Part 2 of: If tidying your house is your New Year's resolution, Flying with us could be the solution

[ToffeeWhirl]

Welcome to Part 2 of the January Fledgling Flyers' thread. There are a lot of newly dedicated Flyers on Part 1 of the thread - I hope they all find their way over here to Part 2. We are following Flylady's system to get our houses in order, whilst ignoring her twee language.

Flylady's routines aim to help you take control of your home, tidying and decluttering and setting up daily and weekly routines that keep your home looking presentable. On this thread, we motivate each other, chat quite a lot and swap tips on coping with housework and mess.

There are three methods of following Flylady's system, depending on whether you are new to the system or have been following it for a while:

1. Babysteps
2. Babysteps + 15 mins daily decluttering in current zone
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: your sink. It seems crazy when the mess is piling up everywhere else, but it works.

Sleep? meh for the weak. Stuff to do coffee to drink.

Hope the "school run" goes smoothly.

Norning!

Welcome thewaffler and swanthing (swanriver? If so mwah mwah)

bitchy liking the name!

Working all this week so managed to get the house all lovely over the weekend and washing and ironing up to date.

Also got the utility room and fridge cupboards detcluttered, reorganised and detail cleaned yaaay! So pleased. Was really needing it. All my cupboards are done now but some are needing a quick tidy again... Never ending!

Ta da

Up and dressed to shoes
Made bed
Swish upstairs bathroom
Swish downstairs bathroom
Hoovered
Dusted
Shined sinks and worktops
Wiped floors
Emptied bin

To do

Work (boo)

Bbl. Have a good day all and enjoy the sun if you have it!

looking at my list it seems wildly unlikely

feeling a bit ill today myself, will stick to clearing the breakfast dishes,
getting ds to do a tiny bit of homework whilst he's off ill
and putting way the laundry [stern]
also newspaper part of Home Bless cull.

Toffee you were up very late. I went to bed at 12 and feel awful this morning not helped by AF and Dh stomping off in very bad mood this morning (he had to work despite feeling underweather)

done
school run with minimum resistance
ds ministering
pills

gardening mags read....more....
cleaning lady is coming to do the ironing pile for Dh's trip so that is something and I have cleaned the bathrooms before she arrived

Suppose I better go and get some sheets to wash now as well...sigh..

Just hung washing outside for the first time this year. Is such a lovely day. Great to not have it hanging in the house for a change!

Just stopping for a rest and another .

So far today I have:

got dressed to shoes
breakfast
made beds
DC to school and nursery
put 1 x washing in machine
put away some dry washing
hoovered main bedroom
and emptied the hoover.

Swan - yes, I was up stupidly late, thanks to trying to do an online order last thing at night, then falling asleep at the keyboard. Lost the delivery time as a result and now have to pay an extra charge and wait an extra day .

KickAss - I see a decent bedtime eluded you too .

dizzy - poor DS . What a tumultuous time he's having. It's good that he can come home and will have time to reassess things.

Jetah - at your housekeeping games.

thewaffler - that airer sounds good and cheaper than a tumbledrier. I use the tumbledrier every day at this time of year and, yes, I think it does cost us a fortune . Not sure where I'd put an airer though (tiny rooms in a tiny house).

jas - I use the crisis clean regularly .

BlackCat - glad to see you are still remembering your 15-minute tea breaks!

Lugholes - well done on hanging your washing out. It's a lovely day here too. You did loads of decluttering at the weekend - well done!

StillFlying- glad you are still sticking to the routines. It will pay off!

FleeBee - lovely that your mum was so impressed!

Slowburner - well done on your clean and tidy home. I sympathise about your daughter being a poor sleeper. Both mine were poor sleepers and it is just awful. It will pass...

Membership - glad you found us again!

Scatty - Happy Birthday! Hope you have a lovely day out with your DH.

I need a list today. Back in a min.

I am SUCH an idiot!!! I?m not great with computers and have been using a bookmark set up for me, to get to the thread. Have been following babysteps from the intro post link, and wondering why everyone had vanished, constantly refreshing it over the weekend, and wondering if I?d been excommunicated by Flylady or something.
Finally dawned on me that if the thread was 1000 posts, maybe it couldn?t take more and there might be a new one! Doh,Doh,Doh!!!

Ta da :
Swish and swipe
B/fasts
D/W on
Rubbish out
Lunchbox made
DC dressed
School run

To do :
Get DS1 to do his homework
Unload D/W
Laundry backlog
What's for dinner?
One-hour clean-up:
Change bedclothes
Wash sheets
Empty bins
Put recycling out
Hoover
Mop floors
Clean mirrors/windows
Dust

Lunch

Take DS1 to school (hopefully) for one lesson
Take DS1 to his CBT appointment
Collect DS2 from school
Collect DS1 from CBT appt
Empty lunchbox
Check school bag - money/forms
Dinner
D/w on
DC's bedtime routines
Before-bed routine
Bed at decent hour.

Phew!

JustGetting - sorry you lost us! You are not the only one who got lost, you know. I'm afraid I didn't get in fast enough to post a link to the new thread before the old one filled up. I'm glad you've found us now though - welcome back!

JustGetting - here's a welcome back and some for you. Sit down and get your breath back before starting on your routines.

justgetting what sin would you have to commit to be excommunicated from the FLY threads I wonder? Rubbing excrement into your sink perhaps?

toffee Good list. Hope ds successfully makes it to school today.

Off to the office in half an hour as have been doing some work from home. Need to get the girls some lunch before we leave.

Thanks Toffee, :) just can't believe it took that long for the penny to drop.
Good luck with son, also to Dizzy.

Happy Birthday Scatty

Lugholes; admiting it's so old that if not shined daily the rust spots join up? :o

Thanks for that horrific image justgetting

Must get on with some work.... Vat return due and my brain is going to explode.

spurred on by having another person cleaning some of the other rooms, I have tidied and decluttered dd's room
ditto ds1 room again (it is getting easier every time I do it since mammoth decluttering last week in both rooms)
removed all rubbish from floors everywhere
changed sheets on her bed
re-cleaned all the loos and round them
toothbrushed behind the taps
flung several bathroom items
decluttered airing cupboard and found where the tablecloths were
decluttered a pile of Enid Blytons from airing cupboard, now who can I give them to?
made ds lunch (reheated stew - delicish)
thrown away some more books ffrom under the sofa
swept hall
swept under very dusty sofa
rescued hall
done three loads of washing, hung out sheets and loaded dw
bagged up some rubbish in the garden
recyling in bins

cleaning lady has hoovered upstairs and downstairs passages and dd/dss rooms and done the ironing for Dh and mopped floor in kitchen

Now I have to go out and buy some fruit for ds and spend afternoon doing homework with him [sigh]

DH away from Thurs so feel a need to get ahead, usually I'm a wreck when he returns. Sat is particularily bad day for him to be away!!!! Need to get a teenage babysitter to cover double booking situation when I'm meant to be in two places at once at 9.00 ho hum on Sat morning.

dizzy at least it was the right way round to go with his girlfriend First. I know someone whose son went to different uni from gf and ended up changing his whole course life to be with girlfriend. I think you never know till you do it. Hope tlc at home helps.

right I need to crack on - meals, online order, cheque, homework etc...pickup..other dcs...

List update :

Get DS1 to do his homework done
Unload D/W done
Laundry backlog
What's for dinner?
One-hour clean-up:
Change bedclothes
Wash sheets
Empty bins done
Put recycling out done
Hoover done
Mop floors done
Clean mirrors/windows done
Dust done

Lunch done

Persuaded DS1 not to tear up his hwk, which he isn't happy with, and he is now getting into his uniform. Crossing my fingers we will actually get through the school doors this time...

Still here. DS1 won't go. He can't even face the walk down there. He's curled up on his bed . He says he can't even face seeing the CBT therapist.

Feel absolutely stuck.

Toffee for you and DS1. That sounds tough! I don't know all your background/past so I can't really offer any advice.

Can anyone give me a boot?

I need to get on with things. I always seem to find it hard to start again after lunch.

Oh, it's a long story, BlackCat. DS1 has a diagnois of Tourettes, OCD and social anxiety and a history of school refusal. I usually manage to stay upbeat, but do feel a bit down about it this time. I don't know where we go from here. I've posted on the Special Educational Needs board for some MN wisdom.

Right, here's that boot up the backside you wanted....

Did that work?

Hope someone can help, still that sounds like hard work. I can understand the social anxiety thing though as I sometimes have that.

Thanks for the boot, I will try to get some work done. I have just over 1 hour till I have to get DS from school.

Newbie here, so on day one of babysteps. Am I the only one though who know my sink is shiney and spotless, It's deterring me from using it and doing the washing up?! I want it to stay shiny!

(umm...probably just me!)

teeb i am like that too. When I'm filling the kettle I am very careful of no naughty splashes round the outside!

Just popped by for a quick bit of inspiration and saw the last few posts.

Hi Teeb and welcome - I am quite a newbie too.
Toffee -That sounds like an incredibly hard situation for you and your ds. No useful advice here I'm afraid, but have a

Welcome teeb

I too hate my shiny sink getting splashed. Really irritates me

toffee oh no. Poor ds, and you. Just a horrible situation and I can imagine you feel really guilty for trying to male him go, despite knowing it's the best thing for him. Makes me so sad thinking about what you are both going through. Such an emotional situation.

Working all day tomorrow so have had a quick tidy round and will put away the dry washing so don't have much to do in the morning.

Hope you are having a relaxing evening.