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A warm welcome to the December (dare I say Christmas?!) Flylady thread. This is a lovely friendly thread where we loosely follow the Flylady system (see the Flylady website ) in the hope of having organised homes and lives.
We are a long running thread but always welcome new members; the more the merrier 
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The new slimline structure seems to work well so I will stick with that. I will leave some links in this OP and then some quick links in the daily posts. Please do familiarise yourself with the Flylady website, especially if you are new. The Flylady is (understandably) keen that people do look at the website.
On the website there is information for beginners. You can also sign up to the Flylady emails but we would advise caution as there are hundreds of them.
We post our achievements (ta das) and our to do lists and any other general chatter about life / flying.
Information on getting started: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/
The launch pad is also a good starting place:www.flylady.net/c/lp.php
Fly stands for Finally Loving Yourself. The general idea is that short bursts of tidying / organisation are more achievable than marathon efforts. Flylady advises 15 minute bursts is effort but you can tweak this to fit your own circumstances.
Be kind to yourselves, jump in where you are and be careful not to crash and burn! Especially at this time of year.
A daily summary (which should update automatically every day) is available on the Flylady website at flight plan here.
The link to the current zone and missions is here.
Re. zones, do what works for you. I don’t always stick to the zones myself and do what works best at the time, with varying degrees of success!
daily focus
missions for the week
Flykids mission
I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone that it is getting close to Christmas so there are holiday missions here.
December’s habit is usually pampering yourself but has not uploaded yet; I’ll link it tomorrow.
beginner babysteps.
The best place to look for an overall summary is the launch pad.
Happy flying everyone.
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Also a huge thank you to SC for a lovely November thread. 
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Fledglings Flying Festively - the December Flylady thread
TooStressyForMyOwnGood · 30/11/2018 21:13
Stressy thanks for a fabulous December thread, sterling work as always there and much appreciated
Here's to a good 2019 for all of us. The pink champagne is going down far too well here, I've just badgered DH to put prosecco in the fridge as well 
. Eating lots of lovely food and spending the evening together.
Thanks guys! Hope people and animals unsettled by fireworks don’t have too awful a night.
My cold has well and truly kicked in now. But... everyone has eaten (although no doubt DD2 will say she is hungry just at bedtime), dishwasher on and I am sorting the recycling. Kids snuggled with MIL watching a film as they want to stay up but we insisted on them being showered and in PJs so they only need to do their teeth. The meal I cooked (salmon, veg and rice which is one of my few meals I am confident in) was a success so yay.
Am at my limit now though. Have excused myself to tidy up downstairs as I cannot face being sociable any longer and this way I can watch some telly on my phone.
Had a large glass of wine earlier but that will be it for me. Rock and roll 
. We do have champagne in the freezer for tomorrow.
Happy new year all you lovely people 
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Hello all!
Lovely to see newcomers, old-timers and returnees on the thread!
Just popping in to wish you all a very Happy New Year! And all good things in 2019!
Doubt if I will make it to midnight as was up early with dhorse (and an hour ahead anyway!). Guests still here (wibble)..enough said. .. suffice to say I'm with your ds Hills
Toostressy Hope you survived your busy day! And thank you so much for running the December thread so well when you were flat out at work and home yourself 
. Don't know how you do it!
I've
Zoo hope Scout Cat not too stressed. Dhorse has gone in barn tonight for same reason.
Happy New Year wing flaps to all!
AAAAARRRRGH
bastarding fireworks been going off past hour.ds is melting point.scoitcat was still out when started and too scared to return home,so poor old fella cowering somewhere for the night
FFS if must have them midnight only people!!
Happy new year.its been great to have another year of chat and some decluttering
Massive thanks to all thread leaders!
Ds has decided that he is not doing people tonight. I am tempted to turn the internet off. And then I realised that I could not people and sit quietly watching a film knitting. internet will go off at ten, but shhhhh
I will sort the new thread out later. Promise. It will be new and shiny for tomo.
ta da
hoover the house
deep clean the kitchen
food shopping - in actual shops
a couple loads of washing
clean out the fish tank
sort party food for tonight's peopling
eat good food
leave people to people - mine and ds' attendance is not necessary not advisable iyswim
clean out the car
hoover car
Welcome back Camper .
I’ll have to look at Bowl Full of Lemons Sass, sounds intriguing. I think I’ve seen it on Facebook years ago and ignored it!
Ta da:-
Play date finished
About a third of the post-play date tidying done
Prepped tea as much as possible
Just heard from in-laws to say they will be here two hours early 
. DDs currently having some screen time to give me a chance to catch up.
To do:-
Tidy as much as possible for the next hour!
See what else there is to do then
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