March Seasonal Work

March

���������������� Week 1

������������ ������������ Laundry Day

Put salt in the water softener.

 

������������ ������������ Kitchen Day

Have children clean and polish silver.

 

������������ ������������ Office Day

Call to have the piano tuned.

Are you ready for taxes? What do you need to do yet? Make a list and work on it every Office Day until you�re done with tax season.

Make a menu plan, grocery lists, and countdown preparation plan for Resurrection Day.

������������ ������������ Town Day

Buy air filter.

������������ ������������ Cleaning Day

Change air filter on furnace.

������������ ������������ Gardening Day

Do a thorough cleaning of the garage.

������������ Week 2

Laundry Day

Bring in car seats, launder covers, wipe plastic, and return to the vehicle.

������������ ������������ Kitchen Day

Fresh salad from the garden will be ready soon. Do you have a salad making center in your kitchen? Put all your ingredients for dressings and a dressing jar in one cupboard. Keep the salad spinner in a handy place near the sink with a cutting knife. Do you have a child assigned to salad prep?

������������ ������������ Office Day

Are you ready for taxes? What do you need to do yet? Make a list and work on it every Office Day until you�re done with tax season.

������������ ������������ Town Day

If you don�t have a salad spinner pick one of these handy things up. They make salads easy and fun!

������������ ������������ Cleaning Day

Air out the house and let spring in!

������������ ������������ Gardening Day

Thoroughly clean the unfinished part of the basement.

 

������������ Week 3

������������ ������������ Laundry Day

If you hang out laundry, do any repairs or tightening to your line. Make a plan for making it more pretty, maybe start a vine up a trellis on the T post.

������������ ������������ Kitchen Day

Make food ahead for when you have busy gardening days this spring and summer.

������������ ������������ Office Day

Are you ready for taxes? What do you need to do yet? Make a list and work on it every Office Day until you�re done with tax season.

 

������������ ������������ Town Day

Pick up a bouquet at the grocery store for your table, just because it�s spring!

������������ ������������ Cleaning Day

Launder mattress pads, pillow covers, spreads, and covers in hot water to kill dust mites, this will help a lot of allergic children.

������������ ������������ Gardening Day

Can you till and plant yet? Get ready, so that when the weather cooperates, you can go do it.

 

������������ Week 4

������������ ������������ Laundry Day

Have you been keeping up with mending and ironing? If not, make a goal and plan how to reach the goal and a plan for how you will keep up with it in the future. Don�t forget to teach your children these tasks.

 

������������ ������������ Kitchen Day

Have you ever tried dandelion greens? Send the children out to pick some.

������������ ������������ Office Day

Are you ready for taxes? What do you need to do yet? Make a list and work on it every Office Day until you�re done with tax season.

 

������������ ������������ Town Day

Buy salt for the water softener

 

������������ ������������ Cleaning Day

For those with wood stoves or fireplaces: Wash the walls of the room where you burn wood.

 

������������ ������������ Gardening Day

If it doesn�t suit to plant the cold-hardy things on Gardening Day, switch it with another day�s work.

This monthly article will be a helpful reminder of irregular work. Some of the chores are 5 minute chores for one person; some are family projects that might take a couple of hours. Some are done monthly, some seasonally, biannually, or annually. Some are for the safety of you and your family, some save you money in the long term. Some won't affect you and your life due to your home, climate, appliances, etc.

The chores are matched to the area of the home you are already scheduled to work in for the most part, or are planned to correspond with the "day of the week work", according to the yahoo group announcements. If it doesn't suit you then schedule it for a different day but do your best to fit it in sometime.

Remember, when you have a big project scheduled, get a good night's sleep, plan a crockpot meal and a period of rest afterwards. Assign different tasks to your children, they will take ownership and pride in their contribution to the family. Don�t cheat them of this; they are learning to be responsible adults when you include them in this type of work. They won�t be left in a quandary as untrained adults.

Do not play catch-up except with checking the fire alarms, these tasks will come around again.� Start right now with today and move forward.

Take advantage of our Team Clean Set!

Large and Small Feather Dusters, Go to the Ant CD to sing while working, and cleaning tools for the Littles