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<p>A secret guilty pleasure of mine. Any other disciples out there?</p>
<p>I have seen references to this before but have never signed on. Gearing up for spring cleaning so might have to take a closer look.</p>
<p>My sister in law let me into the Flylady secret several years ago. I am definitely not fly-lady compliant but I enjoy the site and the posts and do think she has a knack for helping apply basic behavioral principles to improving the quality of our lives in many small and important ways. When I need some housekeeping inspiration I definitely look up flylady advice!</p>
<p>I signed up once at the recommendation of a cousin. I wound up getting about 10 emails a day, all telling me to get dressed and put my shoes on.</p>
<p>This, I didn’t need.</p>
<p>I bought the book about ten years ago, to pass on to a friend. It did inspire me to put a pair of easily-slipped-on shoes next to the back door, but I still refuse to wear the same shoes inside and outside. I don’t like tracking in dirt. </p>
<p>Her kitchen sink cleaning method is excellent.</p>
<p>I tried to follow it a few years ago, when I was home w/a young baby/child. I’m not naturally house-work-organized and she had some good ideas. I need to get back on it.</p>
<p>I tried to make her home page the default for my family’s computer – but the giant ‘flylady’ cartoon freaked out husband & son & they refused…</p>
<p>I did it for a while. My house was never cleaner. I got tired, though, of her constant e-mails.</p>
<p>I can’t get past the shiny kitchen sink routine. At least its shiny - when there aren’t dirty dishes in it! Plus, when I check in w/flylady.com, find myself getting sucked into other things - like cc 
and poof! my day’s half over.</p>
<p>I did it for a while and liked it (there is an option not to get the daily emails, lol). Think maybe I need to get back to it!</p>
<p>The am/pm routines are good, plus the laying out of clothes the night before, etc. </p>
<p>I never got into the ‘deep cleaning’ schedule, though. But, that’s what I need! My husband thought it ridiculous that I’d read a book & website about housecleaning. “Just do it!!!” I don’t mind motivation in any form, though…</p>
<p>I have never signed up for email reminders and can pretty much usually remember to dress myself. But I do enjoy the feeling of somehow engaging in cleaning activities with other people and although I’m not so much into the heavy duty cleaning truly enjoy organizing and clutter clearing and the daily sisyphean attempt to bring order to chaos in the household. Clearing 21 items out of my house gives me quite a rush! But it is a sort of secret passion since most of my friends really don’t get it. And would consider it not quite the thing. Flylady’s book is not openly displayed at my house and my husband never understood where polishing the sink or drying it out with a dish towel came from but eventually just started imitating me if he was the last one in the kitchen. That was kind of surprising.</p>
<p>Also, zone cleaning was quite the revelation to me. I always had thought that if you couldn’t get everything done all at once it somehow didn’t really count.</p>
<p>Never heard of her before. Just surfed through the site – the good news is I now know for sure I’m really organized and don’t really need the site, the emails, or the instructions oh how to clean the sink. Guess I’m old enough to have figured that out on my own!</p>
<p>Quite a few years ago I read “Speed Cleaning” and ordered some of their cleaning tools/products. Good stuff.</p>
<p>Her advice isn’t bad–I’m a clean freak and liked the suggestions. It was the constant emails that made me crazy. I had to quit.</p>
<p>I just read the book. Didn’t sign up for the e-mails. I love it. For now - only been doing it for a few weeks.</p>
<p>I get the e-mails, but chose the option so she groups them and sends just one a day that includes them all. I have learned to open it and scroll through quickly, skipping almost everything except the Riley challenge (which I will sometimes ask D2 to do, it is a nice, manageable chore a day for a kid) and whatever the task of the day is. Can’t say I always do the daily item, but it usually goes on my list and gets done that week.</p>
<p>It sort of reminds me of training the dog. It isn’t so much about the actual training task as it is about changing the mindset of the owner… Flylady has helped me think differently about cleaning my house (small daily attacks on hotspots, tackling tough areas in small amounts, etc.).</p>
<p>I have checked out the site. I do like some of her tips. My favorite is her sink cleaning tip. We replaced out stainless steel sink with a white sink which I like but unfortunately it scratched very easily so the bottom tends to look grubby even when it is clean. Her tip of filling it with hot water and adding bleach is the only way I can get it looking good. Of course that only happens periodically. I do the drying the bathroom sink which I can’t remember if I got from her or not. My biggest thing for keeping my bathroom reasonably decent is that I now keep *everything *used daily (deodorant, cleansers, moisturizers, hair dryer,the lot) in a large basket on the counter instead of spread all over. Makes cleaning so much easier. I am not a good housewife - hate cleaning because it never lasts!!.</p>
<p>I absolutely refuse to wear shoes in the house though. One of my small pleasures in life is going barefoot in my house.</p>
<p>swimcatsmom, I agree completely about the barefoot thing! I love being barefoot, and never wear shoes in the house. I do wear socks when it is too cold to go barefoot. I can’t stand outdoor shoes tramping through the house. My kids are trained to take off their shoes as they come in. </p>
<p>I am not familiar with flylady - what is the reason for wearing shoes in the house? I hate wearing shoes.</p>
<p>Lots of people don’t wear shoes because it keeps the floors cleaner.</p>
<p>In my experience, she yells at you to put on your shoes because a lot of the people who use or need her site would, if left to their own devices, just sloth around all day in their bedroom slippers.</p>
<p>(Is “sloth” a verb? It is now.)</p>
<p>I’ve been signed on to her emails for about 7 years and delete almost all of them now. The reason for keeping your shoes on is so that you won’t avoid doing something outside that might be necessary (like putting out the trash) but you’ll procrastinate about because you don’t have your laced shoes on.</p>
<p>She has influenced me to be neater and especially to get by with the “lick and a promise” type of house cleaning. Her mantra is it doesn’t have to be perfect, just get it done and I’ve taken that to heart. I still amaze myself with what I can get done in 10 minutes.</p>