Flylady style

Women are relentlessly looking for new ways to effectively run a household, and over the past 10-15 years, a new generation of housewives has emerged who call themselves flyladies.
Over the past 100 years, a lot has changed in the lives of women - they now have an education, a job, a subscription to a fitness club, their own house or apartment, and still have household chores. To combine all this and remain easy, fun and unexhausted by worries, there is a special system of effective housekeeping - FlyLady.

Fluttering lady in a well-groomed house

The word FlyLady is translated in different ways - a reactive hostess, a fluttering lady. The system is designed to help the hostess overcome the contradiction - to maintain order in the house and at the same time not feel forever tired and offended. The principle of FlyLady is that any woman, having a job, a family, a well-groomed house, can be rested, cheerful, loving and loved.
There are certain easy-to-implement rules, following which the hostess - we will now call her a fly lady, will maintain order in her house without overexertion, always remaining in a good mood.
Initially, FlyLady's home economics offers rather unexpected postulates:

• the distribution of responsibilities between family members is, of course, not bad, but the role of the controller is unenviable, it is better to do everything yourself;
• since being eternally tired and offended is not a joy either to oneself or to others, one must tidy up the house without getting tired, “in between times”.

Easy to say, but how to do it?

How Suvorov ate porridge

Remember the story about Suvorov, who argued with a young soldier who would eat a pot of hot porridge faster? And while the soldier slurped with a full spoon, choking and burning himself, Suvorov slowly picked up a little cooling porridge from the edges of the pot, spoon by spoon - and finished it first.
Housekeeping FlyLady large general cleaning contrasted with small and daily.
Contrary to the traditions of housekeeping, general cleaning for a flylady is not the best way to restore perfect order. To carry all day, to get exhausted and then to move away from fatigue for two or three days, but during this time the house will become cluttered again.
It is more effective to clean every day, but little by little.

Divide and add or space zoning

To facilitate cleaning, the house is divided into five zones:

1. hallway and dining room;
2. kitchen;
3. bathroom and nursery;
4. bedroom;
5. living room.

Flylady divides the apartment into zones and cleans each for exactly 15 minutes in the morning and evening, and not a second more, according to the timer.
Every week of the month, one zone should be cleaned (washed, dusted, put things in place), and the fifth zone, the living room, is cleaned in the remaining few days from the 29th to the 31st.
Of course, while a beginner flylady is just starting to do household chores “according to FlyLady”, she will have to clean up a little more often - twice a day for 15 minutes, plus additional procedures in accordance with the program. Then the fly lady, dividing the apartment into zones, will clean one zone a week for 15 minutes a day - not much, but enough to keep it clean. Ideal housekeeping!
There are special places in the apartment that require increased attention - this is the sink in the kitchen - it should always shine, and slots, blockages - places of daily accumulation of things that the flylady releases daily, one at a time, in 5 minutes.
Once a week, general cleaning is carried out - for 70 minutes. This is the hour of the blessing of the home. At this time, seven tasks are performed for 10 minutes each:

1. throw away unnecessary;
2. empty trash cans;
3. change bed;
4. wipe mirrors;
5. wipe off the dust;
6. vacuum.

On Sunday, the flylady does not work around the house - she devotes this day to family, children and entertainment.

Every thing has its place

Flylady can always improve something in the house.
In the organization of FlyLady's housekeeping, one must go from the "trodden paths".
After observing where the untidy slides of things grow faster, the flylady can install additional storage systems there. Due to their correct location, households will quickly appreciate their convenience, and things will be in their places, bypassing the rubble.
The following storage systems can be recognized as especially useful for FlyLady's housekeeping:

• fashionable storage systems in the form of baskets - wicker or plastic;
• dressing rooms;
• baskets for little things, which the flylady will place where these little things accumulate;
• trash cans in every room.

It is very important that the flylady locate the storage systems exactly where blockages form - if hairpins accumulate in the bathroom or hallway, it is recommended to put a basket or box for them accordingly.
In order to accustom children to order, flyladies hang bright tags with pictures (books, socks, cubes) on the handles of cabinet doors, chests of drawers, baskets from storage systems, indicating what should be put in this box.
In addition, this is a good reason for the flylady to take a closer look at whether the furniture where it is located is so comfortable and roomy, whether its location makes it difficult or easier to clean. If you had to go out several times to take things to a chest of drawers in another room - this does not correspond to FlyLady's housekeeping, the chest of drawers is now in the wrong place, isn't it time to move it?
When examining the house, the flylady will think about whether she is tired of the decor elements, maybe remove them, or apply a fresh design solution. According to FlyLady's housekeeping, the house should not resemble a stagnant swamp, it should be a changing object that adapts to the new needs of people.
When planning new acquisitions, FlyLady encourages housekeeping to evaluate them in terms of ease of cleaning. Difficulties with cleaning may be the reason why you remove something from home furnishings from home. The time and effort of a flylady is more valuable than a dirty and uncomfortable shelving unit.
Based on her own experience, the flylady will determine what makes cleaning difficult. It can be:

• carpets with long pile;
• furniture with dark polished surfaces (dust settles and fingerprints are visible);
• souvenirs and trinkets that collect dust and do not carry a serious decorative load;
• items that bother and annoy you;
• balconies and pantries with trash;
• trash.
  

The fight against trash is a special concern of the flylady. Junk does not lend itself to organization, it makes no sense to take new storage systems for it. You have to get rid of him. FlyLady offers to periodically throw away 27 unnecessary things in 5 minutes - those that caught your eye first. This list should automatically include items that have not been used for more than a year. For good things, another program is possible - in 5 minutes 27 things to transfer to other people.
The flylady classifies as trash everything that has not been used for more than a year, everything that is faulty, annoying, associated with unpleasant memories. In FlyLady's home economics, any thing that stands on a shelf just because it once took its place there is rubbish. Any closet that a flylady opens no more than once a month is crammed with unnecessary things.Rubbish cannot be properly folded, it cannot be organized, it can only be disposed of.

Housekeeping tips from experienced flyladies

1. Get rid of perfectionism, do not strive to do the perfect cleaning. 15 minutes is enough time for a flylady to achieve a noticeable result without distraction.
2. Flylady uses a timer. He counts the exact time, disciplines. Flylady knows that in 15 minutes and not a minute later she will do something else, and instead of irritation, sports excitement will come to her.
3. In home economics, FlyLady, getting rid of rubbish, fill the vacated space with only necessary and pleasant items.
4. Flylady does not forget to take care of herself by doing something nice for herself every day.

Don't wait for FlyLady home economics to be perfect for you. A special work schedule, a special layout of the house - there are hundreds of reasons to make changes to the routine.
Be sure to clean in clean comfortable clothes and in no case in flip-flops, ideal shoes are lace-up sports slippers. You won't have to change clothes to take out the trash, and you won't cling to the corners of the furniture with your bathrobe.
You need to treat cleaning not as shoveling dirt, but as an expression of gratitude for your cozy home. By wiping the sink to a shine, you make a gift to the house. By freeing the house of rubbish, which is immediately thrown into an outdoor container, the flylady blesses her house.
Flylady remembers the main thing - the order in the house is needed exactly as much as it makes life easier for the household and makes it even more enjoyable.

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