Weekly Home Routine

     Now that I have set some goals for 2014, how do I plan to accomplish them?  I want to start with my home.  I have followed (or maybe I should say 'observed' instead) flylady.net for years.  I have set up elaborate routines and schedules.  I have set up a wonderful control journal.  I have even purchased some of her products.  I have gone back through those routines and simplified them.  I have gone through them again and broken them down to make them even less detailed in order to reduce some stress and feelings of failure for me.  I'd love to have a clean, uncluttered, organized home.  That has never been a super priority for me.  I would think, "It is just me so it is not so important.  I'll clean when I have company."  Maybe there are some self esteem issues I should take a look at--maybe later.
     When I was working full time I seemed to only be able to be organized one place at a time, work or home.  Guess which one won out there.  Now I have moved from a 2600 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom home to an 850 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom old farm house.  I have had to downsize.  I would have thought it would be easier to keep a smaller house clean but you still have to clean.  Floors still need vacuumed (there are just not as big of an area).  Toilets still need scrubbed (not there is only one instead of three).  Kitchen still needs cleaned, laundry still needs done, and the bed still needs made. My problem is that I just do not make myself do it regularly and only do the bare minimum until I can't stand it any more.  Then I do something.

Daily Household Schedule

Sunday                                 The Lord’s Day
Monday                               Bedroom Focus
                                              Laundry-Bedding
                                              Vacuum                                         
Tuesday                               Bathroom Focus
                                              Laundry-Towels
                                              Sweep& Scrub Floors
Wednesday                         Kitchen Focus
                                              Laundry-Colors
                                              Water Plants
Thursday                             Living room Focus
                                             Laundry-Whites
                                             Dust      
Friday                                  Office Focus
                                             Laundry-Extras
                                             Update Bookwork
                                             Entry/Laundry Room Focus
Saturday                             Family Time


I also have set some daily basic (should be no-brainer) routines for different times of the day.

Morning Routine	Afternoon Routine	Evening Routine	Before Bed Routine		Zones--
Make Bed	Eat Lunch	Eat Dinner	Make a to do list		1 - Entrance, Front Porch, Laundry Room
Shower & Dress	Lay out for Supper	Clean up Kitchen	Run Dishwasher		2 - Kitchen
Personal Care	Quick Pickup	Check Calendar	Lay out clothes		3 - Bathroom,Sewing Room, Office
Empty Dishwasher	Exercise	Scripture Study	Personal Care		4 - Bedroom
Eat Breakfast	Check mail	Quick Pickup	Take Meds		5 - Living Room

    
     New year, new start.  I want to begin to follow those routines I have set up or rework them to work better for me.  So here is my Weekly Home Routines.
      Now let me tell you I am not OCD about any of this.  I can go with the flow of life and let these things be pushed into the background--so far back that I completely ignore them.  I'd rather do other things-like sewing, quilting, and helping around the farm-than work on cleaning house.  I want to focus more on this in 2014 without becoming OCD and without stressing about it.  I want to enjoy the process of becoming better.


Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God. 
          (D&C 109:8)


Rose