Meal Planning Basics

I meal plan every Monday. This is one of my most essential chores. It helps reduce my stress level, simplifies grocery shopping, and saves me time and money. It’s a skill I’ve had to learn, but it’s been well worth the effort. What is a meal plan? A meal plan is just a plan of

Hobbies and Homemaking

Introduction I have a lot of hobbies. I’ve been finding that some of my hobbies that don’t at first glance seem homemaker-y affect how I homemake and how I go about it. “Homemaking” is honestly a kind of complicated concept. There’s a major part of it that is a mixture of child care, cooking and

Building a Cleaning Routine

What is a cleaning routine? A cleaning routine refers to any system of scheduling cleaning tasks to keeping a home clean and/or organized. The idea is that if you set cleaning tasks to specific times in a predictable, orderly way it stops the work from piling up too much and becoming unmanageable. Depending on the

The Home of Artists

My last blog post mentioned that there were two major family traits that have influenced how I view home management. One of them was my family’s lack of health, which was the primary topic of that post. The other one was that my family are artists, which will be the topic of this post. Artists

Health Struggles and Household Management

A lot of what I know about managing a home comes from my family. However, my family’s view of home management is a bit unusual for two primary reasons. The first is that we are primarily artists and geeks who are usually more interested in creative and intellectual pursuits than maintaining a house. The second

Home Management Lessons I Learned from Theater

“All the world’s a stage, and all the people merely players in it” – Jaques in As You Like It by William Shakespeare This is probably the most famous Shakespearean quote. Theater and reality are connected, and there are lessons learned in theater that can be applied across disciplines, even on subjects that seem completely