If you're house is cluttered and you're Mad as a Hare, join March Fledgling Flyers and get it all square

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Following on from the February Fledgling Flyers thread, welcome to March. This is the thread that follows the Flylady website (loosely) for getting your home decluttered and your housework into routines, whilst dispensing tea and chat freely.

A big thank you to PushMePullYou for leading us through February ably assisted by ToffeeFudgeCake. We had a huge influx of new posters as well, which was lovely, anyone else who is lurking, please say hello, you will be very welcome.

We have a fairly relaxed attitude to Flying and take some of the babysteps - such as getting dressed to lace-up shoes - with a pinch of salt. We also strongly advise against signing up for the FlyLady emails.

From the first of the month, we will be following Flylady's tips on restoring order to our homes, using one of the following methods:

1. Babysteps
2. Babysteps + 15 mins daily decluttering
3. Babysteps + daily missions

Following the babysteps helps to establish daily routines and build a weekly plan.

If you are overwhelmed by the mess in your home, start with just one thing: shine your sink. It's amazing what you can achieve by just doing a bit at a time!

I shall this only once for the newbies:

don't sign up for the fly lady emails EVER, unless you like spending hours clearing them out. which i suppose counts as decluttering but doesnt move you closer to being tidy.

Daily links to missions and babysteps are here. Focus on babysteps first. then add decluttering. Cant do missions when there is mess.

I have made this mistake sooooo many times. this month I am planning on only doing the babysteps again. Hopefully will get to grips with them this month so can declutter next month. once babystep done for day if i have time/motivation/energy i shall then declutter but not expecting miracles.

I'd like to join this month. Have lurked in the past but it's time to roll up my sleeves and get on with it. I'm finding keeping on top of 3 kids and a big muddy dog takes most of my energy and the house just falls by the wayside. Feel quite overwhelmed by the state of the house but I'm determined to get to grips with it!

whoknows love the title.

Just checking in so i know where you all are. I haven't read 50 posts on this thread!!! Wowzers!!

soo what have I achieved today Flywise?

done
a bag of clothes decluttered to charity shop
kitchen tidyish
sink shiny
several loads of laundry - not quite put away yet
2 hotspots
and a partial Home Bless
2 s & swipes
and a bit of meal planning/advance preparation
and good temper so far due to not feeling overwhelmed

all a bit haphazard methinks but better than nowt

Zonkin welcome - it's nice to know there are others with 3 dcs, finding it muddy! It's muddy here even without the dog..

Hello! marking my spot!
Just wrote a big post on the Feb one!!! - thanks linzer for sending me here!!!

Welcome celestial, well done on the sink cleaning!

Welcome Molly

Welcome theunmentioned

Hello bigfatspider, and to solo - i can hold your hand if you would ==kick my arse-- hold my hand too?!

whoknows - so encouraging to hear that you too are in pjs until you need to leave the house, i thought i was alone on that one!

Welcome MrsSharp and nicknacks - yes, of course you are welcome, and there is always point in trying! I am relatively new here too, so all us newbies can help each other too!!!

Hello minda, niecie, lilqueenie, zonkin, simone,ladyinpink, theskiinggardener - (hope DC is better soon, and nicknacks dc too), perhaps, imnotaslimkim* - kick to bedrooms!!!!

swan - hope you find the book soon!

Wow, so many new people! Lovely!

Wow, whoknows, you sure are going to be busy this month! Full time job, keeping up with the thread! lol! Love the title too! Thanks for doing this for us all to keep us all on the straight and narrow this month!
CHB, i agree with everything you wrote! Maybe we can kick each other's butts motiviate each other! I too am just going to try baby steps! Would be lovely to have the energy though!

Hello lovely ladies!
How is everyone today?

PA well done on the tidyitis! Hope it is contageous! I need some!!!!!!

Thanks linzer, shall keep looking! Don't want to miss you guys! I do go to one baby group still, on a Thursday morning, we go to the local hydrotherapy pool, which we really enjoy. I was just doing far too much, i really was, we were doing something each day, and i just ran myself into the ground!

My word, everyone has been busy today, makes me feel

chb - you poor love, still got a bad head
I woke up with a banging sore head today, but thankfully it only lasted for about an hour or so! Phew!

linzer, hope you are feeling less stressed hun! Love the comment from your child!!! (Awwww!)

swan - ballet, wow, how lovely!

So, today got off to a real BAD start! Poor DD woke at 3am screaming her lungs out, and crying, oh what crying! Those damn top teeth coming through, are really upsetting her, but only in the middle of the night. So, dosed with neurofen for kiddies, bonjela, chewed on a bicipeg, and on her cold teething ring/snail thing i keep in the fridge, and she had lots of lovely cuddles with her mummy, and that seemed to sort things! Didn't get to sleep, either of us until 5am!!!! So today off to a wonky start!!!
Our morning started at 2pm!!!
done list :
Both washed, dressed, fed. Sink shined. Hoovered. Neighbour popped in briefly. Went for a nice walk (At 5pm!) to see the chickens and horses, and got some lovely photos of a horse sticking his head right in the pram again to say hello to DD!!! Came home, had some soup, DD napping. Replied to various texts, emails, FB messages, and now find myself on here! Must get off my backside and go and do some stuff, plenty to do here! That's about it for us today so far i'm afraid, but then, we have only been on the go for around 4 1/2 hours!!!

Catch you all later
xx

Hi, I thought it only polite to let you know I will be lurking and following along with you all :) I did start fly-ing a year or so ago but became so overwhelmed by emails I unsubscribed. Going to try again with you guys if that's ok? All I really remember from doing it before was shine your sink each night and swipe the bathroom in the morning.

Oh do I dare do this??? Our house so badly needs a good sort out and I'm hopeless at domestic stuff......

My first look at the FlyLady stuff was a few years ago and the daily insistence on wearing lippy wasn't my thing.

I will lurk with you ladies, if you don't mind :)

Off to Dp's house until wednesday but so far today I have accomplished the following:

Done
bathroom sink, shower and toilet
Hung new shower curtain
bought food for dinner
changed and washed bedlinen
cleaned windows
taken 4 bags to charity shop

Wednesday I hope to do more laundry and clear all the kitchen.

Thanks for the welcome and the butt-kicking. I did half an hour in the kids room, which has got me heading in the right direction.

done
loo and bathroom clean
half hour in kids room
DS's bed changed
3 loads of laundry washed and dried

still to do
put laundry away
lay out clothes/uniforms for tomorrow
dishes to be washed

Hello :)

I have just handed my notice in at work and will have to ask the nice ladies who clean my house not to come anymore. So I have a month to get my routine up to scratch.

I FLEW when I was on mat leave a few years ago and I'm a big fan. I will be doing baby steps plus daily mission.

Sink shiny.

Need to clear the crap out of the lounge.

Hello! I'm signing up. Might just lurk for a bit. Am trying to do a spring clean at the mo.

Oh I sooooo need a kick up the behind. I HATE tidying up, cleaning is not so bad. My teany, tiny house is soooo cluttered. DH is working tonight so ideal opportunity to crack on with some FLYing but um, I might just have a bath read a book and have an earlish night and start FLYING tomorrow. (See I'm crap. I've the motivation of a GNAT). I'll shine the sink before I go to bed. x

Thanks for the thread Whoknows and welcome any newbies.

Not much flying done here as been at uni all day (12 hours from leaving to arriving home - its like a full time job ) - got loads of work to do tonight too but will be back tomorrow as have a day off.

My aim this month is to do the daily missions - I have never got this yet and have been flying long enough that this should be second nature. (if I last a week at this i'd consider it an achievement)

Back tomorrow

Blardy Hell! I don't know if i can keep up with this thread!

I have written my list for tomorrow and also an online shop coming Wednesday.

Eeek! I'm nervous that I won't stick to it again but try I must!

to all because I'm back off to read the whole thread

I have little flying to report and have had too much to do any more now, but just wanted to share my latest discovery and wish everyone Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus!

Flippin heck 67 posts and its not even March 1st yet. Whoknows have a large . You're going to need it!!

And just because I love them

A lovely bunch

My word! Even more newbies since i last posted!!! welcome all!
Love the !

What is Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus?

It's Happy St David's Day in Welsh - and yes, I know I'm a day early but I was just too excited about the !

OMG - 70 posts already and it isn't even March yet

Ah, i see!

List update, then off do to some exercise before bed.

Morning routine done
Walk DS to playgroup done
Green bin in done
Get DH out of door done
Make beds done
Washing up done
s/s done
Washing on airer done
Washing in machine for tonight done
RR living room done
RR kitchen done
RR bathroom done
Put DS toys away so I include his room in WHBH done
WHBH done
Town for library, posting, banking and food shopping done
Food bin and recycling in done
Collect DS done
Activities with DS done
Playgroup paperwork done
Zone cleaning done
Zone mission done
Paper file item done
Our finance - no - swapped for WI paperwork done
Garden - depends if it stops raining - it didn't
Cook tea done
Tea done
Bedtime routine done
Evening routine done

OK so on Day -1 of the March Fledgling Flyers we have 73 posts by I?m not sure how many people.

Starting from the top

Linzer ? grrr at the behaviour of your guests today

Ellie ? Well done to DH, sounds like he is doing a sterling Flying job

BalinderryMum was quick off the mark moving across from the Feb thread

PA ? also quick to mark her spot

Itshappenedagain ? is going to try again.

CelestialStarlight ? lovely name, made a good start by shining her sink

MollysChambers couldn?t resist the urge to join the thread

SystemsAddict ? proved to be a shining example of what you can do as demonstrated by her newly decluttered bedroom

Theunmentioned ? is posting via phone and can?t access the FLylady website, not necessarily such a bad thing!

ColourARc ? is settled into a new routine and trying again

BigFatSpider - has too much stuff, know that feeling

Solo ? is excited about Flying

MrsSharp ? has come in after lurking for a bit

NickNAcks is back for a second attempt

Minda, Niecie, LilQueenie, MrsSHarp, TheSkiingGardener, PerhapsTomorrow, ImnotASlimJim, SimoneDeBoudoir, LadyinPink, Zonkin, NoMoreMagnolia, MarionCole, HystericalMe, MonkeyChicken - welcome to you all too.

Hello to Swan,Toffee, PMPY, MakingCHanges, SC, Cobwebs, MissJ

Phew, that?s a lot of people. Gives me a nice warm feeling knowing I am SO not alone with my cluttered house.

Well, apart from this thread, today I have done morning, afternoon and evening routines, school and Beaver runs, got car insurance quotes and shopped around for new gas and electric supplier, been to Sainsburys, done 2xwashing, tidied up the loft a bit, taken a car load of stuff to charity shop and tip and decluttered the dining room a bit. Also cleared a big pile of paperwork from the sofa and filled in what seemed like dozens of forms for school.

Back in a minute to post some links.

Monday 1st March - this weeks Zone (from Tuesday) is porch, hall and dining room.

Babystep 1 - Shine Your SInk

Sneak Peek - list of this weeks missions

Tuesday Mission - declutter your dining room

If you are looking at the mission on Monday night, it will update automatically to Tuesday's mission sometime overnight.

I meant Tuesday......

And I missed you CHB and Nettie, sorry!