Weekends are a great time to relax and enjoy my family. So Mondays are the day I like to get myself back in order after the weekend. This means some picking up. The thing that always seems most pressing on Monday mornings is the mess made from all the things we wear: dirty and stained clothing, shoes all over, jackets left around, clothing draped on beds or on the exercise bike you'd really like to use today, and so on. However, I don't want to spend all day doing it, so I've come up with some effective ways to cut time.
Quick clean-ups:
~Throw your kids shoes in baskets or buckets with their name on them. Take it one step further and teach them to put them in there when they take their shoes off, and you'll never have to do it again (right...!).
~For your own shoes, use shoe racks or shoe organizers. Put your shoes away at the end of each day. Yes, even my shoe shelves get disorganized, so I re-organize them about once a week. My kids actually like to do it for me, so all I have to do is ask!
~Outdoor clothing like jackets can be hung on a peg board or on hooks by the door. I've even heard of using a clothing tree/hat hanger for the same purpose. I have a board with two hooks per person in my family and they hang everything on there. I take time on Mondays to put things in coat closets or drawers.
~Finally, the neverending laundry. I do laundry every day, but I try to get a good start on it on Mondays. Invest in a rolling laundry cart like this one from Costco, or something similar. My family knows what color clothing goes in each basket of the cart. In my laundry room, I also have a bin for dirty rags/towels, as well as a place to put clothing that needs stain treatments. On Monday, I just have to pull my laundry cart around the house to pick up anything left laying around, and then head to the laundry room to start washing. Long before school is out, my kids have piles of clean, folded clothes to put away, and I didn't even have to slave all day to get it done!
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