Showing posts with label Household chores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Household chores. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

How we divide our chores up

In my last post about scheduling you can see that we do our "territories" or "daily chores" a few times a day.Then we have a 1/2 hour for each person to do a weekly chore.They are chores that only need done once a week and we all have a different one for each day.We do monthly chores on Saturdays.

So...........

Mamma......:)

Territories: Laundry/porch/sweep hard floors/vacuum

WEEKLY chores:

MON-Mop
TUE- Main refrigerator
WED-Sewing room
THUR- Dust/vacuum/clean mirrored doors in our room
FRI-Scrub stove

**12yo ds...

Territories-Downstairs shop/bathroom/bedroom/trash

WEEKLY chores:

MON-Outside pickup
TUE- Vehicle care (Check ALL fluids in all vehicles and grease equipment) He is to let us know what he needs as far as any oil/grease etc.
WED-Bring in the weeks wood
THUR-Barn pickup
FRI-Bird feeders filled

**10yodd...

Territories-Basement and basement stairs picked up and swept/bedroom

WEEKLY chores:

MON-Refrigerator on porch
TUE-Scrub both kitchen sinks and dish strainer
WED-Dust
THUR-Downstairs bathroom
FRI-Cement slab(BIG one) outside in front of house picked up and swept

**7yodd

Territories-Island/Top of stairs/Computer desk/table/bookshelf/hutch (none of these things are usually very dirty so while it sounds like alot,it isn't)

WEEKLY chores:

MON-Hearth around wood stove in living room swept and polished
TUE-Wipe down dressers in bedroom
WED-Vacuum bedroom
THUR-Clean out porch closet
FRI-Coffee station cleaned

**5yods

Territories-Hard floors/living room/bedroom and bring wood upstairs for upstairs stove

WEEKLY chores:

MON-Under couch and chair cushions vacuumed
TUE-Vacuum toy box
WED-His and his little brothers desks organized and wiped
THUR-Tooth paste drawer cleaned and organized
FRI-Organize toys

3yo ds has a few territories but no weekly chores :):)

Fold kitchen towels/Toybox/help bring up wood :)

MONTHLY chores.......

We have 4 sets of chores for 4 weeks.

Organize and wash cabinets
All cobwebs in the entire house and basement mopped
Ceiling fans cleaned and woodwork polished
Pull out appliances (as needed) and van

We will spend a couple of hours every SAT. morning.Everything on the list will be done by the end of the month.After cleaning is tea party time with my girls! :)

FRIDAY is our kitchen day and we eliminate a few things to have more time for it.
TUESDAY Grandma comes down at 12:30 for a craft day and so we adjust things for that too! :)

I think thats it!