Organising Your Week - The Way Granny Used To Do It

mountainofdebt

shetitasatic wrote:

She also gave me the habit of virtually spring cleaning right through before going on holiday, so you always come home to a lovely clean house - this drives my DH crackers!!

My mum used to do this and it drove me mad....however I did it the first time we went away and it was sooooooooooooo nice to come home to that I;ve done it ever since........which does go to prove that girls DO turn into their mothers!

Murtle

My mother is turning into me years of her hassling us to clean, and me not wanting to....now she doesn't want to either!!!

However, I am keen to get the place tidyed but not getting there as I am STILL on here!!

freyaluck

OK
after spemding on hours on here you expect me to do house work as well

This sounds like a good idea and hopefully woll get me into the routine I desparately need at the momment.

So
MONDAY bedding , windows, 1 wash load, hoover
TUESDAYS kids rooms bathroom
WEDNESDAYS shopping pay bills kitchen hoover
THURSDAYS 2 loads of washing , lounge
FRIDAYS MY room , hallway/landing inc work station
SATURDAY Hoover, washing ant other jobs
SUNDAY free day
Jobs to do monthly
Wipe down base boards
sort kids clothes
hoover under furniture
Dust

That doesn't look to hard does it. Although I will be cleaning up after the kids, washing up and genral bits and bobs everyday.

Have done my chores for today, although need to go and sort out a pile of clothes in the littleuns bedroom.
Cheers for this
Frey

Mercenary

I am inherently lazy, so now that my kids have grown up to teenagers and older, I have a system that gives me plenty of free time to do things like playing violent games or browsing the internet on the PC, reading books, occasional shopping for clothes etc.

I do laundry most days, but only iron items that really can't get away with just being folded carefully after drying, or when they're running out (like my OH's work shirts ). I usually catch up on any recorded programmes or a DVD while I iron to take my mind off it.

I dust when I can write in it (about every 2 weeks) as my theory is that it'll come back anyway :undecided however often it's done or not.

I tend to tidy up constantly as I go around the house, so there is never a huge mess to deal with. Any stray items or clean laundry belonging to my kids are dumped into their hell-hole bedrooms for them to sort out.
I load the dishwasher and DD unloads if I nag her enough. It gets run as soon as it's full up.

My weekly routine tends to be roughly like this:

• Monday. In no particular order: Gen tidying, vacuum downstairs, clean kitchen floor and cloakroom, do food & general shopping, cook dinner, feed dog.
• Tuesday. Gen tidying, plump up feather cushions on sofas and chair, vacuum upstairs, clean bathrooms, cook dinner, feed dog.
• Wed. Gen tidying, free time to do what I like, cook dinner, feed dog.
• Thurs. Gen tidying, food shopping for weekend, free time,cook dinner, feed dog.
• Fri. Gen tidying, vacuum downstairs again (dog hairs!), free time, No cooking tonight as we have takeaway, feed dog.
• Sat. Gen tidying, cook lunch, free time, feed dog.
• Sun. Gen tidying, cook lunch, free time, feed dog.

I don't see why I should spend the rest of my life trying to keep the house sparkling like a palace. No-one else notices it if I do....and, believe me, I have tried once or twice. Not worth the effort! It's like King Canute trying to hold back the waves. A good enough job is just that....Good Enough.

While my 3 kids were young they had the priority time-wise, now it's my turn to play!

Bellie_2

I was trying to do this a while ago but it never really stuck, now that I am moving I am going to sort out a routine, will have a think about it and update.x

Athravan

I am very new to being a house wife and budgeting and money saving but this seems like a fantastic idea - i so far have had no "routine" and just try to remember what needs doing but then I forget things and my day has no structure so I end up not doing anything - or not having a sense of achievement about what I've done.

So here's my attempt:

Monday - Food & Household Shopping, Clean Kitchen

Tuesday - Vacuum/Clean Downstairs Lounge/Dining Room/Hall, Collect Rubbish and Put out

Wednes - Vacuum/Clean Upstairs Bedroom/Office, Wash all Laundry

Thursday - Clean Bathroom, Tidy Rooms

Friday - Change Bed and Wash Linen, Tidy Garden

Saturday - Free Time, Wash Windows (fortnightly)

Sunday- Spend day at parents / Free time.

bonnie_2

i know there was a post on here once about what granny did each day of the week as it was set in stone. can anyone remember it.
i thought i would set myself a challenge.so if someone could remember the days of the week. i know it was washing on a monday and ironing on a tuesday. but i cant remember the rest.

Pink.

Hi bonnie,

I have merged your thread into the "The Way Granny Used to Do It" thread. Good luck with your challenge.

Pink

Kazonline

Mercenary _ I love your style and attitude!

I am however still on board trying to make the place more visitor friendly (though people only appear when house is at it's worst!)

As for cleaning before hols - I used to rush around like a blue ***** fly (as some would say - not me, far too polite ) making the house immaculate. However as our holiday usually entails me driving for 4 - 5 hours to our destination I learnt falling asleep at the wheel was not worth the lovely clean home. That said I allways polish all the door handles and windowsills as we leave ..... I dread being broken into and then having the police come round and not be able to take prints!
Kaz x

Zed42

I like the idea of routine .... I just don't adhere to it totally as life seems to take me over

I guess this works best for those people who are family/house makers full time.

I work p/t and look after dd p/t and sort DH's business out p/t, so life is a compromise I guess. That and my house is an ongoing building site whilst we renovate the house, so normal service is not going to happen completely for a while.

My current routine is something like this:

Sun/Mon - Washing (majority, rest - as/when (I hate dirty washing with a vengeance!))
Tues/Wed - ironing

Oh dear, that's about it.

Shopping gets done when it has to ... supermarket tends to get done on a Thurs/Friday evening, farm shops on a Wednesday.

Cleaning - tidying up is ongoing, kitchen/bathroom is ongoing, the rest depends on whether we have friends coming to stay for the w/e ... the house gets a hell of a lot cleaner in the Summer

Bedlinen gets changed fortnightly.
Towels weekly. Except hand towels - every other day.

Batch cooking tends to happen monthly - but less in the Summer.

In our last house, pre-dd, when I worked f/t - it was simple - we cleaned the house from top-to-toe on a Friday night then retired to the pub, shopping got done a Sun morning / ironing on a Sun pm ... life was so so simple.