If you (like me) haven't been doing your Friday tidy lately, the beginning of the summer is a great time to start again. With a bit of effort when you get home from work on Friday, your weekend will go much more smoothly.

As a reminder, here's the basics of the Friday Tidy:

• Run a cleaning wipe over the fixtures in the bathroom, clear away any used towels, and put out fresh. Make sure there is soap and toilet paper.

• Do any dishes that are in the kitchen sink (or empty the dishwasher).

• Empty the garbage cans and take the garbage and recycling outside.

• Make the beds.

• Go through any mail that's stacked up and separate things you need to handle from the huge amounts of junk you can toss.

• Put away clothes and gather any dry cleaning.

• Do a general declutter – putting things back where they belong.

• If you have a minute, run the vacuum or run a dustcloth over furniture in the living room.

It shouldn't take much more than an hour. Everyone who lives in the house can help. After all, many hands make light work.

Who's in tonight?