TIPS FOR DOING YOUR CHORES DURING THE WEEK, NOT ON THE WEEKEND

We've all been there.  The weekend, that we've so been looking forward to, has finally arrived.  And what do we have lined up for it?  Errands, grocery shopping, yard work, house maintenance, laundry, shuttling kids around, and maybe even catching up on sleep.  So we've just spent the whole week looking forward to our traditional two days off from work and we don't seem to be doing anything about feeding our souls, our joys, things that really make us happy.  And before you know it, Sunday night rolls around and we wonder what happened to our weekend because we didn't seem to have that much FUN.

Below are a few tips to get you on the road to recovering your weekends.  You've heard the saying, you can't buy time.  Well while it is definitely true, you can use it a little more efficiently, not waste it but at the same time, use it for something else.

Now I will caution you that this takes a little bit of discipline. But once you get used to it and free up some time on your weekend, you will wonder why you didn't start doing this sooner.

1. Do not grocery shop right after work.  Go a little later after you've done a few other errands or have done things around the house.  If you wait a little later it's a lot less crowded and you will waste less time and be less frustrated.

2. Do one or two loads of laundry at night.  Why save it for the weekend?  You could spend a whole day on just laundry alone.  The trick here is to do things in smaller bites rather than saving them and killing a whole day to get it done..

3. Don't wait until Saturday morning to mow the lawn.  Do it on a weeknight as the sun starts to lower in the sky.  It's more environmentally healthy and your neighbors won't hate you when they're trying to sleep in.

4. Make a list of the things you need to get done every week.  Then parcel them out between four days, Monday through Thursday.  We don't include Friday, cause no one really wants to do chores on Friday, the day before the weekend.