4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Yorkshire Pudding]

good idea, but the list should include treats as well as tasks!

 

Today I have to:

 

get the judo suits dry

 

Hoover

 

get a few hours of work done on the timetabling for school

 

make a nice pud for teatime

 

read my book for half an hour

 

Keep DS2's noisy friend at an acceptable volume

[bronze]

good idea, but the list should include treats as well as tasks!

 

 

 

yes yes basically anything you plan to do that day. I normally write mine each evening on the back of an envelope but will do it on here so I can shame myself into doing them

 

Yes I do have fours kids but because of that we need to move so itr has to be tidy and clean.

[Staffordmum]

I've had to change since moving to the farm - I'm hyperventilating here, just thinking about it.....

 

I have learned to live with a certain level of grime, mud and straw/hay on the floors and dust and spiders elsewhere. I keep the bathrooms and kitchen clean.

 

I have to agree

 

Since our "escape to the country" I have learned to stop fighting it! - the conservatory is teaming with spiders (they keep they flies down, don't they?) and wood lice ...

 

I do vacuum daily - since being unemployed. Apart from that, the three of us seem to walk the gdn into the hse - with very little effort

 

We invested in those Turtle mats that can be machine washed. Needless to say I need two - one in the wash and one on the floor ...

 

Steve does the ironing (ex services) and he's a whizz at "hiding" things when we are expecting visitors

 

Rgds,

 

Pat & Steve

[Cinnamon]

I have a routine of sorts..................

 

Monday - Roomba kitchen,dining room, hallway & mop those rooms

 

Tuesday - Roomba Living room, mop & dust

 

Wednesday - day off, its been a busy week so far

 

Thursday - Roomba kitchen again

 

Friday, Roomba living room again,de scuzz downstairs loo

 

Weekend - Roomba bedrooms, & upstairs bathroom.

Pay daughter £5 to hoover stairs & clean bathroom.

Clean out Eglus

 

Daily - Wipe down kitchen sides, empty dishwasher,do laundry, cook something delicious

 

And my husband wonders what I do with my time

[Egluntyne]

And my husband wonders what I do with my time

 

The best way to show them how much you do is to stop doing it for a few days.

[chick wiggle]

Well, I would like to say thanks debsl, cos although i've only had a quick look at flylady, i really need something to make me clean this mess up, and to have something, anything that will help is fine by me. So I'm gonna give her a go.

[AJuff]

Well so far today I've . .

 

cleaned my desk (big job)

watered the plants in the house

potted up lavender for near the hen run

topped up the chicken feed

spoken to a man about building external steps

Rang my BIL to apologise for not sending a birthday card/gift

Rang the dentist to apologise for missing the kids appts and made three more appts

ordered some quilting stuff from ebay

written a menu for the week and a shopping list too

paid the piano bill

sorted stuff to go to the charity shop and sent DS (great for his independence)

Sent OH to post the cheque I'd written for HIS book

vacuumed the hall and living room

built a duplo house and palace with DD and her friend who's here for the day

done some washing

made lunch and cleaned up afterwards

helped DS to sort HIS desk

changed the batteries on DD toy

completed my piano practice

fed next door's guineapig

hung out the washing and put some away

helped DS with His explosive experiment kit

 

it's only just past 4!!

[Space Chick]

And my husband wonders what I do with my time

 

The best way to show them how much you do is to stop doing it for a few days.

 

You have hit the nail on the head there. I have been ill with the flu for the last week, so have done no housework at all and OH is shocked how the house is in such a state

 

We've run out of clean towels, tea towels, the floor is filthy, the tables are a mess, but with fly lady I just to a little bit every day and its stays "presentable".

 

Its going to take me a couple of weeks to get it back on track once I'm well again I think

 

Well, I would like to say thanks debsl, cos although i've only had a quick look at flylady, i really need something to make me clean this mess up, and to have something, anything that will help is fine by me. So I'm gonna give her a go.

 

My pleasure Sandie

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I often think OH wonders if I spend all day on the forum ( ) but just to prove I haven't, today I have, in no particular order:

 

walked Riley (very short walk as he's still very wobbly)

weeded all the raised beds

picked peas, sugar snap peas, carrots, cabbage

dug over the compost bins and added coffee grounds and compost activator

put load of washing in

phoned Tesco Insurance re Riley's accident

written letter to vets enclosing insurance claim

nagged YS to phone Oxfam to arrange some hours to work for DofE (3 times )

stripped border off one wall in YS's room (nightmare so tried painting over another bit to see if that would do)

ordered some wine from Laithwaites

made lunch for YS (ES made his own )

sent loads of texts arranging lunch with one group of friends and coffee with another

 

quite a lazy day, really

 

I think I should keep a diary and present it to OH daily .

[Yorkshire Pudding]

good idea, but the list should include treats as well as tasks!

 

Today I have to:

 

get the judo suits dry almost there but will need airing indoors - they're so thick they take days to dry.

 

Hooverall downstairs & upstairs is done thanks to roomba but he can't do stairs and the dyson is kaput

 

get a few hours of work done on the timetabling for schoolstill at it...

 

make a nice pud for teatimestill thinking - we have a melon very ripe tat needs using up so may opt for that

 

read my book for half an hour not yet...

 

Keep DS2's noisy friend at an acceptable volume actually he's been bearable - apart from the crisps all over my sofa

 

And dropped off the car for repair (taking OH to work on the way), phoned the insurance company, make lunch, planned tea, put away the dry laundry, bleached the sink and cleaned the loos and handbasins.

Not an unproductive day, all in all...

 

edited to add - it still looks like a mess though! Oh well...

[bronze]

my day so far

 

feed chickens and quail

unload dishwasher and start refilling

hang out washing, reload and then hang out again

clean out the chick

clean downstairs loo

fill in crb forms then spend ages trying to find passport, marriage cert and kids birth cert- 1 success

move nias furniture round and vacuum

tidy boys room and vacuum

tidy living room and set bobski on it

tidy our room and set hubby on it with vacuum

do breakfasts and lunches and clear up after

clean the sink (flylady )

sweep kitchen

tried the carpet cleaning bloke 3 times (phone that is)

feed Isaac numerous times

Have a cup of coffee!!

 

Now whats for dinner?

[Cinnamon]

Gosh, all those little things add up don't they?

 

I am not going to even think about all the small tidies I have done while wandering around the house today

 

And the paperwork too - just general 'keeping the family running' stuff

Today I have booked hair appointments, sent flowers to MIL for her birthday,spoke to the accountant 3 times & got a chipped windscreen fixed too.

AND I managed to fit a trip to Tesco in

 

Forgot to mention that the weekend is also towel & bedding wash, & all the removable bits from the oven into the dishwasher, both of which then get a good ole clean too.

[jlo]

 

I know that this is an old one but it makes me smile!

 

 

Today I Didn’t Do It

 

 

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in

his house. His three children were outside - still in their pajamas - playing

in the mud with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front

yard. The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the

house.

Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess - the lamp

had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall.

In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the

family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the

kitchen dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter,

dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a

small pile of sand was spread by the back door.

He quickly headed up the

stairs, stepping over toys and more

piles of clothes, looking for his wife.

He was worried that she may be ill

or that something serious had

happened. He found her lounging in

the bedroom, still curled in the bed

in her pajamas and thoroughly

engrossed in reading a good book.

She looked up at him, smiled,

and asked how his day went. He

looked at her bewildered and

asked, "What happened here

today?" She smiled again and

answered, "You know, every day

when you come home from work,

you ask me what in the world did I

do today?" "Yes?!" was his

incredulous reply. She answered,

"Well, today I didn't do it."

[Happy-Mama]

I like that one jlo made me

[Helly Welly]

I follow flylady too. I had a week off last week while DD was away as i wanted to do some extra studying but because i had thoroughly decluttered as per flylady's instructions, nothing got in too much of a mess. I hoovered and cleanend he bathroom before she came home and the house looked fine. This week i'm concentrating on the kitchen. The house gets a once-over once a week which i'm doing tomorrow. I'll hoover, dust, empty the bins, change the bedlinen and clean the mirrors. This only takes an hour all in so it fits in easy.

 

Flylady did take a bit of work to start with, but only in organising it. Taking the small steps that are advocated means that once you get going, it's easy. And i was able to miss a week without the house getting in a state. Stick with it if you can, it's worth it.

[jenuk99]

I am enjoying this thread as my house usually gets a blitz every so often but then gets neglected until the next time.

I have spent 2 hours reading flylady and now have a shiny sink and am off to do the bathroom as well now you have motivated me!

Jen x

[jlo]

I'm really sorry guys but this is one time when I won't be following the Omlet trend. I have had a look at FlyLady and, although I have not gone right through it, the bits that I have seen were so patronising that I just couldn't go on any further.

 

My mum always says, do a room at a time so that you can feel that you have achieved something and that's what I try and do.

 

Like others on here, the blitz comes when people come to visit and, if they are not likely to go upstairs, the blitz stops on the ground floor!

 

[Valkyrie]

Sorry Jlo - the kitchens a mess - blinkers on tomorrow for you my girl!

 

I hadn't seen that joke before - love it.

[AJuff]

I'm going to give Flylady a try and see how it works! I generally don't like things that are too Americanised but we'll see. Is there an English alternative I wonder or will Omlet provide that too?

[bronze]

the thing with flylady I didnt understand

 

that first week am I just supposed to do the sink etc cos what happens to the chaos that builds around it? If someone can tell me what to do each day that would be fab

 

tomorrow in no particular order

 

packed lunches and breakfast

take children to holiday club

paint boys room, the white (grey) bits

unload dishwasher

put washing away

feed chickens and quail

(collect children I spose)

man giving quote for carpet cleaning coming round

vacuum hall and stairs

clean stove

move stuff across from big fridge

book jabs with nurse

change our bed

quick bathroom clean

coffee!

bake cake

[Couperwife]

so, what are you going to do after breakfast then bron?

 

cathy

x

[bronze]

load the dishwasher again I guess

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Fortunately, I'm off the hook with this Flylady stuff - my sink is white and no amount of cleaning will make it shiny. So I can't possibly do it .

[Valkyrie]

Well having checked Flylady, firstly I cannot abide wearing shoes in the house - not even slippers - I have to be a bit of a hippy.

Secondly when I make a nice neat pile of stuff I then have to unpile it to find bits. If I open a cupboard it will take more than 15 minutes to empty it let alone shove it back in! Obviously Flylady doesn't have an eager mini chef that doesn't like clearing up after her. Nor does Flylady have a mum that puts things away in the wrong drawers. I couldn't find my oven gloves for ages. When I clean something and move to the next area, gremlins come and dirty the bit I have done, drop toast crumbs all over the floor, tea stains over the granite (luckily I was very clever and opted for one that doesn't show tea stains hahaha). But then someone gets sugar everywhere - amazing instead of putting the teaspoon of sugar in their tea, it gets sprinkled. Also I have a tray for putting cups on so that tea stains just go on the tray. What tray? Arggghhhhhh! That sort of goes with "what's a dishwasher?" That's when plates trays knives with butter all over them (including the handle???!!!!) spoons are just dropped where they were last used.

Oh and I have a white sink too - Domestos and Limelight do well there. And if I am really lucky I can get that wonderful aroma of the swimming baths so it feels like I have been at the poolside. Just kidding.

[xScrunchee]

Dust if you must

 

Dust if you must but wouldn't it be better

To paint a picture or write a letter

Bake a cake or plant a seed.

Ponder the difference between want and need.

 

Dust if you must but there's not much time,

With rivers to swim and mountains to climb!

Music to hear and books to read,

Friends to cherish and life to lead.

 

Dust if you must but the world's out there

With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,

A flutter of snow, a shower of rain.

This day will not come around again.

 

Dust if you must but bear in mind,

Old age will come and it's not kind.

And when you go and go you must,

You, yourself, will make more dust.

 

Dust if you must but listen to this,

It's caring not cleaning that brings upon bliss.

Remember, a house becomes a home when

you can write "I love you" on the furniture...

 

Anon

 

 

Heard this poem years ago and think it's very true