Baking / washing / ironing days ...

Zed42

I've just been reading the "doing without supermarkets" thread ...

And someone commented on "baking days" ....

I've been making my own bread for the past 2yrs using the BM, but for the past few months (just before Christmas), I've been making the dough in the Kenwood Chef and baking ... I do work P/T in the week, so I do this as a job lot on a weekend and bake about 7 loaves at a time.

I / we also batch cook about once a month, where we make loads of "ready meals" to bung in to the freezer for those nights (ok, most nights!) when we don't have time to cook from scratch ...

I tend to do my washing throughout the week, with most being done on a Sunday, ironing being done on a Wed (unless I'm ahead of myself, ha ha, and then gets done on a Tuesday)

It makes me wonder who else does this ...

Simba_25

My 'wash day' used to be on a weds and sat, but now i have to wash daily as im using cloth nappies.

I do have a baking day on a sunday, where me and my son spend the afternoon making allsorts.....usually stuff for pack ups. He loves it and i get to spend time with just the two us. I love sundays!

mossstar

I work p/t tues/wed/thurs and have two small children and a dp with a full time job, so I have to do this too! I have to be quite disiplined with myself.

I like to keep the freezer stuffed full of their lunchbox foods so that in the evening I just pull out 3 items (mini pizza/sandwich/mini quiche/chicken drumstick/muffin/cake/cheese straws etc.), add a couple of items of fruit and their done! and I also have to keep it stocked up with lunches for us so that we don't spend money during the day. (At the moment there's a choice of lasagne or carrot & cumin soup - both of which I'm heartily sick of! ha ha).

So I have a loose 'schedule' of monday as 'baking day' where i do all the above plus try to get on top of our dinners for those 3 days plus make all our bread. I also keep bags of american pancakes (pikelets) with fruit in them in the freezer as they make good 'grabable' breakfasts for those mornings when we're running late and manage to get the kids fed but not ourselves!

That leaves me friday to do all the cleaning and laundry (kids are 3 and 6 so I have a lot of it!). I have been working alternate weekends so that's why I don't factor in weekends to my 'schedule' - but this is my last working weekend so soon i'll have lots more time! woo-hoo!

Anyway, so in answer to your question - yes! and I don't know how i'd cope/how much more I'd spend if I didn't do this!

x

exlibris

This is very Old Style. My grandmother and mother used to have specific days for specific jobs.

Monday - laundry day but the ironing sometimes extended to Tuesday.

Tuesday - bedrooms

Wednesday - baking Own bread, all cakes etc

Thursday - shopping. As they lived in a small town this was a relatively easy day so they did more baking.

Friday - cleaning for the weekends. Think peg rugs and stone floors which had to be mopped here!

Saturday - can't remember. Possibly visiting or shopping in the nearest big town.

Sunday - Day of rest - if you don't count full Sunday Dinner and the accompanying washing up! Also this was the day Mum cleaned the cooker and kitchen!

As in another thread, meals tended to be the same each day. No freezers or fridges, a cold shelf in the pantry so all meals cooked daily!

Of course Grandma didn't work outside the home, but my Mum did. She did get a washing machine and fridge when I was in my teens. Dad bought them for her. At least he paid the deposit and she paid the payments on the normal electric bill!

sammy115

I was brought up 'old style' in a single parent family - just me and my mum. We washed in the twin tub on saturdays and ironed (if dry!) on sundays. Can't remember about the shopping but it was done and it must have been done locally as mum didn't drive. We did have a good local butcher, baker and vegetable shop then though. My mum certainly never baked, I think I was brought up on tinned soup and beef paste sandwiches. Not a ready meal in sight LOL!

Life is much worse now in my opinion. I live on an estate with no corner shop just a scraggy morrisons which has to be driven to. End up coming out with loads of rubbish that goes off and gets thrown away! My washing machine seems to be on constantly and the ironing board is a permanent fixture. I don't bake but I do try to cook properly but I am not the best cook in the world - so it does sometimes still get thrown away.

Since Jan I have cut my hours back and I am desperately trying to get organised with the help of the fly ladys. I don't post much but try to keep up. This thread just made me so reminiscent of the 'old days', when I knew what I was doing and when, instead of being frantic most of the time.

mel_anthe

I do this too, to some extent - partly because I work during the week so I have to fit in things round that. My schedule is:

Friday - washing
Saturday - washing, food shopping, batch cooking/baking for meals for the freezer or next week, sorting through paperwork
Sunday - ironing and cleaning downstairs
Monday-Thursday - cleaning upstairs

other jobs as and when they need doing or I have time!

crawley_girl

I did have a pretty rigid schedule but it all went to pot - basically cos my work schedule changed and I let my whole life slip.

I do to update but my life looked something like this:
Mon - kitchen + loo
Tues - food shopping
Wed - bathroom + loo
Thurs - kitchen + lounge
Fri - bedroom + laundry
Sat - washing
Sun - day off!

This was fitted around working shifts and a 2nd job. Washing machine would go on probably twice more during the week as and when needed and I also scheduled meal planning and budgetting and filing in there somewhere.

As it is, I just write my lists and plough thru them. Note to self - Must get more organised!

:heartpuls CG :heartpuls

redballoon_2

Oh! what a good thread!

I work full time, do dont have any set routine to do things so perhaps I should "set my days" for true o/s style!

lil_me

Was never organised before, but have since Flylady. I tend to do baking on Sunday as that's the Flylady day off usually. A friend washes on weekends and she mentioned it, so I tried it, well the house looked like a flaming laundrette. I don't like to overuse drier either and our weather isn't good for clothes drying 365! Couldn't get it all dry/ironed etc, by Friday the kids were running out of uniforms. Then I asked her again she said she was struggling too. Oh well give up on that. Flylady system of at least 1 load a day tends to keep me right, extras when needed and doing bed linen on a weekly rota helps. Ironing, don't swear, that's rude! I do when needed. Sunday I iron what's needed for the week.

Bambywamby

I can always remember my mum having an O/S schedule during the day and at 6pm she went out to work for 4 hours cleaning 5 days a week when my dad came home.

Monday - washing and clean through downstairs
Tuesday - we went shopping with a trolley bag and then came back and did baking
Wednesday - clean through upstairs and ironing
Thursday - gardening/mending/sewing etc and a second wash in the twin tub
Friday - clean through kitchen second time in a week
Saturday - Kids Day (we were always taken out for the day on a Saturday)
Sunday - ironing and baking

Blairweech

I am thinking about starting to do this, especially now I am working full time. Have a day or two as my shopping days, Sunday as a baking day, and maybe start doing Flylady. I think this would be particularly effective when I get a freezer, then I can start doing longer meal plans and going to the spermarket late at night for bargains.

I find I have problems with motivation though, although this might change if I knew I had to do things on a certain day, but then not worry about it for the rest of the week.