Evening Routine – Clothes

I mentioned before that I have a morning routine that serves me well.
I mentioned before that I have an evening routine too.

(Thanks to Flylady.net, that is.)

Part of my evening routine involves me putting my clothes out for the next day.

Now that I work from home, it’s really easy to wear the same clothes for days at a time. Without a plan, I could find myself sleeping in the clothes, waking in the clothes, wandering to my computer in the clothes, and sleeping in said clothes all over again. And when I worked from home back in 2000, I found myself doing exactly that.

Now that I’m married to a guy who relishes cleanliness, that habit won’t fly.
So I’ve had to trick myself out of my naturally slovenly ways.

As part of my evening routine, I put out my clothes for the next day.

Not only do I put out the work clothes, I put out my dog exercising clothes. Every night, after the face gets washed and the moisturizer gets applied, I pull out two separate outfits and put them in piles on the bathroom counter.

One pile has all my exercisey clothing, from socks to shoes to hair bands to sweatshirts.
One pile has all my daytime clothes. They’re clean, they’re ready to go and they’re already picked out.

When I worked in an office, I found that if I didn’t put my clothes out the night before, it took me an extra twenty minutes to get ready in the morning. Twenty minutes!

(I hope it saves you twice as much time.)

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