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Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Monday, April 30, 2007 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Okay, bed's made, morning routine done, dressed to the toes, dishes washed therefore kitchen sinks clean, kitty litter scooped, a load of laundry done, and the living room has been policed.

The other day I went to Wal-Mart, a feat I rarely try, and bought a new vacuum cleaner. The other one has been relagated to the garage for laundry area outdoor carpet cleaning. (I'll wait 'til later to run the vacuum, so I won't wake War's little nephew!)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 30, 2007 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, thanks Gracie.

Julie, he'll be 1 at the end of the month. He belongs to my bils little sister (my "adopted" little sis) and for a kid who has no blood at all in common with my kids, he totally takes after Kota. Allergies, sinuses, ear infections on a fairly recent basis. His mommy picked him up a few hours ago to take him to the doctor then brought him back to me so she could go to work and he's been a completely different kid, all smiles and giggles and tooling around the house right now in his walker.

I managed to finish up cleaning my kitchen, but didn't get to the den before I had to run mom and my aunt to the doctors office then get back for him. Now my nieces are here while their mom and dad are getting an ultrasound. They are hoping to find out if their baby is a boy or girl though really they are there to check her uteras to make sure she doesn't have more tears and that the others have healed. I won't have much chance to get anything done til later this afternoon.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 4:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*May 1–4*

*Tuesday's Mission*

Wargod, I hope your little nephew is feeling a whole lot better today. Those nasty ear infections do such a number on the little ones.

Vacanick, acccckkkkk, I didn't mean to overlook your post. Outside work is just as necessary as inside. Which do you prefer?

Hi, Hermi! Hi, Urgrace! Hi, Y2krazy! Hi, NT of the new kitchen! And just in case she's checking in...hi, Lum!

Serate, mind meld today? LOL!

I'd like to thank Dipo for posting the link for room arranging. I tried it yesterday before shoving furniture all around and it really gave me a good sense of what I could and could not do. For the first time, I just put the furniture in place without having to try it here and there...much easier on the wrists.

Well I'm off to get my microfiber cloths to wipe down handles and smudges. Happy Tuesday, everybody!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Vee, to be honest I've never even read a mission. I just come in here to be amazed at all ya'll do and maybe get a hint or two. My main problem is stuff. I have so much stuff to go through and try to figure out where to put it. Not as many places to "hide" stuff in the new house. We did get rid of alot of stuff before we left Kentucky. But there is still alot of stuff to get put away, and we've been here almost 4 months.

Shine my sink? Um no. It won't shine. But after hubby goes to work and I take care of the dishes it's cleaned. We use one side for pop cans to drain - usually from hubby's lunch and I have one for supper, the rest of the time we drink water - so I feel the need to clean it every day. [In Iowa there is a $0.05 deposit on every pop can/bottle and usually only take them in every 6 - 8 weeks so I like to let them drain before putting them in a walmart bag to go to the garage.]

Mind meld today? Only if you got your back yard mowed by 9:30 this morning! I was going to wait until 10 - trying to be a nice neighbor and not used to living in town - but the guy across the street was mowing at 8 so I started shortly after. Feels good to have that chore done.

Gonna go start some laundry, then maybe try and tackle the kitchen counter that is heaped. Try. Maybe. Cuz maybe I should get the dining room cleaned out so I can prime. But to do that I need to get the small room at least organized a tad bit so I can move stuff in there from the dining room. But that kitchen counter is heaped so high. But from the kitchen I can see the dining room. aaagggghhh what to do what to do. *L*

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Ack! There is no way I'm doing dining room walls today. I usually make the dh do that

How'd I miss the link Dipo posted on rearrangment of furniture?

The yard was mowed on Saturday before all the rain we've been having. I did most of it then turned the last bit over to hubby. My lungs were filling up with pollen and just wouldn't cooperate. I love that chore, too. Good thing since it's going to need mowing again real soon.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
thanks Vee, isn't that a cool link! I used it to figure out if my furniture would fit in a condo that is 200 sq ft smaller than I currently have. Plus it is fun to just play a bit with the stuff, I had a really good time put plants on the patio, LOL.

Ugrace, here it is again.
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/pac_ctnt_wide/text/0,1783,HGTV_17897_23822,00.html

I got it in an HGTV email back in 2004 and have kept it since I never got around to using it.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 9:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Serate, go to the Flylady site and you will get great hints on how to get yourself organized, decluttered etc. and it is all babysteps. You are not expected to complete anything in a day.

One thing, if you still have stuff not put away after being at your home for four months, if you haven't used these items, you have to think to yourself, do you really need it?

Today, I worked this morning and have my mind on other things this afternoon/today (read my folder) so I will finishing folding and putting away laundry and go though some stuff in the basement and go from there.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Serate, Skootz is so right...FlyLady's site has all the information that you need. Perhaps, despite being strangely drawn to this thread, you are not quite ready. That's okay. It took me many months of lurking and looking before I hopped onboard, too. I am just glad that you are checking it out because I see that you are overwhelmed and I believe that this method can work for you when and if you are ready to give it a go.

Flylady's site is so large...tons of reading... so I have chosen the *Decluttering Page* to make it a little easier.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Thanks Dipo. Now I know why I missed it. The site says:
The Room Planner cannot run in your browser. Currently we do not support the Macintosh operating system. We are working to remove this limitation. Sorry for the inconvienence.


Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Okay, it's time to get back into the groove.

I can count on both hands and have fingers left with how many times I had to mow last year because of the drought. This year with all the rain and the weeds that I got rid of last year being back and growing at an alarming rate I could mow twice a week. NOT!!! And I don't even want to talk about the flower beds.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Here here.

OT but our river is over the banks and half way up the trees. SA is experiencing several road closures due to water over the roads. And can you believe the San Francisco Bay bridge fiasco?

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Acutally, it is the MacArthur Maze that has issues where the freeway overpass fell down, and the people coming off the bridge have to cut through Oakland to get back to Walnut Creek.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 4:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*Wednesday's Mission*

Happy fluttering around your entryway...unfortunately, mine is such a disaster (lumber, sawdust, tools) that I'm passing this one by.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 4:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
I just made the kids put their shoes away at the one entrance and I hung up the coats about 5 minutes ago lol - I have a bunch of shoes etc., at the other entrance...off I go.

Yesterday I did a bunch of decluttering of the basement. I separated into four piles. One for my friend who is adopting a baby (baby things etc.), stuff for our trailer, stuff for donation and garbage. It is a farm house basement, but it looks so much better now.

Have a great day.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 8:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
The only thing in my entrance way is the kids shoes and backpacks and that's where we prefer them to be. The kids lose them if they go anywhere else, lol. Oh and my aunts vacuum is sitting there, Darren brought it home yesterday to take it apart and clean it out.

Yesterday afternoon and evening I spent in my den. I picked up, sorted through the kids small toy box that's in here and got rid of what they don't play with anymore, moved furniture, dusted, swept, straighted up the bookcases, and then did the floor with a freaking scrub brush on my knees, lol. (I could have gotten away with using a mop but with my nephew crawling on the floor I wanted to give it a real good cleaning.)
Vee, you would have been proud of me, lol. It was so hot that I could only work 15-20 minutes at a time before having to take a break.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
One thing, if you still have stuff not put away after being at your home for four months, if you haven't used these items, you have to think to yourself, do you really need it?

Some items I have used, some I haven't used but they aren't daily weekly monthly type of items. Meat slicer [in the box for easier storage], pressure cooker and all my canning items - definitely seasonal, dishes that I just don't have room for but I use. When we moved I gave up cupboard space, and my oh my closet space. We probably have 1/4 the closet space. I've went through my dishes but the ones I don't use are hubby's moms, and for reasons I won't go into at the moment they will be kept in the cupboards.

I did walk through the dining room and the small bedroom, and maybe just maybe it's not as bad as I really thought. My plan today was to group like items in the bedroom and decide which ones we might need in the next couple weeks, put them by the door and move everything I could out of the dining room into the small bedroom. [getting ready to paint dining room and kitchen] I have already went through most of the stuff in there and it's not junk, just has no home yet. Threw away a trash bag and a half last Saturday. I also had plans, and still plan, to get that kitchen counter at least organized, if not totally cleaned off except for essentials. OK I'll be realistic. Organized. There's too much paperwork I need hubby to look through. Not sure which is work, home, chapter, work but can be pitched, chapter but can be pitched, all of the above but needs to be taken to work.

Just today life took over and instead of doing that I've been looking for something to replace my husband's truck that we took in for just tires and maybe brakes last night. They called this morning - $2200 worth of work and that's not including the exhaust needs replaced and the plugs are baked in and need replaced and hubby can't get them out. It's not safe to drive w/o the majority of the repairs and it's time it went to truck heaven. So I've been working on the budget trying to make a car payment come out my patootie and scouring online and in the paper for a replacement vehicle.

I'm also working against my hubby on alot of stuff. Both of us grew up w/o hardly anything - me I had more because I had my mom and my dad and I knew I was loved so was richer than a lot of my friends who had all the newest toys but not the love. But hubby has also been through extremely hard times as an adult, homeless, foodless, etc. So it is really hard to get him to part with items that are useful but we aren't using and probably won't use. I've gotten rid of alot of the junk we used to have - helped hubby had to report to work 3 weeks before the movers came and me and the cats moved with him. I know there is light at the end of the tunnel, and I might end up with keeping more stuff than I need, it's just getting it all organized and finding a spot for everything w/o having any closets available for this stuff.

But, my kitchen sink HAS BEEN SCRUBBED!

[Is scrubbed ok Vee? Cuz mine will never shine unless/until we replace it.]

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
P.S. Vee and Skootz, I do want to thank you for your input. I'm not trying to be difficult. But it's just not me I'm dealing with and my hubby is doing really well at getting rid of stuff. Just I have to choose my battles and space them far apart. More important to me a loving husband and a cluttery home than an unhappy husband and a spotless clutterfree house.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
LOL! Serate, scrubbed is good, very good...mine wouldn't shine either without a little outside help. I use a dollop of pure vegetable oil and wipe the sink completely down with that or, when really ambitious, I use car wax. It sure makes an old, tired sink shine.

I don't think of you as being difficult. It takes time and methinks you could be a SHE (like so many of the rest of us) with plenty of perfectionistic tendencies...if it can't be perfect, why bother?

But even 15 minutes of decluttering a day is better than none and you are well on your way to achieving that.

And a happy home is always more important than an organized home, but, fortunately, they are not mutually exclusive.

So sorry about the truck news. Gosh, that really stinks.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
This morning, before going bowling, I tidied every room in the house, picking up and putting away this and that, and even scrubbed one of the bathrooms sinks (did the other one this afternoon)! I also ironed my clothes to wear today, but the iron didn't get put away (still hot).

Went out to lunch with the bowling gals, too, and now I just want to be a couch potato. But I can't because I have to go make dinner. (pffbbbbtttt)

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 4:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*Thursday's Mission*

Can't agree with Kelly any more today...so many front steps loaded with anything but what could be considered attractive or welcoming. Sometimes we say that we don't care about what anyone else thinks, but we and our families deserve a pleasant home. I am going to jump on board with this one and wash doors (even though they'll be taken off in a couple of weeks) and toss out the old mats. I deserve it! It's going to make me smile...

Anyone see this cute gif on FlyLady's front page? I have one of these timers and I really do love it. C

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, Vee, I have 3 timers! I have one by the computer -- use it to limit the amount of time I goof off. One my the kitchen, this is the one that I usually use to time my cleaning, and it is very helpful when I have laundry down at the apt laundryroom (I just set it for the amount of time the washer or dryer take) and my third one is at the office. I try to take my 15 minute breaks using it! I love the timer! Oh and I forgot I gave a timer away as a Christmas present. When I was at my girlfriends for Thanksgiving I couldn't figure out how to make her fancy-dancy three setting digital timer work, so I got her a normal one from flylady.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
HI there folks... Generally lazy person popping in to say that I've been fairly industrious this week. (Well for me anyways...) Tuesday 7 loads of Laundry, Wednesday Cooking, Thursday/Friday I have a pile of mending to do... I know its not much, but hey, for me, these little accomplishments are huge.
I rarely come in here, cuz you guys really put me to shame. But I wanted to do a tiny bit of horn-tooting. BTW, with my Fibromyalgia I have bursts of energy in between lots of malaise and achiness... (Not a great excuse, but it's all I got.)

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Baby steps Mame...just do a bit at a time and do what you can when you can. (psst going to bed at 5am and getting up at 1pm can through you slightly off didn'tchknow lol)

Just do a bit by by, if you to to Kelly's mission for the day that Vee post the links too every morning, these are things that you spend only 15 minutes on per day. Just try one each day and go from there. Like I said, baby steps. We don't de-clutter in one day..that is impossible.

Y2krazy
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09-17-2002

Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Y2krazy a private message Print Post    
Hi everyone, I'm here..still trudging along...it has been very busy at work, which wears me out. Making me almost useless at home.

Month end and first of the month are always extra extra busy, so I try to just get by for those 3 or 4 days, then get back to getting things done at home too

I'm doing pretty well with sorting messes while dinner cooks....it can be amazing what just 30 minutes or so can do.
(at least it makes me feel better about collapsing and watching TV after dinner)

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*Friday's Mission* Yup, gonna do this one, too. It's been a little while since I cleaned those light fixtures.

Hi Mamebee! Skootz gave you such good advice. We don't want you twirling up a storm when you're feeling great only to crash if you overdo it. Not good. Not the FlyLady way. Only Wargod can get away with tricks like that.

Hi Y2! Glad to see that you're fluttering away, too. Any chance of doing some houseblessing in the morning instead of in the evening so you're not so tired?

This is my schedule even though no one has asked. Ha! I don't have times here because it varies from day to day. I'm on my own time as long as I'm ready for 8:30.


Upon waking...make the bed...it doesn't have to be perfect, but I like mine close to that.

Next into the bathroom and into the shower. Directly after shower...moisturize. So important to pamper ourselves with this attention.

Before leaving the bathroom, a daily Swish and Swipe of the commode and the sink keeps it all presentable.

Off to dress to shoes (okay, usually it's flops, but I do have something on my feet). Load the washer, unload the dryer, if my sis happened to put in a load.

Then I have an appointment with Fioré's feeding station; otherwise, she swats me.

After that...a beeline for the coffee pot and then the computer. See? Here I am.

The kitchen is already tidied from last night so I really can start on the mission as soon as my contractor has arrived, had coffee, breakfast, and headed to the job. (Vacanick, he primed the new door yesterday.)

Then, for the remainder of the day, I don't clean unless I see something that is dirty. I won't walk past a hot spot, for example. I keep up with dishes after meals, I'll continue to push laundry.

Anyone else want to share your schedule?

Happy fluttering and TGIF!