All plucky housewives have them. All non-housewives have them. Chores are a fact of life. But there are times when they seem to consume life. Every where you look there is another chore. Waiting. It can be so overwhelming that you just want to shut down. Where you will go crazy if you look at another chore. Where you get so hysterical that your husband throws crap into a closet just so you don’t have to look at the chore until you want to. (I’m not speaking from experience or anything. Nope, purely speculative comment.)

One of the best solutions when chores start to take over your life is to write them down. Break the chores into small pieces. You don’t just write laundry. You write “gather clothes,” “sort clothes” and “do one load on Sunday night.” By breaking these chores down you are making the overwhelming seem whelming. Every time you cross a chore off you’ll feel a little more accomplished. Trust me. The experts recommend this. My mother recommends this. And she’s rarely wrong.

So here is my list of chores:

• Put dishes into dishwasher
• Do dishes – dishwasher & handwash
• Put dishes away
• Gather clothes
• Sort clothes into keep, give away and trash
• Hang clothes up instead of keeping them in the basket
• Empty the closet
• Put luggage away
• Go through boxes and sort contents into keep, giveaway and trash
• Stack & combine scrapbooking/ journaling supplies
• Determine what is left over
• Organize leftovers into containers/piles if necessary
• Find storage shelf for closet
• Organize containers/piles into closet
• Clean craft table in the living room
• Put table away or move it back to the office
• Setup sewing table
• Setup sewing machine
• Put pillows into shams
• Change direct deposit info on accounts
• Arrange pins onto corkboard
• Hang corkboards
• Write a letter
• Vacuum
• Feed the plant

Look at that list! A lot of those are completely doable right now and some will have to wait until this weekend (or longer – closet I’m looking at you!). Plus, there’s two I’ve already crossed off. I can’t tell you how good that makes me feel.

So what chores are on your list? Tell me in the comments section. I love comments 🙂