SHEs Organized

thank you for the autumn 2025 cards d harriet!

tag I will start my list:

plant bulbs when they come in
get the screens done
take down tomatoes and other veggies that will bit the dust
add compost to where I will plant the garlic for next year (waiting for bulbs) fertilize
order another white elephant
tell the family - time for ideas
put away pots
clean out fountain and cover for winter
put away the hammock
paint lights
paint temp fences
finish front door
take curtains out of the 3 season room
finish apple picking etc.
think fitness/activities for mom outside of the house
dd's what will they do with Florida - new years
birthdays September, October, November,
decorate for fall
put up christmas lights
keep up on cards
thank God for my blessings
leave house after lunch to stay from napping.
get doctor appointment to check blood work
finish christmas work for house cleaning

Hi, blessed. I'm smiling at "tag" and your fun outdoor work with bulbs, fountain, compost.

I thought I'd kinda "show" parts of what I'm looking at every day, even if it's a little at a time in posts.

Here's the Morning Daily Card from "Organized From the Inside Out", P and P's system I use (grouped chores on a card).
They printed this outline and suggest customizing it:

Get Up on Time
Personal Grooming
Make Bed
Empty Dishwasher
Eat Breakfast
Write a Journal Card
Follow Your Weekly Plan
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Here's how I customize that Morning Daily Card for me - what I actually have printed as an everyday ongoing card to turn.
(for this and a few other cards I typed on computer, printed on white, and cut out in a shape to glue on color card)

Make bed, picking up any stray clothes for laundry
Laundry - begin today's load and start putting away any dry clothes
Wash dishes (gather from other rooms) and put away clean dishes
Drink water (one two-cup glass), have fruit
Pick up in the front rooms

This reflects that I don't have a dishwasher right now so am attending to dishes more than once a day, and that I have a Mid-day Daily Card on which I have "Follow Weekly Plan". Also, I choose their option of journal format in the evening like diary entry. Usually, I do that in shorthand in planner. Personal Routine is another card.
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About Today - the cards are helping.
Post-it note for appt could be removed, yay.
but paperclip (for skipping or postponement) had to go onto the Errand Day Card for next time because scripts weren't ready.

Maybe next post I can "show" Mid-Day Daily Card. Btw, there are also daily cards with grouped tasks explaining/suggesting "Laundry" and "Kitchen" and "Miscellaneous Pet Clean-up", for each of which P and P didn't specify a time of day. (Right now in our house, HRH does Pet Clean-Up.)

Inside this week b/c of heat wave got D's & BWP current just dusting left to do.
Idea I shared with some one this week for a tracker after five stars put a sticker on the card.

Bought Cmas lites not sure if I"ll use em or gift em! LOL!
Got a great deal on em at a yd. sale.
Some ideas are tomato cages upside down with lites around em. However I have no front outside plug.
Could do an angel if I feel creative that's a possibility for inside.

There are craft projects awaiting... but sewing soze is stuffy so shorter cooler days are coming for that.
I have a mental list of things I do in the next season move patio furniture and cushions.
Clean out bird waters, did some of those today paring back before the rainy season, others still have water out.


I have been restocking the pantry and getting fall menu items I like but it's too hot to cook now.
So I've been filling the bare nekkid freezer the past few weeks.
Meat pies bread 3 & pizza dough 2.
Meat pies are in stock so I got some and added other favorite kinds in the mix.

Soups will be coming soon I have plenty of jars to use and freeze em up for me in smaller amounts.
I use glad peanut butter jars I've washed.

I did buy and plant fall bulbs to bloom in the spring daffs. & tulips.
You have to get them when you see them they go fast here.

Add a Card / 5 healthy habits to focus on this season .
This was some of my journaling this week.

My grand daughter is gardening and canning this year the one that just had a baby.

I do best, I think, with a list, (sorry, Harriet) -- but I need the cards to help me make the list.
For example, I had 15 items on my list for this weekend, and I have done all but 4 1/2 of these. However, I also did 2 of the items that were on the "next week" list.
(The other night, I did a brain dump and prioritized all this stuff that has been nagging at me.
I also returned to my weekly checklist, reasoning that if I was lusting after a $24 monthly checklist, I should show that I can use my own weekly list first!

My checklist is divided into three sections for Daily items:
Morning
Weigh/record/drink water
5 minute stretching exercises, tidy bed
Bible reading
S2S, make-up
Brush teeth
Begin some productive task (usually one of the daily/weeklies, but I give myself credit for other have-to things, like take dmom to doctor)
Post office/errands
Mid-day
PUPA in main area of the house
Daily/Weekly (Laundry, Vacuuming, Cleaning bathrooms)
Monthly/Zone
Extra Project/Paperwork (This is almost always undone, to be honest.)
Supper -- S/S kitchen
Talk to dmom (I don't talk to her everyday, but this helps me see if I've neglected her too long.)
Hobby? (Play piano, work on scrapbooks, photos, writing) This is also almost always undone.)
Bedtime
Lay out clothes, put water at bedside
Check cards/calendar
Wash face
Take bedtime meds
Brush teeth
Did you --
Walk 15 minutes?
Fast after 8:00 pm?
Record gratitude?
Do reading for fun?
Have family time?
-- a lot of those remain unchecked a lot of the time. Sigh. However, "family time" has been checked every day this week, and I have three checks for walking and recording gratitude.

Also on this page, have a section for WEEKLY tasks (WHB items, zone time, paperwork, groceries)...
EVERY OTHER WEEK (change sheets)
MONTHLY --
ZONE & DECLUTTER, IRONING and MENDING (Ha! Who am I kidding? Y'all can guess how often THAT gets checked.)
Check in with aunt and uncle
Bank statement
Type minutes for church meetings, teacher group meetings
Declutter magazines
Computer chores -- disc clean-up, organize pictures, back-up photos and documents

AND -- the Sunday tasks --
Allergy shots
Clean out purse
Check coupons/grocery list
Water plants
Clean out refrigerator
Refill med dispenser
Check calendar/cards
S/S Kitchen, take out trash

Monthly personal
Manicure
Pedicure
Facial Masque (which should be a WEEKLY, and I do have a card as a reminder)
Color hair

Monthly Paperwork
Photos
Journals
Magazines
Writing
Nokbox

AND... finally, at the bottom, reminders:
9 Daily D's -- Dinner, Dailies, Declutter, Dishes, Duds, Declaw the Paper Tiger, Deep Clean, Devotions
The Gift-- God, Imagination, Focus, Thanksgiving

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See how nicely my life would flow from one thing to the other IF I could FOLLOW THE PLAN???

Today, out of 24 possible check marks, I have ... ... three. And two halves, LOL. I did not put on make-up, and I did not do morning exercise.
But the night is young.

lucylee, P and P's grouped cards do have "Family Matters" cards for daily (emphasizing eating one meal together) and weekly (emphasizing setting goals, delegating), but they are obviously meant for parent/child households rather than for the parent of adult children on their own. I believe these would need to become very personalized as we change from ordinary nuclear-family households, so I'm thinking you probably have a good handle on this.

The Evening Dailies card from this set has:

Happy Hour (their phrase for relaxing)
Eat Dinner
Dinner Clean-up
Free Time with family or alone
Turn on Dishwasher
Personal Grooming
Private Time in your bedroom
Lights out on time

My take on this - what I actually printed on my Evening Dailies Card:

Clean Kitchen for the evening, including dishwashing
Pick up once more in the front rooms
Laundry - put away any dry clothes (drip dries remain)
Personal - take any meds, brush and floss teeth, etc.

It's really streamlined, or at least the wording is abbreviated. (And of course, I do have an afternoon card.)
Also, I'm terrible at things like "lights out on time", so it's possible I resist having that in print!!! When I was responsible for getting a child to school early, for instance, or even felt "with" dd as she got herself out to car and college early, it was a much easier thing to have a "lights out" rule for myself.

I like LadyM's phrase "Habit Stacking", another wise way of thinking of grouping tasks.

Today, as for many days, time scheduling just wouldn't have worked because of random appt time. That's just the way it is.
Also, no way to know how badly HRH might feel after the dermatologist did the scheduled "freezing" (s?), so I couldn't know in advance whether any Errand Day could happen or not. So grateful for the flexibility of the cards.

New card, which Harriet suggested I share with y'all here. Not saying I actually DO this every night, but this is the goal:

A PERFECT DAY BEGINS AT NIGHT
10:00 pm — exercise
10:30 pm — shower
Upon awakening —
Weigh — drink water
Stretching exercises
Bible and breakfast
Do some productive task

yay everyone on your work!!!!