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Posted: Oct 22 2005 at 1:11pm | IP Logged Quote alicegunther
Natalia wrote:
Cheryl wrote:
Does the Flylady ever talk about yard work?


And what about attics, garages etc? It seems to me that those would be hard to handle in 15 mins.

Natalia


You would work on a garage or attic for 10 or 15 minutes here and there (at least once a day), over the course of at least a week, or perhaps more if necessary. This may seem like a small snippet of time, but sometimes half the battle in a huge clear out is just getting started, and the short time periods make the whole prospect seem so much less daunting.

Flylady also sends a daily reminder that you do a 5 minute room rescue. She advises that you spend 5 minutes each and every day in the worst room of your house, with the promise that you will have it under control in 27 days! I do not know if such short snatches of time would work for a garage or a yard, but it is certainly worth a shot.

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Posted: Oct 23 2005 at 10:34am | IP Logged Quote Willa
alicegunther wrote:
Flylady also sends a daily reminder that you do a 5 minute room rescue. She advises that you spend 5 minutes each and every day in the worst room of your house, with the promise that you will have it under control in 27 days! I do not know if such short snatches of time would work for a garage or a yard, but it is certainly worth a shot.


It worked for me! -- sort of. Our garage was the worst ever -- I hadn't really done anything with it for about 5 years. My dh's workshop is out there and all his car repair and house repair stuff. You get the picture. All summer I'd grab 15 minutes here and there and just putter around straightening, thinking, sweeping, little jobs.   Then one day I looked around at the rest of it and realized that the "dragon" wasn't so big anymore, I could kill it! I spent about 3 hours and plowed through and now it's decent, not spectacular, but it's definitely under control.   I can keep it up with the 10-15 minutes and do the fine tuning.

Now I'm tackling our books. I hardly know where to start but I know if I start somewhere and work at it in little bits, I'll get somewhere eventually.

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Posted: Oct 23 2005 at 5:04pm | IP Logged Quote Anne Marie M
Willa,

I'm tackling books, too. I have so many that my kids can't get to what we have. It's so hard to get rid of books that I'm emotionally attached to, I might need for another kid's curriculum, etc, etc.

On to find more books to cart to the local used book store (or to the library if the book store won't take them!) -

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