What are ways to be a better homemaker and improve?

Question

I want to learn how to be a better housewife and learn to be a better homemaker. What are ways to be tidy, organized and clean?
How do you manage all your tasks exspeically when you work outside the home, I think it is important for me as a woman to take pride in my home because God cannot bless me with more unless I take better care of what I already have.

How do you as a wife manage everything? Thank you for your answers.

Answer 1

Organize and the other people in your household MUST be willing to put things back in their proper places as well as clean up after themselves.

Hon it is very hard to have both husband and wife working AND keep a clean, tidy, well organized house!

One thing, cooking takes a lot of time. Learn fast, easy recipes that take no more than 20 minutes from start to serve.

paperplates and cups for snacking and drinks. This may sound like too much of a corner to cut but If you try it you will find it will reduce the number of dishes by about half a real time saver. ANd some meals can even be eaten off paper plates like yummy hot sandwichs!

Swiffer. MY Swiffer mop is the greatest thing!!! it really does reduce the time you need to mop. I also have cleaning rags that I use in my Swiffer when the job is really big. Theya re cotton terry cloth so I can rewash them. But get a swiffer.

Keepo the decoration in your hoem to a minimum. They collect dust and require time to clean. Less to dust , less time dusting.

A good vacuum cleaner! Invest in a bacuum like you were buy a car or a house. I love my Dyson. it cost but it CLEANS!! Rule of thumb for vacuuming, you go over a spot 7 times just to light clean 11 times to deep clean. I am serious!

ONe last piece of advice I hope you will take and follow. Set a time for your day to end. Say 8pm. Once that clock hits 8pm no matter what is not done call it day. You need time to rest and time to recahrge. you need tim efor yourself. You will be able to take better care of your home an family if you are rested and relaxed. I PROMISE you that if you try to work each day till you either drop of go to bed you will burn out. It could cost you your Health , your marriage or both!

I will also say that keeping a nice comfortable home is very, very rewarding! Good luck!

Answer 2

I had this problem when I went back to school after my second child. With exams, studying and millions of research papers to write, having 2 younger children at home and a husband was almost more than I could bear.

(Especially since I wasn't a great homemaker to begin with!)

The best piece of advice that I got was to get rid of everything that is extra -- have only one full set of dishes, and get rid of all the rest of it. Too much "stuff" just creates havoc and chaos, and you spend all your time managing and moving stuff around without accomplishing anything.

The next thing I did was to make a little chart of the bigger household activities (scrubbing bathrooms, cleaning a closet, cleaning the refrigerator, etc.) and did one of those activities a day (and got help doing it!) If you keep this type of thing caught up, then you won't get so overwhelmed all at one time.

Laundry is another stressor. I learned to do laundry one or two loads per night, rather than spend one whole day just doing that. The kids can help if they are old enough, even if it's just bringing their clothes to the laundry room, or folding socks and washcloths. So can husbands, by the way!

That is the last thing--ask for help from your husband. My husband was willing to help out, I just needed to ask. Once he realized the heavy load I was taking at school (21 hours, many semesters!) and trying to keep up with the kids and home, he was willing to do more. If not--hire help. He might not like it, but there are lots of services available that are inexpensive and can clean once or twice a month. That will be a great help to you!

Good Luck!

Answer 3

I give the beginning of my day to God in prayer and a short bible study. When I do things seems to flow much better.
There are several groups that can help encourage you as a wife, mother and homemaker. Some like Above Rubies and such.

FlyLady.com is a good website on house cleaning.

Answer 4

This is a great question to ask, and one that I ask the Lord just about every day, for myself and my family. I don't have the mental energy to answer this fully right now, but I'd like to at some point--or feel free to email me. God bless! From one wife to another...
bethanysmama
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Answer 5

I hear you! it particularly is not any longer common attempting to regulate to a clean way of existence, and being a youthful female could make it each and all the harder in case you have in no way been used to staying in the homestead for long sessions of time, plus your pregnant, so your poor hormones is merely no longer doing you any favours the two. recurring is a sturdy start up, reckoning on how your feeling i'd propose which you positioned a time aside on your each and every day homestead initiatives and cooking, no overdoing it however. do no longer forget to maintain your acquaintances on your existence, in specific circumstances as new different halves & mothers we get so wrapped up in our new existence that we permit all this slip, and it purely makes the isolation worse, so communicate with your loved ones & acquaintances for help. Get your infant bump & all out of the homestead for extensive-unfold walks, and take care of your self to a minimum of something large every day, a solid bubble tub, a clean lipstick, a solid takeaway meal in case you do no longer experience like cooking. it particularly is going to all artwork out effective, merely confirm you be solid to your self

Answer 6

It's important for all family members to take pride in their home. Everyone should have a part in it and have pride in taking care of their own things.

Answer 7

I don't- but if you are interested- I came across a site once about cleaning and organizing.
Flylady.com it was too much for me- but you sound motivated enough to do it.
Good luck with all that- and if you still have energy- can you please come take care of my house too?

Answer 8

I have friends who have tons of kids and have to work a job while taking care fo the kids at home and it can get crazy - they swear by the Fly Lady!

Answer 9

Spread out your housework throughout the week, not on just one day.

Answer 10

If you work full time then hubby needs to help around the house also!