Our First 'Peek At The Week' Completed!

I mentioned in a previous post that I was using organisational printables from I Heart Organising, in particular, the 'Peek at the Week' one to organise us week by week.

For each day there was a mixture of weekly, monthly, fortnightly and bi-annual tasks on there (there's only a couple of bi-annual tasks per month anyway).  The blue pen is for weekly tasks, green for quarterly and bi-annual tasks, black for monthly tasks and red for fortnightly tasks.  Ignore the green for defrosting chicken.  That's by the by.  

I love this printable because it has room for writing other bits and bobs down, plus a little weekly meal jotter with a mini shopping list space too.  Once I have everything written down it makes so much of the stress of ~~life~~ disappear!  If I glance at the board every morning and see what I have to do, that's what I have to do.  For instance, this week's Peek at the Week has a couple of days off (tonight being one of them), and I think Sunday.  Even the days when we're doing a task, it doesn't take all night.  And things are always easier to keep on top of once you do them regularly.  

I used to clean the bathroom when the mood took me (never) and it always took AGES and drove me mad.  Now it's on a Wednesday, weekly (it was on Tuesday but Rob has a long relaxing soak on a Tuesday and I think he was getting a bit perturbed by me standing over him and waiting for him to get out of the bath so I can clean it).  Now cleaning the bathroom is one of my fave things EVER (I'm serious), I have such a good routine and doing it weekly keeps it actually sparkling.  Mad, eh?  Cleaning things regularly keeps them CLEAN.  Who knew?!

(Shout out to Rob for doing most of the things on this list by the time I got home from work.  YOU ROCK!)

Our Bathroom

So, this is our bathroom, before and after. When we moved in the previous owner had just left everything as it was, shampoo, soap, towels etc. Crazy! We ripped everything out (bath,
toilet, sink, all the tiles and floor tiles too) and my husband, dad and uncle spent a glorious weekend re-fitting the entire bathroom like total champs!

Cleaning tasks for the bathroom include:

• wash bathmats and hand towels weekly
• deep clean the sink, windowsill, bath, showerhead and loo weekly
• sweep and mop the floor and empty the tiny bin fortnightly
• clean and polish the toiletries stand, toothbrush holder and soapdish monthly
• wash the shower curtain in the washing machine, and wash the walls every six months

We still need to paint the ceiling and re-seal it a little bit round the edges (as seen in the pic of the shower), I also want to re-paint our main bathroom door and re-hang it. That's on our projects list which is becoming as unwieldy as a gigantic sword (that was my husband's analogy).