HOMEMAKING TIPS FOR TULSA BRIDES

HOW NEWLY MARRIED BRIDES MANAGE HOMEMAKING LIKE A PRO IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA

Whether you come from a home where your family kept the house clean and comfortable or from a tiresome messy home, it’s your turn to create in your home the atmosphere that truly reflects who you want to be. When one grows up accustomed to a home being chaotic, it is hard to change ones subconscious expectations for a home; but when you marry someone who comes from a clean and neat home, they won’t feel comfortable. Therefore, one needs to agree on what is important to you both and decide on the atmosphere you as a couple want to feel in your new home. Secondly, set some parameters and guidelines to train yourself to build neat and clean habits that support your family decision until it becomes as natural and normal as the other way felt before.
When you anticipate setting up your own home and furnishing it with your own things, it is a little like playing house with your Barbie or an American Girl Doll when you were young. There is something so magical when you are the boss that it makes you love your space. When you enjoy being together you love the places you share. It’s so fun and easy to make those spaces welcoming and comfortable as you begin your life together.
To keep that space beautiful and inviting, it takes time and planning, but you can quickly develop upkeep routines that will feel as easy as brushing your teeth. Develop pride and respect for what is yours. Your home is a piece of what makes your family unique. Love it so much that when you and your spouse arrive home after your workday, you both feel welcomed and can relax, unwind, and enjoy a nice dinner together without a lot of prep work.

Home Purpose:

Your home needs to be a place of creativity, healing, eating, sleeping, playing, relaxing, building relationships through hospitality, worship, learning, growing and improving personally, Therefore, designate space and time for these areas to maintain order and balance in your home. For example: provide certain spaces for your family to exercise their creative talents, other areas to study and meditate, another area to play games or exercise. When it’s dinner time you shouldn’t have to eat in the living room because the breakfast table is piled high with a hobby project, and when it’s time to go to bed your room shouldn’t have toys on the bed that get pushed to the floor. Everything you have should have a purposeful spot to abide and anchor to.

A neat and well organized living space Inviting to Homemaking Bootcamp near Tulsa OK — A clean and neat living room

Decorating:

When you decorate, do it thoughtfully with things that you love and that represent your vision of your family and home. Use warm lighting, cozy textures, and personal touches like photos or art to make your home inviting to you. Think about the practicality of placing things you need in a beautiful spot. For example: if you have a beautiful bowl or platter, don’t put it where you can’t find it, but use it as a decorative piece instead of decorating it with something that you won’t ever use. Your heart knows what you love, settle on that color scheme for your home; then when you see something you like, it will most likely blend with what you already have. If you want to decorate each room differently, it will save you money if you begin slowly to furnish it as you find things at a bargain rather than all at once. Decorate each season by rotating out into storage and bringing the new in to keep things fresh and interesting.

A potato soup served near Tulsa OK — A warm loaded potato chowder

Meals:

Cooking your own meals as opposed to eating out or even buying pre-prepped meals will save you 80% of your food budget, and can be much healthier. Cooking needs to be kept simple. One’s kitchen is the heart of your home because it is the place where your family will gather and prep and eat meals together. Always support the cook as a family and help clean up the mess. Plan to cook nutritiously by choosing menus that use lots of vegetables and proteins. Create a restaurant style ambiance by playing music or lighting candles while cooking and eating to make it special and more enjoyable. Make cooking fun by exploring new recipes for dinner entrees. Save time by designating a meal prep day to batch cook or pre-prep parts of meals each week. Use good tools that make cooking a breeze. Essential tools are listed in a blog called: Furnishing your first kitchen with essential and practical tools.

The House:

No doubt your first home isn’t your forever home, and you plan to buy a bigger and better home someday. Live in your home with the intention of selling it in the future and making a profit. Grow your equity by making home improvements and maintaining it at its best while you live in it. Invest money into making your home more valuable. Save money to invest in it by curbing your food budget, not over spending, repurposing items, and living minimally so that you will have more to go into the house.

A comfy and clean bedroom is inviting. Tips at the Homemaking bootcamp near Tulsa OK — Neat and clean master bedroom

Living within your salary:

One can reduce spending by being careful and tracking where all the money goes. Here are a few practical ways one can save a lot of money:

Make sure you don’t have to pay any late fees, bounced check fees, or fines.
Repurposing leftover food and serving it in another way.
Keeping unused lights off
Not wasting water. Don’t let water run freely down without being used. Example: Fill a pitcher to water your plants with the water otherwise wasted while waiting for hot water to come out at the kitchen sink when you are waiting for it to get hot.
Don’t over buy produce unless you are using it up before it goes bad. If you have apples going bad, you can cook them in butter with honey to put over pancakes. If you have carrots or celery going soft put them in water in the refrigerator.
Try to make the right amount of food your family will eat, unless you can repurpose it into something else when it’s leftover.
Time is money; so don’t waste your time.

A beautiful kitchen with easy tips for cleaning at the Homemaking Bootcamp near Tulsa Oklahoma — A well organized kitchen makes Homemaking a joy for newly weds

HOME MAINTENANCE HABITS AND CLEANING

Make a habit of putting things up where they belong right after using them. For example: when you come home, place your coat, books, shoes, purse etc. in their designated place that is arranged for those things by the back door. Practice doing your habitual routines quickly and neatly till it can be done without thinking. Take pride in the small, repetitive acts that create comfort and stability in your home.

Don’t think of cleaning the house as a job that takes a lot of time, instead, invest in good cleaning supplies to make tasks quicker and easier, handle things once, and do the following 3 simple routines daily. A good broom, mop and an Enviro cloth from Norwex company which is an amazing tool and is well worth the money.

Follow just 3 simple routines to keep your home free from chaos.

1. Clean up the kitchen after dinner and push a load of laundry through every night.

2. Set a timer for 30 minutes a day and deep clean or organize one section of the house.

3. When you get up every morning, take 5 minutes to clean a portion of the bathroom and make your bed.

DECLUTTER:

Daily we are inundated with a lot of junk mail, boxes, and information that makes it necessary to declutter regularly: A tidy space is so much more enjoyable. When you handle the mail do it close to the trash can. Open your mail scan it and immediately decide which need to be processed and filed and which needs to be trashed. We have an information overload, and one more thing to read can put additional pressure if it’s kept.

When decluttering, use the 4-Box Method: Label four boxes: Keep, Donate, Trash, and Relocate, to sort through your items effectively. Additionally, to keep clutter in check, use the “one in, one out” rule when shopping to prevent excess. This means that before buying an item, think of something similar that you that you can give away. For example: if you buy a new sweater, think of a similar item that you can donate in its place. This habit will help one control overbuying which can lead to feeling stressed about where to put everything. The accumulation of stuff will lead to disorganization and anxiety; so, stop and ask yourself: If I get this what will I get rid of in its place? This rule keeps your life full of intentional and useful items that benefit your family. Keep a big drawer available to store the items for donation. The hardest areas to keep decluttered are kitchens, children’s rooms, closets, and garages.

GARDENING AND LANDSCAPING MAINTENANCE:

Maintaining an attractive yard and making a flower or vegetable garden has a way of grounding the family to the home place. Gardening can be a very enjoyable and successful venture if small simple daily routines are followed. Start your seeds indoors and grow the herbs you most like to use in a few pots next to a window. Be creative and repurpose containers for plants. Enjoy decorating your home and garden with flowers indoors and out. Read the detailed blog on the Joy of Gardening with your children, written by Valerie Eck on this website.

a well organized newly wed closet in Tulsa — Organization tips for newly weds

ORGANIZING FOR SIMPLICITY

The purpose for organizing is to make a place for everything to keep things simple to find and use:

Create a gift wrapping center with pretty paper, tape, ribbon, and scissors for quick access.

2. Keep an organized pantry and use clear containers so you can find things quickly.

3. Use quality cleaning tools and make them easy to find and get to.

4. Keep your writing and bill paying desk neat and organized so important papers that need your attention don’t get forgotten and lost. Have an In and Out tray to separate what has been processed and what needs to be handled yet.

5. Organize your books and notebooks in the bookcase according to your needs and subjects so you can quickly find what you need.

6. Dish soap is something one uses practically several times a day, so keep it in a handy place by the sink where it can serve you. When dishes seem to overwhelm you, make a sink full of very hot soapy water and let them soak for about 10 minutes, then wash and rinse and put away.

7. Keep plenty of home supplies on hand because it’s a waste of time to run to town to get necessary staple items as toilet paper, baking supplies, milk, eggs, bread etc. Plan meals and keep a list of what groceries you need on your phone notes so you only shop once a week.

8. Invest in Multi-Functional Furniture as ottomans, coffee tables, or benches with hidden storage to keep things that you use often easily accessible.

9. Create a Drop Zone: Designate a practical but welcoming place near the entry for keys, bags, jackets, and shoes to avoid clutter.

10. Keep a sturdy open tote by the door to the garage for putting things that need to go to the car so they arn’t forgotten.

11. Organize places for papers and records in a filing cabinet or binders with clear labels (“Bills,” “Projects,” “Receipts”), or go digital by scanning documents and storing them digitally to reduce paper clutter. Each year archive or store them away in a box labeled with the year.

12. Use baskets and bins that are stylish to put items in. Keep like things together and get rid of extras that are taking up space. Office Desk: Keep only daily essentials on your desk (e.g., computer, notepad, pen holder). Store non-essentials elsewhere.

13. Make your desk inviting by using trays, drawer dividers, or small bins for items like pens, paperclips, and sticky notes. Use cable ties and clips to keep cords out of sight, and label each cord for easy tracing.

14. Keep a well organized garage because that’s where things are stored that may not be used every day. Create separate spaces for each group in the garage as: tools, sports equipment, gardening tools and supplies, and seasonal decorations. Use vertical hooks and wall-mounted storage for gardening tools, ball cages, bikes, skateboards, and other awkward shaped gear. Take advantage of high spaces by installing sturdy overhead racks for big bins for storing holiday decorations, seldom used items, and camping gear.

15. Store things off the floor especially in the garage and kids rooms for easy cleaning and safety. Toys should have their own home on a shelf. Rotate out toys every few months by storing half of them away on a closet shelf.

Cultivate Homemaking Energy by fostering a mindset and atmosphere that brings warmth, creativity, and intentionality into managing ones home. Successful homemaking for new brides in Tulsa, Oklahoma is more about infusing your living space with love, purpose, and a sense of belonging than cleaning and organizing all the time.

Focus on making your home a welcoming haven, both for yourself and others. Use calming scents, cozy lighting, soft textures, and personal touches like family photos or handmade decorations. Develop small rituals of tidying up in the morning while listening to music or a podcast you enjoy. Light a candle and brew some tea when you feel like taking a break from hard work, and take care of office work or writing projects till duties call else where.

Hosting

A key part of cultivating a love for homemaking is fostering connections by hosting guests, or preparing a special cozy dinner for yourselves, or planning an enjoyable home project to do together. Find ways to make time for relationships and make space for love and togetherness in your home.

Cultivating homemaking energy includes taking care of yourself. A well-balanced homemaker invests in their own happiness to create a better environment for the family. Take time to read, pray and meditate on things that are true and lovely. This can bring rhythm and mindfulness to your day. It’s about aligning your home with your values and intentionally creating a space where your home life can flourish.

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invitation to Tulsa wedding venue hosting homemaking classes for brides — Invitation to one day of Homemaking classes

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