Things you do that make your life easier

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I suffer with Organization and things easily get on top of me I’m also chronicly ill. I have found ways to cope and make my life easier if I can. Does anyone else have any other tips here are mine

1. used to always get locked out my flat so now I have a key lock box instead no need to remember my key.
2. 3 laundry baskets one for darks lights and colours now when doing a wash I can just tip the one basket in no more sorting through.
3. a heated airer from Lakeland you hang the clothes on hangers to use it so once the clothes are dry you can place straight in the wardrobe. I used to constantly have piles of clean washing that needed to be put away. Also don’t need to iron anything really.
4. brought a toothpaste cap of Amazon that self seals after you have squeezed no more leaving the lid off or dried out end.
5. use Ocado for my food shop am able to see what I regularly purchase and add to basket with out having to think also able to open the app and see what the sell by date is on food I’ve purchased. No more out of date food waste and can quickly look to make sure it gets eaten or frozen.
6. hired a cleaner for 2 hours a week she makes sure my bathroom is clean as I was struggling with bending over the bath. She’s amazing and has saved my sanity. Partner and I would give up a lot before we gave up the cleaner.

since finding solutions to my problems and not trying to conform like remembering my keys had made myself so much happier I no longer beat myself up or inconvenience other by being locked out. My laundry no longer builds up and feels unmanageable. Wish I had done many of these things sooner.

They are great tips 👍
mine are

having a sort of work uniform (so I don’t have to really think much each morning)

i have two large boxes with kids for my kids sports : labelled so everything to do with football is in their box

three full sets of uniform each and have small chest of drawers for uniform separate from all their other clothes

batch cook batch cook batch cook

(curries, stew, bolognese)

make my lunches and freeze (eg bolognese or stir fry)

I religiously get all bags packed , put whatever I can in the car, lay out breakfast things, set up the coffee machine… everything I possibly can do the night before

Online shopping for nearly everything!

got a little camp bed that sits next to mine for my daughter to get in during the night if she wakes. It’s lower than my bed so she can’t roll into my bed and elbow me all night.

batch cooking work lunches at the weekend.

will probs think of more later

Whiteboard on fridge. As soon as I run out of anything whilst cooking / doing laundry etc I write it on the board. That way I can easily copy to a shopping list.

joint calendar on google

meal plan for the week. Never go shopping without a list.

keep meaning to buy birthday cards for the year in one go.

Much as I hate meal planning, I do it because half an hour meal planning and then online shopping makes the rest of my week a lot easier.

Cleaner.

I feel like I have other things, I just can't think of them right now.

love Some of these I also have a whiteboard and a shared calendar means my husband and I often remind each other of our own plans as we’ve seen them in the calendar.

I see your whiteboard and raise you my Alexa. We all just tell Alexa when we are running out of things (well mostly - DS and DH have a bad habit of forgetting until we're basically out. But that's usually for things only they eat so, hahahaha they don't get whatever is we need if they haven't put it on the list in time!).

Yes to shared calendar. But that's more about me NOT divorcing DH than it is about making my life easier.

I bought a robot vacuum a few years ago. Life changing.

three full sets of uniform each
I have 5 sets so I only have to do laundry at weekends.

I have a stash of basic birthday cards and toys suitable for kids my DCs age, so when we get a party invite I don’t have to remember to buy anything, I just pick one from the stash.

You can freeze wine and herbs and chuck them in the pan frozen.

You can put potato waffles in the toaster.

These are great!