Welcome to the April thread. This is my first time starting a flylady thread. And I've been doing flylady about a month but very are many on the thread who are years in.
I'm cutting and pasting Hazel's great intro which explains everything:
Whether you're starting to build a new routine, stuck in a rut, or been around for years, join us on the Flylady thread. I'll try to keep us on track for the month, with baby steps, daily missions and weekly zones.
This is a long running thread, but we are a friendly bunch and all are welcome to join in.
Do NOT sign up for the Flylady emails - it's an excessive amount sent every day.
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:
🩷Entryway, porch and dining room
🩷Bathroom & one other room
🩷Kitchen
🩷Master bedroom & master bathroom
🩷Living room
Don't worry about finishing it all this month, it'll come around again next month! Flylady is NOT about perfectionism!
Daily focus: each day of the week has a different focus.
- Monday: Home Blessing (or as we call it, home bleugh)
- Tuesday: plan & play
- Wednesday: anti-procrastination
- Thursday: errand day
- Friday: clean car & purse out a week. 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 😆
- S&S: Swish & Swipe (wipe the bathroom sink & toilet)
- 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, if I can get them to work, she's updated the website! Although if you can, it's worth downloading the newly updated 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 👇
Daily missions (for the zone we are in): https://beta.flylady.net/daily-mission
Baby steps (on a different website, since the link isn't working on the new site yet): https://mymerrymessylife.com/flylady-31-baby-steps/
Feel free to ask any questions you may have, some of us have been doing Flylady for a very long time, as well as others just starting out. We may have other things to add that we have found works for us that could help you too!