Creating a Homemaking Schedule That Works For You

Feeling overwhelmed? A good homemaking schedule can make all the difference in your day. These are some great resources to help you make the perfect schedule in no time.

This was first shared in 2018 and has been updated on April 7, 2026 to reflect things I’ve continued to learn.

I’ve been a homemaker two decades now. It’s interesting to look back at the early years. I would get my household chores done before lunch, worked out every day, and had free time. This was all before I started this website and content creation, and largely before social media.

Now I often find myself struggling to keep up. There are more demands on my life now and the time suck that is social media. Let’s all be honest “I’m just going to check my social media really quickly” often turns into scrolling for far too long. I’m also disabled which can make it harder and impacts my energy.

A good homemaking schedule wasn’t needed as much in my early days of homemaking but these days it’s essential. As your life changes, you need to adjust routines.

Over my years as a homemaker, I’ve had to create new schedules to fit my changing life many times. While doing this I’ve found many good tips and I want to share them with you. Once you have good routines in place you will wonder how you did without them.

Creating Homemaking Schedules & Routines

1) Get a planner you like and will use.

For some digital planners work well and others need paper. I use some digital resources but my main planner is paper. The planner I’m currently using is a Happy Planner, it’s affordable, pretty, and you can add and remove pages. I keep my planner by my desk so it’s always easy to access.

I also offer some affordable printable planners that you can use to set up your own planner. You buy them once and never have to buy them again. I like to print these smaller and add them to my Happy Planner but you can use them on their own as well.

2) Create morning and night routines. 

I really liked the courses Make Over Your Mornings and Make Over Your Evenings and they helped me a lot but in this current political climate I have to say I don’t agree with where she stands politically and while that doesn’t come into the courses I want to be upfront about that so you can decide if you want to support her or not.

I will be looking for alternative resources to share as well. You can also read about my morning routine and evening routine, I will be updating those posts soon if you check them out and they are still the older information.

3) Be Realistic with your time.

When you are writing to-do lists, creating routines, and planning your day be sure you are realistic about how much time you really have. We often overbook ourselves which can leave you feeling defeated at the end of the day. Build in extra time for each task to make sure you really have time during the day.

A helpful tip I’ve used is to take a week or so to do things as you normally would and time how long you take to do tasks. We often underestimate how long things take.

4) Be flexible with your schedule.

Our lives change and so should our schedules and routines. If it’s no longer working for you be willing to adjust. I often find my schedule no longer working and I need to change it. I’m in that place currently.

I’m going back to the start and doing the things I talk about in this post to find what will work for me now.

Following these tips will help you create a homemaking schedule that will work for you. Once those things are in place you will be amazed how much easier your days will go.

More Homemaking Schedule Resources

These are some other resources here on the site that may help you get a good homemaking schedule set up.

• Ultimate Home Management Planner
• Comprehensive List of Cleaning Routines
• How to Be More Productive