October House of Order - Fledglings flying through October 2017

[CotswoldStrife]

Order, Order! Do you have a little house of horrors? Welcome to the October Flylady thread where we follow the Flylady method for keeping our houses in order (along with some general chat and support). The monthly focus for October is paper clutter

I'll be posting links to the daily missions, daily focus and the zone cleaning - don't worry about the detailed zone cleaning if you haven't already decluttered, Flylady recommends decluttering first. Join us at any point this month

I'll post the first October links tonight!

Wow Cag exciting stuff

ta da

put bins out for collection
washed dishes
wiped kitchen sides down
made beds
done some laundry

Need to put our old travel cot and car seat on local listings. Been meaning to do this for ages but they are annoying me now stuck in the cupboard beneath the stairs everytime i get the hoover or ironing board out. I'm not sure if people really go about buying travel cots and car seats off local listings hey ho if i get no interest then i'm sure a charity shop will take them off my hands.

claire i sold a carseat onlinr after i had my dd and she outgrew it, only got 30 quid but better than nothing!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekcag how utterly exciting!!
I love babies

Fresh Yeah i was gonna advertise the car seat for £25, and the travel cot for £15.

ta da
✅return library books
✅see friends for hugs
✅BUY STUFF

Einstein is grounded

to do
a crap tone

ta da
crash and burrrrrrrrrrrn.

gotta love cfs and fibro. coffee, hot shower and then slowly plodding is the plan of action. that and swearing about the charging point of the laptop which has almost died (which is a problem because the battery is also almost dead )

hills not sure if you or laptop needs charging most!!
Sat n watched 101dalmations with lil zoo and doze a little

To do
Relocate dining table surface before tea
Make tea(jacket potatoes.baked. salmon.roasted mmushrooms and asparagus.buttered kale)
Try and find some energy....

Yes CFS and fibro are completely and totally shit. Bastard conditions they are. Not looking forward to the return of them (symptoms have eased somewhat during pregnancy). Sorry you are in crash mode :(

I am home having bought all the things. Reckon we are sorted now in terms of Stuff but the house, oh god. Can't do much today though TBH. I mean I should be sorting stuff as I'm not needed for babysitting (Caglets happily playing with their little cousin and when they go outside DH goes with them). But I feel sort of paralysed by it all. I am just writing a list for hospital bag packing.

Ta da
Made opticians appointment
Organised boiler service
Daily routine
Decluttered ds chest of drawers
Chucked out the bath mat which the cat pooed on

To do
Shower curtain
Cobwebs
Parcels x 2
Swish and swipe downstairs toilet
Make dinner (either chicken tikka or teriyaki chicken )

Oh and check library books

Can I join? House is chaos and need inspiration!

A very warm welcome to FlyingJellyfish! Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

I know that paralysed fear feeling Cag - it's like one's limbs seize up - v understandable in your circs today - I find the key is to try to break things down in to the tiniest, infinitesimally small tasks of which you can do 1, then have break, then do 2nd, then another break etc etc... but do take it steady, because it sounds as if you have done more than enough for today!

Foxes we are having chicken and salad tonight (with chips for dd) - bought two small ones earlier - in fact must get them in oven

Since last post I have nipped to supermarket, cooked and served pesto, broccoli and pea pasta for three (school half day) cleared up kitchen again, dw on, done 2 x 30 mins in boudoir, wrapped two birthday presents for godchildren, , wrapped one parcel for sister, written two birthday cards and wrapped up an on-line return and visited post office and done two loads of washing and about to feed machines again ... .

DD has been seated at second hand ancient piano for entire afternoon (half day here) before we have had opportunity to have it tuned. Anyone for "Ode to Joy" played discordantly 30 times in succession? I am trying to be encouraging, honest

and strength to Hills and anyone else in need ...

Btw, speaking of putting stuff on the market, I have another brocante coming up in November, so hoping to sell that last of dd's "children's" clothes and toys ... and release a bit of space and make a bit of cash before Christmas which, eek, is only 67 days away I think ... aaargghh

Don't rush to get it tuned sc pianos need time to settle when newly moved. :)

I have sat on the sofa in a daze all afternoon!

Oh that's really good to know - I am clueless about pianos - thanks v v v much Cag!

What is optimum time to leave it? And does it damage it (bearing in mind it was made in 1910!!) playing it when it is not tuned? (And has a load of dust inside.)

I'm afraid that's the extent of my technical knowledge really 😳 I didn't have a clue about it either when we first got the piano moved here, but when we booked the tuner I seem to remember that he said leave it 6 weeks or something? I certainly played it in the meantime too. Your piano is even older than mine! (1930s)

Argh I'm jealous. I want a piano so badly! (I do have one but its at my parents house as I can't figure out where I would put it)

Cag . How exciting and daunting at the same time!! SC, meant to say yesterday that being poked and prodded by a surgeon is surely an excuse for a brief lack of flying if ever I heard one. You sound very productive today through.

Welcome FlyingJellyfish .

for all.

Quite a productive day today only because had the day off work and DDs had an after school class.

Ta da:-
Home bleugh including changing sheets
Lots of preschool admin
A couple of random sorting things
Emptied a BRC
15 minutes of cleaning the fridge. I know it's not in the right zone but I had started t yesterday so carried it on.

It's my wedding anniversary tonight so we have champagne in the fridge and DH is making dinner, just waiting for kids to go to sleep.

Thank you Toostressy feel back on form today thankfully and did a fair bit of angry cleaning Happy Anniversary to you and your dh and I hope you both have a lovely evening

Don't be too jealous Foxes I think I have bought a dog in piano terms - it nearly cost more to transport than it did to buy - and am quite prepared for tuner to say that it is only good for firewood ... .

I've done more stuff tonight - cooked supper and cleared up - thrashed out some Christmas possibilities/plans with dh - wrapped another present for a colleague's child - sorted rabbit. Should really force myself down in to the basement to put more laundry on but having a cup of coffee now and have sat down which is fatal ... .

Gnight all!

PHEW today is over! What a mad one. Little relative safely looked after (my input was minimal TBF) hospital list written (not that I've actually packed anything yet) all bathed and we ordered our new washing machine thank goodness. We had always agreed to get it here before baby so I'm glad we managed to still do that, it's arriving Saturday which is DH's first day off. And childcare pretty much sorted too. Yay!

Sunday that's not even next week it's this week

Welcome to flying, good to have you with us.

Usual manic last week of term here, sorry not to be around much today but should be around more tomorrow.

Links to follow, snooze well fledglings

Happy anniversary Stressy, enjoy the champagne!

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

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Baby-step no 19 - read the testimonials

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 Thursday declutter any old cosmetics and perfumes, and do another 27 fling boogie as well

The daily focus for Thursday is: errand day

The monthly habit for October paper clutter

daily reminders (radio show times are probably not accurate for UK but can listen to previous shows/podcasts)

I don't post much anymore, but just saw this thread and couldn't resist popping in for old time's sake. I can still see a few familiar names.

We're in the midst of moving house, so I'm frantically trying to retain a small smidgeon of order in the midst of chaos. There are boxes everywhere. We are decluttering as much as possible in the hope that, when we move, we'll be able to keep things tidier because there'll be less stuff.

Our cats are very confused by all the changes.

Hope everyone's well.

Toffeeeeee! I was thinking I hadn't 'seen' you for ages just the other day and was wondering if it would seem stalkerish to PM you :o exciting stuff about the move, I hope it all goes smoothly and very good plan to declutter now. We are attempting to do the same so we have less to do once baby is here (should be moving in the next six months or so but we don't know when) - the less we take with us the better!

I think I forgot to say welcome to jellyfish nice to see you here :)

Got up this morning to see the Caglets already getting on with their maths. Need to get all their trousers hung up on the hangers that arrived and then we can stick the old drawers outside. Bit more space in their room then.

I bought them a new DVD yesterday and while they're watching it I'm going to get all the stuff together that I can for my hospital bag!!!

Toffee lovely to see you. I have so many questions about how your job ds1 and ds2 are doing but will settle for just a hellooo. Are you staying in the same region? Was dreaming about another trip to that rather lovely beach and you were not a million miles away. That said my to do list and weekend commitment list includes a trip to HP world and Edinburgh so it would probably be a similar timing to this years if it happens at all. But a girl can dream of adventures.