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Category: Household
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Bookshelves help me regulate…
Continue Reading: Bookshelves help me regulate…I am in the process of packing everything to move house. That is dysregulating at the best of times, however I have found something interesting over the past week. One of the first things I started doing was packing up my bookshelves. As much as I love being surrounded by books, I don’t use them…
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Get a Cleaner
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Get a CleanerI’ve shared a few posts with tips on how I manage the household, but realised today that I haven’t shared my biggest tip… Get a cleaner! For me, having a cleaner is a game changer. We have someone how comes once a fortnight for an hour. She cleans the bathrooms and vacuums and mops the…
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Noticing the housework
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Noticing the houseworkThis morning, I read a post on Threads about teaching kids to notice the housework. Not just do the housework, but notice that things need to be done. I realised this is an issue with so many people, including me. And it seems to be common in the autism & ADHD community. Things need doing…
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Moving house…
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Moving house…No, we’re not moving house, at least not yet (we want to… if we can find somewhere to rent). I have, however, moved many, many times in my life. Moving house is very stressful, and when you add in undiagnosed neurodivergence and chronic illness, this has only added to the stress! Here are a few…
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Meal Planning…
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Meal Planning…When trying to be organised, you don’t have to look far before coming up with tips for meal planning. This comes in many forms, from trying to reduce stress during a busy week to trying to save money to simply being organised. Meal planning is touted as the ultimate thing to keep you healthy, save…
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Stuff on the Kitchen Bench
Continue Reading: Stuff on the Kitchen BenchI will start by saying the photo above is a stock image and not my actual kitchen bench! When I was younger, I was constantly told that things had to be put away. That meant that nothing was on the kitchen bench. This never worked for me for a variety of reasons, mostly to do…
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Emptying the rubbish bin
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Emptying the rubbish binI used to think that you had to wait until the rubbish bin was full before emptying it… I have no idea where I got this idea, possibly from when I was kid either being told or hearing my siblings being told to empty the bin because ‘it was full’. This has had an interesting…
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Washing the Dishes
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Washing the DishesWashing the dishes is not one of my favourite housework tasks… yet it has to be done. If nothing else so that we have clean plates and cups, but also because we don’t have much bench space. In this house, we don’t have a dishwasher, it’s something that I want in my dream house. It…
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Hanging out the Washing
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Hanging out the WashingI used to hang all the washing out on the line… and promptly forget it was there! This would lead to a narrative around how I shouldn’t leave the washing out for days and also grateful that I actually remembered to hang it out in the first place. The whole process was something that I…
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Washing the towels
Categories: HouseholdContinue Reading: Washing the towelsManaging household tasks on top of work and everything else can be a struggle. I find it often goes down my list of priorities. I know it needs to be done, I like living in a clean and tidy house. It can also be overwhelming at times remembering what needs to happen when. A number…