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So people have asked my why I don’t use FLYlady. I am aware of FLYlady. I tried out FLYlady. And I don’t like it.
Don’t get me wrong. Lots of people like it. It works for them. Many love it.
But not me. I find that it rubs me the wrong way, has a little too much emphasis on homey blessings and faith, and the email is overwhelming. “Don’t let the email overwhelm you,” they say. I hear, “When I punch you in the mouth, don’t let it hurt.” After I calmly decided all the email was simply depressing me, I unsubscribed. That’s when they solidified that I would never come back: the final email essentially said the problem lay with me, not their program. They were sorry I couldn’t handle it. (I wish I’d kept the email, it was pricless. Still homey and nice and a smiling backhanded slap that would have made a Southern woman proud. Didn’t slide past me, though. I’m Southern; I can spot a “Bless Your Heart” attack a mile away.)
Apparently it’s helped a lot of people, and good for them. It was not the site for me. I don’t do {{hugs}} or refer to Jim as DH enough to stomach it.
This past weekend, I was a keynote speaker at CREATEsouth where I heard about Home-Ec 101, the site for people who became adults and went, “uh oh” because they didn’t take that home economics class, or maybe their school had phased it out, and they really didn’t know how to clean a hardwood floor. The site is retro, friendly, doesn’t require a membership beyond optional subscribing through Feedburner, and appeals to my domestic bushido mindset.
I’m currently working on their weekly plan and seeing how I fare with that. I’ll report back in when I have more than half a day of the program under my belt.
Now to get back to laundry. It quakes when I come near.
The few surviving samurai surveyed the battlefield
Count the arms, the legs, and heads, and then divide by five.
Drenched in blood, they move across the screen
Do I need to point, or do you see the one I mean?
The one in back
the way he acts
is he reminding you of anyone we know?
Isn’t he so
like certain people I could name?“Certain People I Could Name” ~They Might Be Giants
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I also dumped FLYLady. It’s a nice thought, but it never worked for me. Too many emails, too much information in those emails, and the babysteps were just too baby. Spend the first 30 days shining my sink? Sister, my house has three kids, two cats, and one dog. I need more drastic help than one activity every month.
I haven’t seen anything of HomeEc101 other than a cursory skim of the site. For my needs, I started with a one month subscription over at TheClutterDiet.com and got to the real root of my HomeEc troubles: too much stuff. The professional organizers there have helped me identify projects, break them into manageable timelines, execute, and then set up maintenance cleans to keep the area from devolving into a problem state again. I will keep HomeEc101 in mind, though. They look like they’ll be perfect for keeping everything in line once my time with TCD is finished.
I’ll check out that site, sounds great. Also, I plan to make a giant batch of laundry detergent soon–wanna join me?
I had a bit of a conniption this last week about a similar problem area for some. Fad diets and exercise trends are all the same, it simply boils down to what motivational tone you’ll accept. P90X is exactly the same as Sweating to the Oldies except with a techno soundtrack and a drill sergeant yelling at you to push harder. All weight loss boils down to a simple fact of biology: Eat less calories than you exert and you’ll lose weight. Richard Simmons energetically, yet gently encourages you to work a little harder next time. Puke90X screams at you to WORK HARDER, HARDER, HARDER! Neither appeals to me so I choose to encourage myself with a voice all my own, which is what works for me.
Diets are all just different ways to eat less. Give me a fun new Alton Brown recipe and I’ll enjoy the meal more and savor each bite rather than gorging myself on garbage.
Now I need to find a motivation for keeping my home clean and in order, but first… I should be writing.
I found FLYLady too much for me, as well.