The house isn't too bad. Over night I came to the conclusion that the list I wrote up can be a GUIDE not a rule. I will endeavour to do most things on the day I have specified, but if it doesn't happen, then I'm not going to beat myself up about it.

But now, coz its a nice day, I'm going to hang the washing and do the floors and kitchen.

I put a new doona cover on the bed last night :) The cover, and pillow cases were destined for rugs, but were 'too nice' to chop up. So now they are on my bed.




I'm quite liking making the bed of a morning after I get up. I've been doing it a while now, and its MUCH more relaxing at night time to go in there and slip into a nicely made bed, but I am heartily sick of the bedding I've hard for years and years.

:s

I sorted out the loungreroom floor, and the couch. But it doesn't look like I've done anything! WHERE do I put the can of hooks? the jar of needles? The can of pens? I guess, if I tidied off the 'coffee' table, I could put them there. That just seems to accumulate shit though. The couch isn't too bad. I got all my stuff off it, and even put all the remotes into the wicker tissue box thing (where to put THAT?) I put the Dr Who scarf in a box, coz its that big now, and then tossed all the yarn for it in the box as well. Of course, watching the tv last night, I pulled three remotes out and the scarf, then didn't put them away.

There. Its taken me about 60 seconds to do that. (put them away) Max. What was so hard about doing it last night? It cant have even been that I was tired!

I guess, as I read on the Flylady site, it didn't happen over night. But I think if I can keep just ONE tidying habit going, I'll get there.

Still gotta mop the floors.

well, I've already had a set back

..on the housework list

I did some of Thursdays, and then promptly gave up.

I collected Fridays washing on Thursday and did Saturdays laundry on Friday. I didn't get around to debugging the puter last night either. I've updated everything today and will do that later.

So today, being Saturday I need to finish Thursdays pick up, debug the puter AND mop floors/vacuum.

Perhaps Thursday isn't a good day for the picking up. I might change that to Friday and do it when I am debugging. Which will then effectively leave Thursday free. Although, maybe I can make that a 'look around to find stuff you really dont need and toss it in the bin' time.

I dunno. I want to have the place ok for guests. Because there is only me and the cats, *I* take up the spare seat of the couch with whatever I'm working on and assorted crap (remotes, books, pens) and the cats have the two chairs. I shouldn't have to keep visitors at the door because there is no where for them to sit. Just shooing the cats off the chairs doesn't work either, coz then there is cat hair. But then again...guests that stay long enough to need a seat are few and far between. I think the last one would have been the 29th Dec. Kobies parents just stayed long enough to drop her off and pick her up.

Plus I am shit at uh...welcoming them into the place. I can't say 'come in, come in, its too hot/cold/windy/rainy out there.' There seems to be some physical block against doing that. Would I get better if the place was tidier? I doubt it.

heh, for the fun of it I looked up the oft recommended FlyLady. First this I see? "Are YOU living in CHAOS? (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome)

Do you feel overwhelmed, overextended, and overdrawn?
Hopeless and you don't know where to start?"

Maybe I'll have a look.

Day 1 - shine sink sounds ok, day 2, get dressed properly doesn't.

Oh ho - http://flylady.net/pages/FLYFaq.asp#hotspot - day 6

Day 8 "This is a working document; do not allow your perfectionism to interfere with the process."

"Remember: You cannot organize clutter - you can only organize the things you love!"

I like this one '"Put Away" Stuff: When the "Put Away" box gets full, take the box in your arms and run around the house (good thing you have shoes on - right?) and put the items in the room where they belong. If they have a place, put them there, if not put them in the room where they logically belong. By the time you have finished you will have a place for everything and everything will be in it's place. '

Now, at week 3, its getting silly. There are a few bits of advice there that I can use though.

But for now. I'm going to sort out the loungeroom floor. :)

housework list

so last night, I decided to do something about the house. Luna, over here, has a list of things to do around her place, and that worked for me a while, especially the getting up in the morning to put dishes away.

Because I happened to be in there, I started with the bathroom, and as it was Tuesday, the week starts there.

Mine isn't quite as labour intensive.

~*~
Tuesdays
- clean loo - bowl, tank, seat
- wipe down bath
- wipe down sink, taps
- determine what needs binning: loo rolls, bottles, dust infested items (meaning not used in potentially YEARS)
- dust off pill bottles
- do mirror
- collect washing
- replenish blue bags
- decide what 'color' the week/fortnight will be and put away every thing that isn't it. This week it is orange, so I need to put away bath products that are not orange. Aim to ONLY have out shampoo, conditioner, and shower gel.

take photo/s

Review Mondays photos - identify problem areas, make adjustments to list.

~*~
Wednesdays
- if there is enough washing, do it
- tidy dressing table, drawers, other surfaces

Take photo/s

Review Tuesdays photos - identify problem areas, make adjustments to list.

~*~
Thursdays
- find books, dvds, videos, cds and put away PROPERLY
- find anything else not immediately being used and put that away too
- collect washing - if it's on the floor, it gets washed. Look beside the bed.

Take photo/s (chairs, couch, dresser, floor, clocks)

Review Wednesdays photos - identify problem areas, make adjustments to list.

~*~
Fridays
- do washing, including house linens
- debug puter


Review Thursdays photos - identify problem areas, make adjustments to list.

~*~
Saturdays

- mop lino, to be nice and clean for Sundays
- vacuum, look for old webs

Take photos of ALL the floors

~*~
Mondays

- clean up the kitchen: bench, stove, catfood bowls, include the fridge, freezer and kettle.
- put everything in the drainer away
- scour the sink

Take photo/s

Review Saturdays photos - identify problem areas, make adjustments to list.


-=-=-=-

The photo thing? well, I have an unerring tendency to SEE things clearer in photos. There is no Sunday, coz thats a day of rest.

As you can see there isn't anything heavy or hard or even anything that will take longer than about 10 mins. there is NO reasin why I can't keep this up. Nothing has to be done by any particular time...well, ok, before bed.

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