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!

claire i think you are going to like it here...

Placemarking here too. All good intentions over the summer followed by a month of moving and sorting out two student offspring plus bringing my widowed mum over for a short break (it would have been their 60th wedding anniversary 28/9 😢) and I haven't got my life back to normal yet. Well, normal, I'm an empty nester for the first time and missing dd so much!

zoo i reckon so

long sounds like you've had hectic time of it of late.

Well i've achieved very little in the way of housework today. I have literally only managed to strip the beds and chuck into the wash, i've washed the dishes, and i have done our weekly food shop at sainsburys. Beds still need to be made.....

I am not on ball.uniforms currently in wash.dd2 has just informed me needs make sweets for dt tomorrow...mad panic on goigle and just spent bloody fiver on ingredients make chocolate fudge.grrrrr

FFS isn't that the kind of thing they should be doing IN the lesson rather than as homework beforehand?!

Welcome long sorry about your dad

Evening all. Survived w/e (just) although cold/flu returned conveniently as guests departed. Just got back in time for dd tutoring and was so fed up/achey waiting in car for 1.30 hrs that I succumbed and stopped at Maccie Ds on the way home. So have already failed on the dieting front on 1st day of new month.

Mahoosive wing flaps from across the city to Longtime! It must have been a very hard day for you and your lovely ma on 28th but I hope she enjoyed her visit and that your DC are settling well in their new digs . Dare I suggest empty nest= perfect decluttering opportunity, although understood if the prospect makes you feel worse not better!!!

A warm welcome to Goldenclaire glad you have found us! Are you familiar with the Flylady system? (Have a Google if not.) Main principle is short focused bursts of housework done consistently in defined zones of house. Key though is decluttering first as you can't clean clutter!

Another warm welcome to Pickledsausage! Great to have another Flybaby arriving imminently on thread! Don't use the app myself (have been meaning to check it out) but I know others on here do (or use similar).

Lovely to have Oncewaswho and Honu back with us

Huge wing flaps to everyone else too of course!

Uniform in dryer
Shirts on(i know i shouldve done fri night)
Kits fed
Zoolets(my dc to newbies) supervised showers(ds dont do thorough job if not supervised at least once a week)
Relocated liv room floor
Sorted washing into huge piles ready for tom(yippee)
Chivvy ds and dd2 pack bags incl homework for tom
Lil zoo been chivvy empty crap/letters from her bag

cag she made a cardboard box in dt for said chocolates.and teacher expects try their offerings(if wasnt pregnant id be tempted add alcohol to stir things up)

Can anyone spot its been a trifle wintery our neck of woods today

zoo what a hassle re the chocolates. I agree - they should be doing that in class. What about the parents that can't afford to go out and get the ingredients or are working and don't have time? Not great.

We did kick the heating on this morning as it was chilly. Now I'm roasting as we've been baking and the tumble dryer has been running all day as well.

ta da
✅clean clothes away
✅gathered laundry (nope still haven't put it on)
✅made my breakfast and dinner despite not wanting to
✅did warm up of workout DVD again
✅remembered raspberry leaf tea

Oooh and got Caglets to have a bath as well. Shouldn't be such an achievement but oh well

Hello all and a warm welcome to newbies . Thanks for shiny new thread Cotswold. Have been at work so just doing the bare minimum of putting laundry on now, thankfully DH cooked and washed up earlier. Going to bed as soon as laundry on!

Quick wave to everyone and links!

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

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Baby-step no 2 - get dressed as soon as you get up (this is one of the top tips IMO)

We are in Zone 1 this week: the entrance, front porch and dining room

Spend 15 mins decluttering in Zone 1.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 1 is here

Mission for Monday wipe down your front door and the porch area I have an open porch which collects leaves and litter!

The daily focus for Monday is: weekly home blessing hour

The monthly habit for October paper clutter

daily reminders

Paper clutter is a timely task for me, we have redecorated and refurnished our home office (corner of the dining room) but in the meantime a paper mountain has built up, I am just about keeping up with the urgent stuff but it's a skin of the teeth job and needs tackling properly.

Well after a week of dc4 treating me to 7am wake ups we are now back to 4am!

Yawn

Adds

Tada
Kits/cat fed
Lav bleached
Wash on

Lots to do today befire dd1 comes to visit at 10

Ty zoo

I have just made #3

Busy week this week as 3 medical appointments with dc, plus usual work and home shat

Ta da

Washing in dryer / on airer

You are most welcome afresh
I spent huge chunks yesterday at war dd2.it appears there is no ceasefire in sight.i am ready to pack my bags n leave her to it

Tadas
Pack ups made
Breakfast fir zoolets(in progress)
Bath n sink wiped
Bathroom windows cleaned
Radiator.skirt and bath panel zo flora(cant wash floor as kits not akip yet and trying to "help")
Hall tidied ready to hoover in a mo

Incandescant rage cleaning is the way forward....

Oh dear zoo. I do find rage cleaning often very productive though. I generally rant to myself in my head while i do it!

Ta da

Washing in dryer / on airer
Washer on

Oh dear zoo. I do find rage cleaning often very productive though. I generally rant to myself in my head while i do it!

Ta da

Washing in dryer / on airer
Washer on

Double post again

Joining in just marking my place:) x

Welcome betsy :)

Feeling bleary eyed this morning as I had the heater on overnight.

Ordered a new bed last night! My knees are not particularly keen on the mattress on the floor. Next stop will be finding new bedding as we've upgraded to king size. Yay!

Also need to go to primark at some point soon as DD needs leggings, especially black ones as they have now been told there's a dress code for tap class (need to order the proper t-shirt too... as well as pay this term's invoice oops)

Soft play and lunch today, then hospital which is the clinic that always always overruns. So I doubt DS will get to taekwondo tonight :(

And need to put washing on and order Tesco which I really CBA with because I am totally sick of having to think about absolutely everything I'm eating.

(More) tadas
Front door cleaned
Hall stairs n landing cleared hoovered.
Hall floor zoflora
Breakfast things wash dry n put away
Wipe table
Wash in dryer
More on
Recycling out
Empty all bins
Sweep liv room floor
Liv windows cleaned
Walk lil zoo school
Hob wiped

I di think about doing floors/polish zoolets room but judge by mess(which it try escape onto landing) i will settle for ignore and delegate well ds n lil zoo might listen

To do
Kitchen surfaces
Wipe cupboard fronts
Wash kitchen.liv and bathroom Floors

I an hour til dd1 arrives....