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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 5:38:28 PM
Hi Ladies
I recently have been visiting the Fly Lady's website a lot. I was just wondering if anyone else uses her routines and tips to get their chorse done everyday?
http://flylady.net
Alee |
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| Alee |
Posted - Sep 24 2007 : 09:04:39 AM
I woke up this morning to a clean and shining sink! Yay! I am so happy!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora!
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 30 2007 : 4:57:32 PM
Well today I did some laundry, but not much else FlyLady wise. I spent most of my free time trying to rescue my garden from the evil weeds!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 18 2007 : 09:13:24 AM
Rebecca-
That is really great advice. I try to do that, but I need to reinforce the habit. I also have to somehow get my guy to think that putting things away is a good idea :)
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 18 2007 : 05:55:02 AM
[quote]Originally posted by Alee
The fact that your house stays organized after you get it "just so" is really encouraging. I wish my house would! I feel like I get it all cleaned up and organized and then I turn around it has fallen apart at the seams!
Alee
Just keep this rule in mind: always put things back "EXACTLY" where they go. You must be very strict. My problem is, I don't have everything figured out yet, so I don't know where EXACTLY to put it!!!!????
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. http://boinglink.blogspot.com/ |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 17 2007 : 4:11:43 PM
Jana-
My mom doesn't like that part about FlyLady either! :)
Alee
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
| Jana |
Posted - Jun 17 2007 : 3:49:05 PM
I've done Flylady on and off for a couple of years and it has helped when things get a little out of control. I don't like "to do" lists, so its hard for me to stick with it. AND I clean in my bare feet. lol!
Jana |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 17 2007 : 11:33:38 AM
The fact that your house stays organized after you get it "just so" is really encouraging. I wish my house would! I feel like I get it all cleaned up and organized and then I turn around it has fallen apart at the seams!
Alee
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 15 2007 : 11:57:42 AM
It's just so humiliating to be disorganized. We moved in Aug 06 and I am very slow about getting things figured out. I was trying to not be so hard on myself as I had had a very stressful year, but it's really getting harder for me to deal with everything. I just feel like I've got brain damage. Once I get an area figured out, it really stays that way, but until that point I'm pretty hopeless. Getting things straightened out for 6 people in a 1700 sq foot house is a big challenge to me. It's not a house design that is all that functional. I'm trying though. I know that I have come quite a long way, it's like the more I do the more I get frazzled about it.
My dad was very ocd and collected things and he couldn't throw stuff away (we had 5 acres of junk and garbage). My mother had poor health all my growing up years, so together they didn't really give a good example on what to do. I'm trying to learn. I feel like I have all that hanging over my head though.
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. http://boinglink.blogspot.com/ |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 15 2007 : 07:56:28 AM
LOL! I am so glad we can admit to our little faults here! LOL. I just LOVE printing things off from the computer... but now that I have my laptop I am better about printing things...that and a printer cartridge costs almost $30 for our printer!
Alee |
| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 15 2007 : 05:12:49 AM
....*blush*.....GUILTY as charged. But, in my defense, I do have it sort of corraled in a file cabinet and I have been very ruthless with myself about what I keep. : )
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. http://boinglink.blogspot.com/ |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 14 2007 : 8:34:38 PM
Faith- I am like that too! I would have to houseclean the housecleaning journal!
Alee |
| faithymom |
Posted - Jun 13 2007 : 11:26:44 PM
Rebecca, what really stuck with me about Ewer's book (House Works)is that she explained the different types of 'messies' and specific steps to counter-act those tendencies.
She also has some great solutions that she calls 'skill sets' and takes things step-by-step, essentially 'teaching' those things that I didn't learn from my mom (mostly my own fault...it wasn't a priority to me then)
I do like that you can print out a TON of stuff from the website, but I tend to collect paper so I have to pretty selective about what I need from there or I'd have a 50 pound Housekeeping Journal!
"All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?"-Fmr. FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 13 2007 : 7:56:19 PM
Faith-
You sound alot like me! I know I can get it done if I just get up and do it. Heck, I did it for other people for several years! Sometimes it really is just the realization that you have to do it, and not just wait for that missing ingredient to come along! :)
Alee |
| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 13 2007 : 6:46:42 PM
I had looked at that, about 3 years ago. I think I printed out some of the stuff, but I never went any farther with it. What about OH.com did you like?
If my husband did laundry I think I'd fall over in a dead faint! Congratulations! Make sure you praise him highly for doing that!!!
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. http://boinglink.blogspot.com/ |
| faithymom |
Posted - Jun 13 2007 : 4:48:32 PM
I've tried Sidetracked Home Executives, FlyLady, Messies Anonymous, and OrganizedHome.com
I have read a bazillion books on organization and cleaning....
I have gained a lot of insight from all of them, but my favorite today is OrganizedHome.com. I have the book Cythia Townley Ewer (editor of that site) wrote and I like it a lot.
AND I can finally say that I am on my way to an organized....well, okay, maybe not that organized yet, but...a cleaner home...like it's fairly clean on a daily basis...and I am actually doing something every day to clean it...
BUT I will also say that this progress has far more to do with getting off my butt and doing it and having the desire to get it done (even though I still don't like doing it) than it does with finding a 'magic schedule' that made me all of a sudden WANT to do it.
I know none of you are saying that's the case, I just think that often I felt that if I read the right book or heard the right process/schedule that one day I'd just wake up and act like a Born-Organized person for the rest of my life... yes, I'm silly... and it took many years of trying and failing and trying again before I found the motivating factor to get the jobs done.
I am still so far from where I want to be, but there are changes happening around here.
The other day, my husband even (without me asking) did some laundry without griping about it! This is a BIG deal!
Any of you who are still trying and still not where you want to be: Don't give up hope!
You can do it! I have faith in that!
Hugs to all SHEs, Messies, FlyBabies, and the rest who fight this battle.
Faith
"All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?"-Fmr. FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 13 2007 : 12:52:30 PM
Since I have been on vacation, I haven't been reading her site, but I did vacuum my mom's house today to be helpful!
Alee |
| Maryjane Lee |
Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 08:45:01 AM
Yes! Fly Lady works! Love her system! It's amazing what you can do in 15 minutes and in a zone! I feel VERY organized and have been successful with it! I made a notebook and printed it all out. Give her a try and you will fly!!!! heehee!
Hugs,
Maryjane Lee |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 08:33:50 AM
Rebecca-
What a great idea! I hadn't thought of using a utensil tray! If I had drawers in my bathroom I would use that idea. Our dollar store has some of those great organizational baskets. I have a really cute box that I keep most of my makeup and hair stuff in. And since it is pretty on the outside- It just sits on the countertop. I just have to make sure I put everthing back in it's place and close the lid of the box when I am done or else it doesn't look so nice! 
Alee |
| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 12 2007 : 05:30:10 AM
Yesterday I bought a cheap utensil organizer and put it in our one and only bathroom drawer in the master bathroom. It will contain the dental floss, combs, toothpaste & extra toothbrushes. This was an idea that my mother-in-law's cleaning person had.
And I also bought a couple of cute plastic organizer totes that are mini-sized for the brushes, hair things, deodorants, etc. for under the sink. I found them at Target.
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. http://boinglink.blogspot.com/ |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 9:17:10 PM
I personally don't get the emails. Instead I just read the site to see what my assignment is for the day/week.
Alee |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 6:55:16 PM
I've tried this but it just seems too overwhelming to me. All those emails just drove me nuts! The one thing that I did take away from it was to keep my sink shining every day. Sandra Felton has been on Focus On The Family many times. I always enjoy listening to her. Thanks for the link.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 1:46:45 PM
Thanks for the link, Rebecca! I will check out her page too!
Alee |
| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 1:39:22 PM
Since FlyLady gets a little overboard with her e-mails and there is so much to wade through, I have switched to The Organizer Lady. Her e-mails have very brief testimonials. You get about 1 per day. It's Sandra Felton author of The Messies Manual (I signed up for the e-mails and found her book at a neighbor's garage sale all in one month. Kind of weird, huh?). www.messies.com
She says the same spiel, it's just more streamlined. I do like FlyLady's stuff, I just need stuff that's more to the point. FlyLady will admit it herself, she isn't about the organizing, she is about being free from chaos and clutter.
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. http://boinglink.blogspot.com/ |
| Carolinagirl |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 11:26:54 AM
I go back and forth to the flylady site every couple of years. I've never followed the plan strictly- but the parts I learn are always useful. That 15 minute cleaning thing works well for me- I tend to wander around and never complete any project, and the timer helps me focus on that.
I went back to the site today and noticed lots of new things... I can't wait for more time to check them out.
Kim in NC |
| MariaAZ |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 09:02:14 AM
I tried Flylady, but it didn't last long. I'm dreadfully disorganized...
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