The Kitchen after many lots of 15 minutes January 31, 2009
Posted by chocolatevegetables in FlyLady, Housework.Tags: 15Minutes, FlyLady, Goals, home management, Housework, Motivation
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Finally I seem to be staying on top of the dishes on a daily basis. Here is the result.
This is about as good as it gets. Fifteen minutes at a time my kitchen got pretty!
Best wishes
CV
Friday’s kitchen and an idea for the bathroom January 10, 2009
Posted by chocolatevegetables in FlyLady, Housework.Tags: 15Minutes, FlyLady, Goals, Home, home management, Housework, Organisation
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G’day
This is how the kitchen looked on Friday night before dinner. Amazing! We are still eating and using dishes yet my kitchen table is slowly but surely getting clearer. Yay!
Friday's kitchen table before dinner.
Also I have organised a shelf in my bathroom at the end of the bath. Keeping 6 toothbrushes, a mug and 3 tubes of toothpaste clean and tidy on the bench was getting difficult so I went out and got baskets for each of us. Now we still share toothpastes but each person has a basket for their toothbrush, their own cup and down the track, their comb/brush and soap. Feels good to see it all so organised.
Bathroom shelf at end of bath with little baskets. Pretty, aren't they?
Dh and I have ours on the bench beside the sink. Doesn’t look half as messy as before though.
Best wishes
CV
The Laundry Mountain 15 minutes January 8, 2009
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This mountain is another one of those areas that keeps growing, most times faster than I can fold and put away.
Here are the before and after shots.
My laundry mountain before I hit the timer for 15 minutes!
After 15 minutes some difference has been made!
Now I am usually too fussy with this job, I will admit it. I like to pull out only one type of linen or only one person’s clothes at a time and fold into neat little sorted piles on the table. Of course when the pile gets this huge there is no room for this method on the table so I put it off and put it off and … well you know.
This time I just pulled out clothes and folded shirts in one pile, shorts in another, smaller linen piles and put my clothes on a chair back. So, it isn’t sorted by person and clothing type, at least I got some done!
It is time I stopped letting some silly little OCD type things hinder me in doing the job at all! After all as FlyLady says “Housework done incorrectly will still bless your family.”
Best wishes
CV
15 Minutes Does Make a Difference January 7, 2009
Posted by chocolatevegetables in FlyLady, Housework, Uncategorized.Tags: 15Minutes, Family, FlyLady, Goals, Home, home management, Housework, Motivation
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I know I have been working consistently on the kitchen over the last few days and the focus is really helping.
They say that when you set goals that one of the steps involved is to write it down, another is to share it with people who will be supportive.
Setting a rather public goal of getting my kitchen sorted is really helping to keep me focused. After seeing the results over just a few short sessions I am thinking that I should spread this focus to other areas such as my lounge room, laundry piles, the school room and our bedrooms. I will put the names of each room into a jar and pull one at random as I feel I will have time to do some focused work. Being random will mean no quick clean ups like just before visitors. This is going to be honest and in my face.
I want my home to be a place my family enjoys and a place I can be willing to invite friends into. Right now I have the typical CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) syndrome. My goal is to have a clean tidy house where I feel at home.
I will achieve this 15 minutes at at time. Because 15 minutes does make a difference.
Best wishes
CV
Another 15 minutes on Wednesday January 7, 2009
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Wow, it is really starting to look a lot better.
See, there is a table under there, the dishes were not suspended in the air!
Now to go do some cooking, oh no, more dishes!
Best wishes
CV
