End of the Road Ranch

A chore a day

I switched to doing my chores according to the day of the week about a year ago.  I love it.! All I need to do that day to be successful is my one chore, make meals and tidy (okay . . . and change diapers, wipe faces, train children, feed poultry, etc.).  I usually have much more on the list than my one thing, but I know that the house will run pretty smoothly if I do my one chore.

• Monday:  Laundry
  • Wash all the clothing.  I usually make bread on Mondays too since I am in and out of the kitchen or laundry all day and have some gaps in between.
• Tuesday:  Baking/ kitchen day 
  • Bake bread if I didn't do it Monday, plus any special cleaning or baking and prep something for easier work later in the week.  This is when I can/dehydrate something major every week during harvest.
• Wednesday:  Home office day
  • Copy any pages out of library books and file - keep up household binders (I keep a recipe binder, a home management binder, a garden binder, and livestock binder (I call my growing poultry flock my livestock at the moment) and a project binder.
• Thursday:  Town Day! 
  •  All of the shopping, prenatal or herbalist apps., library, and park or other fun.  I am trying to get this down to every other week, but in the transition to the claim shanty I might just go every week to see other people - any other people since it is a little more isolated than I am used to.  Maybe I'll just use the every other Thursday for local visiting,
• Friday: Cleaning Day –
  • Vacuum, dust, mop and scrub the whole house!
• Saturday: Outside chore and/or bake day - depending on the need and season
  • Wash car, sweep porches, extra garden work, clean coops, fill feeders, and/or anything else that needs to be done!

I was really inspired by Kim's website www.largefamilylogistics.net to get the house in order.  If you haven't visited her yet I highly recommend it no matter what your family size is.