Flying into September - a new term for the Fledglings

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Welcome to the September Fledgling Flylady Thread.

This thread is for people with CHAOS (can't have anyone over syndrome). We follow Flylady, the website with a mission!

All are welcome on this thread, experienced flyers and newcomers alike.

We try to follow the commandments of Flylady as we run our homes, loosely anyway. In between there's lots of chat and support as we go through our daily lives. We have coffee, cake, and a naughty corner for those who want to chat but CBA with their house some days. However you follow it, this thread is designed to make your life a little easier and more fun.

For those who are new to the system (and those needing a refresher), there are several aspects to the system:

1. Babysteps. These build a routine. Some are really useful, some are downright odd and some are, quite frankly, there to be ignored. They build a good foundation though.

1. Decluttering. Flylade is evangelical about clutter. In order to feel good about our homes we need to ditch the clutter. Flylady divides the home into zones, week by week and repeating monthly. As well as babysteps, we have to declutter in the relevant zone. Once that is achieved we move on to...

1. Missions. Also in the current zone, these are targetted tasks to tackle one particular aspect. One a day, they vary month to month.

1. Deep Cleaning. Once we have completely decluttered (some of us seem to be stuck permanently on that stage) there are deep cleaning lists for each zone. Achieve that and your house will be spotless!

One last thing - the Flylady website encourages us to subscribe to her emails - one word - DON"T! You will be overwhelmed by them. Instead come to this thread every morning and the relevant links for the day will be there waiting for you except when the thread leader has been on the

A big thank you to Bitchy for last month, and also for doing this Sunday's links as I am off camping.

ta da
a whole 6hrs sleep!
finish off a crochet square for my blanket
unload dishwasher
put washing up that was in kitchen into sink to soak to pre wash before reloading dishwasher don't ask personally i think it is a stupid thing to be doing
ds' duvet on to wash
fold 3 loads of washing
get ds to take washing up out of the lounge
eat cake for breakfast
find stuff for doing a patch test ready for next week
find out if those who are away will be home in time for tea so can plan accordingly
Shower and up
check internet stuff
apply patch test
drink more cofffee
get ds to sort contents of box so box can be decluttered
figure layout for the squares of my blanket ready for fastening off and attaching together (ignores fact there is still 5 more squares to make)
chase ds on getting the lounge tidy enough to be hoovered.
strip my bed and put bedding on to wash
load stuff from sink into dw, put rest of stuff into soak yeah this is what happens when you ignore the washing up for 3 days
Put hot water into pots to soak for ease of washing up later
Get ds to chose which poster are going up in his room
speak to ex about ds' new clothes size toad has short 2 shoe sizes and 3 clothes sizes over the summer
finish loading and put dw on to run
take my bed apart
put box of photo albums into storage for a less cluttered time to await dealing with
rebuild bed ensuring matress it turned
dis-infect ds' matress
wipe down benches and cooker top
wash up most of the pot and not for dishwasher stuff, put rest on to soak
fold more washing
collect laundry for next set of loads
start gathering school stuff where it needs in the state it needs to be in ready for tuesday.
evict hoover from bathroom again
Collect towels for washing
stick posters up in ds' room
get ds to sort through his magazine collect with strict instructions to kill the damaged ones doesn't hold breathe the culling will happen it did happen
empty kitchen bin
empty recycling bin
look in veg drawer of fridge go ewwwwwww and remove some offending items
sort out ds' training kit
make sure ds' planner is ready to go for next week
consider best formate for after school schedule - ie chart for ds' wall
toilet cleaner in toilet
water plants
eat more cake and consider more coffee
looks at list and suspects probably best not if i want to sleep
forget was cooking tea and wonder why can smell cooked food, rescue at point of done
Tackle the general clutter and chaos that is ds' room 15mins done
carry up ds' clothes for going away
realise that going to have to deal with the lego tomo
find ds' calendar and remove to my room for updating, realise have forgotten to change the month of the calendars in the house and deal with this.
finish hooking a square for my blanket whilst having break
remove everything that shouldn't be in the bathroom and do a general tidy up
empty bathroom bin and put it to soak in dis-infectant
clean kitchen bin and recycling tub
put another load of washing on
carry stuff up from lounge to be put away in loft from when had visiting child
rescue paperwork from ds' room that should be in his home ed evidence file
realise I have not managed to even remotely remove the pee smell out of ds' matress topper

find the spare not in use topper from under my matress
remake ds' bed
clean bath and bathroom
find ds' sleep meds and apply, before dumping child into a bath.
Find a new tooth brush for ds. don't ask you really really don't want to know why
Put ds' clothes away
more laundry
ironing
empty dw and draining board
wash up pots and start to refill dw
bring up my folded clothes
put ds' ironed clothes away.

Is it nearly bedtime yet?

Holyshit that is way too much stuff to be done by one person in one day. This is a very very bad thing

could someone link to the flylady teacher list?? That might help me (sobs at the thought of going back tomorrow)

Ta da:-
Bath
Collapse and watch x-factor before early night

bitchy fuck off with those crazy lists so early on in the month, you will scare all our lovely enthusiastic newbies

On the one hand, I am so sad that the summer holidays are over. On the other, I am feeling incredibly blessed to have had such a lovely holiday with my fab family and friends (apologies for cheesy comment - it is me really, I told bitchy to fuck off a moment ago).

Night night. Got to be up bright and early tomorrow.

On third glass and about to finish the bottle, comatose is the way to go for tomorrow

at ellie, yes bitchy's list are scary.

Just done a quick tidy of our freezer, found 3 tubs of icecream! All different!

Ellie someone pointed me towards it last year (it might have been whoknows !). Teacher control journal! Some of it's very American or Primary orientated.

www.flylady.net/i/doc/teacher_coj.doc‎

I'll take that thank you Zing ! Where did you arrive from?

I know, I know ellie i had no intention of a ta da list that long but I might have drunk two or three cups of caffinated coffee to compensation for such a late night and lack of sleep. clearly I can't tollerate it. Thankfully i have burnt it off and despite the long list i haven't actually shined the sink. Taken me all day to get to the point where it could be done and need to do it during the day so I can have the window open whilst i bleach it.

blueandwhite. Don't needto make me comatose tomorrow...2 hours of being talked at first thing should do the trick.

bitchy that explains it. ffs go back to decaff and baking chocolate cake.

Cake was nice, it is all eaten. Can't go back to making cake though. Need to restart the diet. Decaff is def going to be the norm and so is early nights.

I have done nothing but eat cake for 6 weeks. September is like my January.

Oops, don't think that worked! If you follow the link and go to control journal page, the teacher one is on there. (Or just google flylady teacher control journal).

Yep, i got a new diary and everything September is definitely the new January.

Hi folks - revisiting Flylady for the new school year. Got my organised mum calendar yesterday & all term dates, insets & Exeat weekends are now on it.

Dd starts a new school on Thursday - need to label loads of uniform (& go and exchange the incredibly short she's not wearing that skirt the shop fitted her with when dh took her!

Ds starts back Wednesday

I'm also hoping to get the kids Flying. Dds bedroom was redecorated & deck uttered whilst she was away in a summer school but she is a Very Unorganised Person do am hoping she can use the children's Journal to help her as they won't stand for her shenanigans of forgotten kit, homework etc in secondary

Ds s bedroom is a complete tip! He has suspected ASD do Loves Routine. We've got mornings off to a tee now, just need to get the rest sorted.

Mmm cake

I have also spent the last few weeks eating mostly cake. Diet day tomorrow and I'm actually looking forwards to it.

(((Badvoc))) be kind to yourself and don't expect too much too soon.

Hope you are home now trazzles

bitchy I'm sure someone very wisely posted about the importance of not attempting perfectionism and posting mad lists a couple of months ago

I have ta da'd everything on my list but am on the iPad so cba posting it again. Cleaned out a couple of the grabbiest kitchen drawers as well and I think the house is beginning to smell better. Very frustrating as it is superficially fairly clean and tidy but is really damp (humidity c. 80%) and smells vaguely of wet dog. We don't have a dog.

Hi to Engels, goth, zing, Ellie, Jemma, jess, blue et al. I'm expecting to be here having a wobble tomorrow as it'll be DDs last day as a preschooler. Was so badly bullied at school for being hyperactive and generally a bit, um, unusual and am terrified of the same thing happening to her as she is very like me.

Quite right too PMPY perfectionism is bad! to do lists and ta da lists even remotely like mine are plain stupid. even if you cut the crappy not really a ta da thing from the list it was a stupid day That is not how this system works.

Not sure if I am supposed to be posting the links for whoknows tonight or not so will just pop them here in case.

babystep

missions - don't worry about doing this if you are a newbie you will build up to including these

monday sees something that we call the home bleurgh which is less cutesy the the fat fairy's home blessing

What is a ta da list

Just off to shine my sink

Well, I shone my sink and cleaned the whole flipping bathroom while I was there lol! Cleared one shelf in the spare room. Made £400 selling DDs old stuff on eBay, packed the paid stuff ready for tomorrow. Second lot of washing hung up and next lot ready for the morning too. 10 week old rendered unconscious in 30 mins rather than the usual 45 so I'm feeling flushed with success here! 2 to celebrate!

Big hugs to those who need them, and a special thank you to the teachers on here. Without you I would be truly psychotic, and DD is still only at preschool! Another year to go, they probably don't want her back either (bright but troublesome and she knows it) but I cannot wait for Tuesday. DH is going to take her to the cinema tomorrow afternoon and I might have a special vacuum round in honour of dealing with only 1 child for a few hours.

Ta da list - i have done it list Picture

Thank you

I've:

Washed, dried & put awsy the hand washable dishes
Cleaned the sink
Emptied the dishwasher

Off to bed with a cuppa now

um,
well
done
swept floor
hoovered downstairs carpets
worktops in utility room
dw load on in utitilty room
bottom of downstairs washing pile
cooked supper
dw loaded from supper
made cheese scones
read ds2's book so I can review it with him
discussed pocket money with dh

How much do you give your 11-13 year olds for pocket money, including excluding phone top up and snack money? Any advice welcome. Atm we are trying £5/£6 a week per child but it seems too low in one sense and too much in another. Occasionally they can earn money by special tasks but we don't want to pay them for essential chores as it all becomes too acrimonious.

Right, here I am, better late than never, sorry for going AWOL for so long and thank you to Bitchy for doing the links (see post at 22:17 in case anyone missed it).

I have scanned through the thread, but it has gone so fast that I have lost track a bit already. Welcome to all the new and returning Flyers, Badvoc - your post stood out as I scanned through, so sorry for the loss of your father and your mother's illness. This thread is as much about moral support through life's ups and downs as it is about housework, I think that is one of the reasons it has carried on for such a long time.

Had a fabulous 24 hour camping trip, a campsite in a woods, you pitch up in a little clearing and can make a fire outside your tent. The DCs enjoyed playing in the woods with a girl from a nearby tent, we enjoyed sitting round the fire and cooking on it (jacket potatoes and sausages last night, pancakes and bacon rolls this morning). It was a lot of packing and unpacking for such a short trip, but worth it, and only 20 mins drive from home.

So, ta-da!

Unpacked car
All clothes washed (three loads as I hardly did any last week) - all on line overnight
Sleeping bags aired
All camping stuff put away - discovered mice have been nibbling some of the nylon bags the chairs etc go in in the shed, so need to get mousetraps tomorrow.
Dinner - pasta
Quick bit of shopping

On the way back from the shops noticed that a neighbour had put out a bucket of Bramleys for taking, we have loads of blackberries in the garden, so made a crumble, plus some scones. GBBO fever in this house too!

Then into the evening, and time for more work on my OU assignment (interspersed with a bit of MNing ). I have to submit it by the 9th, so hopefully after that the state of the house will improve a bit.

Two more days at home for me and the DCs, tomorrow I MUST nametape all the new uniform and wash it.

Night all.

Dd is 11 almost 12 & gets £2.50 per week

That excludes phone top up

Not sure what you mean about snack money. If she wants any sweets, chocolate etc she buys them from her picket money.