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How Can You Be More Efficient Around The Home?

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February 17, 2021 by Home Jobs By Mom
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Running a home can be so much more complicated than you first think. When you dream of moving into your house and making it the perfect home that you’ve always wanted, you get visions of yourself dusting around the place and fluffing pillows, so everything looks perfect. But in reality, that’s never really quite the case.

Everything is always so much harder to handle than you could ever imagine – especially when you have children to raise and a job to hold down. So, it helps if you can figure out how you’re going to be a bit more efficient with things. When your home starts to run a little more like clockwork, it's so much easier to manage.

Most everyone would like to be more efficient. Here are some ways you can be more efficient at home!Click To Tweet

Grow Your Own



If you ever find yourself frantically rushing around the grocery store looking for healthy and convenient foods to feed your family, or forgetting essential ingredients, then this solution is going to be the one you love the most.

There’s a lot to be said for growing your own food. And although it sounds quite hard, it doesn’t have to be. With a lovely little patch, some veggie seeds, and a little bit of care, you’ll have potatoes, carrots, greens, and whatever else you fancy growing before you know it—saving you both time and money.

Plus, you'll always have something healthy to hand the kids when they say they're hungry. Bonus!

Generate Your Own

But that’s not all. You could also consider generating your electricity too. By working with a solar panel installation company to get things up, you could start generating right away.

And by doing this, you’re going to be saving yourself money and making your home more energy efficient by letting the solar panels run themselves.

Set Timers


And just like your home will start to get more energy efficient when you start to generate your own power, you could also think about how you can conserve a bit more energy too. Home automation can help with this.

By setting things like lights and heating on timers, you’ll not only make your home energy even more efficient, but you’ll also make your home efficient overall, as these things will be done automatically, and you won’t have to think about doing them.

Have A Schedule

If you find that you’re always doing chores at odd times of the day and well into the night, you may benefit from having a cleaning schedule. Sometimes, you overdo it, and at other times, you’ll find yourself forgetting to do things too.

But with a schedule, you’ll make better use of your time and know when certain things need to be done. Use a spring cleaning checklist to help get you started.

Invest


Finally, from here, you’re also going to want to think about how you spend your money on the home. Because you definitely want your home expenditure to be efficient too.

Try to invest in pieces of furniture and homeware, rather than buying cheaper pieces that are more likely to break or that you’ll go ahead and replace in a few short months anyway. Think sustainable and substantial. 

Are you adept at efficiency?

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  1. Edna Williams

    May 3, 2021 at 11:04 am

    Running everything around the home may be less stressful and tiring with the help of some automation. I love your tips, and I am sure others will as well! Thanks for the post!

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    • Home Jobs By Mom

      May 14, 2021 at 2:30 pm

      Automation definitely makes running a household less stressful and more efficient

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  2. Melissa Storms

    February 19, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    All good tips, thank you. We garden and can and preserve a lot of food in other ways too. It definitely saves us money and it is good exercise during the gardening months.

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    • Home Jobs By Mom

      February 26, 2021 at 4:51 pm

      What kinds of things do you grow?

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      • Melissa Storms

        March 1, 2021 at 11:12 am

        I grow a little of everything and a lot of what I can preserve through canning, dehydrating and freezing. I grow a lot of tomatoes because we use them all year. It is so satisfying to make homemade pizza with my own crust and pizza sauce made from tomatoes I canned from the tomatoes I grew from seed even though our growing season is short. It is about saving money but it is also about mental health SAD is real and we are in the top for the least sunny days in the US. Getting outside and growing not only food but flowers is good for my head as well as my body. I will be starting seeds within the next couple of weeks and this year I am going to try broccoli from seed (I usually purchase seedlings).

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        • Home Jobs By Mom

          March 2, 2021 at 4:10 pm

          That sounds amazing!! I want to grow tomatoes but every time I try here in Texas they die. I think my soil is too clay-like.

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  3. Edna Williams

    May 1, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    Running a home requires a lot of time and effort. Thank you for these splendid tips!

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    • Home Jobs By Mom

      May 14, 2020 at 3:02 pm

      Very true. Work around the house is never done so we might as well do it more efficiently

      Reply

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