Welcome to the November Flylady thread Fledglings! All are welcome here. A few of us have been around a while but everyone, newbie and lurking, is welcome to join in.
This is my first time running the thread so I hope other fledglings will alert me when I’ve got things confused or if I’ve left something out!! A busy month for us all with the holiday season looming next month…
Very simply Flylady is a zone-based cleaning system which we loosely follow. Everyone is different and has different rooms and life demands. There are five zones and at the beginning and the end of the month we usually straddle Zone 1 and zone 5.
(amend rooms to suit your house – I do the living and dining room together as it’s all one room in my house)
November
Zone 1 Hall, entrance/dining room (Fri 1 – Sat 2)
Zone 2 Kitchen (Sun 3- Sat 9)
Zone 3 Bathroom and another room (Sun 10- Sat 16)
Zone 4 Master bedroom/closet (Sun 17 – sat 23)
Zone 5 Living room (Sun 24 – Sat 30)
Pop onto the Flylady website to have a closer look but signing up for emails will probably lead to very many landing in your inbox. Also there has been some concern about securely downloading pdfs from the site. here
Flylady has an introductory scheme for newbies called Babysteps which is a light 31 day introduction to the system – dressing to shoes, shining your sink etc. What I like about Flylady is her emphasis on self care, her abhorrence of perfectionism and her adage that you’re never being behind in the system - just jump in. No need to completely clean your house before you start – phew! here
There is a morning routine and an evening routine to keep things ticking over and a weekly home cleaning hour to change bed sheets, mop, hoover, take out rubbish etc. The system isn’t brilliant for major decluttering so you might want to supplement with Kondo or another decluttering system. Flylady doesn’t want us cleaning all day so she is very keen on using a timer. Clean then stop!
In addition each day has a purpose: see the daily focus here
Monday: Weekly home cleaning hour (can be split into ten minute sections and spread over week) here
Tuesday: Plan and play (Menu planning, family event planning)
Wednesday: Anti-procrastination day
Thursday: Errand day
Friday: Clear out bags, fill car with petrol, date night
Saturday: Family fun
Sunday: Lift your spirit
Launch pad for guidance every day! launch pad
Habit of the month of November is meal planning. This is my Achilles heel! here
We have a lovely virtual naughty corner where we can all retreat – there are all manner of lovely things left there by thread members including fluffy pillows, warm blankets, tea, coffee, wine, delicious foods. This month there are plenty of candles to brighten the darker days.
There may be mention of Ned who started life as an autocorrection on the thread but who has now morphed into a virtual helper with a specialism in putting away laundry. Ned is borrowed by thread members from time to time when the going gets tough on Mount Washmore.
Most days we pop on to post our ta da list of what we’ve managed to do and have a bit of a natter.
Find cleaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Housekeeping forum.
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Cherry waves hello to November 2019. Fledgling Flylady thread for all.[smile]
Ghoulette1740 · 30/10/2019 14:42
Hello everyone, thanks for the thread leading everyone!
Can't stop as I'm about to do a power hour to try and regain some control over the house, wish me luck and I'll catch up properly in an hour and a nice cup of tea!! 
I'm back! I don't feel that I achieved as much I thought I would in an hour...
Ta das
Washing on
Socks sorted
Laundry put away
Cleaned kitchen windowsill
Rubbish out
Sorted out ds and dd pyjamas drawers
Sorted through back of hand me down shoes
Took lots of stuff upstairs and downstairs back where it belongs (this probably took the longest and is definitely not finished! 
)
Dishwasher emptied and back on again
Made lunch for me and ds
Chic sorry to hear of tricky veins! Its horrible when you're left bruised like that 
. We don't have any Halloween treats left, the whole lot went! And the kids won't share! (Well they did sort of share tbf but I don't really like the sweets they gave me, I'd rather have chocolate , wonder if there will be some reduced stuff at the shop later 🤔)
And hi to people new and returning!
Oh no chic! Tricky veins are a pain. I ended up with a blown vein when I was being induced with Cagletini 
Benefits advisor just left. We are so lucky she’s there to take us through it all. 2.5 hours that took! We have to go for an ID verification interview too, which annoyingly is after my psychiatrist appt next week so that’s going to be a hard day.
By the end she was even commenting how unwell I looked... not particularly just fucking knackered mate 😂🙈 I should really be making my lunch now and then going to bed but I’m just curled on the sofa in a daze 😳
Welcome bean :)
Welcome bean
(I quite fancy some time out
Tada
Cats fed
Clear dining table of crap
Wash up
Find living room surfaces
Sweep living room floor
Sweep kitchen floor
Bins and littertray
Pop friends and play with kittens.was fun,esp as last night I picked up lil zoo from a house with two part Savannah cats.oh.my lord.like huge tabby cats.utterly adorable,very friendly/able to pet.i picked one up and he was dangling all over the place!think I fell in love
Pop shop for bread and milk
Lunch
Wash up
It's seriously grey and quite dark here
Dd2 full of cold and has backache with period dishes now curled up on sofa with hot choc and a hot water bottle
Chic your poor sausage. My mother and I have very deep veins and it’s a nuisance to get blood from us. Helps to keep warm, have eaten well and be hydrated [duh!] according to my phlebotomist.
Well done on getting rid of the clutter beanbag and being able to see the floor. Soon though you won’t be able to look down and see your feet 
. I can’t say my house is uncluttered at the moment. Nothing’s been put away.
I need to do a power hour now foxes! Glad the meeting went well today.
That sounds like a busy half term ive. You’ve such a lot on. I hope you are enjoying the course though.
SC hope you are a bit more rested.
Halloween was surprisingly quiet yesterday. I’ve so much food left over.
Ta Da
Work work (that’s all)
To do
Power hour!
ironing
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Laputa if it's from my house unscathed by stains or crumpling I doubt it's ever been inside front door step
I having bit of a wibble....the family lil zoo went ice skating with/had Halloween party are taking her on outing today(to the ww2 code breaking place- my brains refusing to tell me actual name
) they have a stunning four bed home that's immaculate and I fearful of judgement ruining what is blossoming into a lovely friendshipPanic cleaning aplenty in progress...
"D"p took the computer and computer table pieces away yesterday(going to get a family laptop which takes up less space)
So tidy up corner it was in,rehousing stuff that was under it
Move exercise bike into now vacant spot
Sweep floor
Head out into garden and litterpick as we live on a corner and on a windy hill it's always full of crap,no matter how often I'm out there...after a nasty incident 3weeks ago of a lager can half full(but not with lager-feral creature) in the hedge I acquired a litterpicker and have been out filling half a binbag other people's detritus this morning...it's still not spotless,there's some bits plastic bags entangled in brambles/weeds but it's too windy out to do anything about it without getting stressed myself and after bramble scratch foot led to cellulitis I'm wary of tackling that!
To do
Sort dining table
Decimate hallway and tidy as it's a hideous mess of lobbed everywhere bags,shoes and coats and it smells of shoes that have gotten wet...
Need organise lil zoo a pack up too
They're picking up and 930,so need crack on as I suspect she will want some cake baking and adding to her lunch.eeeek
Morning all! ... . Hope everyone ok!
Halloween totally passed us by this year!
Try not to worry about being judged Zoo we all have the same fears - the kids don't care and if the parents do, tough bananas - and anyway I am sure your house is cleaner than most with the amount of Flying you do! Most of dd's friends seem to like being here even though it is half falling down (they say it is "plein de poésie" which basically means "atmospheric" although bits continue to keep dropping off! I must admit I do always worry a bit about other parents - especially as ours looks v shabby (dd doesn't actually refer to home as "home" but as "the crack den" currently [16 yr old humour ) as that is what it looks like from the outside - I am trying to adopt dh's total inability to be embarrassed. Work in progress! Life's too short! And I find it helps if you distract visitors with wafts of home baking! Hope Lil'Zoo has a fab day
Good luck with the decluttering Mercury
Laputa 
Chic hope you are feeling less bruised and battered today! Take it easy!
Happy Flying today Onthebrink and Beanbag!
Waves to everyone else!
Yesterday was a dis-ARSE-ter (said in the style of Craig Revel Horwood). Completely forgot it was a public holiday and that all the shops would be shut so was faced with producing three meals for vistiors without olive oil, butter or equivs, onions, flour, no meat or fish except ham and fish fingers (not even bacon) and no cheese except gouda slices and parmesan. I also felt very tired. I ended up doing a sort of risotto with rice, dried mushrooms, garlic, parmesan, frozen peas, chicken stock and a sort of apple streudel envelope (had some supermarket flaky pastry at back of fridge). Then cooked and blitzed all veg in bottom of fridge to make soup but a bit strange without onions. Stressful.
Having cleared up house for visitors - most of it is untidy again - so as they are going out for the day on a jolly with dh I am faced with cleaning and tidying and cooking again. Oh joy. Really wanted to spend some time with dhorse and bulb planting at wreck2 this weekend but sadly not to be! DD is here but is jet lagged and a bit stressed over hwk.
On a positive note as yesterday was a holiday, today feels like a spare day ifyswim, but it's a shame I can't make more of it tidying-wise. Boudoir is a pit again!
Enjoy the weekend Fledglings!
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Afternoon! I've just joined the house princessing thread on here too, need all the accountability I can muster!
Quiet morning, cooked breakfast and watched the last half of the rugby, we were a bit outclassed there unfortunately!
Have done washing up this morning, arms still rather achy surprisingly. Also received odd letter from Finance Company that is (a) wrong and (b) missing a cheque that we didn't even ask for. Have emailed to check what is going on but as we've had two of them here I suspect something has gone wrong in a big way so it might be a while until we hear!
All the weather here this morning, very windy and rainy. Need to box up the Halloween decorations, may use the battery candles again tonight. We are also eyeing up the white (ghost, as Morrisons termed it) pumpkin to eat but may not be able to sacrifice DD's artwork on the front of it to do so. I like the effect and would definitely get more than an orange pumpkin again though!
Enough rambling, will wait for DH to get back with lunch crack on with getting the front room sorted and pester DD to do the homework she hasn't done in the week and a half she's had off. Like mother, like daughter
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