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[phineasjones]

4 june 2007


so i started on flylady yesterday. which, of course, means i shined my sink. sadly, my sink is old crappy, painted-over porcelain covered with scratches and stains. it will never be perfectly clean and shiny. but i know it's clean. and that's what counts. right? right.

so, what if there were a community for fannish-types who were interested in flylady, or doing the flylady thing or whatever. would anyone out there be interested? this is about home cleaning and general life organization,if you're wondering. the website is here. it's corny, cheezy, all that stuff. but it's also really effective. so, let's see who would be into that.

[Poll #997666]

Comments

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I'm not big on flylady, but i'm all about the lj support. and as i'm subscribed to several blogs about eliminating clutter, i'm all about the eliminating it this summer. and you, phineas, can make almost anything palatable. except beans.

[jjtaylor.livejournal.com]

Look, I now get some of the due south references in your polls. Not all of them, but I'm working on it!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I might go there. My sister is in love with FlyLady - seriously, I think they might get married in a civil ceremony, even though my sister is already married, so that would be, you know, illegal. And she's been trying to get me to go there forever, and I have tried, several times, but I've always stubbed my toe on the gender issues and gagged on the, um, tone of it. (I don't *want* to be hugged, damn it. Certainly not by a woman who calls herself FlyLady, which I always picture as being some horrible mutant fly-human hybrid with an obsessive interest in garbage.) And they don't have a "FlyBaby cynic who really doesn't like all this touchy-feely crap" category for beginners that I could find.

But! I would like to have a cleaner house. It isn't like it's dirty in here, but we've been living here for eight years, and I am really starting to see the effects of not having to put everything in boxes every two or three years: we have Too. Much. Shit. Just - random shit. And our house isn't big enough to have a lot of random shit in it without looking like it's full of, well, random shit.

Plus, I think this would be way more palatable if I was doing it with fans, and in a fannish context. So, yeah, I'd do it - I've just talked myself into changing my vote up there to yes.

[eanja]

I came over here viaainsley. I've done flylady on and off, and should get back to making some effort to keep the apartment neat. If lj could do something related w/out the 37 extra posts a day that the yahoo group has, it would be great.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, great idea! I love FlyLady's system, but have a bit of a hard time with the "culture," so to speak.

She sends out fewer reminders btw. I think it just got to be too much for most people, so now you have to sign up to a separate list to get them all.