FlyLadyPlus

As a Dutch girl, I was born and raised into a culture that values and practices a high degree of cleanliness. As a result and at the risk of sounding self-congratulatory, my home and work space have always been cleaner and more organized than most. And clutter? Banish the word. So, I was doubtful that Flylady would have anything to offer a lifelong clean freak like myself. I was pleasantly surprised. The daily routines, the zones, the checklists, and the emphasis on working in 15 minute chunks have helped me to be even more organized and systematic while also freeing up time. I already had daily cleaning routines similar to the ones Flylady uses. Hers were a bit more detailed and the check off lists give me a satisfactory sense of accomplishment as I complete each one. The detailed cleaning in the zones helped me make sure that things get done on a regular schedule. This makes the weekly blessing hour (Saturday morning cleaning) so much faster and more efficient. I don’t worry about deep cleaning areas because I know those will be addressed when I am working in that zone. This system has won the approval of my Dutch mother and that is high praise, indeed.

I have only had this app for a week, but it is helped me tremendously! I appreciate it having daily things, and zones. It helps me to wrap my mind around what should be done daily and what could be done every week or every two weeks. I did not come from a neat organized home, but a chaotic disaster. This is literally teaching me a skill that I do not have which is sort of sad. However, I have to agree with another review that there are a couple things that are bothering me about the app itself. First of all, the edit button and the done heart when you're trying to add something is kind of tricky on my iPhone 5… It doesn't want to go and it keeps cutting off. Also, I can't change or add anything into my agenda from the app which I would like to be able to do if they're going to be connected. Also you have to physically reset the daily routines. Now I understand why you would want to reset the zones because you might not get everything done in one day because you have serval days to do some of the zone work issues but I think the daily routine should probably reset automatically. I hope this helps! What this is doing for me personally I would give it five stars but I gave it four stars because of those few problems that I've seen so far.

I LOVE this App! It is simple, clear, well-organized and helping me make a BIG difference in my home and daily structure. I’m very encouraged. It seems so silly, but calling Wednesday “anti-procrastination day” has been a great help. Remembering to just handle tasks that are in front of me (rather than delaying) and setting timers have also been useful. ** there are some odd issues that need fixing. Sometimes, it won’t update to “today”. Sometimes 1 part updates and another doesn’t. Saturday - why doesn’t it ever update? Why not just update the date and give some greeting or direction so if doesn’t feel like it’s just stuck on Friday and maybe I’m missing something? I have tried FlyLady emails in the past. I didn’t understand the system and the emails overwhelmed me with words, words, words. I recently checked out the website to look old posts - YIKES! Moving ads, words everywhere - no white space. There is SO MUCH good information - but I wish a web designer could help by applying some of FlyBaby / FlyLady principles. It could be soooooooo much better. It’s in serious need of decluttering.

Love being able to add and edit my own routines. Created a routine for each month to remind me of maintenance items that I need to do on appliances and added my gardening requirements that fit in my zones. I even added my car maintenance to the monthly reminders like rotating tires before winter. There are a few bugs or at least I think it’s a bug. It says on the calendar that I have nothing scheduled for the day so it says add event. When I click on add nothing happens. I would really like to schedule items on this calendar that do not copy onto my other calendars. I need to sparky paint outside and the next day the weather works for that is 3 days away. I wanted to add the reminder but there is no place to even try to add it if I have something on the calendar that was imported from my main calendar. I would like to be able to keep all household work and cleaning in this app. Please clean out the bugs that prevent me from adding an item when the button is available and make the add an appointment available for any day even if items are imported from elsewhere. Thank you!

Love this app. Her 15min cleaning method is nothing new (think the old fashioned wash on Monday iron on Tuesday etc) but I love her daily routines and weekly zones. I always sort of had the idea all zones had to be done weekly and well... you can imagine with a family I just gave up feeling defeated all the time. Now, I (will) tackle a zone a week and if I don’t get everything done, I will do the items I didn’t get done last month first next month. I’ve only been using her system for a week but I’ve been so inspired and it’s even inspiring my family. And best of all, I’m not feeling resentful of spending all my time cleaning up after others. Because I’m working in smaller more reasonable time segments and getting so very much more done and teaching my family to do the same. Almost 18 yrs of marriage and my husband and I are finally on the same page regarding doing the dishes!!🎉🎉🎉 It would be five stars if I could rename the zones and add zones. For example I do not have an extra bedroom. But I’d like a zone for the garage.