Do you FLY ? Do you have a shiny sink ?

If you have no idea what I am talking about visit the FLY Lady website.

The FLY Lady introduces people, with clutter messy homes, to a way of breaking their homes into zones and how to work in an organized way to clean and declutter each zone in turn until your home is clean and tidy. The actual FLY Lady site is a bit americian and chipper in attitude, if you know what I mean but the principles of FLYing are sound and do work.

Here is my English understanding of the FLY system :-

: Do some house work everyday and build up regular routines which work for you and your home.

: Don't beat yourself up about not doing everything right or right away.

: Accept that a messy cluttered house took years to get that way and will not be cleared up over night.

: Understand that a small mess left will gather more mess,like leaving mail on a table (hotspots)

: Realize that you can't organize clutter, it can only be sorted (chuck or find a home for)

: Chuck out all the things you don't need and/or love.

: The real key to a clean house is to clean as you go and stay on top of it

I love the FLY system it really helps me to be motivated and now when I looked around our home which use to be full to the brim with clutter I can see the difference that I have made to the house and that makes me happy. I still have a long way to go until my house is totally clean and clutter free but that is alright as things are improving all the time.

Big thank you to the FLY Lady for her wonderful website and to Kelly for her daily missions which I don't always do [blush] and to the FLY Yahoo group which sends the FLY emails in the UK time zone.