Sink Reflections- Overwhelmed- Disorganized- Living in Chaos- The FlyLady-s Simple FLYing Lessons Wi Description:

Sink Reflections: Overwhelmed? Disorganized? Living in Chaos? The FlyLady's Simple FLYing Lessons Will Show You How to Get Your Home and Your Life in Order--and It All Starts with Shining Your Sink! review:
5 stars (Sink Reflections Reinforces the Website) - I am a big FlyLady fan and I subscribe to the website. I find the website really motivates me because of all those daily e-mails. The book is handy when you don't have time to get on the web and also if you like things in printed form like I do. Those emails can be overwhelming sometimes and that's when I turn to the book. The system is fabulous--baby steps towards getting your home and your life organized. The book is a condensed version of the website. You can really get all you need from the site, so if you are an avid internet user, you really don't need the book. I like it anyway.
5 stars (FlyLady Gave Me a PEACEFUL Home!) - I suppose I don't fall into the sterotypical FlyBaby category. My husband & I don't have any children. I spend most of my week in the office, shuttling from one meeting to the next. I am not a stay at home wife or mother.



Yet, although FlyLady's tips and routines may seem obvious to some, they weren't obvious to ME. I am not depressed. I am a very confident, intellegent, successful professional. But when it came to my home, it was totally out of control. And I kept falling into the trap of thinking that the CHAOS of our home must be due to some complex, time management problem.



I've never been much of a pack-rat, neither has my husband. So, the amount of clutter in our home was minimal (though there was SOME...especially in our attic, laundry room and garage). Our problem has always been trying to find a way to keep up w/ the daily chores of life. My husband & I both spend our mornings & evenings fighting grid-lock traffic in the city. We spend the majority of day running from meeting to meeting in our respective careers. We get home at night, exhausted most of the time. Nobody wants to cook. Nobody wants to clean. Nobody wants to pick up and put stuff away, or throw out the stuff we don't need.



Then the weekend rolls around & we're playing "catch up." No time for us or our marriage. Nope. On Saturday morning its time for grocery shopping, errands, household chores, laundry, you get the point. A year into our marriage & we realized how much we MISSED each other. And honestly, we REFUSED to hire a cleaning service. IMO, there is NO REASON why we need to PAY for someone to clean up after 2 people. No reason at all. But we both agreed that we HAD to do something. We didn't enjoy coming home after a long day at work anymore. The place was a MESS by mid-week, every week.



Then, I found FlyLady. My husband thought I was crazy at first. I think he was waiting for me to start wearing pearls around the house & acting like Martha Stewart (which I imagine frightened him because he did NOT marry a Martha Stewart-type woman). But in a matter of 2 weeks, I was amazed at the results and my hubbie was singing a new tune.



FlyLady's system, though obvious to some, was an enormous help to us! Through her suggestion, we signed up for the Weekly Menu Mailer. No guess-work on dinner anymore! We're saving money on groceries. Regardless of which one of us get's home from work first, "what's for dinner?" is always simple answer. Just whip out the recipe and get cooking! Usually w/in 20 minutes, we're sitting down to a great meal...every single night. No more staring at the pantry dumb-founded. And you'd be amazed at what a good cook my husband has become! GOODBYE, MCDONALD'S!



The weekly routines have been amazing, as well. We keep our Control Journal (listing all our routines) on the kitchen counter. If I get delayed at work, I come home to find that hubbie just needed to look up the day and he knew what tasks needed to be done. We both pitch in, with an ORGANIZED PLAN OF ATTACK, every single day.



And the best part? On the weekends we have time for US. We bought a sailboat earlier in the year. We had taken it out all of 2 times when we started FlyLady. Well, if this past weekend is any indication of how well her system works, we spent a solid FIVE HOURS on our boat on Saturday....with no worries that we were neglecting any household obligations.



Thank you, FlyLady. Sometimes a busy executive can't see the trees for the forest. Your simple little system has made such a difference in our home!
5 stars (Nothing Short of Life Changing) - This is the single most influential book I have ever read besides my Bible. That may be shocking to read, but it is simply true. To be brought to such peace in my life by a paperback written by an everyday woman, with a funny cartoon drawing on the cover is downright humbling. However, this is exactly what happened to me. If you are TRULY looking for an answer and a way out of your home that seems to be swallowing you alive, this is the book for you. If you don't know where to start - you don't know how to get past the clutter and get to a presentable home where you don't feel like you're hiding something constantly - then this is written just for you. If you are tired of being miserable and yelling at your kids because you can't keep the house clean, read this. If you are ready to change and not look back, JUMP IN! FlyLady is going to change the way you deal with your home forever and give you so much spare time to enjoy your kids and home and husband that you won't even remember the ineffective ways you used to crisis clean. Here's the light you were waiting for. I know firsthand and am so glad I didn't hesitate in buying this book.