Why You Need To Reset Your Home Nightly For Less Stressful Mornings.

Creating a nightly cleaning routine or a simple home reset before going to bed is very important for starting the morning on the right foot because it can significantly help to reduce stress and anxiety levels. By completing these small but effective tasks at night, you ensure that you wake up to a clean, organized living environment, which sets a positive tone for the day ahead. Some of these essential tasks can include washing and putting away dishes, wiping down countertops, loading and running the dishwasher, tidying up clutter, and making sure all doors and windows are securely closed before you leave or go to sleep. Additionally, it’s highly beneficial to write down any important tasks or reminders for the following day on paper. This practice prevents your mind from wandering or worrying during the night and helps you avoid having restless moments or interrupted sleep due to last minute running around to get things done.

Ever since I started doing a nightly reset consistently, I can genuinely feel the stress lessen each evening. Even if you already have a solid morning routine, a nightly reset serves as the perfect way to put your home back together again, ensuring you wake up to a clean and organized space. There is truly nothing more satisfying than starting the day in a tidy environment. This doesn’t mean you should discard your daily cleaning routine, as I believe this is an essential key to maintaining your home and keeping clutter at bay on a day-to-day basis. Together, these habits create a balanced and manageable approach to household organization.

Making a habit of resetting your home every night, I believe at least, is equally important because the morning sets the tone for you and your family’s entire day. A nightly reset involves completing specific tasks around your home before going to bed, so that when you wake up, you are greeted by a much calmer and more organized environment. This leads to a smoother, less stressful morning routine. This approach is especially beneficial if you are more of a night owl than a morning person, like myself, as it allows you to tidy up while the rest of the house is asleep. So, what exactly does a nightly reset consist of?

What Is A Nightly Reset

A nightly reset involves completing a few simple, manageable tasks around your home before you go to bed each night. I promise you, you will not regret waking up to a tidy, calm, and refreshed space in the morning. I can hardly imagine the frustration and stress of waking up to a chaotic mess after a long, tiring day. The time it takes to reset your home really depends on the kind of day you’ve had and how many tasks you managed to complete throughout the day. Typically, resetting your home should only take between 30 minutes to an hour at most, and that’s if you’re being especially thorough. You might find it helpful to set a timer and work at a pace that feels comfortable and manageable for you, especially when you’re just starting out with a new routine. Ultimately, how much you choose to do each night is completely up to your own preferences, energy level, and schedule. Some nights, when you’re simply exhausted—like after getting the kids to bed or after a particularly demanding day—you might just want to skip the reset altogether, and that’s perfectly okay. Just try to pick it back up the following night if you can, so the habit stays consistent and continues to support your overall sense of organization and calm.

Why You Need A Nightly Reset Every Night.

• Pick Up And Put Away Anything Lying Around In Your Hot Spot Areas.

These areas usually include the Living Room and Dining Room. Basically just cleaning up anything left behind from the day such as toys, folding throw blankets, fixing couch pillows, picking up dirty laundry and taking it to the laundry room, dirty dishes, trash and so on. I love using the O Ceder larger floor duster to get all the dust, cribs and kids socks from underneath the couches. You wouldn’t believe the amount of crap that accumulates under there.

• Clean Any Dirty Dishes Or Load and Run Dirty Dishes In The Dishwasher Before Bed. Scour Sink and Wipe Down Counter Tops.

First thing to do is either load my dirty dishes into the dishwasher or hand wash them. I have a dishwasher and still at times hand wash my dishes. I’ve been using a Scrub Daddy with regular dawn dish soap to hand wash dishes and love the effectiveness of the Scrub Daddy and dawn. I usually get the large container of dawn from Amazon or BJ’s and just refill my smaller dawn bottle. I feel it’s much cheaper this way. After doing the dishes wipe out your sink. I use the Scrub Daddy and The Pink Stuff Paste to really clean out my sink out. Then just rinse well with warm water. If you want to you can dry the sink out with a microfiber cloth or paper towel. I also use the pink stuff but in a constrained all purpose spray to wipe down my kitchen counters. The Pink Stuff Concentrated Spray and The Pink Stuff Scrub works the best again in my opinion alongside my Scrub Daddy. The paste is great for scouring the sink and cleaning your oven top with a scrub daddy.

• Vacuum Any Crumbs From The Kitchen, Living Room and Dining Room Floor. If Needed Do A Quick Mopping.

First I will vacuum up crumbs with my Shark Lift Away Vacuum. Afterwards I like to do a quick mop If it is needed. My all time favorite mop is the O Ceder clean water spin mop system and the cleaner I use inside my mop is the concentrated antibacterial Fabulouso.

• Folding Any Clean Laundry And Putting Them Away.

I get cheap small square hampers and try and sort by child. This makes sorting, folding and putting clean wash away so much faster being it’s sorted already. This is really effective if you have multiple kids.

• Making Sure Your Kids Have Clothes, Socks And Underwear Laid Out For The Next Morning.

• Vacuuming High Traffic Areas.

• Clear And Wipe Down Surfaces Such As Coffee Tables, End Tables And Dining Room Table.

• Tidy Up Couch Pillows And Fold Any Throw Blankets.

I have a cute wicker hinged lid basket that I had purchased at TJ Max. I store all the throw blankets in there at night.

• Take Out The Kitchen Trash If Full And Put A New Trash Bag Inside.

• Make A To Do List For The Following Day Right Before Bed. I use my Erin Condren Or My Kate Spade Personal Zip Planner With Sew Much Crafting Inserts.

Basically this helps to relax you by getting all them million todos onto paper so you can look at it in the morning.

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Before I Wrap Up, I Created This Free Nightly Reset Printable. You Can Download This Free Instantly Here.

Wrapping Up

If you decide implementing a nightly reset into your daily life with some consistency, I promise this will work for you and your family. I highly suggest you give it a try at least for the sake of your mental stress levels, it will make a tremendous impact on your mornings for not only yourself but your kids as well. Sometimes things may work for some of us, where as other times they may not work for others. If it works .. great but if not that is ok. You will find a different way based on you and you family’s needs.

Most importantly, I do highly suggest using a paper planner daily. Paper Planning is not only a creativity outlet but also a tool that will not only organize your day and give you that sense of accomplishment but also it will not side track you onto other apps, per say TikTok like some of us (guilty as charged). However digital planning does work for a lot of people. You just need to find YOUR FIT.

And like I already mentioned, Paper planning is also a great way to hold your self accountable and gives you that sense of accomplishment by checking off tasks. And I also know how extra overwhelming life is in general, it’s hard is a understatement. We have to wear so many hats and juggle so many things at once. My oldest is 24 and to be honest with all of you, I didn’t actually get any kind of cleaning routine or schedule in place up until 5-6 years ago.

It definitely is a challenge at first and I’m not saying it will be easy, more then likely it will take some time. That is ok, make sure you give yourself some grace. Eventually this routine will become second nature. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask in the comments below. I am always here to help, not judge. I was once a very unorganized, untidy and non consistent mother and homemaker. Not to mention while juggling multiple mental health struggles that went along with it.

If you’re interested in checking out some of my older posts on cleaning and routines. I will link a few below. I also have a blog index at the very bottom on this blog post that’s one whole page by category so my posts will be easier to find. I hope this post has given inspiration to anyone out there struggling to keep up with cleaning routines and consistency. Remember take a deep breath and baby steps.

You will get it.

Don’t Forget To Check Out My Totally Free Printable Planner Resource Library. Below Are Just A Small Preview Of Some Of My Printables In This Library.

My Library Has Different Planning Styles, Sizes and Colors.

Love, Jacqueline

PS… I’m Trying To Be Way More Consistent With My Blog and Planning This Year. As You Can See I Haven’t Posted Much Of Anything. Just likeAnything Else, Just Jump Back In No Matter How Long It’s Been.

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