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Organization Tips for Home & Family Daily Routines

As a busy Mom and Grandma who works full-time from home, I have developed a simple strategy to organize my home and family every week with less stress.

I’m sharing my best organization tips with you. Hopefully some of them will help you too. Number 3 is the most important thing I do to stay organized.

Are you a grandparent helping out with your school-age grandkids too? See my Grandparents Guide for Back To School.

An organizer on a table with a title saying Create Weekly Schedule To Do List

I hope that you can find something to make your life go more smoothly during the school year with these home and family organization tips.

Table of Contents

1. A Planning Nugget

Maybe you have heard this before: If you fail to plan, then your plan will fail. It is worth repeating. This nugget applies to life in general. These are the tips I have been using for years, and they will help you to organize your busy week also. 

Using the right tools and rules will keep you and your family organized, especially when school starts back and summer break is over. This means a busier schedule for Mom and probably grandparents too.

2. Organize Home & Family Schedules

Begin organizing your week on Sunday.

Have a family meeting. It doesn’t need to be a big production.

Allow everyone to submit their plans for your review and see how you can fit those into the schedule. Your spouse and teenage children will likely have something to add that you need to know.

You should be receiving emails from Coaches and Teachers in addition to having printed the Academic Calendar from your child or children’s school district. It’s a must to include other people’s appointments and activities in your plan if at all possible.

Make a list of all the things on this week’s agenda to include: 

  • Appointments: medical, dental, home repair, home maintenance, haircuts, pet care
  • Business meetings
  • Sports events the children are involved in
  • Practice, rehearsal, lessons, and all commitments for the children
  • Play dates
  • Gym time
  • Social commitments 
  • House guests
  • Meal Planning (maybe repeat a meal plan you already have)
  • Laundry
  • Household Chores

3. Add It All To A Calendar

My personal favorite virtual calendar is the Google Calendar because my husband and I can sync our appointments and events and help each other not forget important dates and times. (Don’t forget to look at it daily!)

If you like to write things down, this one on Amazon is popular, and I like the big spaces for making notes on it.

The Happy Planner is my all-time favorite for writing things down. It proves that we all love stickers. I can spend way too much time enjoying my Happy Planner.

A big calendar, a clock, post it notes and a cup of coffee on a bright blue background

4. Prioritize

Prioritize your list day by day. Hopefully everyone will be going to work and school for sure. Then what? 

Use a calendar to keep track of those things that must happen each day. Leave that calendar in a public place like a kitchen counter or your family command center so everyone can keep up with where they are supposed to be.

Color Coded Calendar

If you love creating lists as I do, then you also know the joy of a well-organized list. That is where color coding comes in. Use colored pens to write things in categories. 

Take it a step further by using colored highlighters and assign a color to each person in the house so they will know which appointments are theirs with a quick glance at the calendar.

  • Red = Must happen
  • Green= Should happen
  • Blue = The world won’t end if it doesn’t happen.

NOW YOU HAVE A PLAN!

Now that you have created the list and written important events on the calendar and added them to your virtual calendar, you have a plan in place. So Yay! This week should go smoothly.

A note on a refrigerator for a weekly family plan

5. Make The Plan Public

Do not keep your plan a secret if there are little people and other adults in your home. Why not? Because they also have a plan, and it will disrupt your plan, so tell them! Does this sound like the voice of experience speaking? This is why the family meeting is important.

Unless you want everyone coming to you constantly asking what is next, write the plan on paper and post it in a well-traveled space. The refrigerator is the most viewed thing in the whole house. Do you have any idea how many times your refrigerator door is opened and closed in one day? Post the plan on the front of the refrigerator and make that fact known. 

So, if you are keeping track, the plan is now in two places.

  1. The calendar on the counter and
  2. Also on the front of the refrigerator. It shouldn’t get lost.

6. Meal Plan

Not only does meal planning save you time figuring out what’s for supper, but it’s a great way to stay within budget as well. If you have never tried meal planning, please gift yourself that opportunity for at least one month to see how you like it.

With experience, meal planning will become second nature to you.

Resource’s for meal planning

Grab my free printable Month of Meals Planner Set

 See our Meal Plan page and follow our Meal Planning Board on Pinterest. 

7. Delegate

If the house is to run smoothly, or as smoothly as possible given the busy schedules therein, everyone must share in household chores. So delegate. Hang a chore chart for the kiddos and share household duties with your spouse.

Here’s how to Set Up A Speed Cleaning Kit for your home, as we used in our cleaning business for many years.

Once you create the kit, you’ll want to know How To Speed Clean Your Home Like A Pro.

If you can hire someone to clean your home, that is great. Read How To Prepare For The Cleaning Lady, Tips from the Cleaning Lady.

Recap 7 Tips To Organize Home and Family

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Let’s do this! You have not failed to plan.

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