1. Do you use a planner, cards, or some combination system?
2. Do you follow our 11-week zone plan, F lyldy’s 5-week zone, or something else?
1. Yes.
2. In theory, 5 week zone. In practice, not since I've moved (although I did rework the system to account for living in the apartment.) I've hit every zone chore maybe once every six months or year at best. Remember some of those are monthlies!
Explanation for 1. I use:
* planner, bullet-journal style. Mostly tracks non-homemaking tasks - my volunteer jobs, my payroll job and my personal & family obligations. I sometimes track dh's activities since they affect me (i.e. can't vacuum during conference calls.)
* my daily & weekly 'cards' are entries in Google calendar. They are entered to repeat at the appropriate interval. I often go weeks without actually looking at them but about 80% are habit so things get done on a semi-regular basis.
* my zone chores are on sheets of paper on a clipboard buried under piles of paperwork on my desk. I get points for knowing exactly where it is. Minus one point because the clipboard is neon pink so pretty hard to lose, even in a stack.
* dh has an excellent tickler system using email. Since I'm failing to look at my zone sheets currently, he has a tickler for change the vacuum cleaner bag and the Brita Filter.
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Satisfying Saturday
I'm satisfied because I got two projects and one activity done:
1. updated our scratch off world map and updated the country and state lists (I've been to 52 countries and overseas territories and 35 US states.) I've been meaning to do that since January (dh added Iceland and we added 5 states last year on the way to/from the eclipse.) The frame buckles in the heat of the sun so it fell apart weeks ago and was sitting on the dining table.
2. I made a washi tape dispenser for all my fancy tapes (I use them to decorate pages quickly in my bullet journal since I won't take time to do fancy artwork with it - mine is plain except for stickers and tape and coloured pens to track different activities.) The pieces for that have been on the table for 2 weeks. I designed the dispenser, dh assembled and I covered it with contact paper.
The travel map got wet somehow and left residue on the table so I took everything else off the table and have deep polished it with oil after removing the residue. That's an ongoing project since the oil gets rubbed down every few hours until let tonight.
3. We walked over to watch them assemble a construction crane 3 blocks from here. The road is closed for the weekend while they do the work. Looks like they'll finish today.
The apartment needs a house blessing, major tidy, and the spare bedroom needs fresh sheets since we have guests arriving on Tuesday and we're gone all day Monday. So that's on my evening to-do list.