Do you feel like you are being pulled in about a hundred different directions? Between the kids, cooking, cleaning and your job, you have decided to wave the white flag. You realize the only way to regain your sanity is to get organized. However, keep this in mind – the goal of organizing isn’t to make your house pristine; it’s to make your life more functional.
Below are a few tips to get you started…
- Use a morning checklist; kids aren’t the only ones who forget things when they’re in a rush.
- Create other essential checklists: what goes in your gym bag, what joint-custody kids need to take back and forth between houses, what to pack for trips, information for babysitters. Keep them on your computer for updating and put copies in a folder near the kitchen phone.
- Set your computer calendar’s alarm for the week before dates you need to remember, from an anniversary to the day you change the furnace filter. That will give you enough time to buy what you need.
- Put a clock in every bathroom.
- Always have backups: a spare set of house keys, a second deodorant, another way to get kids to school.
- Designate every Friday or Saturday as date night with your husband, and book a sitter for several weekends at a time.