Showing posts with label Flylady. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flylady. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2012

Are you a shopper or a dropper?

Do you know Flylady?

http://flylady.net/

One of her favorite sayings that I've taken to heart ~
you can't organize clutter.

This was what my car looked like Friday before I dropped off my clutter donations at the DAV thrift store.


See this basket of ornaments? Can you tell some of them are still in the package? I bought those to put in an apothecary jar - like I saw on blogs last year. Nope, I didn't do that.

I know I could use that basket for something, but it had to go, too.

  
Remember those wreaths that swept blogland last year? Yep, I bought the ornaments  - that's them peeking over the big box - but I never bent my coat hanger to make the wreath either.

See the Halloween pillows? It hurt to donate those, but I really am downsizing.

Oh, and that big box is full of plastic Christmas balls. For a couple years, hubby climbed on a ladder - usually in the snow - to hang those on our only tree in the front yard. Did you hear that huge sigh of relief from hubby when I told him he wouldn't have to do that any more?

This was not my first car load. 

The stores love to see me  ~  I'm either shopping or dropping (off stuff)!

Are you a shopper or a dropper?




Monday, August 8, 2011

Clean a toilet Huck Finn style





This is an usual thing to post, 
but I thought you might need a laugh
to start off your week right.

Last week our granddaughter was visiting us.
After she used the commode,
I noticed some stains in the bowl.

If you're a Flylady follower,
then you've heard of swish and swipe.
Obviously, I must have been behind a bit.

So, I squirted some old shampoo
(Flylady says soap is soap.)
in the bowl and started scrubbing.



Cate asked if she could help.
What?
Somebody actually wants to scrub the toilet?
I gladly passed her the baton brush.

I bet she scrubbed for 20 minutes.
I kept leaving to hang up clothes in my closet.



When I came back, I discovered her fascination.
Shampoo makes a lot of bubbles if you scrub for a long time.


I wish I had known this trick when her
mother was at home.