How To Get All Your Housework Done in a Week

Posted on 02 July 2010 by Courtney | 70 responses

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The best tool I have found to getting all of my housework done each week is a:

SCHEDULE

My 2010 Weekly Schedule looks like this:

Mondays – Menu and Market Day
Tuesdays: Toilets, Tubs and Towels Day
Wednesdays: Wash (laundry day)
Thursdays: Dust
Fridays: Floors

This schedule has been so easy to follow since the task matches the first letter of the day. It takes me no more than 2 hours a day to complete the daily task (usually it takes only an hour – but on laundry day and grocery shopping day it takes 2 hours). I do not follow it rigidly – so if you bump into me at the grocery store on a Friday – do not be dismayed! I use my schedules as guides to be sure I get everything done every week.
It’s easy to write a schedule -the hard part is following it! It takes discipline, diligence and eagerness to get it all done every week. I am reminded of Proverbs 31:13 which says “she works with eager hands.” Do you have eager hands today? We must role model this eagerness for our children and train them to have eagerness also – the home is a classroom for our children and mothers – we are the teachers. So pursue an eager spirit as you take care of your home today.
If you have a weekly schedule – please share it in the comment section – you never know – it might become my 2011 schedule lol!!

Walk with the King!
Courtney
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Courtney

Courtney Joseph blogs over at Women Living Well. She has been married to her high school sweet heart for 12 ½ years, home schools her son and daughter and is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute. Her passion to see women living well landed her on the Rachael Ray Show in November, 2009. Since then, she blogs regularly about marriage according to God’s word.

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70 responses to How To Get All Your Housework Done in a Week

Gretchen says:

July 10, 2010 at 11:00 am

Love reading all the schedules. I sort of use the Flylady method but have changed it a bit to work for me. Here’s my schedule:

Daily: Up at 4 am > coffee & news
Shower & dressed at 5 am
In the kitchen to make breakfast by 5:30 am
From 6:30 to 9 am I’m straightening the house
wiping the bathrms down, making bed, feeding the
dogs, reading Bible & computer time.

Weekly: Monday > Laundry day
Tuesday > water plants
Wednesday > clean out refrigerator
Thursday > Laundry day (bedding)
Friday > Home Blessing: Dust w/ swiffer
Vacuum & mop floors
Collect ALL garbage
Clean glass doors
Wipe down kitchen
Wipe down bathrms.
Sweep porches

Monthly: 1st week> Detail clean appliances & bathrms.
2nd week> Detail dust whole house
3rd week> Move furniture & vacuum, Scrub floors
4th week> 2 times a year – wash windows & curtains
the rest of the year I use this week to
do the misc., i.e. closets, drawers,
clean porches & patio, etc.

As for yard work that is left to my husband & sons

Jennifer says:

July 22, 2010 at 8:02 am

Thank you for sharing your routine. I’ve tried it for a few weeks, and it’s worked wonderfully with my schedule. I wrote a blog today sharing your plan with others: http://www.jennifervdavis.com/?p=710 Thanks, again!