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Spending an entire day doing one thing like laundry will make you dread it, and that will lead to procrastination. Check the laundry baskets first thing in the morning as part of your regular routine. If you have enough clothing for a small load, then so be it. Doing laundry a bit at a time is a lot more manageable to do than doing five or six loads at once. When the laundry comes out of the dryer, fold it immediately. Don't toss it on a table in the laundry room. Don't put it back in the laundry basket either. You will probably forget about it until you need what happens to be there, and then you'll just dig it out instead of putting all the clothes away at once. Just take the clothing to where it belongs and put it away as soon as it is folded.

When it comes to grocery shopping, schedule that for the same day every week. The day before you go grocery shopping, go through your refrigerator to see what needs to be thrown away and wipe off the shelves and clean up anything that needs cleaning. This will help you get rid of things that are spoiled or expired and will help you see what you need to put on your grocery list. Use leftovers for lunches if that is possible. If people in your house take lunches to work or school with them, make the lunches the night before. Incorporate lunch making into the nightly kitchen clean up routine.

To save time in the morning, take a few minutes to lay your clothing out the night before. Organize your closet so that you have all of your shirts in one place, pants in another, skirts in another and so forth. Do this for everyone in your family, or have them do themselves. By organizing your clothing so that all like items are grouped together, it will be easier to put clothes away when the laundry is done, and it will be infinitely easier to find the clothes you need for each day. Gather anything your kids, spouse or other family members need to take with them the next day and set them in a place near the door so no one forgets anything they need.

Spend a few minutes before going to bed just picking up things around your living room or family room. The more you can do on a regular daily basis, the less you will have to do all at once. Developing habits and routines is good for building discipline and for ensuring that you'll never have to panic for fear that you forgot to do something or because you can't find something.

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