What do you do on a Sunday to get organised for the week?

[Organisedwannabe]

Or indeed at any other time?

@ProfessorLeveretGrey "I hang up 5 days worth of uniform each with their vests and knickers and socks. I empty their school bags of empty crisp packets and fill up their water bottles"
Why? Do they have additional needs? And even if they do tbh........... Id be helping them develop strategies that would lead them towards doing all this for themselves independently - perhaps with you prompting. Not the socks and undies though - no need. Just as easy to get a pair of each out of a drawer in the morning and put them on. Bags - they can easily empty and repack them each evening when they get home in conjunction with doing homework etc.
If no additional needs these are all skills they'd have been capable of entirely by themselves since aged 8. Their future partners wont thankyou for babying them like this.

All laundry done. Grocery shopping done for rest of the week.
Boiled eggs and overnight oats ready in fridge for 2 office days.

Everbody makes their own packed lunch for the next day. Kids pack their own bags but with a little supervision.

Cleaner comes on monday morning so all floors and other surfaces must be cleared.

DH and I walk through our agendas together, any special appointments we write on the familyplanner in the hallway (working late, dentist, physio etc)

I have done laundry and light cleaning, run the dishwasher, made a to-do list for the week ahead. I live alone and have a fairly gentle wfh week ahead, so it feels like enough although I would like to have done more (the ironing pile is taunting me).

Actually sometimes we also make cake or cookies on a Sunday and eat them for snacks during the week. But that's more a happy side effect of a toddler activity than a result of being super organised 😄

Marking and lesson planning. Pack my work bag. And dh or I often make ourselves lunch for work the next day. My dc are late teens and one of them is at uni, so I don't need to organise them!

Ensure all the laundry is done ✔️
Have a glass of wine or two to pretend Monday isn't coming. That's it.

o look at my work phone and see when I am out in the week coming. Vaguely ask DD (15) if she’s washed her uniform. Make sure there’s some sort of food in the house. That’s about it!

I hate the Sunday feeling of preparing for the week so I tend to do little bits of organising Monday to Friday instead.
Uniforms are done though. Sports kit is in the wash. I have a vague plan for food, kids’ various things and work commitments for the next couple of days.
Other than that it’s a gin and tonic, Pj’s and a film for me now!

Nothing if I can help it. I need a relaxing day.

Today DD and I meandered to the shop to pick up some bits for lunch, dinner and tomorrow’s dinner.
Did some laundry.
Did some ironing.
Made some cakes.

It‘a the weekend! Can’t be doing rushing around prepping stuff. But it’s just me, DH and DD, and we are surrounded by supermarkets so can do stuff more on the fly.

Someone recently said as 6namechange3 says above- that they’d rather rest Sunday and run about crazily Monday morning and it was mind blowing for me- I used to spend Sunday night trying to get ahead of myself for Monday but when I think of it I still did as much Monday morning! Now I just make sure my clothes and theirs are ready and shoes are out.

Not just me but DH too.

Batch cook for the week
Sort out DC's nursery bags
DC's nursery clothes washed and put in the 'nursery cubes' labelled Monday-Friday

Sunday specifically - all the laundry folded and put away, food shop done, batch cooking done, beds changed.

Every weeknight evening - school/nursery/work bags packed, lunches made and everyone's clothes/uniforms ironed & laid out ready for the morning.

I'm a single parent so I have to be organised as fuck or it all falls to pieces.

I do it all on a Friday so I have my weekend as free as possible. I don't have kids though, so makes it easier.

Food shop is done online and delivered on a Thursday.
Bed stripped and sheets put in the wash before work on Friday.
When I get home, sheets go back on the bed and all my work stuff goes in the wash. Once that load is done, I do towels.
I do all my work admin (self-employed) when I get home so it's out of the way.
Before bed, I run the vacuum round, do the litter trays, empty the indoor bins, wash and put away the dishes and clean the floors.
Then when I go to bed on Friday night, I know there's nothing to do the next day and I can do whatever I fancy. I love it. It's my little weekly re-set.

Make soup, 3 portions x 3 for lunches for the first half of the week.

Plan food in my head for a few days from the fridge, my food shop comes on Sunday evening, I freeze the shortest dates and meal plan with the rest.

Decide on my clothes for four days and literally hang them together, including tights, scarves, underwear. I just take a hanger into the shower with me and the whole shower/dressing/face/teeth cleaning process takes me just over ten minutes. I only wash my hair every five days so I don’t have to worry about that.

yes they do. My older one is profoundly disabled. The younger one Intend to just sort as I go along.

In fact, this is why I retired some years ago. Because I simply could not work in a fairly high pressure role and keep the show on the road. I'm 52 now.

See this is another world for me. The world where you can even imagine your child is able to be self sufficient.

I cannot even imagine it. Our older one will leave home only to go into a sheltered housing situation, if we could find one that would be suitable.

My son's uniform for Monday is washed and ironed. The rest of his school trousers/shirts for the week, will be ironed tomorrow. Lunch for my son is made, and in the fridge. I do this every evening, ready for the next day. PE kit will be packed the previous night, depending on which days he has it.

How long do boiled eggs keep in the fridge for?

I will just add though-I was replying to the OP in good faith about what I do on Sundays. Not really expecting to be told I am babying my child and ruining him by merely talking about how I iron his clothes. But hey ho. Just feel lucky if you don't have a child who suffered from such an appallingly mismanaged birth that he ended up with severe disabilities.

Ignore the judgement

Ironing, make sure all the pack lunch food is in and house is tidy and clean.

Same!
5 sets all hanging and ready to go, no scramble for socks etc

A week