FlyLady Support Thread

[buttonnose82]

Does anyone follow the FlyLady?

I am wanting to start again but know if I do it alone I will end up giving up again!

 

[whistle]

I do. I love it.

I've been FLYing since October and I keep trying to convince other people to get on board saying 'It's really embarrassing and kitschy but it SAVED MY LIFE!'

I'm the most disorganised person ever, or at least I was until last October.

 

[Bambi1985]

Looked into doing this before but didn't in the end. Think I need to look into it again as definitely need something to help me!

 

[buttonnose82]

Bambi do it and we can muddle through together lol

whistle did you follow the baby steps to start with?

 

[Snow Owl]

I've heard of this, isn't it helping with housework?

Would love to give it a go but I guess it's not clever with a newborn! Lol

 

[deafgal]

if you do give up, at least try to keep your sink shiny I found it overwhelming at times.

 

[mrsswaffer]

Ooooh, I love FlyLady and have fluttered in and out for a few years now. It's helping with my nesting urge at the moment, but I'm only really doing the routines side of things.

 

[Bambi1985]

Gonna give it a go, afterall, it can't exactly make my house much worse! Off to shine my sink

 

[mrsswaffer]

Woo hoo!! Let's all do this together.

I'll be doing my washing up/drying/shining sink in a moment.

 

[buttonnose82]

yay, hopefully you lot can keep me on track!

 

[mrsswaffer]

Maybe we should make a support group in the groups forum?

I just did this to my sink...

Knowing that I'll be taking photos and showing people really motivates me to do a good job. I should have done a before shot too, really!

(Haha! Notice the Post-It on the left hand side. It says, "Get dressed to shoes, shine your sink, FlyLady forum." )

 

[buttonnose82]

I can move this thread over & rename it so we don't lose anyone on the way

 

[mrsswaffer]

Nice!

 

[whistle]

Bambi do it and we can muddle through together lol

whistle did you follow the baby steps to start with?

I did, and I found it really helped to be strict with myself, because I found that she explains everything so it all makes sense and fits together. I think if I'd just assumed I knew what I was doing I would have either crashed and burned or ended up doing things wrong and making more work for myself.

 

[whistle]

I've heard of this, isn't it helping with housework?

Would love to give it a go but I guess it's not clever with a newborn! Lol

I'd say if someone wanted to do it with a newborn you could take it really really simple and just focus on one habit a month. If you got just your dishes washed up and sink rinsed out most evenings from now till baba is 6 months you'd be doing ten times better than I was at that stage!!!

 

[buttonnose82]

well I cleaned my sink, it looks all lovely now

The bit I struggle with is getting dressed to your shoes, I understand why, I just hate wearing shoes in the house! am I meant to wear them all day? lol

 

[whistle]

Yay! So pleased to find this group. Good luck to everyone who's flying.

buttonnose - I must admit the shoes bit is the one rule I've never followed. I see why she says to do it, but I just get properly dressed and wear slippers with it iykwim? I can't be dealing with wearing shoes indoors!

 

[buttonnose82]

glad I'm not the only one, we never wear shoes in the house, we literally walk through the door and take shoes off right away!

 

[whistle]

Anyone doing the 15 minutes decluttering a day for February? I recently did this in our spare room before we painted it for DS to move into. Hubby always tries to get me to join him in decluttering a whole room at a time, which I hate, but over Christmas I quietly started doing 15 minutes of chucking every day in there and it was amazing how quickly I got rid of it all (and not just put away in boxes to be lugged to a different room). I'm tackling our stationery this week - how many envelopes, notebooks, folders and blah blah blah do we really need?!

 

[Bambi1985]

I never wear shoes in the house either but put them on this morning. Felt weird so ended up taking them off after a while, plus LO kept asking me if we were going out