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What Is It and How to Get Started
The Fly Lady AKA Marla Cilley, was a homemaker or
Sidetracked Home Executive (S.H.E.) as she called it. Cilley developed a cleaning
system where the home is broken into zones, as well as daily and weekly routines.
She named it after her favorite hobby, fly fishing (also an acronym for Finally
Loving Yourself) and began to share her system with others.
It has now grown into a movement. The Fly Lady has authored several
books, sells Fly Lady branded cleaning merch, as well as hosts an app with her
cleaning method.
To begin, each
week you’ll be assigned a zone and do 15 minutes a day intensively cleaning
that zone. There’s also a weekly blessing of basic things like floors, and
daily chores divided into morning, afternoon and evening. The basic tenet
of the program is to break down cleaning into small daily bites so you end up
doing a full spring cleaning without even realizing.