housekeeping for geeks

[coraa]

I am kind of embarrassed to admit that the Flylady method of housekeeping actually, apparently, works for me. Embarrassed because it is possibly the least cool thing in the history of ever -- I mean, when you follow a system designed for and by middle-aged Christian stay-at-home moms, complete with twee inspirational messages and purple fairies on everything, you pretty much lose all claim to being hip. (Granted, I already have pretty much forfeited claims of being hip, what with, e.g., my tendency to go to bed by 11pm, but there you go.)

That being said, I feel much more satisfied with my "Control Journal" (basically, the list of housekeeping routines, shopping lists, etc., stored in a three-ring binder) now that I've replaced the cheery house-fairy image on the front with a picture of Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang (from Fullmetal Alchemist), and added another picture of Celes Chere and Locke Cole (from Final Fantasy 6) to the back. I may need a cute binder of housekeeping routines to keep the house in some semblance of order, but I can at least have asskicking women and the men who love them on it, dagnabbit.

(I may post more about my trial and error with the Flylady method, and how I've tweaked it for my own, non-mom, day-job-working, no-shoes-in-the-house, non-conservative-Christian self, later.)

Comments

[geekjul.livejournal.com]

I'm curious to know how you make it work for you. I tried it a couple of years ago and I just couldn't deal with the emails, really. I'm like you, non-mom, day-job-working, non-conservative-Christian. I can see the benefits of the system, I just couldn't figure out how to make it work for me. But jebus knows, I need some sort of system around here!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I decided to try it again was that they've actually revamped the way e-mail is used -- back when I first tried a couple of years ago, there were like twenty to forty emails a day, including a ton of reminders that were timed for east-coast people. Yowch. The reminders have been replaced by a once-daily 'flight plan' with all the reminders in one e-mail, so the e-mail volume is down to more like ten a day. Which is... a lot, but an amount that I can skim and filter much more reasonably.

I've still had to make a lot of tweaks, though. Definitely something to post about!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Same here, same here--though the email alone would drive me batso. And NO SHOES!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Yes -- I cheerfully do it with no shoes, and I have my e-mail program set up to filter many of the e-mails directly to the trash. It did take some fiddling to make it work for me.