Do you find you watch less TV during the summer? Between ball games, swimming, library, gardening and just hanging outside, our TV starts gathering dust. It’s nothing fancy like a samsung lcd, but it serves us fine. In fact, I think it’s better that we have a TV with fewer bells and whistles to encourage us to do other things. What about you? More or less TV in the summer?
Ever feel like you need the services of some outfit like Dokmee document management system to help you find the surface of your desk? It seems like all you have to do is let down your guard for a day or two and the paper can take over in scary proportions. I’m feeling a little at the mercy of paper lately, too. Once I devote a few hours to reorganization, the res of the house will fall into place.
What are your favorite summer activities? Got any “must-do’s” in your family? We are not a huge camping family, but we do need to pitch the tent at least once a summer in order to make the summer feel complete. One of these years I’ll convince hubby that motorhome insurance for a long coach would be money well-spent, but for now we’re slumming on the ground. I think I seem to be the only one who cares about sleeping on the ground… everyone else loves it.
I recently had a reader request tips about paper management. I know — it’s a constant battle, even in this digital world where less things are printed on paper. When you see the piles getting larger and you need to make a quick fix, here are a few tips:
1. Institute a filing system where you file your daily papers every day. Place bills, correspondence, things you need to act on, reports…whatever…everything has a file and you go through and put papers where they go every day.
2. Papers do not sit out on your desk. At the end of the day, every paper has a place in a file…not in a bin or a basket or a pile. Don’t even use a bulletin board — things get buried.
3. Go through your junk mail every day. Yes…I really do mean every day. Put a wastebasket or a paper shredder where you process your mail and place all the nonessential things right into the wastebasket or shredder. So, this means that all the great offers for knives and information about promise ring etiquette gets taken care of right away.
4. Keep notes to yourself on one memo pad and keep this out where you can use it. Jot down reminders and cross off things you’ve done. Keep this ongoing list where you will use it every day. This means you can file away the things you have to do because you’ve written a note to yourself to do them.
5. Maintain your system every day. Yup — it’s really that simple!
I was afraid of this. We had an unbelievably cold spring here and now we seem to have jumped over spring right into summer. The temperature this afternoon as I drove by the bank was 93. Kids are at the pool as I write this and we are heading into full summer mode in our household. I spent the early afternoon gardening…weeding and laying down mulch. The garden looks good so far and I am hoping for a better year this year than last year.
The house isn’t too hot right now. I know it could be worse…in one of those metal buildings without insulation, perhaps. When I think about it…I have nothing to complain about! Woohoo! It’s summer!
