Flylady

[Lubu]

Has anyone seen this website before?

there was a lot of talkabout flylady about a year ago on mumsnet. I find it scary.

yeah i signed up for it and it drove me nuts! very american in its overenthusiasm and lack of irony. I guess the principles are OK, but if i never see another email telling me to shine my bloody sink it'll be too soon

I decided I could not sign up when it said I had to wear shoes all day in the house - whyyyy?

I don't even wear socks or slippers in the house in the winter!

I'm a fly baby, but I don't try very hard and I delete all the e-mails that she sends me as I don't have time to read them all.
I keep saying I'll start again tomorrow and then never do.

Wow, I can hardly believe that in this day and age. Somebody should force the people who run this website to read 'The Women's Room' by Marilyn French.

I think one ofd the NICE things about being a Sahm is that yu can wear your slippers exactly when you like.

Mine are obv chic boudoir affairs with tassels and fluffy high heels

I like the encouragement to throw away anything you don't really want or need but the rest is a bit scary, and very American. I've decided that as I'm English, I'm allowed to substitute cleaning my sink for time on Mumsnet, it'll make me feel better than having a clean sink!

I've fallen off the wagon The house is a tip! A lot of her ideas are very good, like only spending 15 minutes at something, and the hot-spot fire prevention. I agree with Lubu about the shoes.... can't do it.

i delete all the e-mails I can't be bothered with, and can't be bothered with shoes but she dead right you can do any-thing in 15 mins, and incorrect house work still blesses the home. Sometime we are too perfectionist and won't do a job because we haven't go time to do it properly. But anyything is better than nothing. There are some sensible things like lists to do/get ready to go on holiday. Take the bits you like and leave the rest. and no I haven't got a flylady duster...just a purple Kleeneze one...but that's another story

I've joined and quit twice now!

I couldn't cope with the quantity of emails. I think your best bet is to read the website and get what you can from that and not bother with the emails. They don't really tell you anything new.

But there are good suggestions on there - if you can manage to wade through the rest of the (very american) rubbish in there.

I signed up and then quit but the one thing I do to motivate myself that she recommends is setting the kitchen timer to do jobs. Like I'll set it for an hour and make myself iron until it goes off and then go upstairs and tidy up again for an hour. (Real saddo here!)

I also find the web site useful, but haven't ever - after all the horror stories about the volume - subscribed for the e-mails. I too try to ignore all the very American enthusiasm, and just take the bit that helps me: 15 minutes at a time, baby steps, 5 minutes into disaster areas, focussing on one room per week, de-cluttering, plus breaking dwon the house cleaning into 10 minute chunks and being pleased with what you HAVE achieved, rather than what you've not done. It's helped me to keep "on top of" the house and not slip into CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome).

Dh won't agree to getting a cleaner, and we both work full time, so at least this way the house gets half a clean! Dh claims to be the tidy one, and does do the hoovering..... but he's not as tidy as he makes out, and there's still dusting, mopping the floor, cleaning the cooker etc to do! But Flylady has helped me both not to get up tight about it, plus to get into a better routine of doing 5, 10 or 15 minutes here and there. It's amazing what you can achieve!

But I too still don't wear shoes around the house!