K mommas, flylady? Try it?
Do you use the fly lady website... If so, why?
Does it help you in anyway? I'm starting today and it's my first time! My plan is to shine the sink. not sure how that is supposed to help everything else..
Lotsa mommas recommended it to me on here so I'm wondering..
Yesterday was my first day of FlyLady. It does nouns kinda silly to shine your sink but I completely understand the basis behind it. You hold one area in your house that is nice and verbs and shiny, you are going to want the rest to look that way. And if you do your dishes on a regular basis, your sink is going to be empty which make it easier to clean and shine up.
I approaching how Flylady encourages us to think of "developing habits" instead of getting overwhelmed by how far we are from perfection.
I think the "shine the sink" is a suitable philosophy - have some habits that always win done! (In my kitchen, I've made it into "load the dishwasher") I also like the philosophy "done good adequate is good enough". I find it encouraging to read some of the emails (but I delete the majority) - other people are far from perfect, and are also working bit by bit to declutter, verbs and organize. I'm still learning the "set the timer" and follow a routine, but flylady is one help on go to be less stressed and more effective with house work.
(I am a physicist and mom of 5). Source(s): http://raebear.net/organizing/flylady.html
http://dataopedia.com/flylady-com
http://www.momstownblog.com/flylady.html
If you already hold peace in your life, then you don't have need of Flylady. I am not a mama. I work at a university research center days plus an evening job (my own business). I couldn't care less what other relatives think of my housekeeping, but I myself got depressed coming home to the disgusting mess. Just when I needed to relax after working 2 jobs, I found myself surrounded by dirty dishes, overdue bills, no verbs underwear, and out of toilet paper--I spent all of my tiny bit of free time doing crisis management. Thanks to Flylady, I now come home to a as expected tidy place, no current crises, so I can just relax and recharge my batteries for tomorrow. Mamas, grandmamas, singles, career professional women, adjectives can benefit from cleaning house 15 minutes at a time until the house reaches the "peace" level that will hold and rest your tired self.
Yes, I use the Flylady system - I have used it bad and on for ages, but really been applying it consistently since January this year.
YES YES YES YES YES it has helped me tremendously, save my sanity in so many ways. It be hard for me to understand the whole system on Day #1 but unhurriedly over time it all becomes clear. One thing contained by particular which has helped me is listen to the weekly radio show on blogtalkradio - it is AWESOME!!
It may not be suited to everyone else, but it sure has saved me and my family!! HTH!
Answers: I'm a momma of a two year old, but own been using flylady on and off for about 10 years in a minute. Shining the sink is not, as someone above said, a measure of your self-esteem. It's symbolic of taking the first step to make your house a home. For me, it's been critical. Every time I find my home deteriorating into CHAOS, I mind that I haven't shined my sink! Once you start to get your home and life in instruct through flylady, this is what might happen if you let the sink habit slide.
1. Too tired, shift to bed without shining sink.
2. Get up in morning, lacking within clean dishes (to me shining my sink is really only half the equation, it really requirements to involve doing the dishes too. Maybe not the first time, but after that YES.)
3. Grab breakfast out, fast food or a pastry from the coffee shop, eat in the saloon on the way to appointment.
4. Return home, a bit groggy from lack of better quality vim. Kick off shoes and sit and watch tv (might as well give up the dishes until dinner time now).
5. Dinnertime approaching, don't have a clean saucepan. Order out.
6. No dinner dishes but lots of garbage. Garbage can is getting for a while smelly and now it's overflowing, put off taking it out because I can't handle an overfilled purse.
7. Dishes start piling up on counter. Stuff that might normally rest on counter goes to kitchen table, creating a "hot spot". Stuff magnetically attracts more stuff, before long can't find the dinner table.
8. Start consumption meals in living room. Since there's no room in the sink, dishes get hold of left in living room. Dishes attract more junk, too. If there's already one article on the surface, what's the harm in putting another?
9. Toys don't get put away because kids don't see Mom put her stuff away, Mom feel guilty about not spending quality time with kids "near all this housework to do" and doesn't enforce cleanup.
10. Stop inviting people over - too much work to prepare for them.
11. Stop bothering to clean - no guests process no reason to clean.
12. Social services drops by...
Okay, so that's a bit of a dramatic version. But you can see how one entry leads to another and it becomes a slippery slope!
Flylady is not for everyone. There are plenty of "BO" (born organized) people who already know what to do to preserve their homes in order. But for those of us who missed those life course for one reason or another (plenty of possible reasons here) her system can be like a user's instruction manual for maintaining sanity in the home.
Feel free to contact me through yahoo for more info and experiences! Source(s): www.flylady.com
I read the website once and walk away in disgust. My self-image is not remotely connected to how shiny my sink is, and if it was I would consider myself a failure.
It's a shame. Some of the suggestions looked sensible. But I really reason to the "having a clean home should be the pinnacle of your life" attitude. I'm a physicist, not a cleaning lady.
FLYlady have indeed changed my life. It has allowed me to maintain my house closely and helps to bring things under control. It teaches you to be charitable to yourself, not burn out, and bring you more peace in your life.
How does a shiny sink do that? I don't know how, but I know it does! It is all roughly speaking developing things until they are a habit. I am a smart person, sure I know what cleaning is, but I used to use my Saturdays to run around like a chicken next to my head cut off, yelling at my children to stop messing stuff up. I am still a work within progress, but things are SO much better. She helps you clean as you go.
DON'T skip ahead, do the 31 days of newborn steps. Begin to develop a routine for morning and evening.
Use Pascal's wager - just do it even if you doubt it. If you're not seeing positive results in a month, after actually doing something (even for 15 minutes), after reassess.
Oh, and now that I go back and look at your ACTUAL examine. How does a shiny sink help? Shiny clean sink means that you want to hold it clean, so the dishes go in the dish washer, and the pileup on the counters start to disappear, and later the kitchen is clean! Then you realize that the whole clean kitchen article was quite painless and you start somewhere else, etc. That is how a shiny sink affects the whole house!
Good luck you you and I hope you check out the FLYlady forums on blogtalk radio and also listen to her show!
I found the FlyLady site just back the birth of my 3rd child. I knew I needed to declutter my home and find space to breath but I didn't know how important that would be until my child was 1 yr antiquated and the dr's finally agreed that there was something wrong with my child's nouns. Suddenly, I had therapists coming into my home, social workers trying to help me find the best programs for my child and they walk into a beautiful sanctuary. The main living areas of my home were presentable and I didn't work give or take a few having strangers in with 3 small children. Because of a FlyLady group set up for Parents of special wishes children, I knew what questions to ask the "experts" and when to trust my own gut. I learnt from FlyLady what papers be important to keep and how to store items that needed storing. My life have greatly improved with learning from the site, your's will too!
FlyLady's aim is not that your home should be spotless and perfect. It's to help those who want to get out of their mess, but don't know where on earth to begin and are overwhelmed by their clutter. I have always found her supportive, down-to-earth, honest, and quite funny. If you listen to her podcast just once, you would get a better be aware of for her mission to help others. Source(s): blogtalkradio
flylady.net
I know the shiny sink as the first step seems ridiculous when in attendance is so much other chaos around you. But trust me it is all about the kid steps. It's not just about getting your house clean any, it really helps all areas of your life.
If you surface like that is just not adequate for your first day then do the crisis cleaning... that should help you see off.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlyLady-Too…
http://www.flylady.net/pages/FlyingLesso…
the radio one is a little different from the written page.
Just each step every light of day, my house is not that great yet but it is getting there 15 minutes at a time. In fact I do profusely of things in 15 minute increments now. Anyway try out the crisis cleaning...wash up after supper resembling you normally would and shine your sink. (I put the bleach water in while I'm giving the kids at hand bath and doing their bedtime routine stuff and by the time I'm done it's time to drain, rinse, scrub, repeat, shine.) I admit I don't do the whole bleach marine thing every night sometimes I just spray it down beside vinegar/water, scrub and shine...(If you keep it clean and dry always afterwards you really don't need to...It's just when you leave dirty dishes and dishwater sit contained by it that it needs it. Of course you'll have to get around the faucet and handle once every few weeks.
Then tomorrow add the second baby step lace up shoes/ hair and facade.
One day this will be me...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlyLadyMen…
Welcome to FLYLADY! I am a single mom and enjoy a very active 8 year old and small dog. Trying to preserve up with the two of them is very difficult and overwhelming--and I am used to a fulltime job and dealing beside difficult adults(LOL). The FLYLADY system allows you to start small--so the task at hand is not overwhelming. By doing something such as "shine your sink" you are able to accomplish a simple obligation and see the results immediately. It is also a task that the upkeep is simple.
Which leads me to the Baby Steps. Each odd job is designed so that you start to feel better about yourself and your accomplishments. You do feel better if you get up and take a shower and clean yourself up in the morning. You don't carry overwhelmed if you are only cleaning out a clutter spot in a short amount of time.
By the time you have made it through your set of little one steps you have developed a routine that works for you, your house is not overwhelmingly chaotic AND you get to spend more time next to your kids--as trying to clean is no longer a priority, but a task.
And the website--connects you to other flyladys and ideas from the inventive FLYLADY herself! The original FLYLADY is someone just like you who developed a system that worked and is sharing it. She be once just like you. Source(s): http://www.flylady.com/
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Does it help you in anyway? I'm starting today and it's my first time! My plan is to shine the sink. not sure how that is supposed to help everything else..
Lotsa mommas recommended it to me on here so I'm wondering..
Yesterday was my first day of FlyLady. It does nouns kinda silly to shine your sink but I completely understand the basis behind it. You hold one area in your house that is nice and verbs and shiny, you are going to want the rest to look that way. And if you do your dishes on a regular basis, your sink is going to be empty which make it easier to clean and shine up.
I approaching how Flylady encourages us to think of "developing habits" instead of getting overwhelmed by how far we are from perfection.
I think the "shine the sink" is a suitable philosophy - have some habits that always win done! (In my kitchen, I've made it into "load the dishwasher") I also like the philosophy "done good adequate is good enough". I find it encouraging to read some of the emails (but I delete the majority) - other people are far from perfect, and are also working bit by bit to declutter, verbs and organize. I'm still learning the "set the timer" and follow a routine, but flylady is one help on go to be less stressed and more effective with house work.
(I am a physicist and mom of 5). Source(s): http://raebear.net/organizing/flylady.html
http://dataopedia.com/flylady-com
http://www.momstownblog.com/flylady.html
If you already hold peace in your life, then you don't have need of Flylady. I am not a mama. I work at a university research center days plus an evening job (my own business). I couldn't care less what other relatives think of my housekeeping, but I myself got depressed coming home to the disgusting mess. Just when I needed to relax after working 2 jobs, I found myself surrounded by dirty dishes, overdue bills, no verbs underwear, and out of toilet paper--I spent all of my tiny bit of free time doing crisis management. Thanks to Flylady, I now come home to a as expected tidy place, no current crises, so I can just relax and recharge my batteries for tomorrow. Mamas, grandmamas, singles, career professional women, adjectives can benefit from cleaning house 15 minutes at a time until the house reaches the "peace" level that will hold and rest your tired self.
Yes, I use the Flylady system - I have used it bad and on for ages, but really been applying it consistently since January this year.
YES YES YES YES YES it has helped me tremendously, save my sanity in so many ways. It be hard for me to understand the whole system on Day #1 but unhurriedly over time it all becomes clear. One thing contained by particular which has helped me is listen to the weekly radio show on blogtalkradio - it is AWESOME!!
It may not be suited to everyone else, but it sure has saved me and my family!! HTH!
Answers: I'm a momma of a two year old, but own been using flylady on and off for about 10 years in a minute. Shining the sink is not, as someone above said, a measure of your self-esteem. It's symbolic of taking the first step to make your house a home. For me, it's been critical. Every time I find my home deteriorating into CHAOS, I mind that I haven't shined my sink! Once you start to get your home and life in instruct through flylady, this is what might happen if you let the sink habit slide.
1. Too tired, shift to bed without shining sink.
2. Get up in morning, lacking within clean dishes (to me shining my sink is really only half the equation, it really requirements to involve doing the dishes too. Maybe not the first time, but after that YES.)
3. Grab breakfast out, fast food or a pastry from the coffee shop, eat in the saloon on the way to appointment.
4. Return home, a bit groggy from lack of better quality vim. Kick off shoes and sit and watch tv (might as well give up the dishes until dinner time now).
5. Dinnertime approaching, don't have a clean saucepan. Order out.
6. No dinner dishes but lots of garbage. Garbage can is getting for a while smelly and now it's overflowing, put off taking it out because I can't handle an overfilled purse.
7. Dishes start piling up on counter. Stuff that might normally rest on counter goes to kitchen table, creating a "hot spot". Stuff magnetically attracts more stuff, before long can't find the dinner table.
8. Start consumption meals in living room. Since there's no room in the sink, dishes get hold of left in living room. Dishes attract more junk, too. If there's already one article on the surface, what's the harm in putting another?
9. Toys don't get put away because kids don't see Mom put her stuff away, Mom feel guilty about not spending quality time with kids "near all this housework to do" and doesn't enforce cleanup.
10. Stop inviting people over - too much work to prepare for them.
11. Stop bothering to clean - no guests process no reason to clean.
12. Social services drops by...
Okay, so that's a bit of a dramatic version. But you can see how one entry leads to another and it becomes a slippery slope!
Flylady is not for everyone. There are plenty of "BO" (born organized) people who already know what to do to preserve their homes in order. But for those of us who missed those life course for one reason or another (plenty of possible reasons here) her system can be like a user's instruction manual for maintaining sanity in the home.
Feel free to contact me through yahoo for more info and experiences! Source(s): www.flylady.com
I read the website once and walk away in disgust. My self-image is not remotely connected to how shiny my sink is, and if it was I would consider myself a failure.
It's a shame. Some of the suggestions looked sensible. But I really reason to the "having a clean home should be the pinnacle of your life" attitude. I'm a physicist, not a cleaning lady.
FLYlady have indeed changed my life. It has allowed me to maintain my house closely and helps to bring things under control. It teaches you to be charitable to yourself, not burn out, and bring you more peace in your life.
How does a shiny sink do that? I don't know how, but I know it does! It is all roughly speaking developing things until they are a habit. I am a smart person, sure I know what cleaning is, but I used to use my Saturdays to run around like a chicken next to my head cut off, yelling at my children to stop messing stuff up. I am still a work within progress, but things are SO much better. She helps you clean as you go.
DON'T skip ahead, do the 31 days of newborn steps. Begin to develop a routine for morning and evening.
Use Pascal's wager - just do it even if you doubt it. If you're not seeing positive results in a month, after actually doing something (even for 15 minutes), after reassess.
Oh, and now that I go back and look at your ACTUAL examine. How does a shiny sink help? Shiny clean sink means that you want to hold it clean, so the dishes go in the dish washer, and the pileup on the counters start to disappear, and later the kitchen is clean! Then you realize that the whole clean kitchen article was quite painless and you start somewhere else, etc. That is how a shiny sink affects the whole house!
Good luck you you and I hope you check out the FLYlady forums on blogtalk radio and also listen to her show!
I found the FlyLady site just back the birth of my 3rd child. I knew I needed to declutter my home and find space to breath but I didn't know how important that would be until my child was 1 yr antiquated and the dr's finally agreed that there was something wrong with my child's nouns. Suddenly, I had therapists coming into my home, social workers trying to help me find the best programs for my child and they walk into a beautiful sanctuary. The main living areas of my home were presentable and I didn't work give or take a few having strangers in with 3 small children. Because of a FlyLady group set up for Parents of special wishes children, I knew what questions to ask the "experts" and when to trust my own gut. I learnt from FlyLady what papers be important to keep and how to store items that needed storing. My life have greatly improved with learning from the site, your's will too!
FlyLady's aim is not that your home should be spotless and perfect. It's to help those who want to get out of their mess, but don't know where on earth to begin and are overwhelmed by their clutter. I have always found her supportive, down-to-earth, honest, and quite funny. If you listen to her podcast just once, you would get a better be aware of for her mission to help others. Source(s): blogtalkradio
flylady.net
I know the shiny sink as the first step seems ridiculous when in attendance is so much other chaos around you. But trust me it is all about the kid steps. It's not just about getting your house clean any, it really helps all areas of your life.
If you surface like that is just not adequate for your first day then do the crisis cleaning... that should help you see off.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlyLady-Too…
http://www.flylady.net/pages/FlyingLesso…
the radio one is a little different from the written page.
Just each step every light of day, my house is not that great yet but it is getting there 15 minutes at a time. In fact I do profusely of things in 15 minute increments now. Anyway try out the crisis cleaning...wash up after supper resembling you normally would and shine your sink. (I put the bleach water in while I'm giving the kids at hand bath and doing their bedtime routine stuff and by the time I'm done it's time to drain, rinse, scrub, repeat, shine.) I admit I don't do the whole bleach marine thing every night sometimes I just spray it down beside vinegar/water, scrub and shine...(If you keep it clean and dry always afterwards you really don't need to...It's just when you leave dirty dishes and dishwater sit contained by it that it needs it. Of course you'll have to get around the faucet and handle once every few weeks.
Then tomorrow add the second baby step lace up shoes/ hair and facade.
One day this will be me...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlyLadyMen…
Welcome to FLYLADY! I am a single mom and enjoy a very active 8 year old and small dog. Trying to preserve up with the two of them is very difficult and overwhelming--and I am used to a fulltime job and dealing beside difficult adults(LOL). The FLYLADY system allows you to start small--so the task at hand is not overwhelming. By doing something such as "shine your sink" you are able to accomplish a simple obligation and see the results immediately. It is also a task that the upkeep is simple.
Which leads me to the Baby Steps. Each odd job is designed so that you start to feel better about yourself and your accomplishments. You do feel better if you get up and take a shower and clean yourself up in the morning. You don't carry overwhelmed if you are only cleaning out a clutter spot in a short amount of time.
By the time you have made it through your set of little one steps you have developed a routine that works for you, your house is not overwhelmingly chaotic AND you get to spend more time next to your kids--as trying to clean is no longer a priority, but a task.
And the website--connects you to other flyladys and ideas from the inventive FLYLADY herself! The original FLYLADY is someone just like you who developed a system that worked and is sharing it. She be once just like you. Source(s): http://www.flylady.com/
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