10 Easy Household Time Savers

1. Keep the dishwasher open and fill with dirty dishes as you cook. Have a sink full of hot soapy water to hold the hand wash items so they can soak and be easily cleaned. If you don’t have a dishwasher, wash the dishes by hand while you’re waiting for the meal to cook. No more “ugh” big stacks of dishes waiting for you after dinner.
2. Sort the silverware as you fill the dishwasher, each type of utensil getting its own slot in the utensil holder (forks, knives, spoons). Makes the job a lot quicker when putting clean dishes away.
3. Do a quick wipe inside the oven while doing the dishes, cleaning up any spills and splatters (the oven should have cooled down enough by then). Your oven won’t need as many deep cleaning jobs and will never be nasty again!
4. Make sure all clean dishes in the dishwasher are put away nightly, this allows you to fill the dishwasher with dirty dishes throughout the next day instead of building stacks in the sink and on the counters. Kiddos can learn to put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher at a young age, let them help.
5. Wipe down the inside of the microwave nightly, saves a big cleanup job down the road.
6. Each day wipe down the bathroom sink, toilet and spray the inside of the shower with cleaner, empty the bathroom trash into the main trash. Your bathroom will sparkle throughout the week!
7. Place door mats at all entrances to the home, they help hold much of the dirt from shoes rather than getting tracked throughout the house. Better yet–have everyone remove outdoor footwear at the door.
8. Bulk cook–even if that means just cooking twice the amount needed for today’s meal. Freeze the other portion and you have a meal ready to go when you need it. Also try preparing mixes ahead of time in bulk as well as slow cooking.
9. Assign one day a week for errands, and stick to it. Even quick trips spread throughout the week will eat up travel and preparation time that can be better utilized around the home. Consider paying your bills online or through the mail as well as shopping online (even if it costs a little more). When considering fuel costs and the amount of travel time, sometimes paying $5 more for a purchase is well worth it.
10. If you can’t manage the time to keep up with the laundry each day, do at least two full loads of laundry per day. A simple plan of doing one load in the morning and one load at night will work without being a burden–and that ceiling high pile of laundry at the end of the week will be 10 to 12 loads smaller! Also check out this laundry organizing tip, it works .

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