Disclaimer:
I am not a clean freak nor do I enjoy housework.Laurenbove wrote about the Flylady here and she reminded me of how I once had a love/hate relationship with her. (The Flylady, not Laurenbove)
Flylady gets as close to god talk as I can personally tolerate: the hate part; but when I’m signed up and receiving the emails, I have to admit, I get more done and am happier in the long run; the love part.
For those of you not familiar with Flylady you can go to her site and see if you can stand her.
Basically once you sign up you get a series of emails guiding you through your chores; encouraging you to love yourself; reminding you to do everything from finishing your laundry to flossing your teeth. If you’re up around
Sounds simplistic I know, but after reading Lauren’s post I signed up again and my house is shiny happy clean without me ever feeling like I’ve had to overdo working.
Flylady tells you to do things in 10 or 15 minute time periods and gives out assignments daily. All this week we are supposed to focus on our kitchens -- and today was look up and clean the dirt from all things that are above eye level.
Yesterday, I think was locate the source of that awful smell.
(How did she know?)
I found a green/brown fuzzy lemon way in the back of the fridge.
I hate housework but I adore clean…and if you do, you also might benefit from the Flylady and her reminders and emails of encouragement sprinkled with tips, recipes and testimonials from Flylady members.
One thing I do love that she says over and over: You can do anything for 15 minutes and she’s right. It’s also very surprising how much you can get done in 15 minutes.
The best part is by the time I’m writing this post at 2 PM, I have accomplished all my goals and have plenty of free time to blog, chat on the phone, read, or whatever I care to do. And I'm doing it in a sparkling clean house.
I guess I need direction, reminders and gentle pushes to get things done. I need to replace bad habits with good habits. I need to balance my dislike for housework with my love of having a clean house.
I guess I even need that
Thanks for reminding me about Flylady Lauren, (come back Lauren I miss your blog!) -- I’m back soaring, so to speak, and getting things done fifteen minutes at a time.
posted by mary bishop | 2:28 PM
10 Comments:
Ditto on the come home LB - and Flylady has a lot of great stuff. I've not signed up for her, but I'm of a similar mindset and always have been. It seems like a great idea and I'd LOVE to sign my roommates up. (They're prime candidates for such a program.) Part of my absolute excitement of getting a place with B is that both of us tend towards the clean, although not always the neat - and it's so much easier when it's your own place. Much harder when you're shoved into a room in someone else's home.
Oh my, I may need to try this flywoman. But only if I can be sure that Thor will never find out...this is the kind of thing that cannot be lived down.
Echrai...I love not having a messy house or living in chaos (can't have anyone over syndrome!
She's a bit much...but her ideas are sound and her nudges work in the long run.
Kimananda, of all the things about myself I've exposed in my blog, this might very well be the one I'm most nervous about.
It isn't a cool thing or a nouveau thing or a wild and crazy thing: I'm writing about housework and I really should have posted under an assumed name and typed while wearing a mask.
The info I have supplied is not for husbands or lovers or in-laws: it's just for us...shhhh...the ones who like to live in clean and hate the process of making it that way!
Sangroncito...there is something very good about realizing the amount of work one can do in only 15 minutes...I think that's the biggest surprise to me -- one can kick ass in 15 minutes...easy peasy.
I need this FlyLady. I've made a cleaning chart for the house, but oh, the 15 minute thing makes sense! I hate housecleaning, the husband hates housecleaning and thus the messy house until one of us breaks each week and does it.
Must. sign. us. up.
Melissa, give her a try. After a week or so, she gets you in a routine that takes hardly any time yet yields great results.
Hi MaryB!
gosh...how strange...I was reading my flylady emails and then came to your website to see ...more flylady! I've been doing the flylady thing since February and it has helped me alot with my messes! :-)
Sweetzie Weetzie! How nice to see your name on my blog.
Isn't it amazing how it does work...I really didn't want to talk about this on my blog...thought I'd sound like a Stepford Wife..but it's not about that...it's about doing things routinely that end up saving you lots of time and trouble.
So, you have someone to prod you into getting your chores done? Umm ... well, I guess if you finally decide you're sick of her nagging, you won't have to give her half of everything you own.
After my exploding glass incident, I've been a bit out of it...so I read your response three times before I got it...then I let out a howl...you are too funny!
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