.............Thursday FLY.............. Write out your routines!

[Jas]

for SMS. I'm not doing brilliantly atm du to the amount of work going on in the house. At least dp is cleaning up after himself.

I'll be offline all day again (reiring the whole house) so everyone has to get their routines written out/printed up today, and report back tomorrow.

Gibberish I always read late night messages.....did you say something about getting a dog recently?

gibberish - yes it is the list of chores. I asked someone to make sure I did mine today so Jas is making everyone do it .

Also you will see in my plan that although I will try and do some missions I want to try and balance out the rooms so I do a little routine stuff in each room each day - hopefully avoiding one half of the house collapsing whilst I underpin the other side. We will have to see how it works though...

Ah...I was wondering about the spreadsheets too.

My routines is vaguely as follows...

Morning Routine

1. Get up, washed & dressed and same for kids
2. Pick dirty washing up
3. Put a wash load in
4. Make breakfast
5. Feed cat & fish & guinea pigs
6. Check calendar
7. DRINK SOME OJ
8. Clear away breakfast things
9. Think about what's for dinner - take out meat if necessary.

10. 5 minute room rescue/couple of hotspots 11. Take kids to school 12. Pick DS up

Afternoon Routine

1. Clear away lunch things
2. Reload dishwasher
3. Washing
4. Swish & swipe downstairs loo
5. 15 minutes
6. DRINK SOME COKE
7. Kelly?s Mission
8. Hotspot
9. Hoover

10. Pick DD up

Night Time Routine

1. Make supper
2. Make packed lunches
3. Unload D/W
4. Wipe kitchen surfaces and shine sink
5. Put clean clothes away
6. Brush teeth, hair and wash
7. S&S Bathroom
8. Get clothes out for tomorrow

Other extras include...
Ironing once a week
Change beds once a week
Dust once a week
Clean pets out once a week

Big wipe down of all appliances, cupboards, door handles etc. once a fortnight
Clean all filters once a fortnight
Clean fish tank once a fortnight
Hoover under sofa cushions once a fortnight

Move furniture to hoover under once a month
Flip mattresses once a month
Hoover curtains and poles once a month
Dust door tops and light shades once a month

Others include:
Cleaning windows
Scrubbing toilet bowls (have a bad limescale problem)
Washing cushion covers, nets etc.
Bicarb mattresses and vac
Dust pictures and dado rail
Wipe mucky fingerprints off various things (light switches etc.)

That's about it really....

Wow ruby £45K is well worth a bit of clearing out! Keep at it - you'll get there eventually. (Perhaps you can have a bit of that saved money to reward yourself for all you hard work?)

Lists eh?

Okay, my week consists of

Monday - work

Tuesday - work

Wednesday - weekly home blessing (list at end of this) and Mon and Tuesday Missions

Thursday - detailed clean of whatever room we are in as per FLYlady and Wed & Thur Missions

Friday - Friday Mission and usually out swimming with the girls

Saturday - swish and swipe and shine the sink but other than that as little as possible

Sunday - as Saturday

My weekly home blessing list is generally as follows:

2 or 3 loads of washing
Dry above loads of washing
Wash & dry bedding ? this covers 3 days for 3 rooms
Put away clothes
Ironing

Water house plants
Tidy back garden
Tidy front garden
Water outside plants and baskets

Tidy lounge
Tidy kitchen
Tidy dining room
Tidy utility room
Tidy hallway
Tidy cloakroom
Hoover downstairs
Dust downstairs
Clean kitchen
Empty dishwasher
Quick tidy of cupboards
Refill dishwasher
Wipe units
Clean fridge
Clean cooker
Empty bin
Clean bin
Shine sink
Wash kitchen floor
Clean utility room
Clean downstairs mirrors
Clean downstairs windows
Swish and swipe downstairs bathroom
File paperwork
Clear out old magazines

Make beds
Put on clean bedding
Tidy upstairs
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs
Clean upstairs windows
Clean upstairs mirrors
Swish and swipe upstairs bathroom
Go shopping

I follow the FLYing morning and evening routines, slightly adapted for myself and slightly different for the two days I work.

I have morning and evening routines for the girls too and a detailed monthly cleaning list for their rooms which they follow. These are all in polypockets so they can mark them off with a felt tip and wipe them off for using again.

I have all of my daily and weekly lists in my control binder, split into the 5 zone weeks so I know what I am doing every day.

Don't know where I would be without these routines!

Hoorah! Upstairs is done! Beds all made, floors all hoovered, rooms all neat and tidy and finally just dusted.
Bathroom is looking ok...I did it just the day before yesterday.

I have no idea what zone we are in...or what the mission is...will check it out now

Ahhh.....I see what Kelly has done regarding the zones...

We were in Zone 5, for just 3 days and she has filled the last two days with zone 1....I don't think there is enought to do in zone 1 to warrant a week so she has put zones 1 and 5 in the same week.

I expect next week there will be another zone which fills the week?

You haven't seen my diningroom luda It's where the girls do their work. I definitely need a week for it Never mind, will tackle it tomorrow.

BTW Zone 2 is the kitchen. I actually haven't got much atall to do in there - might just roll over the dining room to next week.

Hello All

Been an odd sort of day really. Went to the dentist for a filling and a scale & polish then Home and then Reading Friends and collect Ed.

Done

Up and washed
Teeth cleaned (really thoroughly)
Ed up and washed
Down with laundry
Load WM
Make Ed's breakfast
Make Ed and DH's lunch boxes
Wash Ed
S&S bathroom
S&S Loo
Help him dress
Take him to school
Home
Vac up downstairs
Go to dentist
Home again
Check online banking
Send vital e-mails
Make lunch
Load DW and run
Shine sink
Clean draining board
Go to do reading Friends
Collect Ed
Go to stay and play
Home
Handle post
make drink and snack

I feel wiped out and I've done nothing extraordinary

To Do

Sort out drying washing
put dry washing away
Pottering, flying and Ed entertaining

Hipe you've had good days

As its errand day I have applied online for dd's primary school application.. how scary !
To do

Make the tea
Check ds's bookbag and read his ORT books
Room rescue (ds room)
Ironing (washing back from MIL)
Check if tesco's are selling celeriac online yet

BBL

Gosh..I have just been completely and utterly sidetracked by my downstairs understair cupboard! Pulled the whole lot out and sorted it and rehomed a lot of it. It took me ages...and then my neighbour popped in to find me trapped behind a heap of crap...so she helped me put stuff in the shed!

off to make supper...

Kids supper is over and I'm just running them a bath.
The lady who takes dds after-school activity commented on how dd still had her face painted from trick-or-treating last night and I had to explain that the dark circles under her eyes were real Poor girl looks very tired this evening so I hoping to get her and ds into bed early.

I still need to finish making up my bed, I did make a start but got side-tracked having a pillow fight with ds

Ruby, how about these? You can stack them in your garage or somewhere secure.

Gawd is it still only 6pm ???

Feels like midnight

Am off to attempt dc's bed/bath

ps tescos don't sell celeriac

gah!

I know, it's so flippin' dark

Just put dd3 to bed - she's crying with a sore tummy. Think I'm going to have to take her to the doctor as she's had this a lot lately...

Finished dinner. Made lovely a lovely hot curry - enough for 4 meals so will freeze the rest. Off to stack dishwasher, stick last load of washing in the dryer and PUT MY FEET UP!

Although I should be doing some exercise - have put about a stone on over the last few months

gibberish i'll join in with the starjumps I've put on a stone since the summer holidays (ruefully remembers the wine soaked "playdates" and bbq's)

Currently drinking green tea by way of diversion therapy !

Hope your dd is better soon

My dc's have decided to play the cute card as they've realised bedtime is looming and are currently hugging each other and saying "oh thank you mini yadd you're so kind like they're at a pre war country house do.

Curry

mmmmmm

God what a day, I feel like I have run a maratheon.

Building work is still going on outside (work to the drains) so the garden is a mud pit. White cat is black

DS1 is in a foul mood, he sreamed because we could not park the car in the same place as normal due to the skip on the drive.

DH got suck in a traffic jam, as there had been an acccident and has only just got in, so is ready bedtime storys to the boys. I had to bath them on my own.

Most of the flying has been done and I am going to have a long soak in the bath tonight. I am off out for the day tomorrow meeting an old girl friend.

Update on ill friend. Her back brace has been fitted and she is going to have her x-ray tomorrow. If the brake in her T12 is alighned with just the brace she will be OK, if not they will operate on Tuesday to line it up and put scaffolding around it.

Ruby When you find the paperwork solution, please let me know, as we have no office in this house.

Gibberish please can you post me some curry - yummmmmmm

Luda please can you post me some energy and your children are lovley

I have all my fly lady stuff on an excel SS - as I am sad

lol at your children yadda

You and tmh are welcome to some curry - it's currently jamming up my freezer! I'm making a double portion of spaghetti bolognese tomorrow but there isn't going to be any room to freeze the second portion. Haven't thought this through very well this week

Got people for dinner on Saturday. Going to making a chicken and apricot casserole with almond rice. Is very yummy. I'll save some for you

giberish do you want to come and play marbles with me?

Can you bring some delish curry? Or maybe just the recipe.

I feel a bit better now I have a routine on paper, even if I make an effort to do half the list the rest does seem to slot into place & I feel 'proud' of where I live so make an effort to do more IYSWIM.

I think that half term + poorly children + broken shower + busy weekend got in the way

Hi Guys, I've been awol as Dds ill

Also been struggling with this . Thanks for replying Bianca

Ok, Here is my routine.
DAILY LIST

? Morning routine

1. Make bed
2. Swish & Swipe en suite bathroom
3. Put a wash load in
4. Empty dishwasher
5. Feed cat & fish
6. Check calendar
7. DRINK SOME WATER
8. Clear away breakfast things
9. Think about what you want for dinner - take out meat if necessary.

10. 2 minute hotspot 11. 5 minute room rescue

? Afternoon routine

1. Clear away lunch things
2. Empty/reload dishwasher
3. Hang out/collect washing
4. Swish & swipe downstairs loo
5. 15 minutes
6. DRINK SOME WATER
7. Kelly?s Mission

? Night time routine

1. Take clean clothes upstairs & put away
2. Swish & swipe children?s bathroom
3. Load dishwasher & put on
4. Wipe kitchen surfaces and shine sink
5. 2 minute hotspot
6. Brush teeth, hair and wash 
7. Get clothes out for tomorrow
8. DRINK SOME WATER

WEEKLY LIST
? Monday - Home blessing
Purge magazines
Water Plants
Polish Mirrors
Vacuum downstairs & Dust
Mop floors
? Tuesday
Ironing
? Wednesday
Zone clean
Zone windows
Thank you letters / celebration cards / bills
Empty all trash
? Thursday ? Errand Day
Take library books back
Post letters
Wash towels
? Friday
Vacuum upstairs & Dust
Change Sheets
Clean fridge
? Saturday - Family Fun
Clear out handbag
Clear out car
? Sunday - Renew spirit - Pamper Mission
Write Menu & shopping list
Supermarket shop
Check calendars for week ahead
Paperwork

I'm moving a few bits from one day to another as it's not quite working yet but I'm nearly there.

I also have lists for each room.