How does it all get done?

Only one thing on any day - e.g. I don't plan anything else for a Monday, because that is Pilates day

I just go with the flow . If that means leaving the house on an impromptu outing, with chores left undone, so be it.

My yardstick is kind of - that I've gone back to how it was when I was a child: I don't do anything that I don't really feel like doing!

I wondered the very same thing winterwhite! I'm not yet retired, so I fit the housework, shopping, childminding etc. around my work.
When I am retired, will I take longer to complete these tasks and therefore just spread them out through the week?
I like the advice to keep weekends special, almost like a treat.

I decided that it was important to keep the weekends special or at least different from the week. I have several set activities and work in social activities and shopping/washing/boring household stuff around those.
Best bit is the luxury of time, especially in the morning!

I retired in march and keep thinking I really must stop all this relaxing and taking life as it comes. I’ve had a perfectly lovely day today at a local seaside enjoying this unusually warm autum day. Depending on the weather I may do the same tommorow then lunch with ex colleagues. I can have my grandchildren over every weekend without worrying how to catch up with housework. I do wonder how I’ll fare this winter though. Hopefully I’ll be as snug as a bug and feeling smug that I’m not out fighting the weather and feeling stressed at work. For now I’m just enjoying doing as I please.

I feel a bit rebellious at the moment about routine work. I decided this morning -to hell with it and went for a long lovely walk on the Downs instead of the usual Monday bed changing and housework as well as washing.

Did it this afternoon

We have a monthly list as we have not long moved and there are a lot of jobs to do. Other than that it's sit up in bed in the morning and " What are we doing today? " We do of course have things we have to do, like taking the library books back and I do some voluntary work. Other than that we just decide, often depending on the weather what we would like to do. Retirement is great

Some of it is routine (cleaning, shopping etc) because broadly it is done on the same day each week. Some of it is activities booked in the diary, just as one did at work - that covers classes, meetings, visiting friends and families and the rest are ad hoc activities, lodged in the mind to be done when there is a spare moment, gardening, baking cakes, making preserves are my current ad hoc activities