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

Creating a nightly cleaning routine or a nightly home reset is important in the morning because it can help to reduce stress, and anxiety. These tasks should be done before bed so you wake up to a clean home. Some of these tasks can include doing dishes, wiping counters, putting away dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, tiding up and making sure all doors are closed behind you when you leave your house. It's also a good idea to write down what needs to be done the next day on paper so that your mind doesn't wander off while you're sleeping or have timeouts during the night due to running around getting things done.

Ever since I started doing a nightly reset consistently I can feel the stress lessen. Even though you have a morning routine a nightly reset will put your home back together again so you wake up to a clean home. And there is nothing more satisfying then that. This doesn’t discard your daily cleaning routine being I feel like this is an essential key to keeping up with your house and keeping clutter at bay on a day to day basis.

Making a habit of resetting your home every night, I believe at least is equally important being that the morning sets the tone for you and your family’s whole day. A nightly reset consists of nightly tasks within your home that are done before bed so when you wake up, you are waking up to a much more calmer environment leading to a smoother morning. This also works very well if you are more of a night owl then a morning person such as myself being your still up once the rest of the house is asleep. So what does a nightly reset consist of?

What Is A Nightly Reset

A nightly reset is a few tasks you do around your home before you go to bed every night. I promise you that you will not be sorry when you wake up in the morning. I can’t even think about the many mornings of waking up to a disaster. Depending on the type of day you have had, or the amount of tasks you were or were not able to accomplish though out the day will determine how long this can take.

Resetting your home should only take 30 minutes to an hour (and that’s pushing it) to fully complete. Keep in mind you can keep a timer and go at your own pace. Especially just starting a new routine, the choice is yours. This is all up to you and your preference in what you can take on. There are some nights that we are just done, like checked out by the time the kids go to bed. You may just say screw it and skip this all together, that’s completely ok. Just try to keep it up the next night if you can.

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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