Can I fit this much life admin in a week?

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I’m moving from part-time to full-time work in October and will have one week off between jobs.

I’m thinking this is my chance to get everything sorted in my life before I have no time. 2 primary age DCs.

I’ll have 6 hours a day, a total of 30 hours.

Heres the plan.
Batch cook dinners
Deep clean the house
See friends for coffees
Maybe plan Christmas?

AIBU to think that will fit into 1 week? Don’t want to set myself up to fail. What else can I be doing with my wonderful week of organisation time to make life easier once I’m working full time?

I think this is quite a bit to achieve but it depends on what you mean by deep cleaning the house and how much batch cooking you’re anticipating.

Oh definitely!! A whole week with no kids at home? I’d say that’s perfectly doable. Unless you have a mansion.

Depends on volume of each one really doesn't it. I think you have plenty of time.

Id say easily yes. But id also spend some time thinking about how you will manage once full time and sustain it-the things above sound like excellent one offs. But what do you do when the batched food is gone etc.

You say you will have 'no time' and sound tbh a bit scared of going full time. I say that because i was myself. And actually its fine. For me personally its actually less intense. My part time job was a sprint start to finish. In a full time role there are generally lulls at some point.

How old are kids? Are they old enough to be given jobs. How is your Dh or DP planning to adjust to your being less available to the kids and for housework and life admin? How will he adjust his share?
Cleaner, online food, etc.

Everyone will adjust! Millions of us do it.

Christ yes I could fit thst round work. Depends on the size and stats of the house I guess though.

‘Life admin’ 🤮

Batch cooking can be done in a few hours. Get a slow cooker too.

You don’t need to deep clean weekly, just clean as you go along.

If your partner is used to you doing everything then make it clear that that is no longer the case.

Definitely! I work 40+ hours a week and still manage to do all that stuff. And don't feel too rushed mostly.

seriously? - 30hrs of time- depending on the size of the house you could that list 3 times over

oooh I would love this scenario. It’ll work if you plan ahead and get all the food in you need. Maybe set 90 mins aside each of the days to cook stuff for the freezer. Eg in that 90 min block time you could make a huge batch of bolignaise for spaghetti and lasagne, and a soup. Buy frozen onions! I would leave the cleaning till the last day. And enjoy lots of coffee out and shop pottering with your time too!

Sounds like a lot but could be broken down.

Can you cancel one or two of the coffees? How many are there?

What is there to plan about Christmas? It happens on the same day every year, could you rely on previous plans?

A day for the cooking, a day for the cleaning, gives you loads of time. Depends what you mean by plan Christmas I suppose. Are you father Christmas? If so you probably should have started that one already....

Sounds perfectly doable, how much batch cooking are you planning to do?

What will your plan be when it runs out, and how much is your DP going to pick up once you’re full time?

Declutter!!!!

Sort kids clothes that are too small
Write long list of favourite dinners so no brain power required for cooking / meal planning

Fit the jobs in around evenings and weekends. Enjoy your week off. Life is too short.

Coffees, walks , bit of shopping.

Does your house really need a deep clean? Or just a tidy around. Do organised mum.

Yes of course, wtf. Some people seem to spend longer planning simple tasks than just doing them.

I’d remove deep cleaning the house, what a bore to spend your last week of freedom deep cleaning. You want to arrive at your new job refreshed not tired.

There’ll always be the Supermums working FT telling you they’d do this in half a day but knowing yourself, your home etc base it on what you can do realistically.

Get a cleaner.
Get Gousto meals for a few weeks.
Chill out about Christmas.
Have a nice relaxing week off doing nothing.

I wouldn't bother with batch cooking, that won't last long.

2 days plan Christmas, everything booked for delivery.
2 days deep clean and tidy paperwork.
1 day lazing around enjoying doing nothing at all.

Yes easily done:
Batch cook dinners - cook double or triple portions at each dinner time & freeze extra

Deep clean the house - one room daily after drop off. Get kids to sort their old toys after school so you can drop off to charity shop after drop off.

See friends for coffees - straight after school drop off between 9 - 10am so the rest of day is free.

Maybe plan Christmas - while waiting for friends at coffee shop or watching evening telly, write lists and start a supermarket Xmas shop. Order gifts you know you want to buy while they're in stock now. Book tickets etc now & follow the Ma's bargains thread on mnet Xmas board.

Mnet bargain thread not Ma's

Wtf does ‘plan Christmas’ mean and why does it need a designated time?!

Working FT doesn’t mean working 24/7, there will be hours in the day you still aren’t working!

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I'd be more inclined to spend the time getting my family used to the idea that they'll need to step up more...

I think I'd write a 2 week meal plan rather than batch cook that much. Maybe just making sure I had pens to write on freezer boxes. And a big Chinese takeaway in the week so that i had plenty of food boxes to put leftovers in.

And corner cutting - setting up school dinners for children, cancelling any activity they don't LOVE. And doing an M&S food order for Christmas.

Id agree with decluttering rather than deep cleaning tbh. But if it even occurs to you to deep clean you're probably much less cluttered than me anyway!

Unless you live in a hovel or haven’t cleaned anything at all for months I’m not really sure how a deep clean works.

Of course you can do that stuff but what you really need is a word with your partner if you have one as to how things will run when you start FT hours.

I went back to work a year ago whilst you have headspace plan things
Yes do bit of batch cooking to get you through first couple of weeks.
Maybe do a supermarket list of what you need each week and arrange a place to add to list weekly , ie blackboard for all people to add on
Tidy up and sort a cleaner before you get used to the extra money, it will keep you sane.
Think about jobs/tasks that you only do and can they be shared
Order Christmas things or upcoming birthday stuff if you already know what you want to get but really that can be done around work.
I'd sort any jobs round house that need trades, that is harder to juggle in working hours
Seriously enjoy the friends , that is what I miss