Housekeepers...Management Guide

Some women are lucky enough to be born housekeepers, with efficiency at their fingertips. Nothing phases them and they breeze through their household chores without a care in the world, and in next to no time. Others find the whole household routine baffling, a stumbling block, and fight a constant battle against disorder and the clock. This is not a sin by any means, for we all have varying talents. A bad housekeeper may be a gourmet cook and a talented decorator, or vice versa.



However...the household routine can be simplified and chaos avoided through a little planning...which takes the minimum of effort. Here are some quick pointers which will help you get that household routine under control and, what's more, running smoothly. Once you have put them into operation, you'll find that you have more leisure hours during the day.

Household Bookkeeping

It is quite simple to keep track of how much you are spending on food and other household necessities, if you set up a kitchen bookkeeping system and stick to it. There is nothing more harrowing for a housewife than those constant family battles about where the money disappears and on what. Such battles can be eliminated with your own do-it-yourself bookkepping system. And it doesn't have to be very involved.

All you need is a large hook and a notebook. Screw the hook inside of the door of a handy storage cupboard, preferably above a work top where you unpack groceries and other goods. Before you even unpack supplies, simply put the receipt onto the hook. At the end of the week, take down all the bills, add them up and enter the total into your notebook. You will have your household expenditures at your finger tips, as a quick and easy reference.

This will help you know just how much you are spending monthly, whether or not you are keeping within your budget. as well as give you an accounting of what you are buying. The same system can be adopted for other household spending, on such things as cleaning materials, brooms, mops and general kitchen utensils. The effort involved is minimal and you'll be surprised how much time and temper it saves at the end of the month.

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