How I Use Motivated Moms & Flylady Together

Finally able to make a post about how I use Motivated Moms and Flylady together to keep the house organized and clean.

I started out using Motivated Moms but was feeling like my rooms weren't getting deep cleaned enough.  Also the clutter has a tendency to build up very quickly at my house.  MM does have you decluttering but it wasn't frequent enough to keep the major areas of our house decluttered.  I remembered that Flylady incorporated decluttering before cleaning so I went over to check it out again.  I had looked at Flylady before but could never seem to even get started on it.  So after some studying I came up with the following plan.  I haven't been using MM and Flylady together very long but it does seem to be working out wonderfully.

I divided my house up into zones very similar to the way Flylady does. My zones are as follows.  Living Room, Kitchen, Bathrooms & Laundry Room (we have 2 full baths, the laundry room is in one of them), Hallway & either the Boys Room or our new Reading Room, & the Family Room.  I plan to switch between the Boys Room and our Reading Room every other cycle through my zones.  I used  Flylady's zone cleaning lists for each zone and I'm adding to those lists if needed as I work through each list.  I don't follow Flylady's schedule with cleaning my zones as I take a week for each zone instead of a few days for the first zone.  If a particular zone is badly cluttered then I will declutter before I clean it per Flylady's instructions.

Motivated Moms is divided up into daily chores for each day of the week and is only $8 for the whole year.  MM has the weekly, monthly, and yearly etc. chores schedule throughout the daily plans.  You can see samples of the current years Motivated Moms here so that you see what I mean.  I am using MM to keep the daily chores and weekly chores done. With MM it's already scheduled out I don't have to think much.  So I do most of the daily chores on the left of MM & also most of each days scheduled chores through the week.  My husband's schedule has changed so I might have to play with the days of MM but I will just rearrange the days & leave the chores as is.

All in all this is working out wonderfully for me.  I've schedule an hour a day in 2 half hour segments where me & the 10 year old work on it.  I'll be posting our current schedule soon & you will be able to see how I've scheduled these into our days.

I hope this helps in some way.  Please feel free to comment & tell me how you use Motivated Moms, Flylady, or your own system.  I'm always open to new ideas to help keep things clean or organized.  Check out Motivated Moms here.

Blessings,
Paige

Democracy and Liberty

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. Ben Franklin

My friend Chris McLaurin posted this on Facebook tonight. I loved it so much I thought I would post it for all 2 readers of my blog to see!!

Night all,
Paige
p.s. I'm working on some posts on our current daily schedule, how I use Motivated Moms & Flylady together, our curriculum & how we use it.

My Laptop is Fixed!!!!!

Right after my last post on Nov. 2 my computer had a corrupted hard drive. With Christmas coming I didn't want to spend the money on a new hard drive. Well I have been about to lose my mind without a computer so I sprang for the hard drive last week with some Christmas money I got. I have a new huge hard drive and Windows 7 instead of Vista and my updated computer ROCKS!! Thanks so much Brian S.!!!!!! You ROCK!!

So that's why I've been MIA for close to 3 months. There have been lots of changes and I'll try to get things updated here. I just bought the 2010 Motivated Moms earlier tonight so I can get back to cleaning my poor house. It's gotten out of hand while I didn't have the computer. I have been using a combination of Motivated Moms and Flylady. I will try to get a post up soon about how I use both of those together to keep my house clean from top to bottom without spending hours each day.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas & New Year!!