Neat and clean in 2017 - it's the January Flylady thread

[CotswoldStrife]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Welcome to the January Flylady thread, where we try and maintain our nests in good order by following the Flylady method. We'll post links each day to the Flylady website for the babysteps, daily focus and extra missions in the current zone. The habit of the month is shining your sink (or whatever other place in your home motivates you).

If you are just starting, Flylady recommends decluttering the weekly zone before doing the detailed cleaning and not to do too much at once!

All are welcome, so feel free to join us anytime.

Glad to hear that one DD is back at school zoo and that school are being suppportive for your other DD.

stressy you fed shouldn't feel guilty about extra childcare to enable you to do your work! It's not as if you're off gallivanting somewhere is it? We all know how hard you've been working

Just popping in quickly to post my ta-das.

stress don't feel quilty as your DC will enjoy it once she is there. I don't know how you or any other parents with young children and work manage to study too. Kudos to you, I say.

zoo hope appt goes well.

Ta-da:
cleaned bath
made bed
Put wash away
Put wash on
Tidy up of living room
Put out clothes for tomorrow for DS and myself
Swish and swipe
Put away washed pots/pans/plates etc
Put out breakfast bowls for tomorrow

To-do
Go to bed

Night everyone

MN is really slow for me tonight so I'm going to post the links shortly (bit early) and catch up tomorrow. Did a bit more tidying today and got the OK from DD to throw out some of her old drinking cups as I'm hoping to do a tip trip tomorrow.

Sleep well everyone - will be back tomorrow morning!

The daily summary for Friday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day.

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Baby-step no 20 - do a full load of laundry, wash, dry, put away

We are in Zone 3 this week: the bathroom and one other room

Spend 15 mins decluttering in Zone 3.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 3 is here

Mission for Friday clean the bath and sink, and the washing machine and dryer

The daily focus for Friday is: declutter your handbag and car/date night

The monthly habit for January is shine your sink

daily reminders

Aww thanks everyone .

Ta da:-
DD1 at school and DD2 at preschool
Picked up parcel
Dropped paperwork into DD2 nursery
Went to library, returned books and found out we don't have any missing books! Relief as had been convinced we had lost at least one but we must have returned it at some point

To do:-
90 mins assignment work
30 mins general tidying / morning routine
Pick up DD2 from preschool

Morning all

DC1+2 dropped at school. DC3 watching TV wrapped in a blanket on the floor (not sure why) DC4 hopefully going to sleep in the pram

Ta Da

One load washed
One load dry

To do

Reload washer and dryer
Wash pots
Put away dry washing

Morning Fledglings!

I haven't even got up yet. 😳😳😳

Must do more laundry today and get it all put away by bedtime! That's all I'm really hoping for today.

G'morning fledglings! Crisp, sunny day here - walked across a frosty field this morning, beautiful!

Aiming to crack on with filling bags of junk for the tip, bought some vaguely American-type food to cheer DD up as she is very worried about The Donald taking over. I could hear DH in the bathroom this morning trying to explain that politicians don't do half the things they say they will

Will also clear out my handbag, it is full of crumbs and junk!

Back at lunchtime, keeeeeep flapping!

Morning all. Done the school run and have DS with me today as my 'helper'. Waiting in on shopping being delivered, station g at a messy house. It's been a long week. I am necking coffee and paying myself up to make a start.

To DOS:
Clean fridge
Put shopping away
Clean kitchen
Tidy play room
Hoover
Change beds
Wipe surfaces
Batch cook a few meals
School pick up

Hi every one cheeky it has been a long week here to, I understand the need for coffee!

Got to pick dd up from nursery in a minute so will have to be quick

Ta das
Dishwasher emptied and loaded
Rubbish out to bins
Sides wiped
Meal plan

To do
Rest of daily routine
Ironing
Clean washing machine
Clean bath and shelf in bathroom
Mop bathroom floor
Polish mirrors
Declutter bag
Food shopping online

Question - I planned soup for a meal next week with bread but am now thinking this might not be filling enough, what do people have with soup if it is part of a main meal? Or maybe I should just do it for lunch instead

Hi all, afresh, DD1 frequently sits on the floor wrapped in a blanket to watch TV .

Ta da:-
Dishwasher on
One load laundry
Big chunk of work for one part of assignment done . Can't believe how much I got done on my own in the daytime for 2 hours!

To do:-
Pick up DD2 next
Laundry
Dishwasher
General tidy up
5 mins declutter
Plan tea
Pick up DD1 from school

Hi everyone,
Looking for a post I wrote yesterday but can't find it. That's the story of this week unfortunately!

Today it's a baking day (technically decorating since I did the sponges yesterday). It's MILs birthday tomorrow so it's a rennie Mackintosh theme. Fun but making royal icing always coats the kitchen in icing sugar so it'll be a big clean up after. I've finally got work starting up next week so I really want to finish decluttering under the stairs.

Priority one is cake, priority two is under stairs and we'll see what else gets done. I really like these bathroom weeks. It feels like a rest.

stressy the extra childcare hours sound a great idea. I don't know how you manage to get any studying done at all with small children-I'm in awe. Don't feel guilty. You're setting a great example by being so driven.

foxes if I'm having soup as a main I normally add more protein (chick peas, quorn pieces, chorizo, cheese, chicken etc) and serve with carbs (pitta, naan bread, cheese scones).

cotswold I'm guessing from your user name you've got similar views to me with different hills (I think I'm MendipStrife!). It's gorgeous here too. I love it when it's cold but bright and you can put fifteen layers on, go out for a walk in the sun and come back with a freezing face.

Waves to everyone else since I'm getting evils from the coffee shop owner where I'm sitting-I have been here a while!

I've had a coffee too this morning, and I suspect it will not be the last ...

Still have not motivated myself to get to the tip Can't keep piling the bags up forever

I can see some lovely hills from here - not actually in the Cotswolds itself but nearby (by the cheese rolling). It is very pretty, I will say that.

Laptop has been playing up a bit this week, so DH has just swapped the keyboard.

Will run the dishwasher - planning American-style food for tea (loosely related in most cases) to go with the inauguration. Not my choice of candidate but hey, I wasn't a voter there!

Give the coffee shop owner evils back - you are enhancing his environment, Purple (was it a post on here that you've lost, have you looked at 'I'm on' or searched your own name?)

Second wash on and other laundry sorted into piles, I've also spent ages on the phone to HP to sort out printer issues. And eaten junk food.

was it a post on here that you've lost, have you looked at 'I'm on' or searched your own name?

It was a post on this thread but it's definitely disappeared-the site was mega slow yesterday so I wonder if I clicked off the page too soon. It wasn't anything very exciting.

Annoyingly I'm back to discover the jam for thread cake was mouldy. I couldn't be bothered to go out again so it's got lemon curd in the middle instead. I've currently got a lovely clean white cake to pipe on and it's so intimidating. Black icing on white base you get one attempt to get it right or it looks awful. Argh. I'm psyching myself out. It's not even a scary client!

Ooh purple do you make cakes for a living?! (Sorry I may have missed the obvious here!). I love baking but can't do icing or any kind of decorating at all, just not artistic in the slightest. Thanks for the ideas about the soup, I'm storing those away for another day. The soup I planned is leek and tomato so just veggie although it does have potato in it. I'm going to do it for lunch tomorrow as dh working in the morning but home for lunch so be nice to sit down together for lunch. This is the plan anyway, if I can motivate myself to prepare it in the morning!

Ta das
Daily routine finished
Tidied up living room AGAIN after dd destroyed it!
Picked up all the nappies that Dd has put round the entire house and mixed her size 5s up with ds size 4s so really hard to tell apart, it's a nappy nightmare in this house now
Made dinner now in the oven
Tidied kitchen up and dishwasher emptied again
Cleaned the bathroom shelf and bath (decluttered the shelf first managed to get dh to put some of his stuff away in the bedroom but that opened another can of worms because his bedside cupboard is literally overflowing now...I can't declutter his stuff and I don't want to nag him so it will probably stay like this forever...)
Sorted out some photos for the photo album
Food shopping online

I didn't manage ironing, mirror polishing or mopping surprise surprise my most hated jobs. I think I'll leave them for now as I'm tired and hungry and everybody else in my house is now relaxing in front of the TV!

Sorry what a long post that was! And forgot to say have lovely weekends everyone.

foxes, for soup I'd go with Purple's suggestions. I'd be fine with soup and bread for a main meal usually but I know DH would want more and if I was really hungry I would too. Unless it is a proper chunky soup. You could always bulk it up with some other snacky bits too. I can sympathise with the nappies everywhere. We have loads of toys sprawled out over the living room which we will have to tidy in a bit. Children have such an amazing ability to cause chaos!

Thanks Purple, will keep telling myself I am setting them an example .

zoo any joy at docs?

Cotswold, re Trump, trying not to think too much about it because as DH says (I may have ranted a bit!), what can we do? I think it's entirely reasonable of your DD to be worried but we can only hope your DH is right about politicians .

Ta da:-
Girls' tea done
Dishwasher on
Washing machine loaded ready to go once I chuck DD1's polo shirt in after the bath
DDs drinking their milk with telly
5 min declutter

To do:-
Bathtime
Bedtime
Before bed routine
Bit of studying - not going to do loads as brain a bit fried from doing it this morning but need to do an hour or so.
Drink wine
Happy Friday all.

foxes I'm a keen amateur-my "client" is my MIL.
I can see how that was misleading. I mostly do birthday cakes for family and friends plus the occasional wedding cake. I really enjoy it and sometimes think about doing it alongside tutoring but there isn't really enough money in it to make it worthwhile. There's also the issue of environmental health certifying my kitchen as safe...

The cake is finished and I'm mainly pleased. I'm a bit of a perfectionist (another reason why doing it as a career would be bad!) and have to keep reminding myself nobody else will be looking for the flaws. I didn't make it to tidying under the stairs but that's not a disaster.

Early night tonight-I'm knackered!

Purple one of my relatives did cake making/decorating but stopped because it is impossible to make money - it takes SO much time!

I did not make it to the tip today (I just mis-typed that as top, certainly didn't hit that either). I did have a tin of soup today but with a bread roll, I once read on t'internet that soup without a piece of bread or other carby item is a drink. I agree.

I will post the links next!

The daily summary for Saturday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day.

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Baby-step no 21 - check the ‘Ask Flylady’ section of the website where she answers questions

No zone work or missions at the weekends – woo hoo, enjoy!

The daily focus for Saturday is: family fun day

The monthly habit for January is shine your sink

daily reminders

Purple one of my relatives did cake making/decorating but stopped because it is impossible to make money - it takes SO much time!
Yes that's exactly it. To make it look clean and tidy takes so long, plus there's the basic cost of the ingredients etc. Everyone estimates the cost of icing, cake boards and boxes. People that don't bake don't always realise how hard it is to make a cake look good and aren't willing to pay what it's worth or you're competing with supermarket. I worked out once I'd be working for about two pounds and hour so I just bake for fun. Minor rant over.

Morning all

Ta Da

Dryer emptied
Washing out of washer into dryer
Washer reloaded
Kitchen bin empty

To do

Pots
Put away dry washing
Clean table

Oh and I also share the pain of having a DC who scatters items around the house. Dd is awful for this!

Morning everyone,
Had such a busy week, well maybe not busy, but busier so it threw me out of routine!
Managed to keep on top of a few things though so we're not quite in disaster territory yet. Have fallen really behind with laundry though so will use today to catch up on that.
Also fancy going for a nice walk.

To dos
Strip bedding and wash
2 loads of clothes washing
Wash towels
Clean bathroom
Put away baby clothes
Quick tidy of bedroom
Put all washing away