx

pigpen

I have half a back room now I am strike and not doing another stroke unitl someone helps!! I have picked up about 4 things that are mine and the rest is junk the children have thrown all over so I am simply now doing it.. I refuse!!!

I am going for a shower.. and I am going to buy some fabric for my new curtains in the middle room.. we are having black satin with black lace overlay and black linings... cos I said so!!! and I'm making them so I'm having what I want.

I am going to get a bit extra though in case I take a fancying to cushions and other such junk!

DS3 was 'stuck' down the side of the sofa because he had to do some tidying.. he was released with a sharp slap on the rear.. very stuck!

DS2 is tired apparently.. he hasn't done anything but goggle at the pc upstairs for a week!

I'll leave the floor in the 'capable' hands of hubby... see you all later!!

I am hoping to get the carpet in here washed at some point with my new bissell carpet washer.. NEW TOYS!!!!!!!!!! lol

I need to scrub the formerly cream (now a kind of browny grey) sofa down too.. I like leather sofas!

soappie

Well, well, well. There's interesting. I live v. close to a football stadium. A little while ago, I saw two policemen dressed up in riot gear walk past the end of my garden. Just now, there's two mounted police trotting by. Most unusual! They must be expecting trouble - the horses looked quite cute with their high visibility blankets on to keep the rain off!

:cool: If any ORF ops are seriously bored (or expect to be) and seriously nosey and want, I could reposition Buster to view the place where trouble happens, if it's going to happen, and put him on at the pertinent time (around 4.30 - 5.30) and you could watch the goings on from the safety and comfort of your own home. Let me know by 4.15 and I'll reposition:cool:

SAV3R

Afternoon everyone:hello:

Feeling much better today, had a good nights sleep, that dentist is B.....marvellous. LOL

All beds are changed and bedrooms hoovered. Kitchen & bathrrom s&s.
Will start afresh with the proper lists next week.

Made 12 Apple muffins at request of DS1, 12 choc butterfly cakes and 12 fruit fairy cakes. OH says he's really enjoying me baking again.

DS2 asked when BM is going on, he actually wants to eat my bread, he is so fussy and wont eat some breads. Well, its going on tomorrow morn.

I'm off to play on the wii for 1/2 hour while DS1 is out. What he doesn't know about......;)

tiamai_d

AnW'smum, got to take the positive from life regarding DH love of computer games. :T

Sorry to hear the visit was tough on you. I can't imagine how your feeling but I am sure OH would not want you to be upset about the visit. (((hugs cos I don't know what else to say)))

So far I have been good

Yesterday we did loads in the garden. Layed more slabs, dug out the, well I call them troughs but they are just the bit next to the steps with dirt in, and one lonely conifer. Planted a little conifer I got at christmas and a heather plant. Later the dog went and dug up the heather and ate it so I was like
:mad:

Question for gardeners! DH sat a basin of motor oil in the biggest trough and it ended up spilled. Tried to dig it into the soil but it's now just a sticky boggy mess. Will plants die if planted there? It needs topped up with soil and I was going to plant more mini-conifers in it with some stones on top to stop the mutt and rabbit digging them up. What do I do???

Today I have

hoovered downstairs
cleaned sofas (I love leather too)
moisturised sofas (make stehm look new again, I need more of the stuff)
polished living room

And I got kids to tidy their toys away. Lots of games with a bucket to fill with toys. I need to go up and hoover and clean the room now.

FrankieM

hey, well, I made a start in the garden, but then it rained. I've listed 3 things on ebay and that is about it....I'll be glad when the weekend is over. The children don't go back till thursday, but I need them to sort their rooms out anyway. I think they are going to need my help, though, otherwise I;m not sure they'll get rid of anything!
I'll catch up with you all on Monday...

Justamum

soappie wrote: »

:cool: If any ORF ops are seriously bored (or expect to be) and seriously nosey and want, I could reposition Buster to view the place where trouble happens, if it's going to happen, and put him on at the pertinent time (around 4.30 - 5.30) and you could watch the goings on from the safety and comfort of your own home. Let me know by 4.15 and I'll reposition:cool:

At the risk of sounding really thick, how can people watch what's going on?