11 Ways to Get Out the Door Faster
We all love the feeling of a productive morning you know, the one when you are up 10 minutes before the alarm goes off. But despite our best intentions, many days begin with a mad rush to discover a pressed blouse and jacket, or in the case of those with families, knocking on the bathroom door to remind someone that their 15 minutes of dressing are up.
The good news is that taking our mornings back is not quite as overwhelming as it may seem. We can begin the day on the ideal foot by using our home to our advantage and adjusting our dawn and night-before routines.
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1. Make daily necessities observable in the mudroom. Here, sports equipment, rain boots plus a prepacked handbag are all within reach and sight, instead of tucked in a cupboard or spread through the house.
Your productivity up much more by packing bags the night before. Before turning in for the night, store computers in laptop bags, collect the kids’ homework and make sure wearing equipment is at the corresponding gym bag.
Inside this bungalow, architect and mother Amy Dutton employs the opening to pass items from the mudroom to the entrance — cutting the time it would normally take to circle round the mudroom in the front door (and back again). It is an ingenious method of making the morning exodus to school or car bus a lot more manageable.
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2. Bring your wardrobe out for the following day. Thinking ahead at the clothes department is among the best time-saving steps I’ve added to my night-before routine. When you have given yourself a few clothes options for the day, you can bid farewell to drawer rummaging, last-minute ironing and fashion meltdowns facing the mirror.
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Admittedly, deciding what to put on the night before when you’ve school-age children is a bit ambitious. But having a few outfits on hand reduces the odds of needing to dip into the hamper for a favorite shirt.
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3. Reserve your bedside table for reading and lighting material. This mirrored bedside table looks chic and elegant — more so because it is not consumed with cellphones and other gadgets. The blue lamp, mirrored surfaces and lavish, tufted decor talk the language of uninterrupted sleep and comfort.
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4. Tackle laundry area chores on weekends and non-rush-hour periods. Chronic multitaskers can differ, but running the drier while ironing a crinkly shirt on top of folding delicates invites errors. Acknowledging that not everything in the house can be cleaned at once is a measure to accepting the (literally) dirty details of life.
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5. Bring back the breakfast bar. It is a beautiful thing to have everybody in the formal dining table leisurely eating breakfast, but when it is impossible, set up a couple dining choices in the breakfast bar — with one mobile food choice for the family member who needs to eat on the go.
Make breakfast much more efficient by grinding coffee beans, setting the coffee machine on cutting and timer fruit the night before and by having an organized pantry for the family member who’s fishing for something which’s not on the table.
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6. Organize your vanity on Sunday night. This orderly drawer only has room for a couple accessories, making it just right for daily necessities. Store your cosmetics collection and treasure trove of jewellery in another shelf or drawer reserved for special occasions so that your daily vanity isn’t cluttered with too many choices. You’ll discover your go-to lipstick and everyday earrings a great deal faster.
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7. Just take an energizing — instead of a cleansing shower. The good news is that although we may wake up a little more oily than the night beforewe wake up clean. Consider a short and cool morning shower as your caffeine-free jolt. Save yourself time at the start of the day by using the nighttime and weekends to do things such as shave, blow-dry your hair and exfoliate.
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8. Agree on a toilet schedule and stick to it. Prevent the drama of who goes by setting and abiding by a schedule — a principle that keeps the peace among couples and large families equally.
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9. Switch off the kitchen or living room TV. I’m not positive if this goes for many households, but at our home, a peek at the morning news nearly always adds 15-20 minutes to our regular. If you truly can’t skip your morning show, see highlights online and also get up-to-the-minute alarms from different news feeds delivered to your telephone; catching up on the day’s top stories while you’re at the subway or waiting for your bus is a fantastic way to remain informed and pass the time.
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10. Plan out your calendar and make it visible for the entire household. Seeing the entire family’s schedule laid out on some thing such as a chalkboard or kitchen calendar avoids confusion over weekends, weekend baseball games and sleepovers. And rather than going via a spitfire schedule swap in the dining table, you can discuss the more significant, meaningful things in life.
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11. Have a go-to storage place for your daily essentials. There is so much to love about this block: it is a compact storage device for your keys, phone, music player and wallet on top of being a stylish charging channel. Getting in the habit of placing items in one spot minimizes the likelihood that you’ll begin the day searching for your car keys.