Archive for June, 2008
Getting Started: Why Organize?
The last time I was at the bookstore I was amazed at how many organization books there are available. While each of these organization books will give the details of how to implement a specific system of organization, there are two areas I found lacking when paging through several of these books: Why and How [...]
Getting Started: Household Rotation Part Deux
In a previous article (Getting Started: The Basic Housework Rotation), I talked about they Why of household rotation, as well as how to set up the framework of the rotation. Once you decide on which rooms get attention, though, you need to decide what will happen in each room. Here is a framework of questions [...]
My Weekly Cleaning
In my scheme to keep things clean, I work daily on my rotation (Getting Started: The Basic Housework Rotation), but there are things that need to be kept up with more often.
How disgusting would it be if the bathrooms were left completely alone and only cleaned once a month? I don’t know about your home, [...]
K9 Internet Protection
It was early morning, and I was on my way out the door to work. I remembered I had promised to find a recipe for banana bread I had made…a recipe I pulled off the internet. So I sat down at my computer and typed “banana bread” into the search, forgetting to put the quotes [...]
Getting Started: The Basic Housework Rotation
Housework is something that is never done. Even if we do a massive cleaning twice a year, as our mothers and grandmothers did, we still need to keep up with the work in between.
Back in the days of coal or wood heat, and before the days of automatic washing machines, it was necessary to do [...]
