Thanks for bumping the thread ladies....i had forgotten
time to get back to flylady for me I think, my house is slowly adjusting to bubs so I need to get going! And what better day to start than today! Kids are at daycare, well bubs isnt but he laps up the peace and quiet and sleeps! lol.
We are in full swing still (after 3 whole days!!). Socks drawer, her I come...
AshleaJayne, I still can't verify my account... but if you go into Flying Lessons on the FlyLady page, it tells you what zone and what's happening, and the Mission of the day.... just signed up for a Yahoo account to so it doesn't need verifying, and if i get sick of the emails I can just forget about it!!
Omigod, I am actually looking forward to cleaning. Haven't felt like this since I was getting all those nesting hormones. Dh is going to think I'm pregnant again
I do the load (or two) of washing a night - with 2 members of this household working nights (which means they come home & basically go to sleep & are on the way to work by the time I get home), I have to wash their work clothes on a nightly basis - so I try to do a load of my own general washing. With the machine taking 2 hours per load, it means that sometimes I hang up my load in the morning before work.
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!
For anyone who has an iPhone there is an App for FlyLady called Home Routines. It has a timer, the zone for the week and you can mark/tick off the task you have completed.
I have to get back into the routine. I must admit tho the shoes is a no no in the house.
I saw this thread the other day and thought "this Flylady thing sounds interesting". So I looked it up and read into it. We already do a lot of the things. I looked at the baby steps but I'm stuck at step 2. I can't get up & get dressed. I have to wait until DH comes home (he works early mornings). Either that or DS comes in the shower with me and that makes the shower less fun lol! Occassionaly I don't mind but I love my morning shower! I don't do shoes either CBG - I can't see how that could make a difference lol! I guess I'll have to adjust the morning routine so I do it in my PJs (if super clingy whinger DS lets me!)
Any way - I'm hooked. I've talked DH into tackling a hot spot this weekend - the rubbish tip aka car!
I got the rubber scrubba. I used it to clean some gunk off the bottom of my shower but apart from that it's just sat there lol! I also got the purple rags and have used them on the shower. Worked great.
I could really use the extra motivation too - I'll have to look into it again - doesn't she do a 30 day challenge to get into a good cleaning routine or something?
I too will join u guys. I've really let everything slip, but I won't have a chance to start until July (being realistic about my motivation when there's things birthday parties to plan!)
Yep, when you sign up you get a daily task to do, each day you need to do certain things and she gives you bigger tasks to complete too, plus there are heaps of great ideas to help with procrastination and getting overwhelmed with things.
Me too Ash! I am trying to get things tidy now, but will sit down later and have a proper read of it all again! It has been a long time since I ahve done it.
I received my first emails yesterday. I have read them and started half heartedly to do some of it! I set out my clothes for today, though I am still not dressed! I will shine my sink today once I get rid of the excess dishes which didn't fit into the dishwasher! I planned a little bit for the coming week. Some of the dinners I will make, most of a grocery shopping list for tomorrow. That's about it really. But it feels good to be slightly more organised. Hopefully as I get mroe into it, things will get easier to plan.
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