Is there an alternative to FlyLady? (I can't get my head round it...)

[sushistar]

She's
a) too American
b) too gushing
and
c) too hard to figure out - baby steps, blessing hours, rules rules rules.

Are there any other good websites on a similar theme? Flylady's great for some but she's just not me...

My alternative for flylady is to just let the dust and washing pile up around me

Hmm, yes, that's certainly one approach...
but we keep running out of glasses because every one is used and stacked in the sink waiting to be washed!

I started with fly lady but once I got my own routines and all that I kicked her to the side and went it alone. I sometimes check out her daily challenges if I am really stuck for something to do.

Why not do your own, look at all the essential task you need to do each week and brak them down into stuff to do each day. Then look at other things that will help and spread them out too over the week.

I do a lot of stuff as I go along like wipe around the loo first thing, take the washing downstairs when I first go down, empty the dishwasher while I what on my porridge going ping, lots of little things as I go along stops it all building up

I really don't get the lace-up shoes but...

there are certain little light-bulb moments which make perfect sense like...hotspots

I'm always lecturing my children about hotspots - I understand them, I know what to do about them, I see why they're a problem

but

my house is still absolutely blardy LITTERED with them

don't know of any alternative though...

Plus I feel a bit bad - dh comes home from work and often cooks AND washes up! For which I'm fantastically grateful, but as I'm home all day with ds I would like to feel a bit more motivated to get some cleaning done. I need a kick up the bum. Any non-flylady suggestions?

A few ideas here I like their printable sheets

x posts, sorry! Thanks for the suggestions guys. I guess I'd like a website to go to when I need a bit of inspiration/encouragement. People spend so much of their lives at home, flylady can't be the only site giving advice on keeping it tidy!

blimey, what are you doing while he cooks and washes up? I hope you're sitting down with a gin and tonic!

seriously though, what about a menu plan?

or, during the day 15 mins each in a couple of rooms. Use the timer like Flylady suggests - work as fast as you can ...and then have a gin and tonic when the timer rings. Different pair of rooms each day?

feeding the baby and watching telly! how bad am i? I do do other housework, but i never feel on top of it, you know? DS is still small, and I'd like to get control of stuff before he becomes a toddler and starts ripping the place apart, iyswim!

Interesting site scramble, I'll check it out

I like the ideA of a menu plan - where do i start?

well, you start really simple- I mean that.

scribble down 6 main meals your family normally eats. Meals can be poached egg on toast or lobster thermidor - doesn't matter just get it down on paper,

assign a day to each one, the seventh day can be the one for eating left-overs or a take away/whatever.

check you've got the ingredients for the week's menu plan, if not, start shopping list. Re-order the 6 main meals to fit your weekly routine, (like the meal which requires more prep is the one for a day when you know you've got the time)

Start gently with the first week then add more meals so you have a three week plan which you can rotate.

Remember Tuesday's meal doesn't necessarily HAVE to be eaten on Tuesday!

Stick list on fridge/wall.

Basically that's it.

dh will know it's lobster thermidor for dinner tomorrow night etc... very useful also if you're working/going back to work.

I really like this idea. Will make shopping lots easier too i guess? Thing is I've been getting really sick of eating same food again and again, so this'll be good cos i can add maybe one new meal per week.
Ohhh, I'm excited about going to Tescos now!!