Do you like a routine to your day or week, or are you someone who prefers to be spontaneous?

I like routine . Exercise class mondays . Meet friends for lunch and pub quiz tuesdays . DGD and a different pub quiz on Wednesdays. Shopping and cafe thursdays . chippy tea with BiL and SiL on Fridays . DGD Saturday and longer walk.with dog on Sundays . In fact I like my weekly routine so much I sometimes get FOMO on my holidays!

No, I hate routine, I’m impulsive and a last minute person. I don’t like fixed appointments unless it’s something I really want to do, like a concert, a quiz, etc. I can pick up my bag and go in five minutes. I don’t even like planning my evening meal in advance because I don’t know what I’ll feel like by 7pm, and I very rarely watch live TV because I don’t like being tied to a schedule, on my iPad I can watch it to suit me. I do the housework to a routine because I have forced myself over the years, I do it first thing in the morning so I’m free to do what I like by 9ish. I’m probably strange, I know.

several fixed points, but still allowing some room for flexibility that's me to a 'T' Cabbie.

Yes and no. I like to have an underlying framework to life, that ticks away, and because I do it all the time, can on occasion be tossed to the winds. Cleaning comes under that heading.

I usually clean on a Monday, but if over one or two weeks something better comes along, at the last minute I can just forget the cleaning and do what I want to be. The same with menu plans, shopping, even the clothes I wear each day. have an underlying routine that can be ignored at will.

So far I have found this works very well.

I like routine. I get anxious when I am out of sync.

Spontaneous.
Which is just as well, as no one day is too much like another anyway.

I'm a mix of both. I like my meals at roughly the same time but anything else can be ignored if something better comes along. However if I've agreed to a plan or meet up on a certain day and that gets cancelled or altered, I must admit, that does put me out a bit !

No routine.
Apart dog walking, meals, and admin for husband's business.

I like a mixture so I do regular volunteering, have choir once a fortnight which then gives ne time to slot other things in - or to do nothing.

Spontaneous for me. I like to decide on the day what I'm going to do. As my little GS said. Every day is an adventure.

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^several fixed points, but still allowing some room for flexibility^ that's me to a 'T' Cabbie.

Yes ,one of the many reasons I go completely nutty at Christmas time.

I need routine I get completely thrown with anything cropping up that I ve not known about, if I left it to being spontaneous I would get nothing at all done I have to wake up and know what I m going to do and how I will dress. If someone throws something else into the pot it would take me well out of my comfort zone

My cat likes routine.

We call her continuity cat.

So her early morning, feed times, bed times all follow the same routine, to give her confidence about her day.

Me? In theory I have a routine, but in practice- no - flexibility is the key to my life.

I like routine, especially based on my circadian rhythms overnight, hence I go to bed and wake up at the same time every day. Early to bed and early to rise and always ready for action when I rise

My morning is always the busy part of my day, allotment, cycling, cleaning, sewing, cooking. My meals are always at the same time and last very small meal is by 3.30

Afternoons and evenings are flexible and not onerous

I care for my DH so there has to be routine. He has GP and hospital appointments as well as physio and needs several bouts of exercise every day including exercises for an eye that is no longer in sync with the other one.
Would like to shake things up a bit by going for walks to different places but he needs familiarity and becomes agitated if he doesn’t know where he is.
His nature used to be quite impulsive and spontaneous and I was always the one who thrived on routine.

I would like to have a routine but life’s refusing to cooperate at the moment. That said I’ve always been pretty flexible.

Pretty much the same as you cabbie

I like routine, simple as that.

I like routine as it allows me to 'auto pilot' through daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal tasks and frees up lots of thinking (daydreaming) time.
I do love planning and /or tweaking things, as well as a good list!

However spontaneous people like to think they are most developed some degree of routine If not chaos will ensue

Fallingstar

I care for my DH so there has to be routine. He has GP and hospital appointments as well as physio and needs several bouts of exercise every day including exercises for an eye that is no longer in sync with the other one.
Would like to shake things up a bit by going for walks to different places but he needs familiarity and becomes agitated if he doesn’t know where he is.
His nature used to be quite impulsive and spontaneous and I was always the one who thrived on routine.

Same here! Sadly our life is now too routine. Medications, appointments at home and other places, fitting in exercise for husband etc.

I never liked routine and enjoyed waking up and just deciding to go for a walk, bike ride, invite a friend round, meet some friends for coffee, read a book, do some gardening and so on. That’s all gone now. I loved being spontaneous. Even holidays I booked last minute or days out.

One of my best friends has her whole year mapped out with visits, visitors, special events, Christmas shopping trips. That would drive me mad but she loves it. They even have a special weekend when his brother comes from a few counties away and the brothers go xmas shopping together. Always the same weekend and always the same town.

I don’t particularly like routine but have come to realise I can’t function without it. During the long school holiday I had two days where, because I volunteer at a school, I was cast adrift for two days and didn’t know quite what to do with myself. Add to that other scheduled activities, that afford me a valuable social activity during the week, which were cancelled for one reason or another, and I struggled to find other interesting things to do. I have plenty of creative projects in stasis that could be revived to fill gaps but somehow the motivation to do so can’t be summoned up.

I'm routine, but since I retired last year it's haphazard. I haven't yet found much of a routine, I find myself all over the place. I might spend a day out or something and I feel like it's a weekend, not a week day.
I need to find something else to do. I'm rubbish at doing nothing.

I do prefer routine, especially since I have been on my own. If something comes along to disrupt my days I get anxious now, ridiculous but true. For example, usually do my bedding, laundry etc on a Friday but this week we went to see a matinee show in London so routine completely up the creek. Turned out fine, the show was great, the chores got done…… and breathe.