IconApps.com wants to know 10 tips on managing and organizing your family. There isn’t a Fairy Godmother for this? sigh. My 10 tips will be delivered to you in David Letterman style with my countdown to #1.
10. Honestly…I am not afraid to tell my hubby what I need done or what I need help on. How else would we ever survive if I did all of the work? He can cook just as much as I can (although I’d rather cook the majority of the time), but he is such an awesome cleaner. If you need a housekeeper, call my husband. Kidding. He is so awesome with our children too. He can change a poopy diaper with the best of them- why should I be the only one tending to the children?
9. Plan what to eat for meals. This is the hardest because we like to plan out meals, but we do deviate from them often by eating out. tisk tisk
8. When it is time to spring forward or fall back with our clocks (we are on Daylight Savings on EST), we clean the baseboards in our house.
7. When I get the mail each day, I open it, throw away the trash and put certain mail items where they need to go (the filed paperwork on the desk for example).
6. We use a wall calendar in our kitchen. We write Dr. appts. and mainly my husband’s flying schedule on it since he doesn’t have a set schedule. There’s no other way I’d know when he is set to be gone on a trip.
5. I pick out my daughter’s clothes the night before school, get her backpack packed and ready to go for the next day, so that we are not rushing too much in the morning.
4. When I do laundry (which seems like every couple of days lately), I always start the laundry and finish the laundry that day. I don’t leave laundry sitting in my washer or dryer. I take it out, fold it and put it away so it’s done later.
3. I have a spreadsheet of all of our bills, when they are due and I color code them for when they are scheduled to pay in bill-pay. Then, once they are paid, I change their colors to know they have gone out.
2. We always clean up after dinner so that there is not a mess to clean up later. Otherwise, it always piles up and then there is just more of a mess that takes longer.
And drumroll please…
1. I ALWAYS make lists. Without my lists, I am lost! I make lists for the grocery store (which everyone should do to avoid overspending) down to lists for what to pack to go on vacation.
What do you do to organize and manage your life?
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I make lists for everything and would be lost without them too! I was so happy to get a bunch of stuff crossed off my list this weekend. I’m really bad with the laundry though. I will leave some clothes in the dryer for a few days, and well once I take them out, the clothes sit in my room for a week.