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I've always kept lists. Pads are scattered around the house.
I use a steno book in the kitchen for my shopping lists and use the 2 column to divide up stores.
I have another list of things that need doing around the house and aim to get at least one item done that week.
Others are just in my head..1st of month change a/c filter, etc.
One thing about the magnetic weekly-planner pads is that many of them are really small, often only 5" x 8" which IMHO is just not big enough to easily write many things in for each day. The ones I buy on Amazon are 8" x 11" and have a nice amount of space beneath each day.
This is the one that's on my refrigerator at the moment, btw (pretty little birds and flowers; the one I used last year had a cute ladybug motif):
I have kept to-do lists all of my life. And, if I don't finish that day's list, the item(s) gets moved to the next day, and so forth.
Side Question - My Dad always kept lists for everything, which is definitely why I also do it. Watching him do it since I was a child, I must have picked up on it. Were you always a list maker, organized, learned it from a parent, etc?
I have kept to-do lists all of my life. And, if I don't finish that day's list, the item(s) gets moved to the next day, and so forth.
Side Question - My Dad always kept lists for everything, which is definitely why I also do it. Watching him do it since I was a child, I must have picked up on it. Were you always a list maker, organized, learned it from a parent, etc?
Probably home and school. We had those little spiral pads at school to list our homework.
At home we had a weekly list done on Sunday night with who had which chores for the next week.
I have kept to-do lists all of my life. And, if I don't finish that day's list, the item(s) gets moved to the next day, and so forth.
Side Question - My Dad always kept lists for everything, which is definitely why I also do it. Watching him do it since I was a child, I must have picked up on it. Were you always a list maker, organized, learned it from a parent, etc?
I never make lists until my son was in Boy Scouts. He made detailed lists for things needed on trips and still does to this day, he’s very organized. I picked it up from him.
3x5 sticky pad, check boxes next to each list item that I black in when done.
It adds some structure to the day, a reminder of things I'd otherwise forget, and when the list is done (or, mostly done) I love saying "Gitter done" as finality.
Although...some items do get carried over to the next list with a muttering.
Were you always a list maker, organized, learned it from a parent, etc?
Very thought-provoking question! :-) My mom never made lists, nor did my dad at home, but I honestly don't know if he made lists at work. He might have and I just never saw it because I don't think I was only inside his workplace once in my life. When I did see it, I recall that it was meticulously organized -- every single tiny part and tool in its place, and the location labeled as well. (He repaired cash registers and, later, check processing machines.) I was really surprised, because he was very laissez-faire at home and never did any repair or maintenance work! This was a source of great frustration to my mom, as you can imagine.
As a child and a teen, I never made lists. I began doing it when my then-boyfriend and I bought our house. I was 24 at the time, and because we were both working full-time it became a necessity to have some sort of organization/list for the weekends which was the only time we had to get stuff done. I did not make lists at work, because the nature of the job was more or less self-organizing LOL
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