Adulting pvp (flylady/cleaning/decluttering) start july 27

[KB Girl]

Join us on this epic quest towards a more relaxing place to live in.. or maybe just one less likely to poison the people and animals that live with us! 

 

 

We're all little fairies and elfs, trying to level up our housekeeping magic. For the duration of this challenge we can gain level ups by earning experience points through practicing our magic (read; doing actual housekeeping). 

There are four ways to earn these experience points; 

1. by doing seven weekly general cleaning tasks (like flylady's home blessing)
2. by doing daily missions (for example the flylady ones or your own versions)
3. by joining in on the bi-weekly boss battles (setup will be like the guild mini-challenges)
4. by posting before/after pictures 

To join this pvp all you have to do is introduce yourself, pick an original color, put your name + color on the overview form of this excel sheet, and then add a tab for yourself simply by copying the one I put in (got trouble? Just let me know and i'll do it for you). Don't worry about making the values end up in the overview sheet, i'll work that out if/when everyone agrees with the setup.

 

Every 10 experience points are a level-up. The person with the highest level at the end wins this PVP.

Any thoughts on rewards? Besides the pvp aspect you can also set yourself up with a reward system for level ups earned!

 

[KB Girl]

Still up for editing and suggestions! 

Do you think we should add something for daily routines?

[Terah]

Love this! Definitely joining you.

 

And yes, daily routines should be part of this challenge in my opinion. Those keep me going and give me the motivation to do the other stuff.

Not sure about the daily missions though. I rather do the detailed cleaning for that area once a week. 

 

Let's FLY!

[Nymeria]

I'm in, of course!

 

I'm not sure how to add daily routines.  On one hand, it kind of intersects with the weekly home blessing.  On the other, if I focus too much on flylady daily missions, I can then sometimes neglect my daily chores that need to be finished, like dishes, wiping the table, etc.  Maybe one way to handle this is to just give 1 XP for every 15 or 20 minutes of routine, daily cleaning.  People who choose to do the Flylady home blessing can just time it and use the same XP formula.

 

For the daily missions, I think we should stick with what we've done in the past, which is that it doesn't matter if you do them out of order or do multiple missions in the same day (if you're in a good cleaning groove), as long as they get done.  That way, people who want to lump the missions into a once/week detailed cleaning would get the same credit as someone like me who wants to break it down into a daily chore.

[Terah]

I imagine everyone has tasks that have to be done daily (like emptying the dishwasher, doing a load of laundry, checking your schedule etc.) and tasks that have to be done weekly (like vacuuming, dusting etc.). You don't have to do all your weekly tasks at once, but you get your XP when you have finished them all. And you get XP for finishing all your daily tasks every day. If that makes sense?

 

Well I'm just a newbe (first pvp ever ), and maybe I've interpreted Nymeria's post wrong, so feel free to correct me

[KB Girl]

Well we still have a couple of days to figure it out. I'm still considering what I even want to do. I'll tinker with the spreadsheet some more tomorrow.

i'm hesitant to just use time spend, because I can be very very good at spending time on all the things I dont reaaaally need to do in order to avoid things I reaally should do.

[Shello]

Oh I am so excited for this.  I just finished the babysteps and I wanted a way to keep this going but I didn't make it part of my challenge.  I love this!  I'm in.  

[Terah]

Oh I am so excited for this.  I just finished the babysteps and I wanted a way to keep this going but I didn't make it part of my challenge.  I love this!  I'm in.  

Yeah! FLY'ing doodlies

 

 

Well we still have a couple of days to figure it out. I'm still considering what I even want to do. I'll tinker with the spreadsheet some more tomorrow.

i'm hesitant to just use time spend, because I can be very very good at spending time on all the things I dont reaaaally need to do in order to avoid things I reaally should do.

LOL, I do exactly the same Flylady is also about getting the stuff done as fast as possible (15 min timer and such)

[Elastigirl]

I like Nym's plan. Maybe KBgirl to address the not working on what you need to, you either need to follow Flylady's routine or write out at  the beginning of the week what your tasks are. That should help to keep it focused. My problem is getting distracted and spending way longer on one thing (deciding I need to deep clean the fridge instead of just 15 min clean) so either following flylady or predeciding my tasks might help me.

[Shello]

I don't know about you guys but I still struggle with the daily routines and I haven't even really started the weekly routines but that's certainly the plan.  I'm not sure how that translates into optimal scoring.

[Terah]

I don't know about you guys but I still struggle with the daily routines and I haven't even really started the weekly routines but that's certainly the plan.  I'm not sure how that translates into optimal scoring.

Maybe we can give different XP points for different levels people are in?

 

Proposal:

 

Level 1: no clue

Level 2: Basic daily routine, no weekly routine to speak off

Level 3: Solid daily routine, struggling with a weekly routine

Level 4: Solid daily and weekly routine, but you want to do some more deep cleaning/organizing

 

Challenges:

- Completing the FLY lady babysteps 

L1: 5 XP

L2 t/m 4: no XP

- Completing your daily routines

L1: 5 XP

L2: 5 XP

L3: 3 XP

L4: None

- Completing your weekly routines

L1: 6 XP

L2: 5 XP

L3: 4 XP

L4: 3 XP

- Completing the Weekly missions/deep cleaning 

L1: 10 XP

L2: 9 XP

L3: 8 XP

L4: 7 XP

 

Just a proposal off course and the XP points need work, but you get the idea, right?

[Nymeria]

I really like Elastigirl's idea.  I think at the beginning of the challenge, we should each identify what our personal daily routine should look like, what our weekly cleaning routine should look like, and then have extra decluttering or deep cleaning missions, as in Flylady.  If someone is still struggling, then the daily and weekly routines could be something smaller or simpler to help with building the habit of cleaning.  We don't all have to do the same things or even comparable work for the XP, since we're all in different places with our cleaning habits and we all have different home structures. 

 

For example, in my case, the daily routine should be: dishes, laundry (when needed), wipe kitchen counters, wipe dining room table, and sweep around dining room table and kitchen.  But someone who is struggling might just have dishes as the daily chore.  And someone who is neater than I am might have several other things to add to the list.

 

And my weekly routine is (well it isn't, but it should be ): sweep all floors, at least lightly clean all bathrooms, dust, empty trash, purge fridge of spoiled food, and probably a few other things.

 

And then flylady missions would be extra cleaning on top of that.  I also like EG's idea of establishing your own "flight plan" at the beginning of the week as to what these missions might be.  

 

Maybe, to keep things simple, 1 pt for each day the daily routine is completed, 1 point for each flylady or alternate mission (up to 5), and 3 points for completion of the weekly routine.  

[Nymeria]

And for boss battles, maybe 2 mini bosses and a big boss.  Each mini boss could be some task really that isn't too huge (like it would maybe take 30-60 minutes to do), but for whatever reason, you've been procrastinating and avoiding it for a long time.  And the big boss could just be one larger cleaning task.

[Shello]

I like that idea. It gives us all the ability to make our own lists but we're all following the same format.

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[Terah]

I like Nymeria's idea

[KB Girl]

Sounds very good! I fiddles with the spreadsheet a bit according to those ideas. How does it look? Will this do as a way to keep track? Or do you want more detailed lists of things to cross off?

[Terah]

Sounds very good! I fiddles with the spreadsheet a bit according to those ideas. How does it look? Will this do as a way to keep track? Or do you want more detailed lists of things to cross off?

Looking good

I've got my own control journal to cross things off, so this will suffice for this challenge.

[Shello]

Agreed.  We could also just expand our own lists and use the tabs to itemize them out.  But it's functional the way it is.  

 

I better prepare my lists.  I've been following flylady's list but I think if I modify them better for me it might make it easier for me to get to it every day.  

[KB Girl]

Go ahead and fill in your plans

 

I've added mine (still up for change) and decided not to add those things to the routine that I already normally do anyway, those don't need my attention. So i've just added things that aren't going so well yet.

[Terah]

Go ahead and fill in your plans

 

Done

Almost didn't have enough space

[Elastigirl]

added my plan

[Shello]

My plan is added too! 

[tundralily]

Oh this is super shiny! Can I join in? I'm adding keeping my place clean as a apart of my challenge this time around and this is awesome!

[Terah]

Weekly home blessing hour done

 

How are you all doing?

[Nymeria]

So far, so good.  I did my daily routine and the Monday flylady mission.  This PVP is really helping me feel motivated to get things done rather than procrastinate!