There is nothing worse than waking up to last nights dishes in the sink, grime still on the stove and the weekend paper scattered on the table with last weeks mail. That is no way to start the day! Cut yourself some slack and make this simple change in your routine to get yourself on the right track!
After dinner take the time to do the dishes and shine your sink! FlyLady teaches that simple routines will help you rid your house of clutter and I totally agree! Take that extra time before bed each night to clear off the table and the counters and put everything in its place.
If you want to take things a step further make sure you have things ready for the next day like laying out the lunch boxes in order to make lunches or cereal bowls for breakfast. Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up to a clean kitchen all prepared to begin a new day?
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I could not agree with this advice more! I find coming down the stairs in the morning to a messy kitchen is one of the quickest ways to set my day off on the wrong foot. There is something about seeing order in the morning that makes me believe that I might have a chaos free day (a gal can dream!).
I used to leave the kitchen ‘until tomorrow’. Don’t know how i ever did that…because now I always have to clean the kitchen every evening, even if nothing else gets done, I can’t bear to leave that a mess. But I LOVE that ‘shine your sink’ thing…great rule!!
I used to do Fly Lady and I really have to get back into the routine! It’s also great to get a load of laundry ready the night before and make that’s the first thing you do in the morning. That way you never get behind on laundry!