How many of us spend all week cleaning and doing Laundry, only to have the weekend come and ruin all your hard work? Monday is dreaded because it is catching up from the weekend. Well fly lady, one of my favorite sites, gives a great tip on how to start Monday on the right foot. One hour can make your Mondays alot easier to wake up too. I include my husband in this, so between both of us it only takes 30 min. to get our home looking nice and in order again from the weekend. The idea is not to obsess over the small things, just get the overall cleaning during this time. There are seven things to do; set your timer for 10 minutes and STOP when the timer goes off. Not every task will take 10 minutes, therefore you will fit it all in 60 minutes. (Or 30 with your husband’s help) I find that getting my husband to help me with this is easier than anything else. Because he knows he does not have to be perfect, it is slipshodding not detail cleaning, and he knows he can be done in 30 minutes and I will be happier and he can do what he wants to. (This is especially great for the husband who likes football on Sunday afternoons….. “Honey if you will give me 30 minutes of undivided attention, you can watch your 3 hour football game”)
Flylady suggests doing it on Mondays, but I suggest Sunday afternoons or evenings. Only because 1) Sunday mornings are usually a “sling and fling” to get to church, so this allows me to bring the order back; 2) My husband is around to help me so it only takes 30 minutes, and 3) If you work, you are not going to do this before you leave for work, but if done on Sundays you can come home after work on Monday without dreading what you have to do when you get there.
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I’ll bet it would only take me 10 minutes to do all of that! Mainly because I’d have to run around behind a maid to make sure they did it right.