Every interval on one page, sorted by how often it comes around. What most schedules leave out is the part measured in weeks, which is the part that drags.
Individual answers to "how often should I" are easy to find and slightly different every time you look. What is hard to find is the assembled version: the whole list, in one place, with the intervals next to each other so you can see which ones land in the same week.
That is what this is. Nothing here is difficult. The difficulty is that a six-week interval has nowhere to live in an ordinary week, so it quietly becomes an eleven-week interval.
| Upkeep | How often | What makes it drag |
|---|---|---|
| Towel Wash | After 2 to 3 uses | A towel wash is a load nobody plans. It joins the pile behind the door and gets done when something else forces a laundry day. |
| Sheet Wash Day | Once a week | It is the only item on this page that needs a free hour rather than a free minute. |
| Hair Mask Day | Once a week | This is the bottle you bought and used twice. |
| Brush Clean | Every 7 to 10 days | Nothing goes wrong on the brush. It goes wrong on your face about two weeks later, so the cause and the effect never line up. |
| Razor Swap | Every 5 to 10 shaves | A dull blade still technically works, and the cost arrives as razor burn and ingrowns that get blamed on skin rather than on the blade. |
| Nail Fill | Every 2 to 3 weeks | Past about three weeks the fix stops being quick and starts being a longer, more expensive appointment. |
| Root Touch-Up | Every 4 to 6 weeks | You do not notice roots in the mirror, because you see them a little more every day. |
| Brow Appointment | Every 4 to 6 weeks | Brows are the easiest thing on this list to push one more week, because one more week never looks like much. |
| Haircut Booking | Every 6 to 8 weeks | Booking a haircut requires a free minute at the exact moment you remember you need one, and those two things almost never happen together. |
| Mascara Swap | Every 3 months | A tube outlasts its own shelf life, so nothing physical ever tells you it is over. Only a date does. |
| Toothbrush Swap | Every 3 to 4 months | Nothing tells you. A toothbrush works exactly as well on day 200 as it feels like it does, which is the problem. |
| Running Shoe Swap | Every 300 to 500 miles | Mileage is invisible unless something is counting it, and for most people nothing is. |
| Pillow Replacement | Every 1 to 2 years | The longest interval on this page and the one with the least to prompt it. |
Reading a schedule changes nothing. Four things make one hold.
And the thing worth saying out loud, since a lot of this list drags for a reason that has nothing to do with time: none of it has to be earned. It is upkeep. It goes on the calendar the way an oil change goes on the calendar.
Remi runs 30 of these. She texts you on the day and at the hour each one is due, you reply, and she keeps track of the rest. No app to open, nothing to log.
Text remi +1 239 530 8371Every interval on this page carries at least two published sources, listed on that item's own page. Intervals are a starting point, not a prescription. Anything that touches skin, medication or a medical condition belongs with a professional who can see you.
The glow up routine that actually sticks puts the daily and weekly layers around this one. Glow up habits is the checklist version.