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How To Keep A Neat & Orderly Family Home

Modified on July 9, 2019 at 5:45 PM

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How To Keep A Neat & Orderly Family Home

As a busy housewife and a family caregiver, one of the most fundamental roles in your life is to create a safe and secure space for your children to grow up in. When it comes to your responsibilities in making your home an orderly and peaceful place to live, there can sometimes be a feeling that you’re spinning plates to keep everything working, clean and in tip-top condition.

This guide aims to alleviate this feeling, and instead, grant you the peace of mind that is delivered only after careful forethought and action in the areas of your family home that matter the most.

Your Utilities

Keeping the water running, the electricity pumping and the gas cooking are all very important aspects to keeping a well-run and orderly family home. Without your utilities, you’ll be unable to see in the dark, cook, wash and clean, and these problems can have a significant effect on your family’s ability to live, learn, and flourish.

Your responsibilities with your utilities are twofold. On the one hand, you should ensure that you’re meeting all of your bill payments in time. This is a basic requirement of family finances and is right up there with paying your rent and meeting your family’s food requirements. After this, it’s worth looking into home warranty plans to get your appliances and white good items insured for a period of time, which means you’ll always have the guarantee of their running in your household. 

Routines and Schedules

Being a housewife means being abreast of your whole family’s schedules. You’ll know when everyone’s out at work or school, which after-school clubs or summer activities will keep your family away for longer, and when you’re also going to be busier than usual on certain days. Somehow mentally calibrating all of this information, a diligent home-owner will ensure that everyone’s well catered for, with all plans and routines accounted for in your day-to-day life. Keeping a smart schedule for your family home and life is important!

Cleanliness

Plenty of working moms understandably opt to get a paid cleaner to come in at least once a week to do some of the ‘deep clean’ tasks that it can take a housewife many hours to complete. This might especially include dusting and surface cleaning, window cleaning, floor scrubbing, and even ironing – the stuff that can take great chunks out of your day in your home. 

Whether you have the cash to spend on a cleaner or you do it yourself, ensuring that your family is living in a clean and safe environment is absolutely paramount – something you should be putting right up at priority number one. Having a clean family home needs to be at the top of your list!

Meal Times

Your final responsibility – and pleasure – is to ensure that your family is well-fed. It doesn’t matter if you’re a stay-at-home housewife, a working mom or something in between, it’s going to be your shared responsibility with your other half to put food on the table and get everyone in the family around it to eat and share their day’s tales together. Ensure your fridge is well-stocked and your recipes well-liked so that you’re always able to feed hungry mouths in your home.

These tips should help you operate an efficient and caring family home for you and your children.

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on July 9, 2019 at 12:26 PM
Filed Under: Home Life, Parenting
Tagged With: busy housewife, family activities, family home, Home Life, Parenting, summer activities

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Sarah-Jean Ballard is the Editor in Chief of The Fashionable Housewife blog and Founder of Fashionable Media. Married to a sexy Molecular Biologist, housewife, mom to 5, homeschooler, Certified Personal Nutritionist and entrepreneur who's mission is to help moms just like you look and feel GREAT! Other interests include dancing, yoga, positive intactivism, natural birth and breastfeeding support, babywearing, paleo & gluten-free cooking, and promoting an overall healthy lifestyle to all.

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