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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good morning, this is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that if you are looking to reduce the time spent on life maintenance, experiment with whether you can stretch the cadence on some recurring tasks. My hunch is that life will go on if certain things happen a bit less often. Long-time listeners know that my planning is focused on weeks, that is, 168 hours. Much of our life happens in weekly rhythms.
Work, school, exercise classes, religious services, many volunteer commitments, and even some social engagements have a weekly rhythm. So it might seem to make sense to tuck chores into the hardscape of our weekly calendars around the other recurring fixed points. I know that many people absorb the idea that certain chores need to be done weekly when they're growing up.
If your parents did laundry every Monday, grocery shopping every Tuesday, cleaning every Wednesday, and so forth, you may assume that this rhythm is right. And sometimes a weekly cadence for life maintenance tasks works well. But if you are trying to spend less of your time on chores, one way to do that is to stretch the cadence of some tasks. Are there some tasks that can be done less frequently than weekly?
A lot of tasks take about the same amount of time, even if more time has elapsed since you last did them. Not all. I mean, I wouldn't let the dishes stack up. But in many cases, by stretching the cadence of the task, you spend less time on the task overall. Maybe you have a rhythm of picking up and dropping off dry cleaning on Saturday morning on the way to take your daughter to ballet. Could you handle dry cleaning every other Saturday instead?
Or instead of grocery shopping every Sunday afternoon, could you do a big shop every other week? And then fill in with a quick trip for produce and milk in between? Cleaning tasks can often be stretched. If you run a cordless vacuum in the kitchen as needed, you may not need to vacuum your whole house or apartment every week. Maybe every 10 days could work. Possibly even less if you don't have pets or little people making messes. Vacuuming takes the same amount of time if you do it weekly or every 10 days.
So over the course of a year, stretching the cadence lets you reclaim time for something more fun than vacuuming. It takes only a little more time to do a full load of laundry than it does to do a partial load. So instead of doing laundry weekly or on another rhythm determined by the calendar, try waiting till you have a full load to do it. The lawn may likewise be okay if you let it grow a little longer before cutting. Your hair might be fine if it gets a little longer too.
While you probably should go to the dentist every six months, if it happens every eight months, that is better than it not happening at all. Stretching the cadence can give you a little breathing room in life. And for many things, the downsides won't be disastrous. So it's worth a shot. Are there tasks you have discovered don't have to be done quite as often as you used to think? You can let me know at laura at lauravandercam.com. In the meantime, this is Laura Vandercam.
Thanks for listening. And here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com. Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia. For more podcasts from iHeartMedia, please visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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