Feeling Overwhelmed With Household Cleaning Tasks? Get The Family Involved!

In this day and age, we all lead very busy lives. As a mother and a wife, my typical day starts with breakfast, getting the kids ready for school, then it's off to work only to return home 8 hours later completely exhausted. Who has time to clean?

When the weekend finally rolls around, I have just enough time and energy to do just my basic cleaning. After the weekend is all said and done, most of what I wanted to accomplish, didn't get done. As I sit and ponder this maddening cycle of cleaning and re-cleaning my home, I realized that there has got to be a better way of getting everything done!

I decided to come up with a new game plan and this time, it involves everyone in my family pitching in and helping, after all, I am not the only one who lives here! I sat down and drafted up a list of all household chores that needed to be done on a weekly basis and decided who would best be suited to accomplishing that task. Once my list was made, I conducted a family meeting and informed everyone of the new changes. I did meet some resistance, but eventually, they all came around.

After the family meeting was done, I headed off to our local discount store to purchase some new supplies. In addition to those supplies, I picked up some plastic bins, one for each member of the family. Once I arrived home, I labeled each bin with one family member's name and filled their bin with the supplies they would need to accomplish their assigned tasks. In addition, I wrote up a checklist of all household chores that the particular family member was responsible for and taped that to the outside of the bin. Now...there was no confusion on who was responsible for doing what!

As the weeks progressed along, we found that we all were more apt to get our tasks done. Each person had their own assigned tasks along with their own bin of supplies. We didn't have to waste time fighting over who was doing what, nor did we waste time rooting around for our supplies. Our weekly household chores were getting done on time and there was a lot less stress going on within our home. In our household, getting more organized and having every member of the family pitch in was the answer to our 'cleaning' dilemma.

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Shelly Hill is a mother and grandmother living in Pennsylvania who enjoys writing, crafting and spending quality time with her family. You can visit Shelly's Shakin 'N Bakin blog at wahmshelly.blogspot.com for free cooking tips, articles and free recipes. You can visit Shelly's Work At Home Business Options site at www.workathomebusinessoptions.com for free home business articles, tips, ideas and resources directed towards women who work from home.

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