Task 7 Hot spots

Sorry I'm a day late.

A Hot Spot is an area, when left unattended will gradually take over. If left unattended, the hot spot will grow and take over the whole room as well as making the house look awful. When you walk into a room, the hot spot is the first thing you see. Your eyes are locked on it. Do you have areas like this that continue to grow if left alone? Does the rest of the family see this as a place to put things when they do not want to put them where they belong? It is our job to NIP this in the bud. Get rid of that pile, find the surface underneath, and stop the Hot Spot from becoming a raging Clutter inferno! - FlyLady

So our task of the day is........Identify the hot spots in your home and spend 5 min. twice a day putting things away.

I do have one more task to start thinking about and that is to get a piece of paper and jot down all the tasks you have been givin and hang them up somewhere where you will see them throughout the day.( bathroom mirror, kitchen cupboard ect..)




http://flylady.net/pages/FLYFaq.asp#hotspot

Practice Makes Better

So, I know I'm lame but I feel like I need a week

to work on this routine. So for this week I want us

to "practice" our routine thus far. 

I've heard that all it takes to making something a 

habit, is doing that something for 27 consecutive 

days. If we start today, this stuff would be habit 

on March the 7th. I'm not suggesting that we hold 

off on new tasks. I'm just putting that little factoid 

out there for fun. I'm gonna try it.

Remember our tasks so far are:

1. Clean out and shine sink before bed

2. Finish one load of laundry

3. 20 minute pick-up

4. 27 fling boogie (refer to task #5)

5. Get up 15 minutes before the kiddies to be 

ready for the day

Good luck ladies! I wish you all success!

Time to fling

Set your timer for 15 min. and quickly gather up 27 things to either throw away or give away. Then promptly throw them away or take them to DI. It would be a good idea if you did this at the same time every day. And don't forget to keep up with our other tasks.

Task #4

Laundry ladies! I don't know about you but I dread laundry

day. So I propose that we all do one load a day. This means

Washing, drying, folding and putting away! What I like to do 

is throw a load in the washer just before I hop into bed. The 

problem I'm having is often times that load will sit in the dryer

for 3 days before I get around to folding it! Then of course the 

dirty clothes stack up and up and up! So, let's do some laundry

shall we?!

Task #3

First and formost keep doing doing task #1 and #2 every day. Our task for this week is to set the timer for 20min. every evening ( I like to do this about an hour before Will gets home) and everybody in the house does a quick clean up concentrate on the room or rooms that you and the kids spend the most time in. My kids help alot better with music and bribery. Good luck

2nd Task

                              



Rise and shine ladies! This week's task is actually

a culmination of two tasks. What I think we should

do this week (along with shining our sinks in the evening)

is get up 15 minutes before the babies wake up. Devote 

those 15 minutes to dressing, and fixing. If you need more

time to do this wake up a little earlier. I find that if I can

be ready for the day before my children get up that I'm 

a lot more prepared to take care of them and my other

duties. Good luck!

Task #1 for the new year!!!

You guessed it task #1 is go to bed with a clean shiny sink bonus points if the rest of the kitchen is clean as well. I have been terrible about this lately. My mom has a book called" The joys of homemaking," that I really like. Any way I think it was origanally published in the 60's A lot of it is pretty over the top but one thing that it says is that the kitchen is the center of the home and that if it is kept in order than the rest of the house will follow( or something like that). I actually find this to be very true. We will be doing a task per week this time And I will be trying to get a new quote on daily as well. It seemed like a task a day was just to much at a time. Let us know what you think. Good luck now go shine your sink!!!!
Here's a link to flyladies sink cleaning instructions if you are interested http://www.flylady.com/pages/FLYingLessons_Shine.asp