Welcome to the ongoing Fledgling Flyers thread for September, thanks to Bitchy who kept us posted through August.
Right, most of you should know how this works. It's a three pronged attack.
Phase one: The babysteps master these and you will be working like clockwork.
Phase two: Adding in Decluttering this will help you keep on top of the amount of stuff contributing to CHAOS.
Phase three: Missions Targeted activities to keep the chaos at bay and starting the deep cleaning.
The golden duster of Flying is stage 4: deep cleaning. This is for most me anyway, somewhat unrealistic and in theory you don't need to worry about it until you have finished decluttering that's never then. Just do it if you want to.
Now for those of you who are completely lost, lets rewind a bit.
CHAOS: Can't have anyone over syndrome. We've all been there
The fly lady approach works by breaking the house down into tiny activities which you do repeatedly until they become habit and don't feel like chores any more. The house is split into zones, each zone is tackled for a week before moving on and comes round again at the start of the next month.
There are lots of experienced Fledglings on here, hence lots of advice and support and chat about anything except housework some days. the main thing is that you can post any time you like even if you haven't lifted a finger around the house that day because with Flylady you just pick up again the next day and off you go again.
We advise against signing up for Flylady emails as they can lead to a great deal of clutter in the Inbox, each days steps will be posted on this thread to save you having to find them yourself.
In the meantime here is a link to the Flylady website for anyone who would like a browse.
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It's September so the Fledgings Fly, as we wave our clutter bye bye
WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 30/08/2012 21:22
done
nothing [mournful echo of whoknows as I've been laid up with a migraine all Sunday and this morning] Okay I sorted out ds's room.
feeling a bit better now, having taken a rainy visit to Senco of ds1's school to talk about ds2. He was quite helpful and said they could offer ds2 a day or 3 in school this term with year 7's to see how he coped, with a TA on hand! No-one else has offered that, it seems a very good idea, if slightly alarming! I could base my decision on what school to put first choice, on how ds2 reacted to the school environment.
DH has been slaving away dealing with children all weekend, loads of homework, twins a handful, so much washing too...Not used to migraines so thought it was a bug, next time I shoud be able to take a tablet I hope.
Choir in Westminster Cathedral went well, dh impressed! A long day though, and it transpired that ds1 choir practice on Friday had prevented him understanding anything about Charles I in history, thus making causes of Civil war inpenetrable. Ds still seems to be in some confusion about the religion of most of the monarchs of this period 
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