Organising Your Week - The Way Granny Used To Do It

thriftlady_2

I have a weekly routine too.

Washing nearly every day,there's no way I could leave it for one day a week,unless I buy everyone a lot more clothes.

Monday- supermarket shop for dry stores and householdy stuff
Tuesday-baking day
Wednesday-Ironing and bathrooms
Thursday- My mum comes over and we are 'ladies wot lunch':beer:
Friday-nice shopping -ie farmshop and butcher's and more ironing

Not much cleaning there:rotfl:

Great idea for a thread Moggins:T but,you know what? I'd have a lot more time for housework if I wasn't on here so much reading about how others organise their houses:rotfl: :rotfl:

Heth_2

Does anyone who works full time have this sort of routine?
I do all the main cleaning/ironing/hoovering etc.. at the weekends, and only wash up, and wash if needed during the week (of course I keep the kitchen relatively clean in the sense that I wipe the work tops after using them, but don't do any floor/cupboard cleaning during the week). I simply can't be bothered after getting home at 7.30 and then cooking to do house work.
So it all gets done on saturday/sunday and if we are away for the weekend it waits till the following weekend.

wigginsmum

I'm with you, Heth. There's no way I'd find time to work a full day in the office, get home and cook dinner, then start on housework.

Quackers

Heth wrote:

Does anyone who works full time have this sort of routine?

I dont.

I do think it would help but I'm not sure I've got the motivation to do things on set days.

I can see how it would make life so much easier and might have a think about it but I kind of do stuff when I feel like it as some nights I dont have the energy to do anything

My days off change each week too so I couldn't dedicate set days to do set stuff but I am going to see if I could maybe adapt it.

We tried a cleaning rota a few weeks ago - my girls are 11 & 14 so we all put our names & a list of jobs on a spreadsheet and did it for two weeks and then got bored

Maybe we need to rethink the housework thing :rolleyes:

Aril

I work 27hrs pw [sometimes more] and am going fulltime shortly [also have an 8 year old son] I have always had a cleaning routine but I now do a bit each day before I go to work. Always make the beds, clean the loo and sink, wash up and quick tidy up before I leave [I find tidying little and often keeps on top of it] although to be fair should point out that OH sorts out the small person showerwise in the meantime
In addition I do
Mon - bins and recycling out
Tues- clean bathroom
Wed-wash floors
Thurs- hoover throughout
Fri- change bedding and towels.
I have to really strict with myself when I get in from work because if I sit down it's fatal therefore, get stuck straight in with lunches and meal prep [anything needing defrosting I take out in the morning] as menus already preplanned.
Weekly shopping done Fri night or early Sat morning. I also tend to load the w/machine the night before so can just start it off whilst I'm staggering around making a cuppa. I know that it's ready to go out before I leave for work
Ironing happens either Sun or Mon eve but I work hard in order to have the eve to myself even if that's just slobbing out watching BB! Also tend to see friends or do my crafty thing.
Weekends I bake, do the garden, other yucky jobs like windows, cleaning the oven etc etc and at the moment because I am not an avid footie fan I'm using the light evenings to catch up on outside jobs. Actually am such a saddo that I find it strangely relaxing wielding a paintbrush but then maybe that's just because I am strange!!
Aril

Churchmouse

Right, have been thinking about this while FLying my bedroom

Like everybody I'll be swishing and wiping my bathroom and kitchen on a daily basis. Will also include w/m on this. Also while I don't enjoy ironing I don't mind doing a bit most evenings while watching TV or a DVD etc. So I won't dedicate an ironing day. I am going to cut down the amount of ironing I do, it's really quite ridiculous!! I will continue to iron my bedlinen 'cos nothing beats clean ironed, preferably line-dried cotton bedlinen!:D If I ever win the lottery I will employ someone to change my bed every single day, not just once a week! But I digress:o

I'm sort of looking at the following

Monday Livingroom/ kitchen/bathroom

Tuesday Bedrooms(3)

Wednesday ( a commitment day when I often have voluntary work ) stairs hall landing and back lobby

Thursday Shopping gardening freezercooking

Friday Have my grandson usually so nothing until about 5pm. Then tidy livingroom, that'll be enough!

Sat/Sun Swish and wipe only! Me time, family time, gardening. Whatever I want :T

I can see that when I've completed my FL challenge many of these tasks are going to be quite quick to complete, so I'm thinking the designated day would be for doing a deeper clean or sort out as required!

I can actually see a LOT of free time coming my way, not so much for you who still have littlies

No doubt I'll refine it in practice, but I can see that it'd be good to be able to think, I will still go out today even though the bedroom's a mess because I'll have time for that on Tuesday. Without a designated day the chore just takes on a priority iyswim?

Oh well I've rambled, we'll see how it works in real life!;)

Murtle

Everyone seems to wash their bed linen on Mondays, is this when you change the beds or does it sit in the wash basket all weekend?M

Churchmouse

For me Murtle,it's Fridays. Strip beds and wash bedlinen.

lex

Myrtle..I do mine on a Monday morning, wash them and put them back on the bed by the evening. We only have one set that are the right size that match the room!

At least they don't sit around that way....

lex

Dobie

Heth wrote:

Does anyone who works full time have this sort of routine?
I do all the main cleaning/ironing/hoovering etc.. at the weekends, and only wash up, and wash if needed during the week (of course I keep the kitchen relatively clean in the sense that I wipe the work tops after using them, but don't do any floor/cupboard cleaning during the week). I simply can't be bothered after getting home at 7.30 and then cooking to do house work.
So it all gets done on saturday/sunday and if we are away for the weekend it waits till the following weekend.

I work full time - 8 hours at work & an hour each end of the day commuting. One week I'm out 7am - 5pm & the next 9am - 7pm. I still find I need a routine & set jobs for each day because I just CAN'T bear to use my precious weekends off cleaning. Although at the weekend I always try & do bulk cooking plus one 'extra' job that doesn't get done weekly. For example, this weekend I washed down the outside of the conservatory & cleaned the windows. I didn't get a job done on Sunday because me & DH went for a 20 mile bike ride with friends in the morning & then there was the footy to watch, dinner to cook & a loaf to make.

I make it work for me by getting up as early on my later shift as I do on my early so I do the jobs before I leave in the morning. On my early shift I just do it when I get home. I'm on lates this week so before work I changed the beds & cleaned the bathroom.

Things don't always work out quite as well as I'd planned but I refuse to beat myself up about it. It'll still be there next week & I think I'm more important than a sparkly house.