Moggins household manual - hope that's ok?

jcr16

my household manual is fab. i use it so much. but i am findign the more i use it. the more i am putting in it. so i would like a big a4 folder. i have a normal size one. but this isn't enough.

but the only ones i can find are boring one's. i'd like one which is wipeable and with a nice pattern on it. any ideas where i can find one? failing that i guess i'll just have to decorate my own and cover in sticky back plastic. but i wanted to treat myself this time.

LJM

im part way through mine but xmas and bdays have taken over atm have had alot of my sheets laminated for free bargain,got a few good books to read up for some more ideas,will get straight back to it soon as xmas over.i too always carry around a notebook in my bag with all my things to do in it and i would be lost without mine too

domestic_goddess

I am loving this idea, I bookmarked this back in September to look at at a later date and have only just got round to it now, I have loads of stuff ready to go in my folder.

Any more tips?

Thanks

Three_Dancing_Dragons

moggins wrote:

I'd love to see other peoples systems. Mine is a sort of amalgamation of things I've read all mixed around into what I need and what works for me so everybody will have different needs and I'd love to learn a thing or two from others ways of doing things.

Come on folks, if you have a system let us see it, it will help all the newbies too who may need some new ideas.

You sound like a Sidetracked Home Executive (SHE) Moggins. I got the book in the post this morning and it has lists in the back of cleaning tasks on a room by room basis. WAY too advanced for me I'm afraid. Even the FLY lady is a step too far. I use Sandra Felton's ideas from SMART ORGANISING. Establish daily routines. Four things in the morning, four things in the evening. Work on one organisation principle (from five suggestions) until it becomes a habit. I'm still on "if you get it out, put it away".

I tried a computerised version of the 3x5 cards having read her NEW MESSIES MANUAL (The Procrastinators Guide to Good Housekeeping).

When I saw how much there was to do it made me cry.

These days in the morning I air the BED, make BREAKFAST, give the BATHROOM a 10 minute wipe with anti-bac cloths and BRUSH my hair and teeth. (And occasionally the dog.) Then all I have to do is pull up the duvet and bedspread and I'm done. At the moment I'm trying to add 2 x 10 minute tidies. In the evening it's make DINNER, do the DISHES (I live alone so it hardly seems worth filling a sink after every meal), DOUCH which before you say it is German for Shower - I was getting desperate - and DUMP the rubbish. 4 B's and 4 D's. Easy to remember even when you're only semi-conscious in the mornings.

I live in a flat with a shared laundry so I am forced to split my laundry into two x two hour slots - darks/coloured load on Saturdays and whites on Tuesdays when I have home help. My best purchase was a three section laundry hamper from the Cotswold Company with removable bags so laundry is colour sorted as it goes into the hamper.

pavlovs_dog

just stumbled back across this.

its one of my long term aims for 2007, getting a manual up and running. not that OH and i actually have our own place yet (we're living with his parents and saving), but so that we can be OS from the word go in our new place when the time comes.

will come back later and have a good nosey through for ideas :j

chardonnay_2

this is a fab idea, but how often do you are you expected to complete the list of tasks for each room - is this a weekly / monthly thing?

nicki_2

I've just presented SIL & her fiance with one for Christmas (mostly recipes from here) along with a copy of Cut The Clutter and an apron:D She was very impressed :T I've promised to add to it at Christmas and Birthdays

dlb

Wow what a great idea, i reallt struggled this year what to get my brother in law, he would love this, he loves to cook and is desperatly trying to get my sister to be a better housekeeper!!LOL he has no hope!!
I am going to start to make a folder with the recipes and tips from here ready for him for next xmas.

debtworrier

I'd second that request. I've just moved into my **first home** and I'm still looking at things in the bathroom/kitchen and thinking "is it grubby enough to clean yet?"
(So far the answer has been "no")

debtworrier

As a friend of mine who was into S&M used to observe "the nice thing about being the sub is that you get the control, and he gets the responsibility."
:A