Do you rue the fact that your house only looks good for two minutes after candle lighting? Meet Marla Cilley, aka FlyLady, who has helped thousands to get — and keep — their homes neat and inviting,
I was lucky. I had some good habits because I grew up in a home where the beds were made — there was order and structure and a stay-at-home mother” says Hindy a Jerusalem-based mother and business owner. “My mother had her family living around her so if she fell short someone would step in to keep the home running well.
“But I am not naturally organized. So when I married and moved away and had one baby and another and another and one required extra reading time and one physiotherapy — I had no time to think. I started to live from moment to moment. Until one day I stumbled on the FlyLady program. It is led by this heavyset woman with a feather duster and it felt very approachable for someone like me who gets easily overwhelmed. FlyLady changed my life.”
FlyLady otherwise known as Marla Cilley is behind an all-inclusive housekeeping system that helps hundreds of thousands of women maintain their homes. The name FlyLady was Marla’s screen name chosen because she was a fly-fishing fan and instructor. Later a member of the FlyLady e-mail list created a “backronym” for FLY: Finally Loving Yourself
The basic tenets of FlyLady’s methodology are: daily morning and evening cleaning routines that keep your house generally neat; regular decluttering which involves giving away and throwing out unused items; a weekly straightening up of your entire home named “The weekly home blessing” and 15 minutes a day spent deep cleaning one particular area.
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