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If you work full time, please tell me your daily routine..

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SudokuRules · 05/01/2022 22:14

Especially if you don't have a cleaner or dog walker!

I used to work evenings, then nights, then shifts and now my entire housekeeping and being organized routine has gone out of the window!

Moving to more regular hours for the first time in over a decade so looking for 'normal' people's routines, please!

At the moment, I get up, coffee, clean up the kitchen, dust and tidy the lounge room, throw cleaner down the toilets and wipe and tidy the bathrooms, let the dogs out for a wee, then get ready and go to work. BUT when I am on an early shift such as tomorrow, I am up at half four to do this to leave at half five.

I guess it might be more reasonable when I work more 'office hours' ?

I do things like getting clothes ready the night before already.

My main point was it seemed like I had more time than I will soon when my hours were all over the place as I had a morning free, for example, so it seems like a 'late start'. So I wondered how everyone else runs their day?

DH deals with dinners, grocery shopping, washing ( i just put it away!)
Hoovering etc gets done on my days off. I tried TOMM but I couldn't seem to stick to it as my days off change all the time.

Basically, whats your day like?

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Longdistance · 06/01/2022 08:19

My dds do their packed lunches the night before, so it’s cold in the morning. They have uniform ready the night before by the ironing board.
Before I go to bed and have my last wee, I throw bleach down the toilet. In the morning after I shower the bathroom gets a once over.
I take out any meat or meals to defrost and leave on the side or in fridge the night before depending on what it is.
Who ever cooks doesn’t wash up and vice versa. Dds help with this every other day.
Both get up similar times and wake dds. Dd1 heads off first and then dd2 walks to school for breakfast club.
When we get home, usually dd1 is home first, then dd2. Dh sometimes works from home (depends which way the wind blows) and I get home at 6pm.
Laundry all gets done on Sunday. Uniform first. Then everything else.
Bedding and towels are washed midweek as they take up room with the clothes.

MajorCarolDanvers · 06/01/2022 08:20

Up at 7 and do body combat online class in living room
Kids up at 730 and dh gets them ready and out the outdoor and I make the packed lunches
Kids walk or get bus to and from school
9 am commute to the dining room to start work
Lunchtime if dry DH and I will go for a walk
Throughout the day we will do the dishes, pop a washing on
Finish about 5/6 then start dinner and spend the evening driving kids to activities and clubs
Ret of housework done at weekend by Dh and I

Perpop · 06/01/2022 08:28

Not a routine but fellow GSD owner here.. this has saved me so much time and copes really well with the daily hair!
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Iveputmyselfonthenaughtystep · 06/01/2022 08:46

DP has just moved in so we need to reassess cleaning routines now it can be shared better. I second the Eufy though. When my house isn't absolutely crammed with boxes and half put away Xmas decorations the Eufy is a godsend with 2 cats and two 'crafty' children who sprinkle glitter like dandruff

Oblomov22 · 06/01/2022 09:34

My life is very simple. I get up at 7, shower, dressed hairdry, makeup. Lunch is already made the night before. Have breakfast. Go to work for 8.30. Finish at 4. Home, dinner is already prepared or I'll have got a bag of batch cooked spag Bol / meatballs out of the freezer that morning. Eat dinner, put on dishwasher at 6. Sit down and watch tv, relax, talk to Dh, use mumsnet, check emails, for 4 hours, Bed at 10. No cleaning as such. I have a eufy hoover that I put on twice a week. I put on a load of teens clothes washing twice in the week aswell.

Longdistance · 06/01/2022 13:00

Also, take away once a week. We have one usually on a Friday when we’ve had a long week and can’t be bothered to cook.
Sunday is always a roast joint that I’d large enough to last for another dinner.
I did batch cook, but cannot be bothered now.

ghostmouse · 06/01/2022 13:13

Single parent work 8 till 5 no dp to help. No way am I getting up early to do housework so up at 7, get kids up for school, leave for work, home at half five, cook tea, wash up, do some my house work, make lunches and sit down at 9 ish. I have a bath then and then go to bed about 12.
My house suffers a bit during the week but im too tired to do much

Kitkat151 · 06/01/2022 15:43

@Oblomov22

My life is very simple. I get up at 7, shower, dressed hairdry, makeup. Lunch is already made the night before. Have breakfast. Go to work for 8.30. Finish at 4. Home, dinner is already prepared or I'll have got a bag of batch cooked spag Bol / meatballs out of the freezer that morning. Eat dinner, put on dishwasher at 6. Sit down and watch tv, relax, talk to Dh, use mumsnet, check emails, for 4 hours, Bed at 10. No cleaning as such. I have a eufy hoover that I put on twice a week. I put on a load of teens clothes washing twice in the week aswell.
So when do you clean your toilets, change your bed linen, dry your laundry, fold your laundry, put away your laundry, do your ironing, clean your bathrooms, dust, empty your dishwasher, clean your kitchen, Clear away clutter from rooms ???? Or do your children and partner do all this whilst your sit down every evening?
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