October Flying - lets get those Fledgling nests cosy

[EfficientlyDecluttering]

Welcome to this long running thread, a lot of posters have been here a long time but all newbies and returners are very welcome, do join us!

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There are Baby Steps for starting out, add one thing at a time to start good habits and routines.

There are 5 zones in the house that we will rotate through, don't worry about finishing it all this month, it'll come around again next month! Flylady is NOT about perfectionism! You may need to adjust the zones to suit your house.

Habit of the month of October is paper clutter http://www.flylady.net/d/habits-of-the-month/october/

Daily missions: each day of the week has a different mission.

• Monday: Home Blessing (or as we call it, home bleugh)
• Tuesday: plan & play
• Wednesday: anti-procrastination
• Thursday: errand day
• Friday: clean car & purse out and date night (which can be anything you make it, night in, night with friends, actual dates are not always going to happen)
• Saturday: family fun day
• Sunday: renew your spirit - again whatever you make of it, but it is time just for you.

Common acronyms we use:

• LOL: load of laundry (washing is certainly NOT funny!)
• DW: dishwasher, we are not rotating wives by any means, although an extra pair of hands could come in handy sometimes 😆
• LMS: lose/lost my shit
• DNLMS: did not lose my shit

I will try and update the links every day, but they do update automatically on the website so you can just click on the ones in this post.

Apparently the app is very useful too, I am going to try that this month, I know some are already using it.

Links are below 👇

Launch Pad : http://www.flylady.net/c/lp.php - this is the main hub of Flylady, you can find links to most of the useful info here, including the Daily Flight Plan.

Direct Link to Flight Plan here http://www.flylady.net/c/fp.php?tzm=-60

Zones: www.flylady.net/d/zones/

Baby Steps: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/

Morning! Dashing in and out this morning, back later, make the most of Flylady’s Family fun Day.

Hope you have fun @EfficientlyDecluttering !

I'm going back to day 1 baby steps today. I've just shined the kitchen sink (thorough job - drain and overflow covers off etc) and very pleased with that. The plan is to do a thorough job on all the sinks today (that will mainly be limescale on taps for the other sinks) and see where that takes me. Also write down some routines.

Why is it the minute i get into the flow of getting stuff done, there is just more chaos? There are currently 2 members of the house with covid.

Ta da
deal with the chaos thrown at me this morning
Stomp about the house in a strop
2 loads of washing done
get ds to help shift some stuff out of the office
sulk

to do
strip out the main bathroom
cleaning it down as much as possible
sort the sealant out so the bath can be used monday morning
swear whilst removing the grout in the shower
clear up after that
seal the shower
seal around the bottom of the toilet
put another load of washing on
clear the top of the freezer
empty the sink
figure out wtaf is going to be for tea
shift some boxes
carry on sulking but throw in some hot water bottles and something to watch

Weather is pants today, so we are spending the day indoors. It was ok, not much flying, just usual routines, DW, and LOL. Toddler is still fighting whatever virus he has, I just hope he gets over it soon.

Tomorrow I'm planning to crack on a bit with home bleugh.

@DomesticElf hope toddler is better soon

Friday
🗽went to London with mum, saw the Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern and had lunch after 🥰
🗽told dad (who joined us in the evening) what’s happening with H, he didn’t know what to say really so he just gave me a hug 💜
🗽did a bit more of my uni module’s first week and looked ahead at all the assignment tasks, exciting!!!

Saturday
🍻bit of shopping with mum in my home town, I got a top and a jumper for work
🍻discussed plans for a trip away next month just us two
🍻travelled home

Today I’m feeling pretty under the weather, I think tomorrow I will have to call in sick for the first time (been there two years to the day on Wednesday).

ta da
go through guide books and categorise
go through numerous folders organising and filing of paperwork, splitting folders into sperate more logically arranged folders.
spin the towel load
put load into dryer and put another load into the washer
Provide breakfast to the poorly
air the bathroom after yesterday's bath sealing (did not get around to the other bits)
relocated family history files (adding sort and organise onto the to do list for later)
Write shopping list of folders etc that are needed
continue moving stuffs.
watch more history than one person can shove into their brain in one morning.

Goodness Sing I remember you starting this job, where the heck did 2 years go?!

I've order a log book with the hope it will both motivate me and help me develop some kind of a routine...not for the perpetuals (laundry, dishes, shopping, tidying, swish swiping, quick vacuuming) but for deeper/ less frequent cleaning/maintenance jobs - the jobs I struggle with keeping on top of...we'll see!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08L52ZN47/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

@SingToTheSky sorry you are feeling ill

Today has been mixed. I'm afraid it's my hell days of the month where this awful rage comes from nowhere. I feel like I'm gritting my teeth all day and trying not to scream at people. It's exhausting and awful for everyone.
I said early on that H has to be very hands on with the kids today and I've been for a quiet half an hour on the bed to recharge.
In fairness he's been great and it's really helped.

✅ family swim
✅ hulahooping
✅ cooked a roast and extra for tomorrow
✅ 1/3 of a home bleurgh
✅ decluttered some books and puzzles and tops of mine.
✅ cut H's hair

H is going to do the ironing tonight whilst I paint my nails.

That sounds like a productive day @cosypompoms !

I've just reorganised and decluttered three cupboards and three drawers. That was partly upstairs cleaning gear to make it more accessible.

Would love to be able to store this stuff in a bathroom...but alas they are both too small to be able to do that and have the uncluttered wall hung 'look'. The perfect house layout is a reoccurring daydream...

ta da
more paperwork sorting
dealing with the "i didn't think that through" issue in the freezer
feed the people
more towel washing than is necessary - i swear the damn things breed like rabbits in this house
unload, reload and run dw
throw ingrediants at teen who did his own tea
generally be grumpy because of lack of sleep, solvent fumes and a stupid knee that needs to get with the to do list.

House I love how you call them perpetuals. So spot on. I am currently on the hunt for a perfect house (we were about to buy recently, when the sellers decided not to sell. Such a pain). Now the ones I like are sliiiiightly out of our price range..
Hills I am dreaming of a huge freezer. There is never enough space in mine.
Pompoms survive the rage.
Hazel how was camping?
Sing feel better soon. How has it been 2 years since you started your job?! Where has the time gone?

Ta das:
☕Multiple kitchen clean ups and DW rotation
☕Fish tanks sorted X3. Pruned aquarium plants, serviced filter in one.
☕LOLx2 out to dry
☕Dry laundry folded and put away - I hate doing this the most.
☕S&S
☕Quick hoover around
☕Some dusting, will finish that tomorrow

A hectic week of emailing back and forth with school, last-minute dental appointments, teen meltdown, and H and I had flu and covid jabs yesterday resulting in aching arms and zonked out on and off for most of the weekend.

The understairs cupboard has been annoying me for weeks, and I've started emptying out all the clutter that landed there over the summer. It's supposed to be a wee office for me.

Moved the mini fridge into the kitchen for cleaning. Went through the freezers, defrosted and cooked a mini turkey, cleared more of the very messy corner under the window. Boiled bones for stock, watched Star Trek TOS, hung up LoL, washed an extraordinary amount of cutlery, then they came back and started eating again.

Still not managed to break through into declutter mode. Adult DD is taking outgrown clothes and suchlike, as she is more adept with gumtree and similar.

Elf camping was very good! DH wants to go again next weekend, but I'm ready to be done for this year!
Sing wow, 2 years! That's flown by 😱
It sounds like you've all been busy this weekend!

Ta Das:
💀 camper unloaded
💀 1st lol in the washer
💀 showered
💀 watched Nightmare Before Christmas

I'm off work the next 2 days, things are supposed to happen at the house as well, so we'll see what I can get done!

YesTaDa
😷ordered phone case and screen protector for DS
😷ordered tesco
😷helped DD1 with some homework
😷put Cagletini to bed

Think that was it, as much of the day was spent in bed. I don’t feel as awful as yesterday so far, and don’t have a fever now, but I don’t think I am well enough to work today. Luckily this week is very quiet.

po3.1
❗️Take Covid test
❗️Breakfast
❗️Curl up in front of the TV while I wait for line manager to call me back

Morning,

Sorry, I went AWOL all weekend, I was out all day both days, with friends on Saturday and with DD on Sunday, we were fortunate to have warm, sunny weather.

Also sorry that some of the Fledglings are unwell, I will open up the naughty corner and add Lemsip, just take it easy until you are better.

Today we are moving into Zone 2, the kitchen, our mission is to clean out the waste bins. The Flight Plan is here http://www.flylady.net/c/fp.php?tzm=-60

Monday is also home blessing day, this is a list of weekly basics such as changing beds, hoovering all rooms, dusting, emptying waste paper baskets, supposedly all in an hour but that does depend on your state of clutter and your other commitments, it’s fine to split it over the week.

@HouseorHome your log book has reminded me about Flylady’s control journal, in ye olden days on this thread we used to look at the babysteps in a bit more detail including the creation of a control journal with all the routines in, I never did get very good at that and many use apps now, I will look it up and post some links later. Have a good day everyone.

Morning 🌄 everyone 👋
Just reading some of the TaDas has made me feel tired, never mind doing them!
My bedroom had started to resemble a teenagers. Yesterday I plodded through the day giving it a really thorough clean, washed the bedding, plus the spare room bedding.
Also got round to emptying my suitcase and found a receipt I'd been looking for.
Today's ToDos will be putting away my LOLs, and remaking the spare bed.
I'm not 100% over my cough but I can manage stuff as long as I go slow.
@SingToTheSky I hope you feel better soon.

Morning.

I actually found my control journal in the process of sorting/clearing everything out. It needs some updating and now has an accompanying massive master to do list folder... They work if you use them. But you gotta use them.

ta da
laundry in machine
breakfast provided
sorted out the plan of attack for today
sort through a pile of paperwork
discover i actually have more sewing patterns than knitting/crochet patterns in terms of height of pile. Consider organisation and whether a cull on sewing patterns might be in order.
fold some washing

next up is breakfast, and getting up. I want to get my hair dyed and cut if possible today. Actually I need to get this done. <sigh> My to do list is stupid long again.

hazel i have a chest freezer and i still never have room in it. You will find ways to use it if you have it. But i do need to get into it and get it properly sorted out. It is chaos in there atm. But there are other priorities right now.

Sorry it was Elf asking about the freezer and not Hazel. My brain is short circuiting a bit atm.

Hills I see, the magic of freezers. It's like storage boxes. No matter how many you get, they will be full.

Ta das:
🧹Dusting. Lots of dusting
🧹Hoovered everywhere
🧹Bleached bathrooms
🧹Cleaned microwave, wiped kitchen appliances. Usual DW rotation and kitchen clean up.
🧹Bins out. I cleaned out kitchen bin last week, it's still looking good.
🧹Lolx1 out to dry
🧹Dry laundry folded
🧹Mani and pedi done. De-clawed toddler and baby.

One LoL.
Swapped round two-seater and three-seater to make more space.

Tidied hairbrushes, bobbles, etc, binned broken bits.

Two boxes' contents reduced to one, the other for recycling.

General tidying of shelves and cupboards.
Mini fridge emptied and scrubbed out.
Some papers from my bedroom to office for dealing with.
LG took some packaging materials to school for a project.

Having a quiet sort of understairs cupboard before bed.

Hi all, been dealing with some personal issues so for right now, I’ve had to put a halt on decluttering and cleaning unfortunately

Hope things improve for you soon Cat and don't worry, we all dip in and out of these threads depending on whatever else is going on. Come back when things are less hectic 💚