Today I give you my top three ways to save time:
(1) Learn from the FlyLady. Get a routine and stick to it. Do those housekeeping things fast. I mean fast. Time yourself and give yourself a reward for cleaning the kitchen in under ten minutes. Let your kids hold a stopwatch and see which room you can vaccum the fastest. You'd be surprised how fast you can clean.
(2) Soaking. Dirty dishes, stained clothes, stained sinks, whatever. Soaking not only delays the actual cleaning, but makes the acutal cleaning faster. Also, the art of soaking is not understood by many men, making it an ideal excuse to stop cleaning for the day.
(3) Hair. I finally have a haircut that I do not have to dry with a hairdryer, and that I can wear totally up so that I don't have to wash it every day. I have also purchased a new hat, which I think I will buy at least one new hat every summer to encourage myself that I need to wear a hat in the sun.
What are your favorite secrets for saving time? Share with me!
4 comments:
Warren often pulls the old soaking routine...
Besides not having children?
Uh... Employing a housecleaner?
I save time when I homeschool by making packets of each week's work at the beginning of the semester. Each week has a spelling packet, math packet, language packet, history packet, etc.
That way, all I have to do is roll out of bed each Monday morning, find the folder with that week's packets, and get rolling. I get Emily started on something easy that she doesn't need a lot of interaction on. Meanwhile, I look over the next subject and figure out what I am going to teach. I do virtually no prep for school other than when we are sitting at the table in the morning.
I am looking forward to seeing a picture on the blog of the new haircut!
Oh, it's not a new haircut. I've finally grown my bangs out - first time since I was five or six - and my hair is so long (because I don't have any spare time for haircuts, doncha know!) that I can pull all of it back into a ponytail.
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