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{ Home } Challenge 1: Chores

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{home} tag{ Home } is the place we live. I want it to be a safe, comfortable, cozy place for my family.  That’s not going to happen if I don’t stay on top of somethings.  Things like laundry, dishes, dusting.  Things I don’t enjoy.  Enter my first challenge to myself.

dishwasher

Challenge:  

  • Keep a neat home (not obsessively tidy, but clean enough I don’t panic when the doorbell rings).

Goals:

  • A daily load of laundry
  • A clean kitchen every night
  • 3ish small tasks each day

Plan:

  • Don’t recreate the wheel.  Use a system that I’ve used before and that I know works for me.  For me that’s the Confident Mom planner.   I love this plan, because I can do the few tasks listed on each day.

  • Stick to the system.  The biggest reason I don’t usually stick to this system–I forget to print out the next week’s plan.  I just printed the first 12 weeks of the year.  No excuses now!!!

  • Delegate!  The kids can help!  Take for example today’s tasks:  change sheets in the kids’ rooms.  They can do that!  Vacuum the kids’ rooms.  They can do that too!  Sweet!