Weekend Tips to Simplify Your Life

“For every minute spend in organizing, an hour is earned.” – Benjamin Franklin

Another day is a blessing. Spending your weekend with your family is love.  It’s the best time to bond, re-connect and be energized again.

Here are some tips to simplify your life and enjoy the weekend.

1. Get up in the morning and make your bed. Don’t forget to pray, smile, stretch and go to the bathroom if you need to.
2. Assign or invite family members to help in meal preparation, cleaning the house and yard work.
3. For weekly laundry schedule, appoint a family member to help in sorting clothes for washing, and later in folding and putting away clean clothes.

Once done, hang them up – in clusters, with upper body clothes on top rod, lower body clothes on lower rod, and jewelry in zipper type plastic bag hooked over the hanger.

1. Plan and shop for your meals a week at a time. Write menu card, check your available stocks and ingredients. Be sure to buy the items that are not in your fridge and kitchen cabinet.
2. While home, keep a big basket in a handy place, into which you can gather up whatever is left lying around at a moment’s notice, or at the end of the day. Have family members help put everything away before dinner or before bed.
3. Before going to bed, make general plans for tomorrow. You may retain your initial plans, change or re-prioritize if need to.
4. When evening comes, rest, enjoy and bond with your family. Don’t forget to be grateful for the day that you had.