Routines, are you stuck in one?

The only routines I have are walking the dog at roughly the same times each day (he isn’t too worried if I have a lie in and we are a bit late). I also do school pick ups a couple of times a week for GC. As I’m retired most of my time is my own and I love the fact that I can more or less do what I want when I want. I’ve never been one for set meal times or bedtimes. Springychicken I’d never turn down the chance of a coffee & chat with a friend to do ironing instead, those kind of jobs can wait. Life’s far too short.

I used to have a very set routine when the children were young and still kept it when I was working. Now I'm retired I go to bed much later, get up later and don't dress until lunchtime.
Washing is done when the basket is full and housework when it starts to look grubby
The exception is that the bed is changed every week without fail. Also I clean the whole house the day before family arrive to stay. At the moment that is around every 2/3 weeks and has been since we moved to the coast.

henetha

No routine here. Every day is a muddle.

I’m with you here!?

I wish I did have a routine, I have always struggled to have structure and routine, I can’t imagine I will change now !
Which is not so bad, it was when my children were younger though, I muddled through somehow x

Don’t have a particular routine although we do clean the house on Fridays. Doesn’t matter if we can’t, we just do it on a different day, but I tend not to actually plan things to do on Fridays. We see the family over the weekend because they’re working/school in the week. If we’re both in we sit down with a light lunch, sandwiches often, and we watch Bargain Hunt together but it doesn’t matter if we don’t. I think most people have some sort of structure to their day eg eating at appropriately the same time. I expect we all have lunch and dinner, that’s a routine isn’t it? But it doesn’t need to be set in stone as it was with my parents. It’s just a case of being flexible surely?

Never liked routine

We have a routine but I wouldn’t say that it can’t be changed here and there,

I have a kind of routine but am not inflexible, I like to think I’ve things to do most days but always happy if something else crops up.

We tend to have lunch at 1.30 and dinner st 7.30 just so DH knows when to turn up if he's busy - I enjoy cooking so am the chef. We can of course be flexible when necessary the times really aren't set in stone!! Apart from that, no routine at all. I do usually swim 3 days a week but it can be any 3 at any time that suits on the day.

No, not really apart from animal feeding - they know when it is time! My DH always asks me what I have planned, the answer is always I don’t know, whatever I feel like doing, he on the other hand always has a plan. I actually hate being asked what I am doing that day unless I am meeting my very good friends for a girlie chat over coffee!!

Nope, no routine except I try to keep Sunday fairly free for reading my papers/doing crosswords & sudoku.

I love being in the garden, I've never been bothered about housework. Washing is done as necessary, bathroom & kitchen kept clean & tidy. I was widowed in 2013 so I only have myself & cat to look after.

The last year has been a nightmare for me, lots of Drs & Hospital appointments, different times, different days but it's taken away a lot of my freedom to just get up & decide what to do that day. At least I now have less appointments so maybe my life may return more to normal

I hope the coming year is kinder to you Legs55 and you enjoy your freedom of how to spend your days much more often. They are the sorts of days that make your heart sing I feel ?