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.
Housekeeping
Cherry waves hello to November 2019. Fledgling Flylady thread for all.[smile]
Ghoulette1740 · 30/10/2019 14:42
Thanks Ghoulette and i meant to say thank you for doing the thread. Thank you SC for October. I did put it on the lost threads then forgot today.
Second load of washing on and I put away a whole basket full because when I re read it I just sound pathetic. So I did one basket. The other one has bulky jumpers and stuff that wont fit in the drawers. I wish I had bought some vacuum packs and put away the summer clothes. We sometimes get mice in the attic so I am loathed to put stuff up there unless in those big plastic boxes I use for Christmas decs. We have bats too. They should be moving on but because it was warmer up here they are still flying about. I am never sure whether they move on or that we don't see them because they hibanate up there. I can't get in loft now I am old. You need to be fit.
Hello all! Belatedly checking in here. Thanks so much for October SC and for doing November Ghoulette 
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This time of year is always so busy with Halloween and DD1’s birthday. We have tomorrow and Monday left before back to school so I said to the girls we must have some kind of reset and reorganising. The house is not horrific (although obviously not great) but laundry is everywhere and their bedrooms are a bit of a mess. They both agreed 
which must show they realise we need to tidy them!
Had some difficult news lately - not for ourselves but various issues with friends and family 
. So all in all have been busy and preoccupied; work busy too. So have very much neglected flying and also exercise.
Have just enjoyed some time mindlessly faffing on my phone and now must go to bed ready to fly tomorrow 
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Mercury, lovely to have you back. Welcome Beanbag 
and Times .
bower never consider yourself pathetic in flying nor life.tbings have been incredibly hard lately and you need to be kind to yourself
Stressy sorry you had had tough news and hope clearing up/reset goes well
Lil zoo did indeed have a great time.she took £5 with her and spent £4 on a vegan sausage roll as there were lots unsuitable cakes in the cafe😱
She took a couple of photos on her phone,I'd expected more but to my surprise she said was having too much fun to take pics!!
DS doesn't not cope with the bangs if fireworks at all anymore(was never great with it) so a very stressful evening as two local(ish) displays could be heard on top of back garden stuff.heres hoping it doesn't play out til next Sunday or we will all be jibbering wrecks by then....
Morning all
Bower please be kind to yourself, also no way would i be getting in a loft with bats! 🦇
Zoo we have had fireworks here for two weeks already! Went to a display on Friday and watched another close by one from home last night.
28 days til 1st December aka Christmas Tree Day 🌲I have followed chic to the christmas house princessing thread in hope of some additional motivation.
Now if someone could just motivate me to hit the uni books again that would be great
Morning everyone
Welcome to the newbies !
Looks like you've all been busy whilst I've been away 
I'm travelling back from my mums so I'll be back to 'flying' later starting with ironing the uniforms , food shop and some washing
Meant to say Chic go steady today if you are still feeling a bit crumped
Safe travelling Tidy
Thanks everyone
Feel a bit better this morning. I went to Mass on Friday and I think it just made it feel all consuming. I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel yet. Not even a chink except to resign. Union lady said don't make rash decisions. Told me to wait two weeks from last Tuesday.
Going to Mass soon. Tea and coffee afterwards. Then choir later on. Choir makes me feel better and we are now onto our Christmas programme singing things like Silver Bells, Holy Night etc. Lovely mix of religious and light work with some cheesy thrown in. Our MD loves a bit of cheesiness.
Not much flying today. I put away a few more clothes. DH is on kitchen duty. He is making Roast Chicken while I am at choir.
SC like the new name. Thanks for your kind words. Pity DH didn't take the guest with him. You deserve a big rest after this.I hope they at least wash up.
I've they keep to there end mostly but I can't physically get up there(grin) as the hatch is in the narrow hall and a ladder is too short so you climb it and then pull yourself up on the opening. I used to be slimmer and fitter. Although I can still fit in my wrists wont take the heaving up of my body weight. I like the bats better than the mice. it did put a few people off buying the house which was good as they are protected and you are not allowed to get rid of them.
Welcome justgivemewine, good to have you with us (and I love your username, we appear to be kindred souls!)
I feel I am constantly decluttering big time, but there again there is constantly stuff coming into the house so I shouldn't be as surprised as I am really.
DD ploughing through homework that she could have done any time in the last 10 days she's been off for half term like a champion so we can play on the Wii shortly. Whatever works, I'll use it as motivation
Nice and sunny now, a lovely change from the last few rainy and windy days.
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Welcome justgivemewine, give it a little time and you will feel much better about your home , chip away at it a little at a time 
Chic & zoo, it appears to be homework day, dd1 is also catching up this afternoon, aswell as scrubbing face & popping face mask on , whilst having stranger things on the tv in the background (not sure how much 'homework ' is being done....)
Ta da
Unpacked
Wash in
Meal plan written
Shopping list for tomorrow made
Woodland walk with dp, ds & dd2
Boots cleaned from woodland walk
Dp has offered to cook steak for tea so no cooking for me !! I need to hang washing up and pop another load in, gather school uniforms ready for ironing (only dd1 is back tomorrow so the plan is to get up around 6 and iron whilst everyone / younger 2 are still sleeping, it'll get my body clock back into school run mode !! ) then just general evening routine.
Hi everyone, just stumbled across this looking for inspiration to get the house back under control, can I join please?
Despite being a naturally messy person I hate clutter and disorganisation so I’m forever fighting a bit of a battle with myself! I did a big Marie kondo declutter a while back when my nesting kicked in in pregnancy, but now DD is 2.5 I can feel it all mounting up again and it’s making me itch. I work full time over 4 days and I’m finding it a bit of a struggle keeping on top of everything. DH isn’t bad and pull his weight, but he’s naturally messy too, without the dislike of living in mess that I have.
I’m feeling inspired reading the thread already. I’m lazing on the sofa with DD at the moment but I need to do some ironing and laundry, a quick tidy, and sort out bags, clothes and food for tomorrow. DH is doing dinner so I will also have to clean the disaster zone he’ll leave in the kitchen 
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