Fledgelings winging their way out of June disasters

[DitzyDaffodils]

So this is my thread. I'm circling the drain, descending into CHAOS and this is my kickback. And I'm dragging you lucky people along for the ride 😁.

This is FlyLady. It's a system for sorting your shit out. It works, but only if you do it. It doesn't work so good if you only think about doing it. So get off your butts and clean some shite, people! 🧹🧴🧽🧼

We're fighting CHAOS (can't have anyone over syndrome) 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🚫. You can't clean clutter so you've got to declutter 🗑️, which isn't as daunting as it sounds 🦧 because it's only 15 minutes a day. Your house didn't get skanked up overnight 🏚️ 🦠 so it's not getting de-skanked overnight either 🏠. We won't judge how skanky your house is because we are too are skank-sisters 🧟💩🦟, but trying our hardest to become blessed Queens 👸🤴 of our domestic realms, with varying success please don't sue me if you prefer to identify as a unicorn 🦄 or whatever, you're still welcome. With FlyLady as our inspiration 🧚. Be kind to yourselves and do whatever you can. Baby steps 🐾(FlyLady has those on her website), follow them.

I can't do links so there won't be any. Good start, hey? 🙄. I'm sure you'll live though. I plan to make up for it with emojis, because I like them 🌞

Today's the first of June. And if it isn't you're too early, so kindly get back to the other thread 😝. Old hands, newbies and lurkers 👀 all welcome. Come join the party 🎉

There's probably a whole bunch of stuff I was supposed to tell you but haven't. Apologies. 🍒👋 (Cherry waves, for anyone who can't see emojis) is a corruption of cheery waves, long before my time, and it's stuck - were not insanely flinging fruit at you, promise.

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Renew your spirit day today

Ta-da's:

🏞️Morning routine
🏞️Decluttering
🏞️Spent the afternoon besides the river eating ice cream
🏞️Evening routine

Yesterday didn't go quite as I had anticipated. Managed to drag some more stuff into the living-room for sorting, watching something on tv sporadically in kitchen that I was interested in, and dropped phone into (fortunately clean)water. It's now in a tub with dessicant, and I've got everything crossed.

Today is mostly rescuing the living-room, but not by doing a stash-and-dash, which is why all that stuff was in a mess in the first place. There's definitely been some rain, and the air is much fresher.

Im back

Motivate me

I have a day to do everything

Morning 🌄 everyone 👋
I got fed up yesterday sorting my horse mountain. It's the only part of my monumental decluttering that I've done the Kon Marie way, pull everything out and start from there.
Everything else I've done drawer by drawer, shelf by shelf.
But I've got so much stuff I'd be double handling everything if I did it that way.
IE, I had a huge box of fleece rugs indoors.
Took that outside, and when I added the fleeces from the tack room they wouldn't fit in the same box. And I know I've got a few in my indoor cupboard, where I keep my frequently used stuff.
If I did it box by box I'd be constantly changing boxes to find one the right size!
I pushed everything under the over hang before the rain came, which was only a few drops in the end, but we've had proper rain overnight.
We had a little wander round the village fair, and then into town and sat outside a pub people watching.
Came home and ate pizza, watched a film. Just nice to chill out for a while before I'm back on it today.

Morning everyone 👋

Tada
🎉 last prom dress fitting and the prom dress is now home 🥳
🎉 dd2 decluttered some of her craft things
🎉 in the process of a big declutter of the living room - oh has gone to buy a new rug . We're creating an area that dd1 can have prom photos without me worrying about the background, things like this keep me up at night time 🤦‍♀️ everyone is on board so this is making me a little more relaxed ! There's still quite a way to go but hoping that most of downstairs will be done by the end of the week !

To do

Clothes ready for tomorrow
Check diary for the week
Carry on the big declutter!

Hi THAT I hope you found a way to be productive in the end. A day to do everything sounds quite overwhelming. If you didn't there's still time. I'd go with collecting up all the trash and recycling and getting that out of the home, getting everything that's dumped on the floor off it onto bed/sofa/table and running the vacuum cleaner round, sweeping the hard floors. I think those are the things that make the biggest difference. If you've time wipe down the kitchen worktops after your next meal, you won't notice the extra few minutes tacked onto the end of cooking. Change the bed before you get in it because nothing beats clean sheets. Clean the toilet next time you use it and clean the bath when you get out

I like the idea of a photo area in the living room Sunny

Fingers crossed for your phone's recovery Scourgify

Your relaxing day sounds blissful Cherry I can feel the peaceful vibes from here

Ta-da's:

🦗 Morning routine☀️
🦗 Decluttering 🗑️
🦗 Home blessings (I do mine a day early) 🏡
🦗 Watching decluttering videos on YouTube 🎥

To-do:

🐜 Nails 💅
🐜 Tidy living room📺🛋️
🐜 Clean car 🚗
🐜 Evening routine

I've had a super productive day with the decluttering! The living room feels so much better , it isn't fully decluttered but isn't too far off , the new rug makes it feel really cosy although my hoover doesn't work on it 🤦‍♀️ I'm not sure what I'm going to do , possibly have to buy a new hoover ! The rest of the rooms look horrendous with things being moved to where they need to go but I'll get to it as I move through the home . Everyone helped a little so the effort felt appreciated!

Tada
🎉 lots of decluttering today , thrown quite a lot of general rubbish & paperwork , a bag full of outgrown shoes and some old uniforms ready for charity. Dd2 also sorted through some of her books and given a full bag to charity ! She went through them herself and did fantastic!
🎉 Tomorrow's clothes sorted

I've got a six-basket vegetable rack that was part of a crazy stack-and dash years ago, full of homeless items never vegetables. Just used to chuck things in there until I got round to sorting it out today. Reduced it from six crammed baskets to two about a quarter full. Simply by putting items where they belong. A few things for the recycling trolley or bin, although not as many as I would have liked.

Tried tackling the five stackable elephant bins each full of a specific category, e.g. spectacles that were replaced years ago, analogue radios that might be handy after the apocalypse, odds and ends of bits of toys, etc. That wasn't so easy, probably because I was getting tired. Watched a couple of episodes of "Abandoned Engineering", and I know how they felt.

Really need to go to bed now. Tomorrow's task is to find every piece of paper in this room, put it in one pile, then deal with it - bin, file, action, pause and consider.

analogue radios 📻 that might be handy after the apocalypse

😂 This is going to be my new mantra Scourgify - "am I only saving this for the apocalypse?" 🌋 Thanks

You've done well with decluttering 🗑️ too Sunny

Here's the link

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This week we're in zone 4 the master bedroom 🛌

FlyLady's mission this week is to get rid of everything from under the bed
😱🤯🏃🌄
👉👂👂👈🎶la la-la la la la laaaargh!🎶

This month's habit to focus on is drinking enough water 🥛

@Scourgify have you got enough batteries for the apocalyptic radios?

I've already had a declutter of stuff that lives under my bed and the spare bed, not sure where I'd put what's left though. It is in clear Wham boxes so it's easy to pull out for vacuuming and can see what's there.

My yesterday Tada 💪💪
Sorted and boxed up my rugs, labelled boxes with size and make. I've got 6 boxes up on shelves, plus a ton sand bag full of rugs to sell and gift.
I left it at that, it had got really muggy and I was starting to wilt.
Today I think I should manage boxing everything else up, and then deciding things like which of the 18 tubs of various saddle soaps I'll keep or the 8 pots of hoof balms.
When I started riding things were simple, it was a bar of saddle soap, a can of neatsfoot oil, brasso and tin of hoof oil 😁

Hope everyone is OK and has a good day.

Another week, another monday. Urgh.

Ta da:
Raid teens room for the mountain of washing up and get it to landing.
look at kitchen and despair
play hunt the text book
negotiate teen going in to find out if he has passed his course
consider clothes choices
make a list of clothes basics that need replacing which i go up to the big supermarket.
sit in front of a fan and not really enjoy this stuffy claggy weather we have today

We are back from camping! We had fun getting away, but it's good to be home now.
It looks like a lot of you are keeping busy and getting things done, despite the heat.

YesTaDas:
🏕 put everything away from the camper
🏕 bathed the dogs
🏕 sorted out all the laundry
🏕 LOLs x4, including sheets from our bed
🏕 rotated DW
🏕 wiped countertops in kitchen with disinfectant
🏕 went out for dinner for Father's day, we treated the ILs, they were expecting to pay for their own, as usual. It was a nice surprise for them
🏕 fell asleep on the couch!

Ta Das so far:
☕️ 1st lol of the day in the washer
☕️ 1st cup of coffee consumed

To Dos:
🧺 lots more LOLs
🧺 vacuum whole house (will have DS help)
🧺 mop the hard floors
🧺 bleach both bathrooms
🧺 grocery shopping (not much to get as lots of food left from camping)
🧺 lose the 5lbs I gained while camping 😱! Will not be done in one day of course! Thank goodness there's a low carb bootcamp starting today!

I'm off today and tomorrow, so some things might get done tomorrow, not today. DS needs to mow the grass today or tomorrow (he usually does it Fridays and we were gone)

Good afternoon/evening

Happy you had a lovely time @BloomingHazel !! The holiday weight is usually worth every penny and a sign of a good time !

Nice tada list @HillsBesideTheSea , I hope your teen went to find out his results ?

I hope you to do list has gone ok today
@CherryogDog

Tada
🎉Morning self care
🎉20 mins of decluttering before work
🎉Everyone ready and out the door
🎉Took a bag of books and a bag of old school uniform to school
🎉Work
🎉Home from work completely wiped out so made a bacon sarnie for tea which ds enjoyed !
🎉Ds now off to training

Struggling to get back up off the sofa , so I'm going to harness the power of the timer to get the evening routine and some more decluttering done - even if it's only 10 minutes . Wish me luck !

Cherry I agree everything is too complicated now, in all areas of life. Part of why I decided to start FlyLady is a desire to simplify. Congratulations on sorting all the rugs out that's a huge amount of space freed up

How did your teen get on with the results Hills? Hope you're ok in this heat

Sunny you're totally FLYing today

Glad you had a great trip Hazel. Good luck with the weight loss. I'm on a diet myself, I've lost 6lbs so far this summer and feel better for it

How did you get on with the paper sort through Scourgify?

teen did go in, but came home with the knowledge that he still had one piece of coursework left to do to pass.

this heat is still bad and bothering me. I half considered trying to get a doc appointment, but as i have to go to the pharmacy, i just realised i can ask the pharmacist. So much easier.

I guess it's good he at least found out about the last piece of work, if he thought he'd finished. Hope he's not too disappointed there's still more to do. Hope the pharmacy has something to help you too Hills

Ta-da's:

🧚 Morning routine
🧚 Tidied living room
🧚 Tidied bedroom
🧚 Tidied bathroom
🧚 2 extra LOL
🧚 Decluttering
🧚 Took in delivery, unpacked and put away
🧚 Went for a walk
🧚 Evening routine

Ta Das:
🧺 LOLs x6
🧺 bleached both bathrooms
🧺 cleaned the mirrors in both bathrooms
🧺 DS vacuumed the whole house
🧺 DS mopped the kitchen & dining room
🧺 detailed DHs pickup (it was pretty dirty, especially after camping) for his father's day gift from me
🧺 ILs came over for lunch
🧺 went with DH to go shoes shopping for him

I'm currently relaxing on the couch, close to taking a nap!

hills I hope you can get some relief soon
Ditzy well done on your weight loss! It won't take long for me to lose the 5lbs, it's probably just water weight gained at this point. Definitely too much alcohol and food in general

I should be back on with some more ta das. I still need to go grocery shopping and there's more laundry to wash, dry & put away. First it seems I'll take a nap though (it's just gone 3:30pm here)

Thanks Hazel. I don't envy you all those LOL

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Today is plan and play day. The mission is to clean the top of your bed, if you've been dumping stuff on there that needs to be put away etc

Tada
🎉 got clothes out for tomorrow/today
🎉 another bit of decluttering (only 5 mins)
🎉 dd2 bedtime routine , we've just started reading the worst witch - I'm looking forward to reading this with her !
🎉 spent some time with ds watching once upon a time
🎉 evening self care routine
🎉 read book

Even though I've been more productive in the house , I'm still up in the middle of the night unable to sleep , overwhelmed with the amount of things that need to be done . No sleep isn't going to help 🤦‍♀️ If only our brains had a pause button . Going to read for a little while longer and see if I can get a few hours sleep before work 😴

sunny I hope you were able to switch off and get some sleep. It's awful when that happens.
Ditzy I actually was looking forward to getting laundry done! I have 2 LOLs left to do tomorrow, plus some, if I find some more to do.

More ta das:
🧚‍♀️ a nap!
🧚‍♀️ 2 more LOLs washed, dried and put away
🧚‍♀️ leftovers for dinner
🧚‍♀️ cleared out fridge
🧚‍♀️ emptied bins from the house
🧚‍♀️ grocery shopping (not much to get)
🧚‍♀️ rotated DW with help from DS & DH

Tomorrow we will be outside working on the garden, mowing, weeding etc. DD is coming to town tomorrow for an appt so will stop in to see us at some point. She's liking her new job and apartment as well.
I want to do yoga for a few minutes tonight and I really need to schedule a day or two each week to get on my spin bike. I've not been on it for weeks months 😳
Anyway, it's just about bedtime, I need to start to get back on my schedule or work well be rough on Wednesday!
🍒👋 to everyone

The paper sort through is going surprisingly well, ditzy thanks. The vegetable rack is now a filing cabinet, one basket per category - health, school, tax and bills, sentimental artwork for me to keep or recycle. I can slide a basket out and work on it wherever it suits me.

Cherry there is a shoebox of apocalyptic batteries in the understairs cupboard, some recgargeable, for me to sort through. I find it so hard to get rid of anything that might in any way prove useful even when I know this is unlikely.

Mislaid my credit card on Saturday evening after some online shopping. (Just-Eat because I was so upset about my phone.). Certain it was in the house, but it wasn't in the usual places where it ends up before it's locked away for the night. All Sunday I tidied as I looked for it - new strategy- rather than tearing the place apart - old strategy.

At some point I realised that I hadn't seen my ancient ipad which was disabled for several million minutes by dgc playing with passcode.

Got up really early yesterday morning to look more. In utility, foot went through a rotten floorboard. Really stressed by now. Thought it might be in the car, so I went through everything in there after school run, cleared out rubbish, found an MOT certificate from 2015 among other things, got a McD breakfast rather than inhale an entire chocolate cake.

Cleared the kitchen and utility hotspots where things land when I come in from the garden and garage. Tidied all the papers from the coffee table. Still nothing. Finally I sat down with the Miscellaneous Shoebox, and the credit card was in there, in an envelope.

tldr - smartphone is in a tub of desiccant.
landline working with apocalyptic rechargeable batteries.
car and parts of downstairs now unexpectedly tidy.

credit card, purse, keys, have own spot in cupboard.

perhaps address emotional eating.

Scourgify that sounds really stressful, I'm glad you found your credit card though, and tidied while looking for it is a good strategy. You put your foot through a floorboard?! 😱

Not really there isnt much they can do for heat stroke.
And i am pretty much doing everything that they can do already.

teen completed work and has gone off for a college "fun" day muttering something about stupid ideas <shrug> no idea it was a battle to get an answer out of him about going in the first place.

I am still not sleeping great. But i have a whole heap of study stuff to get done ready for Thursday. But as another who put their credit card in a safe place I will be clearing my car out before i cancel it and then panic about how i pay for my car insurance on the interwebs without it. <sigh>

@Scourgify my "how I destroyed my phone" story might make you feel better...
I have a bladder prolapse and some incontinence. We were driving along and got stuck in a traffic jam when I needed to go.
I had to jump out of the truck and run into the woods. Then I realised my phone had fallen out of my pocket and I'd wee'd on it 🥵 killing it stone dead.
It was still under warranty and after drying it out I took it into the shop, I had visions of wee pouring out of it when they took it apart (back in ancient times when you could remove the battery and sims were credit card sized). I did get a replacement luckily.

TaDa's
Not a lot done, just got boxes laid out and categorised.

Had a bit of a meltdown over my clothes when I found out that EVERY SINGLE ITEM of summer clothing has somehow shrunk in the wardrobe 😅 and now my bedroom floor looks like a teenagers with clothes strewn everywhere. This is what happens when you wear stretchy clothes all winter and don't realise you're packing on the pounds 🫣
I had an emergency dash to Tesco at 9pm to buy some new clothes, trying not to remember that I had clothes that were too big for me last summer in the charity bags. May have to go in the charity shop later and buy them back 😅
Yesterday I saw that there's a Sally army donation thingy in the co op car park so now I will be able to get rid of charity bags as I fill them rather than let them pile up until I go into town.

ToDo's
Tidy my bedroom
Lose weight
Pull out my indoor tack cupboard to sort it. I plan to get it to the bare minimum of frequently used things.
My motivation is waning in this weather, but I really need this done so I can get on with keeping up with flylady routines.

One of my horses managed to get a tick on his sheath of all places. 50 years of horses, never had a tick until now. We went up with a tick remover, I was just wiping off the fly cream and knocked it off, it fell in the grass so I don't know if it was complete, there's a little lump where it was so I need to keep an eye on it in case it needs the vet.

@HillsBesideTheSea sorry that you're still not feeling good.

hills I hope you find your credit card soon!
Scourgify your summer clothes fiasco reminds me of a meme - attached.

Ta Das so far:
☕️ 1st cup of coffee consumed
☕️ 1st lol of the day in the washer

Last night I ended up doing 15 minutes of yoga and folded the last load that was in the dryer.

I had planned on going to bed earlier to get back on my sleeping schedule for work tomorrow, but it ended up being a late night. I did wake up to my alarm this morning, just after 7am, but I think 5:30am will come around in a very rude way tomorrow morning!
I'm planning on not taking a nap today, but going to bed earlier instead tonight, we'll see how that goes!
It's not quite 8am, I'm enjoying the peace and quiet in the house while DH & DS are still sleeping! About to make my 2nd cup of coffee 😌 hopefully I'll be back with some more ta das 🍒👋