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Summary: Can't Have People Over Syndrome is truely CHAOS
Review: I have listened to all the buzz over FlyLady's system of cleaning. I was particularly susceptible to her advice because, if nothing else, I want my sink clean, ... and that goes for drying it out afterwards with a towel. But of course, cleaning the sink is just the baby step to getting a grip on the chaos at home.Some of the baby steps on the way to Chaos-Control include setting up various routines. This is effective if you do them for two weeks at the least because that is how long it takes to establish a new habit. Some of the routines include a bedtime routine that may be a bit over-ambitious for some of us, but who says you need to do the entire list: 1 Pick up and put away stuff in living room
2.Clean up kitchen, including polishing that sacred sink
3.Pick up any hot spots (the places clutter likes to roost)
4.Make a list of tomorrow's tasks.
5.Check calendar for appointments
6.Do anything tonight that you can, like lunches
7.Put things you need to take with you by the door. ...more
this list goes on and that's just bed time. But you get the picture. I would recommend this book especially for anyone who is partially or wholly disabled (as I write this, I have a cast on my broken leg, so I know what I'm talking about here.) Getting around if you are disabled is a real chore; clutter in the way means at the very least difficulty in getting by, and can lead to a more serious accident. Also, you need a system to keep things to hand--you can't just jump up and run over to them. I don't think you have to copy FlyLady's entire method, but surely using some of it and building up to your own system is better than hunting for clean underwear in the tool box.
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Summary: Not just for the "seriously sloppy"
Review: I disagree with the "Reader from MA" July 9, 2002 whose title reads "Only for the seriously sloppy." My wife of 42 years has only one serious hobby: CLEANING. She is never happier than when she finds something to clean. When we visit our daughters, she goes right to work, starting out with cleaning the refrigerator. There is only one book in this world she has found to be useful, and that book is SINK REFLECTIONS. The first tip was to wear lace shoes in the house. She tried it. It worked! The real reason the reader from MA is disgruntled is that the author dares to mention God in her book. Who else better to mention? The laws of cleanliness date back to the law given to Moses, do they not? I am a selling author, currently working on a new book about making things happen. In each chapter, I recommend a book. In Chapter One, that book will be SINK REFLECTIONS.
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Summary: An answer to my concerns
Review: Flylady was an answer to all my concerns. I tried to be a good housewife and mother. I WANTED a clean and clutter free house, just as much as every one else, but it just seemed to be too much for me. I would get overwelmed just THINKING about cleaning house. My work offers the option to go to work or stay home. And many times I stayed home to clean house only to find that one day wasnt enough. What was my problem? I wasnt organized, I didnt have any routines. I went in blind, and I worked until I crashed and burned. Flylady has taught me what I need to know to have the home without the stress or crash! The system is awsome! and it works. Many of the things she tells me to do, I was already doing before I found her, BUT there are many things that have been a wonderful help for me too! The book was just an added blessing. The thought that now, those without the internet can have flyladies help!!! How awsome. I am encourageing my step mother to get the book. She has a wonderfully CLEAN house, but lots of clutter in every crack and crevise. I disagree that this book is on for the really messy. My house was never really dirty, it was always cluttered and crowded. now its clean AND clutter free!
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Summary: Only for the seriously sloppy
Review: After reading all the glowing reviews, I hesitate to add my somewhat lukewarm comments, but I wish someone else had written these things in their reviews so I would have been warned off purchasing this book and thereby subsidizing her "cause." WARNING: Although FlyLady has a few good ideas, she seems to have a religious agenda. She frequently employs little catch-phrases, such as "God breezes." If this sort of thing bothers you or makes you feel that this book is one step up from a tent revival meeting, then stay away. Also, the author claims to have previously had problems with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). Well, it seems she still has, only now she has an outlet for it. Okay, so, why did I buy this book to begin with? Because I'm always looking for a better way to do things, to better organize my busy life so that I can accomplish more. I was intrigued with the couple of acronyms I'd heard of from the book/website, such as CHAOS and SHE's. Who can't identify with these concepts? Did I find the book's instructions effective? I can only answer by saying that (1) I always wore tie-shoes anyway, and got dressed in the morning and (2) My kitchen sink was always empty and clean even before I read this "manual." I guess I am not truly disorganized, by FlyLady's standards. If you are the type that really and truly does not get dressed on their own, then you do need a fairy godmother to tell you what to do, down to tying your shoes.
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Summary: FlyLady Rules!!
Review: It all started by shining my sink. Then I shined my countertops a couple days later. And the rest, as they say, is history. FLYing works because it's a state of mind, and somehow FlyLady knows what's in our hearts as well. Buy her book, shine your sink, and nothing less than your whole life will change. That's a promise.
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Summary: VERY GOOD!
Review: okay... i have like 25 other organizing books... but this one actually ....i think is going to help. The *organizing book* market is pretty cluttered with a re-hash of the same kind of material just re-worded and re-packaged a bit....but this book really is a new approach for me. I think it has some solid advice on keeping up with things although... she stresses that cleaning done not perfectly...is STILL cleaning and should be appreciated. She reminds you that you *arent behind* and to just *jump in* where ever you are... and she can relate, coming from a similar disorganized backgroud...so there isnt that feeling that you are being *scolded*. Her routines are very helpful... but really you just start slow...and build up with them... She's kind of funny too..in a self-depreciating sort of way...kind of the way the tightwad gazette is written, maybe.... Of note: there is some religious referencing in the book (ie God-Brezzes etc) but it isnt something that is pushed on you or part of the program... it is only added as part of the authors experience but if that is something that you dont want to even read about than maybe this book might not be fore you.. personally it took a while for me to get passed it...but i am really glad that i did... this book is truly a labor of love for the author and has been a real help for me so far
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Summary: This is the ONLY program you'll ever need!
Review: I can't say enough good things about the Flylady program and what it has done for me, my family, and all the friends I've told about it. Even though I get the daily Flylady emails, this book just wraps it all up in a nutshell, and it has been great to have it all bound up in print. I know I can turn to a particular chapter and work on a weak spot. I've bought three of these and gave them as gifts. It's a great book, and Flylady is the BEST!
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Summary: FlyLady works like nothing else!
Review: I have tried my entire life to be the organized person I thought I should be. Believe me, I have purchased many books before on home organization. But nothing resonated with me until I discovered FlyLady's 27 Fling Boogie and the power of 15 minutes. I have been a FlyBaby for about a year and my house has really become a restful, uncluttered place of refuge for our family. FlyLady is a Godsend!
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Summary: Good, step by step program for cleaning challenged
Review: Basically I've been expected to keep house since I was a very little girl, but I was never actually shown how to keep up on house work. As a single gal, it wasn't a problem, but enter kids, pets, and hubby, and I found housekeeping to be one of the great mysteries of the world. I realized that something needed to be done when I was facing yet another round of crisis cleaning due to out of town guests. Frankly, it was getting way old, and that's when I started asking around about how other people handle the housecleaning. You'd be amazed how many people use Flylady from her website! So, I checked it out, and I was impressed at the way the cleaning was broken down. The morning and evening routines are a good place to start, and the zones are a great way to continue. I've used the motto of, "just 15 minutes" to cover a lot of areas in my life, including house work. I mean, I can do just about anything for 15 minutes, right?
It's the kind of system that someone who finds housekeeping confusing can understand. If you didn't do, or couldn't do, everything in the book, you'd still be better off than you are now. I have physical disabilities, and I find that a lot of the basics are things even I can do. Flylady and I have locked horns about some non-housecleaning issues, but despite that, I cannot fault her system. It is very workable, and easy to follow. I am actually getting rid of my little shrine of organizing books, and relying solely on her system. I find that it is working for me, without being some magic wand or anything. Just practical, and easy to follow.
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Summary: Change Your Life... One Baby Step at a Time!
Review: Are you living in CHAOS? Do you feel depressed and overwhelmed, especially by your house? Is your dear husband threatening to check into a motel, just so he can find the phone when it rings? Are you always running late and yelling at your babies because you can't find your car keys... again? Believe me, I understand, and so does FLYLady! She is one of us, but she has found the way out, and she is shining her light, one baby step at a time, for us to follow her out of the miry pit of clutter and more clutter! This book will change your life. If you are depressed because your home and your life are a mess, spend a few minutes with our dear FLYLady, and you will find the beginnings of the changes that have eluded you until now. FLYLady shows us how to baby step our way out of our clutter and chaos to a life of peace and productivity. You can do anything for 15 minutes at a time! Even change your life. Most of us who were born domestically and organizationally challenged are attracted to every new organizing book that comes out. I personally had dozens of them, including the system FLYLady herself once used, the Pam Young-Peggy Jones card file system. (She credits Pam and Peggy with developing this methodology, but I think she is too modest. I love Pam and Peggy, too, but their books did not change my life. This one did. I still re-read the P&P books from time to time because they are very funny, but I was never able to make that complicated card file work (although it was great fun putting it together). But what FLYLady has done is to take the germ of the idea Pam and Peggy had and make it so simple that ANYONE can do it. It's OK to start small. It's OK not to do everything perfectly. In fact, perfectionism is the only thing that is NOT OK: "Housework done incorrectly still blesses your family". You learn to establish small routines, morning and evening, and to spend 15 minutes a day de-cluttering your hot spots. And somehow, little by little, and before you know it, a transformation has occurred. No more pretending you aren't home when the doorbell rings! Your husband and friends will be complimenting YOU on how great your house looks. Buy this book! Buy 10 copies and give them to your messie friends. Put them in your daughters' hope chests. Donate one to your library. Did I mention it will change your life?
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