However, Merran Lawrence, a 42-year-old mother of three kids and landlady of a popular pub came up with a different approach of dealing with her daily problems. It’s obvious to get a concussion when you come home and fall back to the cleaning routine after an enervating day. So, Merran decided to ration her kids’ wardrobes and toys to ease off the burden. Now, her kids only have seven outfits and that includes their school uniform as well.

She lived and worked in the Railway Pub in Yatton, Somerset prior to the coronavirus lockdown along with her 40-year-old husband, Kevin, a seven-year-old son, Alex and twins Hannah and Joe aged four.

She said:
“There’s never enough time, so certain things I do are to prevent me from having extra, unnecessary work to do.
“At the end of every day everyone leaves the clothes they’ve worn that day in the washing machine, and I put it on to wash every night. Even if it’s not dirty it gets washed so everything can dry the next morning and there are no piles of washing – I don’t even own a laundry basket.
“Bedsheets and other linen come straight off, and gets washed and dried in the tumble dryer, and then put straight back on.
“I know it’s not good for the environment, but it’s good for my sanity.”

Well, the idea of restricting the wardrobe’s belongings came in her mind when she saw 28 shirts in her husband’s cupboard.

She explains:
“One day an aunt visited and I was stressing about getting all their toys tidied up and how they left them all over the house.
“She asked me if they really needed as many things as they had, and she was right, they did have too much.
“I put the kids all in one bedroom so they could have a playroom and cut right back on their toys.
“If they have something new, they have to swap it, so they give me one toy and then they can keep the new one.
“I put them away in a cupboard but if they want something, they also have to give me something to swap.
“They have a few cars, games, puzzles and drawing things, Hannah has three Barbies and there’s a dressing up drawer and they’re perfectly happy with that.”

For the kitchen part, she doesn’t wait for the dishwasher to be full and asks everyone in the family to put the dirty plates and cutlery into it. This way, there’s never a pile of plates gathered in the kitchen or a tower of dirty clothes to be washed at once which makes Merran feel gladdening.

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