I used to keep several 3x5 index cards in my khaki shirt pocket as a cheap and portable "Things to do" list. One item per line, used the front and back. Tried to never exceed 5 cards. Complete the task, mark through it. If I was about to use up all the spaces on my last card, it'd scare me that I was either slacking or was overwhelmed (if so, delegate to a subordinate, with a due date). Then it was time to recopy the uncompleted things onto new cards to give me more space, to evaluate whether the item really needed to be done (if it's been on the list for 18 months and nobody was yelling at me, it'd go off the list.) Busy, busy, busy on a ship. Knowing that space was finite on just 5 cards gave me incentive to do things NOW so it wouldn't have to go on the list and I'd never have to go to a 6th card. Those cards being in my left front shirt pocket every day for 20+ years worked fine for me. I was forced to notice them (and read them) every day. Heh. When I retired, I gave my relief my small stack of cards.
HVAC filter depending on conditions might need to be changed every two months during summer and every three months rest of the year.
Filter on dishwasher weekly. Easiest to do after a wash so everything is soft and not dried out. Depending on your water quality running vinegar or one of those lime descaler once a month or bi-monthly to keep build up off the heating element.
Fall - cover air conditioner with a tarp. Come spring hose it down and clean.
Every 6 months clean coils on fridge and freezer just by vacuuming the dust bunnies off. Timing might not be quite right depending on local conditions.
Take large pot of really hot water and pour it down kitchen sink once a month or two to really keep build up down. Yeah I know you’re not pouring grease down the drain but little bits collect. I wouldn’t recommend boiling water. Pot because it’s one large flush at once.
(Eeee, kitty pictures.) I am a big adherent of my planner. Since I was part of a university for so long, I tend to think in terms of the schoolyear. As a result, I always buy my planners in July and grab the ones that go from July to June. The upshot of doing so is that I have continuity of planner through the bandwidth-consuming months of December and January. I also use the daily planner pages for my daily checklists (I really like checklists), which keeps me *in* my planner several times a day. I track larger projects both in the monthly calendars and in the notes in back.
All in all, it's been very helpful in offloading bandwidth, especially layering my son's preschool schedule with my own. When my friends see my weekly do-to lists though, they say it looks like Cthulhu, lol. One woman's order is another person's chaos, I guess.
Cthulhu embraces chaos. His cousin, Nyarlathotep, does too. If your friends are telling you that your "order" looks chaotic, please be careful because you may be living dangerously and be unaware of it. :o
Toe beans! I do birthdays and doctors' appointments because some of my stuff is annual and rolls that far out. But I actually fill that stuff up on a hanging wall calendar where I can't help but see it.
I actually no longer use a paper planner. I use Calengoo. It’s a calendar app for my phone that the hubs and I share so we have a coordinated schedule.
It can do text reminders, and many other features. You can plot a schedule from now till eternity…
I used to be attached to my notebook paper planner. This is way better.
Yeah, I am Outlook based myself. Occasionally I will do a week long to-do list in the current brainstorming notebook to get a feel for what an unusual week is going to look like, but nothing beats the phone nagging me 13-24 hrs in advance about something that must be done.
Just off the top of my head, here are a few things: clean filters (furnace, AC units, etc.) about once a month when the unit is running. Clean lint traps in both washer and dryer at least once a year. If you have calcium in your water, your hot water tank is going to need to be flushed with vinegar in the water once in a while, but how often depends on how bad the problem is. Mine needs done every two or three years.
Someone with a wood stove or a fireplace needs to check and clean the chimney at least once a year.
Car maintenance schedules should be available on-line.
Check and replace batteries in smoke detector every six months. Fire extinguishers should be checked once in a while, too, but you'll have to do a little research to find out how often.
I used to keep several 3x5 index cards in my khaki shirt pocket as a cheap and portable "Things to do" list. One item per line, used the front and back. Tried to never exceed 5 cards. Complete the task, mark through it. If I was about to use up all the spaces on my last card, it'd scare me that I was either slacking or was overwhelmed (if so, delegate to a subordinate, with a due date). Then it was time to recopy the uncompleted things onto new cards to give me more space, to evaluate whether the item really needed to be done (if it's been on the list for 18 months and nobody was yelling at me, it'd go off the list.) Busy, busy, busy on a ship. Knowing that space was finite on just 5 cards gave me incentive to do things NOW so it wouldn't have to go on the list and I'd never have to go to a 6th card. Those cards being in my left front shirt pocket every day for 20+ years worked fine for me. I was forced to notice them (and read them) every day. Heh. When I retired, I gave my relief my small stack of cards.
HVAC filter depending on conditions might need to be changed every two months during summer and every three months rest of the year.
Filter on dishwasher weekly. Easiest to do after a wash so everything is soft and not dried out. Depending on your water quality running vinegar or one of those lime descaler once a month or bi-monthly to keep build up off the heating element.
Fall - cover air conditioner with a tarp. Come spring hose it down and clean.
Every 6 months clean coils on fridge and freezer just by vacuuming the dust bunnies off. Timing might not be quite right depending on local conditions.
Take large pot of really hot water and pour it down kitchen sink once a month or two to really keep build up down. Yeah I know you’re not pouring grease down the drain but little bits collect. I wouldn’t recommend boiling water. Pot because it’s one large flush at once.
(Eeee, kitty pictures.) I am a big adherent of my planner. Since I was part of a university for so long, I tend to think in terms of the schoolyear. As a result, I always buy my planners in July and grab the ones that go from July to June. The upshot of doing so is that I have continuity of planner through the bandwidth-consuming months of December and January. I also use the daily planner pages for my daily checklists (I really like checklists), which keeps me *in* my planner several times a day. I track larger projects both in the monthly calendars and in the notes in back.
All in all, it's been very helpful in offloading bandwidth, especially layering my son's preschool schedule with my own. When my friends see my weekly do-to lists though, they say it looks like Cthulhu, lol. One woman's order is another person's chaos, I guess.
Cthulhu embraces chaos. His cousin, Nyarlathotep, does too. If your friends are telling you that your "order" looks chaotic, please be careful because you may be living dangerously and be unaware of it. :o
Toe beans! I do birthdays and doctors' appointments because some of my stuff is annual and rolls that far out. But I actually fill that stuff up on a hanging wall calendar where I can't help but see it.
I actually no longer use a paper planner. I use Calengoo. It’s a calendar app for my phone that the hubs and I share so we have a coordinated schedule.
It can do text reminders, and many other features. You can plot a schedule from now till eternity…
I used to be attached to my notebook paper planner. This is way better.
Thank you! I’m also a big fan of automatic notifications.
Yeah, I am Outlook based myself. Occasionally I will do a week long to-do list in the current brainstorming notebook to get a feel for what an unusual week is going to look like, but nothing beats the phone nagging me 13-24 hrs in advance about something that must be done.
Let's see.
The last fall mows
Gutters
Clear the drip irrigation lines
Last windows washdown
Changing the washing machine filter
Digging the compost holes for winter
Getting the garlic and bulbs in
I think those are the ones that got forgotten or missed at least one fall in recent memory.
Just off the top of my head, here are a few things: clean filters (furnace, AC units, etc.) about once a month when the unit is running. Clean lint traps in both washer and dryer at least once a year. If you have calcium in your water, your hot water tank is going to need to be flushed with vinegar in the water once in a while, but how often depends on how bad the problem is. Mine needs done every two or three years.
Someone with a wood stove or a fireplace needs to check and clean the chimney at least once a year.
Car maintenance schedules should be available on-line.
Check and replace batteries in smoke detector every six months. Fire extinguishers should be checked once in a while, too, but you'll have to do a little research to find out how often.