Festive building work, house moving and fledglings flying. Gotta be the December thread.

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Morning

It's December. Are you ready for this?
festive cleaning, decluttering and then the required throwing about of sparkly stuff in the name of the holidays? No? Yeah neither are the rest of us. But let's do this.

So we sorta follow the Fat fairy and her fly lady system. We have adapted to suit lifestyles and sometimes roll our eyes at the fluffiness of the website but we do:
1. 15mins decluttering
2. Missions and Zones
3. have a naughty corner bar but someone else can decorate it this year

All the links can be found from the launch pad

But as it is the 1st of December It is babystep 1. This one looks easy. Shine your sink.

missions are here

The zone is zone 1 which is the porch, dining room and hallway. 15minutes folks, 15 minutes. get that decluttering done.

Tuesday is planning day

And just for the crazy people Christmas missions are here

the 1st Christmas mission

Oh yeah, the disclaimers:
long running thread, regulars been here years so can seem clicky, we're not. Newbies are always welcome we just as you to be respectful

New thread here January Thread

Oh bugger, meant to NC first, now I'm stuck with this one through Jan. [facepalm emoticon].

First rule of fledglings. NO perfectionism. Fly club is/was a different thread. This thread ends at midnight. There should be a new one with a new leader for next month. You are welcome to join us. The rest of them don't bite and I am on a bare minimum internet month next month so you should be fine.

Now go do the family fun nonsense, renew your spirit or whatever and will see you on the new thread in January

thanks whoknows

Thanks WhoKnows for the new thread.

Welcome Lisa - there are usually much more of us about, tomorrow's thread will no doubt be rather busy!

I'm going to write up my last post of this years thread and then 'see' you all next year in the morning

Ta da
LOADS
took down all Christmas decorations through out the house
*recycled all cards
*chucked some old decorations
*condensed the amount of packaging for various decorations
*all remaining decorations neatly boxed up to go into loft
Two loads of washing done and hung up
Dishwasher unloaded and reloaded
Beds made
Rearranged the furniture in the living room including:
*pulling out all furniture to hoover underneath
*gathered up heaps of rubbish from down the backs of/underneath furniture
*dusted all the fancy decorative woodwork of the chaise longe dust magnet
*Made a designated toy corner for all DSs stuff
Signed for some deliveries
Started off a box of charity shop donations (will keep adding to this over next few days)

With DHs help:
Took organ upstairs (temporarily until it is donated to a school)
Brought desk downstairs
Created an office area which included
*Assembling a new office chair
*dismantling old desktop PC (will be re homed soon)
*setting up new computer monitor and peripherals
*tidied up all packaging for recycling

This evening I will be decluttering what is left of the Christmas booze - cheers to you all

Congrats on the baby mercury -you used be a regular on this thread didn't you? Hope I'm not mistaken. Either way, welcome

Welcome too to lisa We're definitely laid back on this thread and perfectionism is not a requirement.

Thanks whoknows for starting the January thread and can't for managing the December thread. Always grateful to those who lead