Do you feel lost in your homemaking and don’t know where to begin? Did you not receive the training you desire to be a resourceful homemaker? Do you desire a routine but just feel hopeless? Here is a compilation of all the best articles here at Passionate Homemaking and elsewhere on the basics of homemaking, from cleaning to menu planning to your mission. I hope having them all in one place would make it easier for you to take simple steps, one by one, in finding a routine that works best for you. Remember, these are just tools and they certainly are not all encompassing. Feel free to adapt them to your preferences. This is just a resource to help encourage you in making a beautiful and peaceful home that brings delight to the residents and blessing to those who enter through your doors.
Housecleaning
Cleaning Your House in 30 Minutes per day
How to Wash Your Laundry in One Day
Organizing Kitchen Storage with Canning Jars
Schedules & Routines
12 Efficiency Tips in the Kitchen
Developing a Simple Schedule & Routine
Get a Maid, a Chef, and a Nanny by Creating Effective Routines
Establishing a Morning Routine
Tips for Maintaining a Simple Peaceful Home: Routines, To Do Lists, and More
Establish Routines for a Simple Home
Start Your Day By Getting Dressed
Menu Planning
Simplifying By Buying Groceries Online
Home Management
Build a Home Planning Notebook
My Favorite iPhone Apps for Home Management
Simple Steps to Declutter Your Home
Taking a Weekly Planning Retreat
Yearly Planning with a File Crate System
Free Printable Homemaking Resources
Home Decorating
Simple Home Decorating on A Budget
Simple & Frugal Children’s Bedroom Decor
Decorating on A Budget – Part 1 & Part 2
Homemaking How-To’s
How to Properly Iron Your Clothes
Keeping it All In Perspective
Tips for Maintaining a Simple Peaceful Home
Increasing the Passion In Your Homemaking
Understanding the Heart of Order
Homemaking Resource Recommendations
Maximize Your Mornings by Kat @ Inspired to Action (a powerful tool for making the most of your day by starting it out right!)
Shopping for Time by Carolyn Mahaney (Read my full review here)
From Clutter to Clarity: Maximizing Life from the Inside Out by Nancy Twigg (It starts with the heart! Love this book!)
One Bite at A Time: 52 Projects for Making Life Simpler by Tsh Oxenreider (small weekly goals for organizing a simple home – practical and doable!)
Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living by Tsh Oxenreider (a room by room guide to getting organized!)
Managers of the Home: A Practical Guide to Daily Scheduling for Christian Homeschool Families by Steve & Teri Maxwell (my mom swears by this book and she managed to homeschool and organize a family of 8 children!)
I’m an Organizing Junkie (a useful blog for all things organizing!)
What are your favorite homemaking articles? Add your favorite links in the comments below! We’d love to hear what has helped you!
Home making is quite a tough job and more than what most people can imagine. The tips that you have mentioned in your blog are real help. Thanks a lot!
I am soooooo happy I came across your blog Lindsay. I am getting married in a couple of months and becoming a housewife doesn’t seem like it will be bad at all. My fiance says thanks. Hahaha
This is really great!! Thanks for putting all the resources together. I love directing moms to your site. One thing I very strongly disagree with (and I think you might change your mind once you start schooling all of your children
) is laundry in one day. Leaving laundry (especially anything damp) for just one day a week is mind boggling to me. Since we have such conveniences as great washers and dryers, I can’t imagine leaving it all for one loooong day of washing. Not to mention we don’t have enough clothing to do this (we are a large family living in the country, and boy do we have dirt! 
). I almost continually have a baby in cloth diapers and I wouldn’t go more than 2 days without washing those or we get problems with smell and ammonia. Laundry is a regular, routine chore and part of our day just like dishes. I would never leave dishes (even rinsed) for days on end. Any chore that piles up should be done daily. That is one piece of advice I’ve given moms in my life who aren’t naturally organized that has never failed to get them on track. Just a thought you might consider incorporating in your advice, especially for large families! 
Blessings!!! 
Thank You from a wife and mom who doesn’t come by organization naturally!
Thank you Lindsay for such a comprehensive resource. Someone shared this with me. Here’s a link I like:
http://www.babycenter.com/0_how-to-get-an-hour-back-every-day_10347621.bc
I’ve been steadily chipping away at the articles in this list, and it’s been absolutely wonderful. I’m relatively new to PH, and this is a great introduction/overview of what you have to offer here. Reading through these has been encouraging because I’ve been really working on my home management skills, and a lot of these articles are showing me that I’m definitely moving in the right diretion. The articles have also given me some great ideas to keep up my momentum and maybe add in some things that will really streamline my efforts. Thank you!
Thank you for this list!! What an incredible blessing! I’m so excited to read through it.
I feel the same way as KT, you must have been eavesdropping on my prayers too, LOL. I am so tired of feeling adrift and tossed about in a sea of daily tasks and to-do list items. So often I feel like I can’t do anything outside of basic cooking, cleaning and small child care because it’s just this big overwhelming blob of urgent needs. So, I am eager to click these links.. thanks : D
Have you been eavesdropping in my conversations and heart lately, or are you simply one answer to prayer? My husband has always been both more effective and more efficient at household tasks than I am, but we both believe I am the primary keeper of the home. But how I struggle, oh how I struggle, to keep the home to his standards (I was raised in a home where standards were rather low due to various providences which prevented my mother from keeping house to the level she would like, while he was raised in a home which seems to always sparkle by a woman who can do oh-so-much in oh-so-short a time). Last week in an effort to cheer me up he cleaned our entire home in about 2 hours. I felt so defeated – it takes me a week to do all the work he did! Since then I’ve been looking for whatever tips and tricks I can find and trying to find encouragement to keep up the fight. Thank you for providing these references.
So helpful! Thank you for this awesome compilation!
i’m brand new to PH … this will be SO helpful!
thank you,
kathi
That’s a great list, and now I have no excuses.
I’ve been married for 5 years, and a mommy for 3 1/2, and my homemaking ability has *always* been subpar. I have the desire, but not the skills, and it’s easy for me to slip into apathetic mode because I don’t know where to start. I googled “homemaking” the other night, and I found your site–’ve known about it in the past, but haven’t spent much time on it. Today’s post is perfect for someone like me. Thank you!
Oh Lindsay what a fantastic list of resources…thank you for rounding them all up for us in one spot. Thank you as well for including my site, I’m really touched by that and appreciate it so much.
I will be sharing this awesome post with my readers!
Laura
I have really enjoyed using a lot of your strategies in my home. The cleaning a little everyday and the dinner night categories have especially helped me. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this blog!
Laura at Heavenly Homemakers does an excellent job explaining things like her meal planning strategy, her grocery shopping methods, and giving product reviews for household and health & beauty products. She is my go-to for simple, delicious recipes as well!
Yes! I have loved corresponding with and following Heavenly Homemakers over the years! She’s awesome!