With everything to remember these days from keeping gas in the car to getting your children to their soccer games, it’s easy to overlook the more mundane but important tasks required to keep your home well maintained and comfortable—chores like checking the batteries on the smoke alarms, making sure the furnace is safe and cleaning the windows and screens.
A good way to stay on top of everything without losing your mind is to use a reminder calendar to record when each chore should be done. You can buy a calendar of any size to fit any theme. You can even customize and print your own calendar.
Once you have your version of the perfect calendar, sit down and make a list of all the home chores you keep forgetting to do, like cleaning out the fridge or shampooing the carpets. Don’t worry about getting everything on the calendar at one sitting—you can always add them as they come up. Don’t forget to include important things like updating your contents insurance once a year to reflect new purchases.
Assign each chore a date on the calendar according to how often you want to do it—once a month, every six months or yearly—and write the name of the chore on the calendar. As you go through the year you’ll be reminded each time you look at the calendar of what chore you need to perform.
There are lots of important things to remember when you own a home, from checking in with your policy expert to making sure your coverage is up to date to having the roof inspected, but using a reminder calendar couldn’t be easier. It can make getting all those home care chores done on time hassle free.
