Home chores and maintenance can feel like full-time jobs in themselves — but also can being a mom. So how do you make it, so it doesn’t have to feel like you have an endless count of demanding jobs and responsibilities with each one tripping over the other?
While there are not a lot of corners you can cut in parenting, there are ways to make home maintenance a lot easier and time-effective to give you a well-earned break.
1. Get Organized with a List
When you’re busy with parenting duties and other responsibilities, it’s easy to get distracted and lose track of what needs doing in terms of chores and maintenance. Whether it’s for the day or for the week, a focused list will help you stay focused and stay productive. Even if you don’t have time to take care of everything on the list today, if it’s on there, it means you won’t forget about it.
2. Take Advantage of Any Spare Time You Have
Whether it’s when the kids are having an afternoon nap or busy playing with their own toys, using any spare time breaks will be the perfect opportunity to fit in odd jobs and chores. If you can get some main chores done throughout the day while tending to your children, too, it makes it more likely you’ll actually be able to relax later when the kids have gone to bed instead of catching up with chores.
3. Invest in the Right Equipment
Home maintenance tools and equipment mean you can get a job done right and done fast. Don’t underestimate the power of using the right tools for the job. For large home maintenance projects and for keeping on top of chores, the more high-quality items and tools you buy mean that they’ll last a lot longer and be more dependable for you.
This might be high-quality screwdrivers and other tools for home maintenance fixes, upgrading to a zero turn mower to make garden maintenance a lot easier, or investing in a more powerful washing machine so it can handle larger loads at a faster rate.
4. Get the Kids to Help
There’s no reason the kids can’t chip in and help if they’re at the right age, and it’s always a bonus to begin teaching them about new responsibilities and helping around the house. Even if it’s as simple as picking up their dirty laundry and putting it in the basket for you, this is one less thing you’ll have to take care of.
It also means you can take care of chores at the same time you’re watching your kids so that you don’t have to do the two separately — potentially saving a lot of time.
5. Tidy as You Go
Nominating one day a week (or whatever your schedule allows) for chores, cleaning and maintenance may mean that it builds up. This can mean it takes longer to take care of when you get around to doing it. On the other hand, if you try to tidy as you go along, this may mean less to sort in the long run.
THese are good tips, My daughter-in-law is trying to do everything at once and it can be very difficult for her .