...or just aim to get through the summer holidays!
Welcome to the August Flylady thread. This is a really lovely thread where we loosely follow the Flylady system (see the Flylady website ) in the hope of having organised homes and lives.
Every day I will post a link to the launchpad which has everything you need for that day if you do want to follow the system strictly. Plenty of options to follow the system more loosely as well :).
Please do familiarise yourself with the Flylady website, especially if you are new. The Flylady is (understandably) keen that people do look at the website.
On the website there is information for beginners. You can also sign up to the Flylady emails but we would advise not to as there are hundreds of them.
We post our achievements (ta das) and our to do lists and any other general chatter about life / flying.
Information on getting started: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/
The launch pad is also a good starting place:www.flylady.net/c/lp.php
Fly stands for Finally Loving Yourself. The general idea is that short bursts of tidying / organisation are more achievable than marathon efforts. Flylady advises 15 minute bursts is effort but you can tweak this to fit your own circumstances.
Be kind to yourselves, jump in where you are and be careful not to crash and burn!
A daily summary (which should update automatically every day) is available on the Flylady website at flight plan here.

The link to the current zone and missions is [[http://www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missions here].
Re. zones, do what works for you. I don’t always stick to the zones myself and do what works best at the time!
daily focus
missions for the week
Flykids mission
August’s habit is laundry - attempt to conquer Mt. Washmore!
beginner babysteps.
The best place to look for an overall summary is the launch pad.
Happy flying everyone.
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Also a huge thank you to Expletive for the July thread 
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TooStressyTooMessy · 31/07/2019 19:51
Morning all. Glad to see naughty corner is already set up 
. I’m just about to go into work so will catch up with the thread at lunchtime.
Have a great holiday Chic.
onthebrink babysteps lovely
Personally I get up and put wash on as soon as I've had a wee and fed cats.once that's on it makes me feel I've done SOMETHING then try and build it from there.try not to be unkind,MH is a tricky beast and you can only do what you can manage
Tada
Fed cats
Wash on
Bleach lav
Scrub bleached cotton wool on black mould off my bedroom sill
Was informed dry furball on lil zoos si.deslt with that too
Littertray(#living my best life)
Sweep living room floor
Clean behind sofas of stray zoolet detritus liberatinh cat toys in process
Wipe TV unit
Wipe fireplace/mantelpiece
Sweep kitchen floor
Wipe surfaces
Wash up
Put away
Shine sink/drainer
Empty kitchen bin/recycling into big bin outside
Sweep toilet floor
De cobweb
Clean sill
Bathroom
Clean mirror(again)
Detoothpaste sink
De fur bath
(bloody cat keeps sit in it/drink from plughole if zoolets forget rinse out well she has runny bum from drinking the soapy liquid 
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Tidy hall
Hoover stairs
Make path on landing
Restack my room(still a hot mess but at least builder can get in to look at cracks/ditto glazier if he books damn app to come
Pop shops as D's has no vests that fit,lil zoo outgrown socks and getting into rows pinching from other two!
Acquire maths sets for girls,polywallets for dd2 and highlighters as on offer(can I count this as organised? ignores fact lil zoo needs full uniform for secondary )
Popped couple other shops
Early lunch(1145) as builder can come anytime from 1230
Wash up
Complain zoolets to clear better paths to cracks in their rooms
It's not a palace by any means,tbh I'm ashamed of the state but there's no where to put anything and as access all rooms I've nowhere to stash!!
Always happy to have jaffa cakes in the naughty corner Onthebrink 
. As zoo says, Flylady talks a lot about being over ambitious and recommends babysteps. I always feel as if I should achieve more than I do though so I can sympathise.
zoo, our cat is also a fan of water from anywhere that is not her nice clean cat bowl .
I actually find summer holidays go quite slowly compared to the rest of the year so am not too surprised it’s August foxes. That doesn’t mean I’m prepared for our holiday which is coming up soon though!
Waves to Ive, Bower, * and everyone else.
onthebrink
for laundry work
Sometimes bit socialising perks me up others makes me bloody tired
I am LIVID.
bloody brickie never showed his face,I rang having stayed in 12-430....apparently had bigger than expected job and failed to follow protocol if ring me to let me know.uts rebooked for 13th August,but no option of time slot so I have to be in 8-430 until he appears.grrrrr
And I've not had glazier in touch to book app visit over foggy window.thats been chased up and should ring me tomorrow.
Oh how annoying zoo 
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I’d forgotten about the power of three Bower! Think you do it sometimes too Ive? Might be a good one to try over the summer holidays. That sounds like a pretty good power hour there Onthebrink! I’m a big power hour fan.
Haven’t really done any flying today as have been at work. Going to try to do some kind of power hour now as dishes and laundry really need tackling. Tonight I need to get stuff ready for the girls for an activity tomorrow and mentally prepare myself for getting the cat in her cat carrier to go to the cattery tomorrow 
. If I could get caught up a bit more on laundry that would be great as I need to pack our stuff tomorrow as we go away to visit my parents at the weekend. Eeek.
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Morning!
Lil zoo has asthma nurse appointment (had tight chest so been doing peak flow twice a day for last 10 days)..got be there for 730
Tada
Fed cats
Wash on
Bleach lav
Wash up last night's tea things
Wipe surfaces
Make fruit salad
Zoolets fed aforementioned salad(toasted bagels once back and everyone's fully awake
zoo 7.30 I thought my orthodontist appointment at 8.20 next week was early!!
Hope you make it!
Yes, hope you made it and it was helpful zoo.
Waves to foxes and everyone else.
This morning I am trying to get the girls organised for a dance activity which required various shoes, packed lunch etc while also get cat sorted for cattery. Unfortunately cat has tried cat flap and realised she is trapped so she is not a happy bunny. Calm organised morning here as usual then .
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