3-Step Evening Routine | The Secret Slob

Your evening routine is the key to easy mornings and great days! These 3 habits will be a total game changer if you feel like every day starts off unorganized and stressful.

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[betsyi]

I think it’s great that you think about your children’s privacy and security and keep them out of social media. 👍. I wish more parents on YouTube and insta would consider this. We have no idea what kind of digital space our children will live in in the future. I applaud you for putting your family first 🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏻🙌
Love the tips

[connieseward]

Here’s a little tip.... a clean extra dustpan makes a great shovel for picking up the children’s toys, especially legos! You may even find that the kids may want to do it themselves 😀

[Alex-bocp]

"A tidy home looks cleaner than a clean, untidy home."
Great point! My home is pretty clean, but I never QUITE put everything away. I'm stuck at about 20% messy all the time. The zone /timer cleaner have definitely helped me, because I never realised how quickly the house could look tidy. It felt overwhelming before.

[GardenerPhyl]

Setting yourself up for the next day is huge. When our sons were young I printed off their morning and evening flylady routines and posted them in their room, and on the door to the garage. I’d simply ask, have you gone through your checklist? They’re now both adults living on their own and their spouses would say that those ingrained routines are amazing and ones they’ll pass along to their own kids.

[katey.]

"Thank you yesterday me" - that's inspiring - and helpful. Thanks!

[deirdreshue]

So much respect for your decision to protect your family's privacy!

[kainazgul]

I'm so glad you don't subject your kids to that kind of attention! Thank you so much for making these videos! My home isn't sparkling clean, but your advice has helped me get it under control and I'm not embarrassed to have people over.

[Crystal-iljl]

I love that you respect the privacy of your husband and kids. It's also inspiring for single moms to see that it *can* be done alone.

[melissaedwards]

Really respect that clarification about your husband and kiddos.

[WiseWomanLola]

I need to check my planner as part of my evening routine. I can write a note to myself if I need to remember something for the next day, or take out meat to thaw in the refrigerator. It helps to remind myself of what is coming up the next day.

[joannamaldonado]

I laughed about the closed kitchen one. 🤣 That worked awesomely when my kids were small. Now that they are teenagers, they get hungry and make food after my big clean up after meals! Will eventually get back to that! To be fair, they do help with dishes. It's just a different rhythm at different ages and stages.

[infopubs]

Setting up the coffee pot the evening before makes my morning go so much smoother! We have one with an automatic timer so it brews at 7am. But even if I don't use that feature, being able to stumble into the kitchen and push one button to make coffee is huge!!

[tiararenoll]

Our washer has a delay start feature, so we always set it to start a load of laundry before we wake up. It’s nice to be able to throw it in the dryer right away and move on with our day.

[Fireandfunsocks]

I love that you respect your husbands wishes not to be filmed and especially that you don’t put your kids on YouTube. I think that is so wise. ❤️

[Sophie]

I moved across the country and was very surprised by how long it took me to get back into my routines. You’re right - prepping the night before is great for setting your “future self” up for success!

[lpberger]

One of my favorite parts of my evening routine is putting the laundry in the wash machine and setting the delay button (it’s set to finish at 6am) so in the morning my wash is done already and ready to be put in the dryer/hung up to dry.

[ADAstrong]

Night before mini-reset is the gift I give myself! Peaceful morning coffees start the night before. ❤️

[hl]

Love your routines for making each morning run smoothly. It’s so interesting to watch your channel now as I am an older mother and grandmother. I did not have YouTube as a young mother and I often wonder how successful I would’ve been as a YouTuber (if it was available) showing my tips and tricks for making a household run smoothly.I worked outside the home while raising my children (and husband 😊) and it was exhausting after a 8-5 job, but I used most of your same techniques on your channel and it worked. There were many days I just let my chores go to spend time with my kids and not worry about a mess that could be cleaned up later. The irony is that NOW I like watching your channel to motivate me without kids in the house to be more organized and make things run smoother for just me and my husband! Ha!

[jmljasmine]

I was searching for a chore to assign my 6 year old that wouldn't make more work for me. Now she takes out recycling every night and vacuums our living room every night. The 4 year old thinks toys can get sucked up in a vacuum still so she rushes to pick up the toys while the oldest is taking out recycling. It's been great. Our eat in kitchen is trickier to vacuum so I'll add that later for her but our living room is nicely cleaned up at their bedtime now.

[mirandar]

I recently found out I can start to take a shower or put on my PJs immediately after those three basics. Instead of waiting until it was "time" to start it for my before bed routine. I do it on calm at-home evenings and it's amazing: I go to bed early and I actually do shower (vs being too tired). It also stopped the crazy-banshee-cleaning.