Marching on, FLYlady thread

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Are you looking to finally getting into a new routine with housework? Something simple to start that can be easy to add to over time? Flylady may be the answer for you!

This is a long running thread, but we are a friendly bunch and all are welcome to join in.

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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 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!

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. It's also date night (with your significant other, or friends, or yourself!)
• Saturday: family fun day
• Sunday: renew your spirit

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

There are more, feel free to ask us to explain something. I'll try to update links every day, although if you can, it's worth downloading the app, you can even have it send you notifications (although I only have it for when the zones change). You can also modify the tick lists to suit your home & lifestyle.

Links are below 👇 if I happen to not add links in time, they do update at midnight in the UK

Launch Pad: https://www.flylady.net/d/new-links/
Zones: https://www.flylady.net/d/zones/
Baby Steps:https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/
New/Most Popular Links | FlyLady.net
https://www.flylady.net/d/new-links
31 Beginner BabySteps | FlyLady.net
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps

Thursday is errand day

Today’s mission is to shine your bathroom sink. In the stash and dash space go back and see if there’s anything else to throw away. It’s worth revisiting this as often more becomes revealed after you remove the initial layer.

Today’s babystep is to read the essay on How to use a calendar
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-14/

Sorry my post was so late today!

Morning routine
Clean up mass calpol explosion (including having to wash everything in the cutlery drawer)
school run
quick tidy
pack swimming bag
prep dinner
drop dd forgotten slip and money to school office (including having to run back to car before parking warden got to it)
yoga class
yet another supermarket looking for wool wash (they had it, 5th shop I’ve looked in!)
put everything back in cutlery drawer
finish prepping dinner
dust living rooms x2
dust dining room
hang up lol
put on wool wash
lol from yesterday into dryer

still to do
fold and put away lol
hang wool wash
school run
dc swimming lessons
eat dinner
post dinner tidy/clean up
get stray toys out of living room
vacuum downstairs

sorry for lack of personals, have had to type this all out twice as lost it the first time!

Friday is clean your car and purse out. And date night

Today’s mission is to mop your bathroom floor and to do a 27 fling boogie in your stash and dash space.

Today’s babystep is to add making your bed to your morning routine
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-15/

Saturday is family fun day

Today’s babystep is to read one of the fly lady emails on the website
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-16/

Sorry for being AWOL this week!

DD came home for the weekend yesterday, we took her out for dinner and I did no flying. DS, on the other hand, did the home bleugh so the house is guest ready for today.

It's DDs birthday today, so I'll be baking her cake, as well as cupcakes for FIL. MIL asked me if I was making my cake. I told her absolutely not! I would like a GF cheesecake though I don't want to have to make my own 🙄

Sorry for waffling. Today will be a busy day. I still have to buy steaks for dinner, be home for the new DW to be delivered, decorate for the birthday dinner, finish getting DDs gift ready as well.

I just want to go back to bed and wake up with it all done for me! Where are those fairies?! 🧚‍♀️

Apologies for being quiet for the past few days. I’ve been trying to declutter and get prepped for the NCT sale and keep my house in a fairly decent state as I know this weekend is a busy one. Vast majority of NCT sale prep now done last few things to pack and label this evening.

Very few of my routines have been done today. 8am gymnastics followed by ballet classes this morning and karate presentation this afternoon wiped my time. Have also done some volunteering with the NCT this afternoon to help set up for tomorrow’s sale. It also meant that 5 bags and a number of larger items could be taken out of the house today ( hopefully they sell ! ) with the rest going for sale tomorrow.

Not a lot will happen tomorrow either as I’m volunteering at the sale all day.

For the next week I need to concentrate on both the living room and the attic room as eldest is back from uni next Sunday and is bringing a friend to stay too. The rest of the house isn’t too bad !

Morning
Sunday is renew your spirit

Today’s babystep is to set a bedtime and stick to it
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-17/

Hope you got everything done ok @HazelNotHungryLC

Good luck at the nct sale @Hemax1 !

Dd2 and I have covid! Not feeling too bad just a bit of a cold and tired. But worrying a lot I may have passed the germs on to my dad earlier in the week

main I hope you both feel better soon & that you didn't have anything when you saw your dad 💐🤞

Hemax good luck today 🤞 hopefully nothing goes back home with you at the end!

Everything went well with the birthday dinner last night. There's still some cleaning up to do, but we'll work on that later today.
MIL and DH decorated while I baked yesterday, so that went well. Although dinner ended up being so late only DD had a slice of cake last night! We are having breakfast at SILs house this morning so we're taking them with us (hopefully not bringing much back either!).

Our new DW arrived yesterday as well, we will install that today too.
Hopefully I'll be back with some ta das later 🍒 👋

Monday is home bleurgh

Today we move into zone 4, the master bedroom, master bathroom, and closet. Today’s mission is to spend 15 minutes removing anything that doesn’t belong in the master bedroom.

Today’s babystep is to read the 11 commandments
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-18/

How are you & DD feeling today main?

YesTaDas:
🍀 breakfast at SILs (after relaxing in her hot tub)
☘️ handwashed dishes
🍀 put all gift bags & tissue paper away
☘️ LOLs x2
🍀 swapped out phone case/ wallet
☘️ put new screen protector on my new phone (it's the wrong one though so I ordered a different one - my fingerprint won't work at all 🤬)
🍀 emptied old DW so DH could swap them out
☘️ filled new DW x2 (I love it!)
🍀 swept outside, by the side door we use
☘️ got my clothes out for the morning

🍒👋 to everyone

Thank you for all the luck. I brought home more than I wanted to but did sell a bit … so more out of the house. Did buy a few bits for birthday / Christmas that need to be stashed and my 4 year old a new bike as he’s grown out of his old one. They were all things that were on my list to get at some point over the next few months so happy to have got them at a fraction of the new price tags !

I volunteered at the nearly new sale for the first time yesterday and I’m part of the admin side but have a few things that we need to change to encourage more buyers in ( there were a lot but more would be better !)

Busy weekend and I’m exhausted and ill today but have at least managed to do my morning routine and tidy upstairs ( with my 2 year olds ‘help’ so it’s taken about 5 times longer )

Tada
Kept up with the bathroom last week and oh targeted some mould patches that had started to form in the corner of the ceiling , he also resealed part of the bath that came off when I cleaned it last week. Ds room is fairly tidy after spending 10-15 mins with him most days last week so feels like massive progress!

Today tada
🎉 morning routine (showered , dressed , hair , makeup , lunches, breakfast , breakfast pots)
🎉school run
🎉 work
🎉 home (dd2 goes to grandmas on a Monday)
🎉 15 mins daily tasks (general tidy)
🎉 15 mins ironing
🎉 15 mins putting clothes away
🎉 15 mins decluttering my bedroom (I think I will have a room that will be easy to keep on top of after this week, although all drawers and cupboard need decluttering , it is looking tidier than this time last month)
🎉 tea
🎉 dusted upstairs
🎉 hoovered upstairs
🎉 bins emptied

I'm off to do the bedtime routine with dd2 , to take my makeup off and get in my pjs 🙂

Toddler was sick today but I'm so proud of myself for once, actually managed to feed her a decent amount, play with her and get everything done!

Today's tadas 🌟

🌟 cleaned all surfaces and bathrooms
🌟 hoovered and mopped all floors
🌟 emptied all the bins
🌟 changed bedcovers
🌟 put lol on

Not been concentrating on zone cleaning too much, will try this week but I count the small wins, managed to clean the washing machine fully last week and sort out toddlers wardrobe 🌟 I've been so hard on myself for so long, really trying to give myself a pat on the back for doing as much as I can instead of criticising everything 😊

Tuesday is plan and play

Today’s mission is to tackle the clothes pile. Get everything hung up and put away. If there’s anything you could get rid of in that pile (that doesn’t fit or you don’t like for example) don’t hang it up, this is a good time to let those things go.

Today’s baby step is ummm. Not sure. Maybe to read the testimonials?
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-19/

Plep I would say that was a very successful day! Flylady isn't about being perfect, getting everything done. It's about being "good enough" and we are always too hard on ourselves.

searching those are some good ta das! And well done for your bedroom looking better than last month. It helps to see progress happen.

Hemax that was a busy weekend! I hope you were able to get some rest yesterday and feel better now 💐

It is my birthday today! I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with myself today. I'm still going to do some cleaning and laundry, but I will redo my nails (I want to try out a new colour that I just got for my birthday from DH). Thankfully it's my day off today 🥳
I'm sure I'll be back with some ta das later 🍒 👋

@HazelNotHungryLC happy birthday ! Hope you’ve managed to do some nice things alongside your new nails.

After a lazy morning yesterday, I got my bum more in gear last night, so afternoon and evening routines were done. I also went through the things I brought back from the sale, ticked off what was there, made a list of what wasn’t and deleted those items off my Vinted. ( I sold approx 30 items - so not too bad ! ). Have kept the list so I can just delete those items off the NCT spreadsheet so if I sell again at the next sale I can keep items labelled up and on the spreadsheet.

Today’s tada’s
⭐️ morning routine
⭐️ nursery run x2
⭐️ Vinted parcel package and post
⭐️ tidied upstairs
⭐️ half tidied the kitchen
⭐️ hand washing
⭐️ lol - cleaning cloths
⭐️ charity shop run
⭐️ quick top up shop
⭐️ drs appt
⭐️ meal plan
⭐️ shopping list
⭐️ listed items on Vinted

Just about to go food shopping, so that will need scanning once I’m home and putting away. I’ve also got some bananas that need using so will be baking banana bread later.

Hope everyone else is having a productive day !

Thank you Hemax I have been productive this morning! Well done on shifting 30 items!

Ta das:
🥳 sheets washed, dried & put back on the bed
🥳 3rd lol in the washer currently
🥳 bleached both bathrooms, including floors
🥳 put all clean laundry away
🥳 vacuumed main floor & stairs
🥳 picked up lunch for DH & I, we just got done eating

I now have the afternoon to relax and enjoy my day! Well, after I do a quick mop of the kitchen & dining room floor!

Happy Birthday @HazelNotHungryLC ! I hope you got your cheesecake!

Hi everyone else. Sorry I’ve been quiet, will post more once feeling a bit better

main I did not get my cheesecake 😭 it's hard to find them GF, so I will need to make one myself I guess, since no one else will try 😔

I got my nails done!

Wednesday is anti procrastination day

Today’s mission is to straighten up the floor of the closet. Do you think you have too many shoes? See if you can find two pairs to get rid of.

Today’s babystep is to add a load of laundry to your morning and evening routines
https://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-20/

Oh that’s sad Hazel, after all the cakes you make for everyone else too. Hope you had a good day despite the lack of cheesecake

I did, thank you main
I have decided that I'm going to make my favourite strawberry brownie cheesecake for Easter, GF version. If anybody wants something different, they'll have to make it!