For information about FlyLady, Marla Cilley, "Sink Reflections: FlyLady's BabyStep Guide to Overcoming CHAOS", or to arrange an interview, please send an email to MEDIA-Requests@flylady.net.
You may have heard about FlyLady in another forum, maybe you read about her
in a newspaper or magazine, perhaps you even saw her on TV or heard her on the radio. All over the world, people are talking about FlyLady. She has also been featured by both Knight-Ridder and the Associated Press, as well as major newspapers all over the country, including USAToday, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, the Atlanta Constitution, National Post, Globe and Mail and many, many others. These are some highlights from recent press:
Deseret News - weekly:
FlyLady and the Dinner Diva have monthly columns published. View the archive here.
St. Petersburg Times, Dec. 26, 2004: Looking to organize? Listen to the gurus
"The Fly Lady" offers 15 daily e-mail reminders and a whole philosophy for free via her Web site, www.flylady.net "What's for supper?" "Today is desk day" and "Where's your laundry" are among the not so subtle cues she sends 250,000 subscribers around the world. She also has written a book titled Sink Reflections and has guided thousands out of C.H.A.O.S. Can't have anyone over syndrome.
Savannah Morning News, Dec. 12, 2004: Practice random acts of kindness
Two of my friends who don't know each other but both know me suggested that I check out something called FlyLady.net on the World Wide Web. I joined and look forward to reading daily e-mails from the FlyLady.
I figured we were kindred spirits when I logged onto the Web site and saw the questions: "Are you living in CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) ... Do you feel overwhelmed, overextended and overdrawn? Hopeless and you don't know where to start?"
ADDitude Magazine, November, 2004: Mrs. Clean
Marla Cilley—aka FlyLady—has come up with simple, AD/HD-friendly approaches to conquer clutter, a pile at a time.
Deseret News, Nov. 18, 2004: 2 Icons Have Tips
"FlyLady" Marla Cilley and "Dinner Diva" Leanne Ely are successful authors who have a huge following among Web users who are tuned in to better homemaking and lifestyle techniques. Beginning next week, these two icons of chaos busting and kitchen culture will join the ranks of Utah Valley Life contributors. If you can't wait that long for a preview, visit them at flylady.net and www.savingdinner.com
Newsweek Magazine, Oct. 4, 2004: The Tip Sheet
"Sign on for free to Fly Lady (flylady.net) and she'll change your life with daily e-mails suggesting easy five- to 15-minute projects, ranging from chucking mateless socks to cleaning out your handbag to throwing away owner's manuals for appliances you no longer own. Fly Lady maintains that you should never go to bed without seeing your kitchen sink. For radical results, try her trademark "27 Fling Boogie": take a garbage bag and throw away 27 things you don't need.
Detroit News, September 28, 2004: Disorganized? Learn how to handle the mess.
Four years ago, Mary Lanam could see no light at the end of the tunnel — it was blocked by clutter. Lanam, 37, saw herself sinking into a quicksand of paper, clothes and all the other items she and her family had amassed over the years, and it was tearing her and her family apart.
When Lanam saw her life being overrun with clutter, she searched the Internet for solutions. It was then that she found Marla Cilley, AKA FLYlady, and other women like herself. This atmosphere has helped to pull her out of her battle with clutter.
Newsday, September 8, 2004: How busy families can master that a.m. routine
Preparing for the morning should start the day before, says Cilley, whose Web site www.flylady.net offers tips on clutter-free living. "It's going to save more than time," says Cilley, author of "Sink Reflections." "It's going to save stress."
CBS News, August 25, 2004: Fall's Coolest Websites
Summer's fun is morphing into fall's scheduled madness, and many women may be looking for a little (or a big) organizational boost. If you are one of these women, you're in luck: The FlyLady is here to help.
Dear Abby, July 27, 2004: The letter from "Former Houseguest."
Dear Abby: I have a different perspective than you on the letter from "Former Houseguest."
I also clean my bathroom every morning, and I am not alone. A lot of people are on a "system" set up by someone we call "the FlyLady." ("Fly" stands for "Finally Loving Yourself.")
She is a county commissioner in the state of Tennessee, who instructs us to get up, get dressed to the shoes, put in a load of laundry, and make our bathrooms shine — every day, first thing in the morning. The bathroom is then presentable for any guests who might come later in the day.
If you would like to see this for yourself, go to www.flylady.net. She is wonderful. She talks about having peace in your homes and a lot of other wonderful things. There are currently 212,899 people following her system. That hostess may well be one of them.
The hostess could have set her routine up long before "Former Houseguest" arrived. Should she have been expected to modify her daily routine just because she had guests? I don't think so! —Flying in Oregon
Dear Flying: After reading your letter, I stopped by my neighborhood bookstore and spotted a book by Marla Cilley, the FlyLady. It's titled "Sink Reflections" (published by Bantam Books). It was easy to read and chock-full of helpful ideas for the disorganized, as so many people are today. What I liked most about it was Cilley's philosophy that organization is most easily achieved not through earthshaking changes, but through a series of baby steps.
University of Wisconson Medical School, June 2004: Organizing a massive move
All University of Wisconsin Medical School personnel moving into the new Health Sciences Learning Center face the enormous task of sorting through years of collected materials to identify what can and cannot be discarded. The staff of the health sciences libraries--Weston Clinical Sciences Center Library, the Power Pharmaceutical Library and the Middleton Health Sciences Library--face an even bigger challenge. The three units--the people as well as the collections--will merge as one unit in the new building’s Ebling Library.
LivingLight News, April 2004: SPRING FLING
When in doubt, throw it out. The FLY Lady home organization system (www.flylady.net) suggests sorting through clutter using three boxes labeled Give Away, Throw Away, and Put Away.
The Washington Times, January 2004: Clearing house of all that clutter; Make clean sweep of excess items
Wanda Yeatman, a Rockville mother of four children ages 1 to 14, made a commitment exactly a year ago to get rid of clutter."I just had to get my house back in order," Mrs. Yeatman says. Although she has kept the resolution and is pleased with the results so far, she says she's not done, yet. "I have a system that works now," Mrs. Yeatman says. "Everything has a home, and everyone [in the family] knows what that home is, which makes things so much easier." Yes, 'tis that time of year ...
Vibrant Life Magazine, Jan-Feb 2004: I Can Fly!!
"I love the part in the movie Peter Pan when he teaches the children to fly. Even allowing for our cathedral ceilings, if Pete wanted to fly around my house he'd need air-traffic control to avoid all the obstacles. There's a word for this situation. Maria Cilley, better known as the self-help guru Flylady, calls it CHAOS (can't have anyone over syndrome). Our house has suffered from CHAOS for years.
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