Marching Onwards

[fauxklore]

Weather: It's March and it is 70+ degrees out right now, which is absurd. Of course, they are talking about possible snow for Friday, sigh. I'd rather we had unseasonably warm weather on the weekend, when I could take advantage of it.

Calendars: Except, really, I can't as my weekends are completely booked up all month, even if I color-coded one of them incorrectly on my calendar. (I have a ridiculously complicated method of coloring squares on a year-long calendar, with multiple highlighters intended to show everything from holidays to vacations to travel that I don't need vacation days for to local commitments like theatre tickets. This is supposed to keep me from double-booking myself. In practice, it creates an attractive product, but I still double-book myself.)

General chaos: I pay most of my bills automatically, but there are a couple I write checks for. In order to pay the bills, alas, I first have to find the bills. I used to be so organized. I think I never really got things back together when I bought my condo. Which was, admittedly, several years ago. I really need to devote some time to getting things together. I did go through a bunch of unopened mail last night, but only made it about halfway through. I will, however, note that for dead people, my parents sure get an awful lot of life insurance solicitations.

Comments

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

70?! It's -3 here....

[aposteriori.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with the bills. If you come up with a good system, I'd love to hear it! Generally, I try to do everything with autopay just because I am so disorganized when it comes to the mail. But one of my student loans doesn't have an autopay option (although I can pay online, but I have to remember to log in).

And then I also have a subscription service I use to increase my stamp collection -- they send me a set of stamps each month and then I send back payment. It's supposed to be 21-30 days from receipt you send payment. When I send a check, I try to aim for the 30 days, so it's like once a month payment. But when they were autopaying, they would tend to the 21 days, so it increased how much I would spend each year, and that annoys me. So I went back to checks... but then sometimes I forget to send and it ends up being 2 months and they get angry :/

[fauxklore]

If I actually put bills in the same space (a slot in a sorter) each time, it is theoretically easier to find them. That requires me to not just throw all the mail onto the kitchen counter. And then requires me to actually look for things where they belong.

It is rather frightening how often I search for hours for something and it turns out to be exactly where it is supposed to be.