Jump In Where We Are: March Flylady Thread

[WinterFrogs]

Setting up to start tomorrow. I wanted to make the title That's Not Flying, It's Falling With Style, as an acknowledgement to the number of times I have fallen off the flylady wagon. But I wasn't brave enough.
"Flybabies" old and new all welcome!

Well done @WinterFrogs
I personally would go crazy without a dishwasher!

Can anyone recommend both good indoor and outdoor doormats? Are metal ones best for outside?
Just realising that our kitchen gets dirty very quickly and needs sweeping all the time, partly because of the dog hair and messy eater both dog and child, messy prepared of food which is DH but also because we all come in straight from outside carrying muck and little stones in so figure a mat could help, anything to make less work. Indoor one would be best if big as it's french doors but outdoor one could be single width as we only tend to open one.

We have Hug Rug doormats, fairly big ones inside the front and back door (I realised when we had a smaller one that everyone was putting one foot on it and the other straight over onto the kitchen floor so now it's bigger both feet land on it). I also have a couple of matching runners, you can have those sideways across French windows. They can go in the washing machine which is handy. In fact ours badly need doing at the moment.

Outdoors we have the metal and natural bristle traditional ones

positive we are a shoes off house its the only way I can make it work. We live on a muddy farmyard (we're not farmers though) and the house would be filthy otherwise. No dog though- not sure shoes off and dogs are very compatible!

Reasonably neat and tidy here but I am not in any way shape or form keeping up with the missions this month.

We can't really be a shoes off house because we are all in and out of the back door and up and down the garden constantly and there isn't space for us all to leave a pair of shoes inside that door so we tend to go out in our slippers and they become outdoor shoes. I do try and get everyone to take off at the front door (not guests, just us) but with varying degrees of success, DH is from a resolutely shoes on household and old habits stick.

Sorry I've not kept up with the chat. We are a shoes off household, with dogs. However, I have a towel by the door that we use for the dogs feet when they come back inside when it's wet outside.

Ta das:
🍀 LOLs x8
🍀 took dogs to groomer
🍀 dentist appt
🍀 vacuumed
🍀 rotated DW
🍀 painted nails
🍀 emptied fridge of nasties

On Sunday we rearranged the basement, put up shelves etc.
Monday I worked all day then bathed the dogs, they both stunk!

Thank you for the doormat recommendation. I'll have a look. We are not officially shoes on or off. But we come in at the kitchen and I dont really want a pile of shoes in the kitchen, it's bad enough with coats and school bags being dumped there. We did used to have a shoe rack in there for that purpose but they do look messy.
I cleaned the bathroom bin yesterday but didn't do the 5 minute donation search as basically study is full of stuff to donate it's just actually doing it. I am gradually working through them but it's slow progress.

I'm struggling to do any flying, once the horses and dogs are sorted I've not got enough energy for much more.
I keep on top of the LOLs, but do let the clean stuff pile up. Loos are always clean. Patio (aka dog loo) gets sloshed every day.
I'm having a blood test tomorrow in case there's something going on, but it's probably a combination of insomnia, some sort of post viral thing and my fibromyalgia.
I'm a shoes off, DP is shoes on.
I'm fairly relaxed about the stone and tiled areas, but when DP eventually takes his mucky boots off, he then walks about in his slippers, on the muddy/dusty/hairy floors, pops in and out, and then walks on the carpets and it enrages me.
We're complete opposites, he's very tidy and organised but doesn't see dirt, I'm chaotic, but can't stand the dirt. He has no sense of smell but I can smell dust.

I have a plan/deadline to declutter some wardrobes of outgrown children clothes. I sort and can post some on vinted today and I'm seeing extended family next Wednesday at a play centre with younger children. So any that don't sell I'll pass down.

https://www.flylady.net/morning-musing/you-never-have-to-see-dirt-again

Morning all. I've dropped today's musing above, as I think it's very relevant to our attempts to remain chaos-free.
My mum was 'born organised' and so we rarely saw dirt when we were growing up.
It sounds very naive now, but I was so surprised when I first lived away from home, how often things needed doing. I seemed to be forever cleaning and sorting stuff, but nothing ever stuck. Mum wasn't a perfectionist either - she didn't follow us about plumping up cushions or anything. It was just homely and clean. We weren't a shoes off household as such either, though we knew better than to walk mud onto the carpet. In hindsight it was like magic, but now I know that she quietly picked up after herself (and us) Poor old mum. I don't think she realised she did it and probably as typical of that time, just assumed we'd pick it up by osmosis. Only we didn't. I literally learned to cook and clean from trial and error and the internet.

Good luck with your blood test @CherryogDog From a fellow horse person, it may simply be the end of a very wet, long muddy winter. It's been tougher than usual 💐

Best wishes to all and happy flying x

Similar here @WinterFrogs when we were growing up Mum didn't have to leave for work till 9 and she used that half an hour or so after we had gone to school to run the vac round, clean bathrooms etc so we never saw any of it happening and didn't realise how often these things needed to be done, I struggled when I left home as a result. We did used to have specific jobs to do on Sundays and helped with washing up etc but that was all. Problem is, it is easier to get things done when the DCs are out of the way. I have tried to drill some routines into my DCs but not hugely successfully, they do things when asked though, or offer from time to time. Do their own laundry and some food shopping and cooking (they are young adults).

I decided it was far to nice weather to declutter clothes and spent the day outside. I wrote about my mum being sort of organised, but also finding housewife role stressful. I think she was disciplined, but has also said one of the great things about moving house every few years was we didn't collect too much clutter. Plus my sister had a dustmite allergy so damp dusting and hoovering was more important for her.

I don't know how my mum did it, 6 kids, no washing machine or vacuum cleaner, kept the place spotless.
Sunday mornings polishing the brass door step, knitting, darning, mending.
She died when I was 10 and the place went to ruin.
I spent an hour on the patio binning dead plants and pruning, the weather has been lovely!

Tada
👏 a bag of rubbish out of the bathroom, one of the shelves decluttered, hoping to do the final shelf tomorrow
👏 2 LOL hung and dried outside ☀️
👏 most of house bleurgh will finish tomorrow

More books have gone to Tesco bookshelves. Some old board games we don't play and have bits missing have gone in the bin. Started on two hotspots in the dining room side of kitchen diner - window sill and cabinet. Not finished but much better.
I have been and bought some standard coir and rubber outdoor doormats in the hope will help a bit but then it also occurred to me if I moved the big box left in middle of the porch and encouraged us all to use that door we could leave shoes on rack and drag less muck in anyway, revolutionary!!!
Still it all helps I think.

Mum stayed home most of my youth, or worked part-time. The house was always clean, no shoes. However, I was the baby of the family, the only girl, and I didn't really have to do much around the house at all. We did have to help wash up, but even that was mostly on a Sunday, after dinner.
My mum & dad did have me help them vacuum, dust, polish and clean the bathrooms (dad's thing was cleaning the bathrooms!).
I did not know how to run a washing machine when I moved out! My mum had to come show me what to do. I vowed to never put my kids in that position, so they had/have chores, including laundry.

Anyway, today is my birthday! I decided to take it off from work. I'm going to the next big town with MIL, we both have bulk shopping to do (Costco), and I want to browse a little bit. I'm sure we'll have lunch there too.
DH & I will be going out for dinner tonight, DS has to work. I'm enjoying my coffee right now, it's been a good morning so far (but it's not quite 8:30am, I woke up at 7am).

Positive it sounds like a great idea to do some shifting. The less mess coming into the house in the first place, the less cleaning has to be done!

Definitely true BloomingHazel I really want to try and make everything easier for us. Trying to spot things as I work through* *the zones.

I love the way Flylady snowballs in a good way, me and DH are both being much more proactive about tidying up as we go or getting up and doing 5 or 10 minutes of a job even though we don't have the time or motivation to finish it we know it adds up and helps.

Oh and big happy birthday to you 🎂
Hope you have a lovely evening.

Happy birthday @BloomingHazel🥳

Happy Birthday @BloomingHazel

Happy Birthday @BloomingHazel 🎂

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! I've had a great day so far!
I spent most of the day with MIL, saw DS for about an hour after school, before he left for work, and now DH & I are on our way to the restaurant for dinner. I'm definitely feeling loved today 😍

Happy birthday hazel