Reorganized

When we first moved into this home, I was determined to get on a schedule that would help me keep up with the cleaning. This house is considerably larger than what we came from--three full floors--so I needed to get my act together. It worked great...as long as I kept to the schedule. Now I am at the point of needing to be back on a stricter schedule.

It seems that most folks work best when there is a regular schedule--a rhythm, if you will, to life. So here is my attempt at getting better organized and becoming more godly (since cleanliness is next to it).

Each day: clean up dishes
make bed
devotions
excercise


Monday: Dust and sweep second floor

Tuesday: Any ironing
Clean the bathroom
Burn paper between 9-1--don't get me started on the intrusion of our local government that tells me what day and during which times I can burn paper so it doesn't fill a land fill...ACK!!

Wednesday: Market day (spring-fall months
Catch-up day

Thursday: Sweep porch--spring/summer/fall
Feed plants
Burn in the afternoon

Friday: Dust and sweep first floor

Saturday: Market day
Burn between 9-1

Weekly chores:

Week One: Clean fridge

Week Two: Clean oven (if needed)

Week Three: Sweep down stairways

Week Four: Clean bathroom and sweep on third floor


Spring and Fall: Curtains, Windows

Fall: Carpet cleaning


Since there is just the two of us, laundry can be done as needed and according to weather conditions. It leaves time, too, for breadbaking and other baking. My hope is that, if I have cleaned the bathrooms and the rugs are swept, that if there is company coming, I just need to do spot cleaning. During the months that the garden and the yard consume a great deal of my time, this schedule allows for time to weed, cultivate, plant, harvest, mow, etc.

If I can get my chores done by noon each day, then I have time to quilt or sew or read without feeling that I am being neligent in homekeeping.

I'm open to your ideas and suggestions. Do you see something I've missed?


While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. --Samuel Adams