Getting my act together

Wash on Monday                                         

Iron on Tuesday

Mend on Wednesday

Churn (or Shop) on Thursday

Clean on Friday

Bake on Saturday

Rest on Sunday

I remember reading that in Little House in the Big Woods and there was a reason or it. If you followed the poem's advice you would have clean clothes for the week and food prep was mostly done so you really could "Rest on Sunday"

Actually, I have arranged my weeks around this sage bit of advice as well. Being able to concentrate on only one chore at a time keeps me from feeling rushed and anxious.

Except for the churning that is. Hence why in our time it has become "Shop on Thursday"

You see, I need the ordered calm from structuring and schedules. It's just so much easier if I can think  //I need to get this done by this time// or  //Today is my day to do this.// Not having to stress and worry and run around like a crazy person trying to get a lot of things done at once has helped my disposition, not to mention the state of the house. Not that things ever approached hoarder status or anything but my health issues and kids and cats; well let's just say things were starting to slip.

And speaking of laundry, I was starting to lose a lot of socks in the dryer; what the heck is up with that anyway??

Himself has a theory that socks are really coat hanger larva.(!) When they are ready to hatch they go and hide in the closet and hatch into coat hangers. Granted, that would explain why we always seem to have so many more hangers then clothes, but I always thought that was because we kept the ones from the stores when we bought new things. I could be wrong? Maybe we should put up a nanny cam in the laundry room. No, with our luck we'd actually catch the little buggers making for the hall closet!

Anyway, back on topic (clears throat), something else that works for me is to tell myself that I cannot do any crocheting, reading, working on the laptop watching videos writing ect. until this is done. Whatever this happens to be at the time.

Granted I just started on this new regime but it's amazing what can be accomplished when you actually do it.

And anything that's going to get me back to my "stuff" quicker is always going to be worth doing anyway.