i signed up for flylady ages ago, but dont remember getting any emails at all! hmm..
i was a bit overwhelmed with the website, i didnt know what to read first! i started readin gthe baby steps/shine your sink thingy, but that was about it!
can someone explain to me exactly what you get from it? is it basically working up to a daily routine? so starting one step at a time? im just a bit confused, and id like to know what its about before i 'start' do you get emails reminding you to do this or that.. etc?
Rach - the best way to get the emails is to join the Australian reminders group on Yahoogroups - they're timed for here.
For me the philosophy is more being able to manage my house easily, with no hours and hours of cleaning at a time. I have gotten this place to 15 mins visitor ready - which means if friends give me about 15 mins notice that they're on their way - my house is visitor ready when they get here (usually with some yummy cooking & the coffee brewing). My bathroom takes less than 15 mins a week to give a proper clean, because the toilet & sink is done every morning. I can do the back landing & kitchen in 15 mins *just* (incl sweeping & mopping floors), because the dishes are done every night (shining my sink) and the benches wiped down. The load of washing a day is a gods send for me - I actually try to do at least 2 - I hung up the load this morning that I put on before bed - which was load number 3 from yesterday.
I have a basket for each room, so when I'm doing, for example, the loungeroom, stuff for the study or bedroom or spare room etc get put in their respective basket, instead of me wandering into each of those rooms (and I used to start cleaning in those rooms when I got there). So when I finish the loungeroom, the baskets get put in their room - if that particular room is next on the list - then I deal with the basket - if not, the basket stays until it is time to deal with the room.
It took a while to get used to the timer thing, I used to want to keep going, but I've learnt - timer goes off after 15 mins - go to another area to clean.
I love the baby steps philosophy & that it didn't take 15 mins for the room to get that way - so it isn't going to take 15 mins to clean it!
I have had FlyLady in my faves for ages but haven't done anything. I decided last night that I am really going to start FLYing.
Today my DD is being babysat and I'm going to get as much stuff done as possible as we have people coming over on the weekend including my grandparents who haven't been to my house before so I want to impress them a little. But once I get it to a manageable state which I'll be able to do today then I'll really get the FlyLady stuff going.
I did have a look at the morning routine and did that today. Also when I got up at 6am for DD's first feed which finished at 7am I decided that I wouldn't go back to bed. She sleeps after her first feed so I thought I'd make better use of that time and get dressed, have breakfast, empty the dishwasher, put a load of washing on and have some computer time.
KrystalBall- it's about working up to a daily routine and decluttering, which in turn makes your house easier to clean, then cleaning it by a monthly routine as well. Kind of gives you guidelines on when to do this room or that room and get it all under control so you don't just look at the house and go 'It's all a mess- where do I start?'
I've already got a pretty good daily routine and do most of te things that FlyLady says to do so I'm doing the declutter and then starting on the one 'zone' per week (hopefully I'll stick with it that long).
lol dachlostar... i saw an episode of WifeSwap ages ago and one of the women had a fairy statue in the corner of her loungeroom that was her cleaning fairy... if the house was a mess, she blamed it on the fairy not doing her job properly.
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