January Fledgling Flyers - The 15 minute mess removal squad

[droitwichmum]

Happy New Year!

This is the place for you if you have made a New Year's Resolution to get on top of the chaos in your home

Here you can do any of the following:

• repeat or start baby steps

• repeat baby steps + do 15 mins a day decluttering in the current zone

• reinforce babysteps and do daily missions if you have finished decluttering

Here you can find out what it is all about. Try to ignore the cutesy stuff - cute the regulars on here are not! We also take some of the suggestions with a HUGE dose of salt (look out for wearing tie up shoes in the house)

If you decide to register for the e-mail updates from flylady be warned: unless you choose the daily digest only option you will be innundated with e-mails throughout the day. I will post the links you need each day so you don't need to register on the site to join in.

Dive in and mark your place - we start on January 1st!

Sorry if it was a shock! Have no sisters so no agenda there! Jst decided to use fave books for names etc in the hope that I might remember them!

nice to know its cool and figured probably not the case but should really be having an early night after my very late one last night so not really thinking clearly tbh. Right off for that early night 2nd attempt this is the babystep i always fail at.

Thought i'd better use this whilst it still applied as the intention is it wont for long. DEM.

Cheers Droitwichmum, just hoping I don't burn my self out. DH has just put up new shelving in DC1's room as well so I have to do the same in there when the littlies room is done.

I also need to do the same in our room, DH put 3 huge Ikea Pax wardrobes up in our room and I still haven't sorted them properly I have clothes and bits all over the place.

Another P&P fan here

surrounded. Did you know they filmed the pond scene at Lyme Park in Cheshire and they have a walk that takes you around the route that they used in the film?

Mrs Gok - the fat fairy requires yuo to do something relaxing each day. see my post earily (DEM)

My relaxing time is to spend time with the DC and on the computer at intervals through the day.

I am going to try and do the baby steps each day and then at least 30 minutes to an hour in the bedrooms to get them sorted.

It doesn't help that while I was up stairs dealing with their room they trashed my hall and dining room [roll eyes]

is it too late to join in? really need the motivation to clear out some of my junk...

good lord, aren't we a busy thread this month. a massive hello and welcome to everyone who haS joined us it is very early so pleaSe forgive if i dont mention you all but it is lovely to have lots of new people to rejuvenate us and obviously hello to all of us veterans although a qUIck mention FOR missbennet this was my first 'proper thread' and it's a very friendly first thread to be on (oh and if you were a mrs i would think you were my sister too come to laugh at my pathetic attempts to keep my house clean) and in1981 it's never too late to join in

Apologies once aGain for random keyboard ishoos afraid am tired of going back to correct myself all the time so you will have to take my post as you find it!!

big list today and snow forecast laTER ON so waNT TO get out and about this morning so don't have TO VENTURE into it this afternoon.

so here goes :-

dw on
wm on
general tidy
packup/putaway xmas decorations
try ( in a futile, destined to fail kind of way) to find room for dd's toys
food shopping
buy work trousers
go see mil
go back to babysteps and shine my sink

Big back to reality with a bump tody isn't it. Have a good day everyone.

There's only 1 room in our house that's like this - mine! Can I join?

VeryTiredOfTheMessI'mSatInTiggaxx

Welcome in1981 amd tigga. Like the 'new' name DEM!

Ok its the weekend so no missions today so we need to make sure we shine our sinks again and do today's babystep which is here. Don't we old-timers love this one! Remember what I put in my original post about shoes? Now you will understand what I was burbling on about. Please note I am typing in my pjs although I AM wearing slippers.

Going to publish my list today in an attempt to get it done.
Washing 1st load on
empty DW and reload next
breakfast
put washing away from yesterday
get dressed
clean fish tank (yuk)
library - either really or on-line
pay some bills on-line
tidy landing
get decoration boxes from loft, fill and leave for DH to put away when he comes home from work (we took the decs down yesterday and he didn't take the hint and put them away!)
S&S (newbies you will find out what this is later in the month)
vacuum throughout
quick dust
shine sink
bed on time

Have a great day see you later

Ok here's a list for today.

Have a shower
Clean a bathroom
Tidy a box of rubbish in my room
Take down the bloody tree!

BabyStepsTiggaxx

Morning all

Not sure how today will go as there is a lot that will depend on other people but I will do

Baby Step 2
Shine sink
Washing up
Washing (1 load in and 1 load hung up)
Carry on with bedroom

Morning all.
My kitchen is still quite tidy after yesterday's blitz. So I just going to keep putting dirty dishes straight into the dishwasher, keep sink clean etc. Just to make things easier.

The kitchen table is not done yet. It is full of DH & DD's Airfix modeling stuff Will get them to put that away...

Aside from that I will give the living room, hallway and kitchen a quick hoover and dust. One load of washing to dry and another to put on.

hmm not keen on the dressed to shoes bit, might have to change it to slippers in this house i think.
having spent the last goodness knows how long nagging the rest of the family to take their shoes off at the door, especially as our new house has cream carpets, i think i would be in trouble if i now started wandering round in shoes!

in my humble opinion matumble dressed to shoes is completely unnecessary. One of my favourite moments of the day is coming home from work and taking shoes OFF! you will find that every now and then the fat fairy comes up with something completely random that makes no sense in real life. I even object to the dressed bit, i can get as much done in my pj's as i can in anything else!

Thats alright matumble - i think that most of us count up to shoes as makeup and into slippers.

Right the first plan of actionis to get up before lunch. ds is happy in front of the tv and asking when he can go back to school cos he misses his friends and it is snowing outside.

List for today
Up
Clothes away
Ironing and away
lego models
hell R us
paperwork filing
Essay?

Right enough preocrstinating. I'm off to do. happy flying folks.

Just to motivate myself... picture on my MN profile.

Just to mark my pace.

Had a good day yesterday - manage to do a tip run and get the Xmas tree own an the needles swept up (will be glad not to see those needles for another year!!)

Now, today I have a few things I want to acheive to get the week off to a good start as DH goes back to work on Monday, and DS1 goes back to school, so routine as normal!! I will use DH while he is still here!!

Mt Washmore
Fold and put way dry washing
wash floors
vacuum upstairs
dispose of the xmas tree (which is down, but sitting in garage!!)
Change DS2's sheets
Would love to get the windows done, but doubt it will happen!!

Ok well thats my "big list", as well as all the daily stuff!!

Off now to wake up DH!!

chaos make up? I'm lucky if me glasses are on the right way up some mornings...
BYR loving the shiny sink picture
3x lol at Mt Washmore

Can I join and make 2010 a year when I get to grips with the mess and chaos at home?

Hello and welcome asdx2

Its now or never.
Can I join?

My personal low? Well, we had to get pest control round last year...and we are so cluttered that I had to use the bill from pest control as proof of address to sign my son up for his primary school

Do we look up this thread every day?

Come on in Bookswapper and asdx2! Coffee is on and there will be Christmas cake until Easter unless you all start eating it!

Look in each morning. I will post the links for the babystep and the mission for each day so that you do not need to register on the flylady site unless you want to. I've usually posted before 7 (often around 6.30) so you can plan your day. I'm back at work on Monday so this should happen from then - I've been treating myself to lie-ins until 8am some mornings over Christmas!

Bookswapper at least you were able to find a letter with your address on - that is an achievement in itself

Morning - just!
Today's tasks for me are:

• go to Weightwatchers DONE gained 2 pounds so not so bad and focussing on 59.5 lost already!
• get clothes out of machine and hang up DONE
• hoover sitting room
• take bags of clothes to charity shop
• take bag of books to second hand book shop
• plan week's meals
• grocery shopping
• renew library books

and maybe tackle DD1's bedroom if I can convince her this would be a GOOD THING to do! So we'll see how we get on. I think that writing it all down should help - and encouraging to see other folks also making progress as well as knowing that I'm not the only one who is domestically challenged!

Hello everyone.

I need to do a big clean today. I have been lazy recently and we've been out a lot. We're back to work/school from Mon so I want to get things sorted.

Today I need to

Clean kitchen
clean oven
unload then load dishwasher
2 lots of laundry
tidy up bedrooms
hoover house
ironing
mop all floors
clean bathroom
batch cook
take stuff to recycling

Better get a move on!