Zone Cleaning & More

Back as promised to explain Zone cleaning.  Although being that no one commented on the last blog, cleaning and clutter might only be my problem.  Anyhow, the idea of dividing your home into zones is to help minimize your daily work and effectively tackle every room of your home by the end of the month.  Yup, every room by the end of the month.  Every week is a zone, and every zone focuses on cleaning certain parts of your home.  Technically, the first week of the month is Zone 1=entrance, porch & dinning room.  I use a dry erase calendar and given that Feb. was a short month, I just added March to the end of my calendar,soooo, I'm in Zone 5.  A picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll let the calendar explain what I mean.  

Please forgive my crappy 2nd picture, but I think it still works for my purposes.

Since I just continue the next month below I'm on Zone 5.  For me Zone 5= laundry room and family room.  I don't stick to flylady's zones anymore, since I found a division of labor that works for me, but her concept is still there.  I label each Sunday according to its zone.  Z1 (zone 1 for the 1st week on my dry erase calendar), Z2 (zone 2 for the 2nd week on my dry erase calendar) and so on.  Again, not the best picture, but it gets the idea across.  The letters after the Z1 are reminders as to what I will be deep cleaning that week (no more than 1 hr. a day).  For me E=entrance, D=dinning room, & o=office (which is not an office at all, but a desk in the living room).
If you want to try flylady's methods, stick to her plan for several months until you got it down.  Then, you can customize it to fit your life style.   If I get any feed back on this cleaning stuff, then I'll blog about it some more.  Alrighty then, enough of that.

My son got his braces removed today.  I haven't seen him smile in a picture since... ...well...since...Uh...maybe 3rd grade.  He had the bulldog look prior to Dr. Carter's fabulous work.  We were told that his jaw protruded so much that he would need surgery to reconstruct his jaw, but Dr. Carter said "No, I'm good.  I will fix it."  He sure did deliver.