Does anyone else follow the Flylady system of House Cleaning?

I had to Google this as I've not heard of the system.
What do you do for the rest of the day once you have finished the 15 minutes working in one zone?

I had to Google it too. Seems you spend a few minutes on one ‘zone’, for instance the kitchen, each day for one week of the month. That seems to mean that each ‘zone’ is then left for the rest of the month. Sounds like a health hazard waiting to happen in the kitchen and bathrooms. Or have I completely misunderstood?

It seems there’s no end to these women who set themselves up on social media as some kind of home tidying/de-cluttering/ cleaning gurus, showing us all where we have been going wrong all these years in our homes.

I imagine it’s quite lucrative otherwise there wouldn’t be so many of them.

Fairycakes glad it worked for you, but it’s too prescriptive for me, mine gets done as and when it needs doing, no schedule as such.
GSM the one I found is a weekly schedule, different tasks each day; ni way I’d be cleaning my car every Friday, every six months possibly 🙂

Never heard of it but I get the gist. Each to there own and if it makes you happy then more power to your elbow 😁 Sometimes when you're bogged down in a rut and can't get to grips with anything something like that can be just what you need.

My system is 'when it starts to look a bit grubby clean it'. This way all parts are cleaned regularly.

I think the idea of just giving fifteen minutes to an onerous task is a good thing. Say filing that's built up and feels overfacing. If you only have to work on it for a short time psychologically it's doable. Two or three sessions will probably get the job done without causing anxiety.

I get dust everywhere. I always seem to be cleaning but my house never seems to be clean. I don’t know where all the dust comes from!

I remember using it about ten years ago, and I found it very helpful as a discipline at a time when I was coming out of a rotten mental health low.

Gave the book away years ago but still stick to the cleaning of all porcelain and shelves in the bathroom every morning. That may seem a given to some but I've been amazed by those who say they wait until the bathroom looks grubby. I couldn't bear that - not just for myself but sod's law dictates that the day it became sufficiently grubby to clean(ew) would be the day I got unexpected visitors 😳

Oops, AGA4- sorry I used the same vocabulary you did. Purely coincidental, upon my honour.

JenniferEccles

It seems there’s no end to these women who set themselves up on social media as some kind of home tidying/de-cluttering/ cleaning gurus, showing us all where we have been going wrong all these years in our homes.

I imagine it’s quite lucrative otherwise there wouldn’t be so many of them.

I’m thinking of starting one myself😁
It’s mad, we all know what rooms/jobs need doing without being told.
I use the good old ‘ My Gawd have you seen the state it’s in’ household cleaning system, works for me.

You’ll probably make a fortune Oreo !

I’ve already patented that one Oreo 😁

Fairycakes, I do! Not regularly but when I feel the house getting on top of me, I follow for a few weeks. Some great tips too like cleaning your shower with shampoo or body wash that you don’t like. Shower sparkles beautifully.

I use the good old ‘ My Gawd have you seen the state it’s in’ household cleaning system
I like to think of this as the devotional approach🙏 😇

I used to follow Flylady for many years. Her positive attitude motivated me, after several years of illness, and consequently I had the courage to start my own business. Now retired, I was thinking of looking her up again

I had never heard of the Flylady system, and what is suggested is not suiable to my own situation. Anyway I have a much better system, it's called the 'hire a cleaner' system, works brillantly for me and I just do a daily 'whatever won't wait' between the days she comes.

I don't need a system to clean the house
I need a cleaner.
I don't have the energy to do it myself

It’s 2023 - why are we women still talking about cleaning?!!

Because we do it even though we have far better things to do. Don’t you, or do you pay someone else to do it?

alisonsmith4

It’s 2023 - why are we women still talking about cleaning?!!

Why should we not talk about it, a fact of life and has to be done irrespective of who does it, employee, husband, self.
We are able to talk about more serious matters as well, one does not preclude the other.

I follow the Dickens' Method:

Toilets (I have 2) and wash basins: wipe round once a day.

Bed - make it.

The rest: if it needs doing.

Someone once wrote, "those jobs you think need doing every day can probably be done once a week... and the jobs you do once a week might well be able to be done once a month"

I used to do this years ago when the kids were young. I would spend an hour a day cleaning/sorting whatever was needed, broken up into ten-minute sections. So, say, ten minutes tackling the papers lying all over the kitchen table, ten minutes wiping the bathroom, ten minutes in each bedroom and so on. There were no such things as blogs in those days or I could have made a fortune!

Why do you need someone else’s regime for housework? Even when waiting for my hip replacement I followed my own routine even though it took me a bit longer and I had to be a bit inventive cleaning the skirtings etc.