Part of my hope here at Thankful Homemaker is to not only provide you with free resoruces through the blog and podcast to encourage you in your homemaking but to provide you with other helpful affordable resources. I love to use a sermon notebook, daily time with the Lord planner and menu planner. Sometimes these can be fairly expensive but I've created some affordable resources that I hope will help you in these areas of your homemaking. Weekly Meal Planning System: The Weekly Meal ... continue reading...
EP 97: How a Timer Saves Me Time & Keeps Me Focused
Do you ever find yourself flitting from task to task and at the end of the day realizing you didn't finish any of them? Do you have trouble staying focused and on task? A tool that has helped me immensely over the years to stay on tasks, whether it's household chores, reading, social media, blog work, paying bills, and a host of other items, is just a simple household timer. It is a simple tool we all have either on our phones, wrists, or in the back of a drawer somewhere, and it will keep ... continue reading...
Three Simple {Free} Tools To Keep You Organized in Your Homemaking
Inside: These are the three tools that I've used for many years to help keep my days as a homemaker organized and running a bit more smoothly. These are the three tools that I’ve used for many years to help keep my days as a homemaker organized and running a bit more smoothly. It's nothing earth-shaking here, I'm sharing, but just the simplicity of a calendar, to-do list, and weekly menu plan. I always think these are probably tools our grandmothers used back in the day. Every ... continue reading...
My Top 50 Cleaning Shortcuts
We all love to save time and especially when we're cleaning. As we learn how to keep a home over the years, we develop shortcuts or time-savers in our cleaning. One way we do this is through our daily routines, but how many of us also learned that as new housewives we spent more time cleaning things that didn't need to be cleaned just because we thought we had to. We don't have to clean the whole mirror each time but just wipe it where it's needed. We don't need to mop the ... continue reading...
EP 29: Where to Begin When You’re Overwhelmed in Caring for Your Home
I’m sharing today from a post I wrote quite awhile back called Where to Begin When You're Overwhelmed, and it was dealing with our home keeping. It’s been a very controversial post and people either have a love or hate relationship with it. I’m hoping you all are in the love camp today because I’m not a fan of being in the hate camp. Before we begin, I want to lay out a statement here that I want you to remember as we walk through this. What I’m sharing is going to look ... continue reading...