Things to do list - Whats on yours

[Andy Hamilton]

I have found that I work much better with things to do lists and thought I would share mine with you. I often prioritize mine and so have 3 lists. Sometimes they tomorrow list is much fuller. The ongoing list has been the same for about6 months to a year and the dream list has not changed for the last 3 or 4 years.

List for tomorrow.

1. Write article about Yarrow for ish
2. Write another budget living article
3. find out how to register a co-operative.

Ongoing list

1. Sort out better loft insulation
2. fix bannister after drunkenly putting head through it.
3. Finish plan for next years allotments and buy seeds (just taken on a new one so it is allotments)

Dream list

1. Move to dream house/community
2. Open organic pub
3. Grow old happily

[gettingthere]

I too have those ongoing lists!!! With winter almost here (only have about 6 inches or so of snow at the moment!) listing goals/projects for the New Year ahead helps it pass a little more quickly--at least the dreaming/planning part helps!

#1 chickens!!!!! (any favs to recommend by the way?)
#2 goats!!! (ditto)
#3 plan garden 2009
#4 learn to be a better bread maker (hints would be greatly appreciated!)
#5 become more disciplined with letter writing (I have MANY penfriends!)
#6 actually cook many of the dishes I've been meaning to (the recipie file is huge!)
#7 lose a "few" pounds!!!!!!!!!!!
#8 paint the kitchen cabinets
There are many more "to do's" but this is a start!!!

[Annpan]

Good Lord!, I have a 'to do' list as long as my arm.... in fact I have many 'to do' lists as long as my arm.... in fact I have a list as long as my arm, just listing all my 'to do' lists.


1. Phone builder
2. badger hubby into phoning builder
3. finish chicken house
4. finish green house
5. Dig the other 16 2m x 1m veg plots I should have in my garden
6. dig out the rest of the potatoes (they were mostly slug eaten and I got disillousioned... or was it grossed out )
7. Stick the kettle on
8. Use up the beetroots that have been in the kitchen for a fortnight
9. get chickens
10 paint bathroom ceiling with gloss (it should be getting knocked down soon, but is black with mould...ick)
11. Finish making livingroom curtains
12. Get material to cover livingroom sofa
13. build big bed for E
14. Start making wine.
15. Build more wood storage
16. Clean floors
17. Take out scabby bookcase from dining room
18 Patch dining room ceiling
19 finish lining bedroom curtains
20. Make another diningroom curtain
21. Finish sewing top I started making for E
22. Start making christmas pressies
23. Upload windows onto my Mac(using bootcamp)
24. Fix the standard Lamp
25. Cut wood for the fire




Y'know what.... I am going to stop now... this is gettting depressing, that is just my list for tomorrow..... and that's not even half of it...

I have a better list which I make sure I do everyday

1. Be happy
2. Be the best mum I can (we're toilet training atm, it isn't easy)
3. Eat yummy food

[JulieSherris]

Yep, I'm a list maker too - drives hubby insane as I never seem to actually do what's on the lists each day.....

Tomorrow:
Put a wash on
Tidy round, get dressed, sort the dogs
Sort post to AA, bin collection, anything else on the pile
Buy more battens, staples, 1 more roll wire mesh
Hang washing in the hayshed
Carry on with fencing garden
Saw ash wood for fire & split to logs
Fill turf & wood buckets
Poo hunt the garden
Clear kitchen, put dishwasher on
Sort Stanley, wipe down & hoover ash deposits!
Remember to have breakfast, lunch or dinner!
Phone bank about mortgage tax relief
Start moving fallen trees to hayshed garden & start stripping

Ongoing To-Do's....
Make chicken run
Build chicken house
Source scaffold poles & boards for polytunnel
Source polytunnel cover
Build polytunnel
Clear fallen trees from derelict garden
Mark out for raised beds
Make raised beds & prepare for next season
Source tyres for potato towers
Knock tiles out in bathroom
Retile bathroom
Paint bathroom walls
Paint dining room
Paint kitchen
paint kitchen cupboard doors
Paint & freshen spare room

Lots & lots & lots more...............

[invisiblepiper]

make the roman blinds for the front of the house which I started three christmases ago to save heat..... ...we overlook the sea and I love the uninterupted view .........honest!

[the.fee.fairy]

i always want to start a to-do list...and then i forget. Maybe this is the perfect opportunity!

1. Put away clean washing
2. Clean dirty wasing
3. Print out form for BGG tickets
4. Get nik to send a copy of her student id for BGG tickets
5. Sort out bank accounts (i want t change...long story involving them not letting me have my own money...).
6. pack for next weekend
7. get train tickets for next weekend.

I think that's it for this week...at the moment...

[ina]

My lists include everything to do with moving out at the moment - and I got seriously behind over the last few days due to weather...

So, today - see if I can get the car off the premises. And the see again. Pack every box I can lay my hands on; if the snow keeps going back, I might even be able to make a start at tidying up the garden.

[missy]

todays list

take children to school
wash up the breakfast stuff
await food delivery
plan our veg planting for 09
bring in more wood for the fire to dry out.
clean the fire
clean bathroom
hoover
do yet more laundry
collect children from school
cook dinner
chill out and have a bath once the children are in bed.


normally this would be ok, but i've got 8 weeks until the baby is due and i'm so bored.. i only gave up work 3 weeks ago

[sleepyowl]

On going
clear out house for lodger
finish knitting grandma's scarf
learn how to dj
improve my story telling

To do
bake shortbreads for grandad
fix Mildred
sort out garden
pot up strawberry plants
start off indoor chilli plants
sort out tax

Wish list
Set up an eco camp
Set up internet radio site
Get my other half to cook more

[gigglybug]

To Do

Washing
Tidy up
Finish making cold frame
Check out charity shops for wool etc
Chase up council about allotment (again!!)
Make xmas presents

On going

Potty training
Learn to drive
Spinning wool
Soap making
Start a co-operative
Move house!!!!
Start a blog
Make wine

[red]

My lists include everything to do with moving out at the moment - and I got seriously behind over the last few days due to weather...

So, today - see if I can get the car off the premises. And the see again. Pack every box I can lay my hands on; if the snow keeps going back, I might even be able to make a start at tidying up the garden.

Ina I must have missed this. you are moving house? does this mean moving jobs too?

[eccentric_emma]

Soon

Finish blog entry
Inspect marrow rum
Hang up washing and hope it dries in less than a week
Tidy up everywhere!
Finish off and post Ish Secret Santa
See if I can afford BGG tickets

Ongoing
Keeping fit!
Learning vegan cookery

[Masco&Bongo]

Soon

Convert duck shed for chickens too
Move paving slabs to underneath outside store
Plant winter onions & garlic
Cover unused beds
Chop up and freeze carrots and apples
Tidy spare bedroom
Tidy kitchen
Take bag of clothes to charity shop
Dismantle greenhouse
Order polytunnel

Ongoing

Keep track of freezer items
Make more soap for Xmas presents
Build 3 more compost boxes
Sort out incubator for new year

Forever on list

Save up for double glazing
Save up for new boiler

[StripyPixieSocks]

If I started a list I'd probably end up being more depressed than I am now...

But... for today:

Make a start of decoupage-ing my storage box (already started... currently covered in white acrylic... the box has some on it too )

Tomorrow:

Wait for the plumber to bother turning up... only two months since the pipes started sounding like a tuba player has moved into the flat below *sigh*

Finish decoupage-ing my storage box and have a sort out of the stuff in it and make it all nice and organized (HA... organized yeah right)

Put on two wine kits for Christmas

Make appointments with GP's, Specialists and Therapist (Oh the joy)

Do a bit more knitting

Tidy up the flat in dribs and drabs (as long as I can stand up without too much pain)

Call my CAB / Debt adviser to see if she has made any more progress with things

Bake some bread

...

Of course there's a hundred and one ongoing things to be done:

Kitchen is half decorated as when we were much better we stripped off the wallpaper and the plaster came off with it so we had to get the plasterer out who messed the job up and had to be called out again to make it right... since then it's been bare walls and no cupboards because we're both too ill to do it

The car needs sorting out... he's got a bit of rust and needs tuning after we put the new distributor in!

The flat in general needs alot of work we can't do physically or haven't got the money for but we can't live in it like it is...

On top of that I'm trying to lose weight and get fit again

[Flo]

I have found that I work much better with things to do lists and thought I would share mine with you. I often prioritize mine and so have 3 lists. Sometimes they tomorrow list is much fuller. The ongoing list has been the same for about6 months to a year and the dream list has not changed for the last 3 or 4 years.

List for tomorrow.

1. Write article about Yarrow for ish
2. Write another budget living article
3. find out how to register a co-operative.

Ongoing list

1. Sort out better loft insulation - should be on the urgent list
2. fix bannister after drunkenly putting head through it. should be on the urgent list
3. Finish plan for next years allotments and buy seeds (just taken on a new one so it is allotments) should be on the done list

Dream list

1. Move to dream house/community
2. Open organic pub - bad commercial idea - too many pubs closing - change your dream
3. Grow old happily should be in the on-going list as it takes work and practice

My list is easy - walk round the flat and do the urgent jobs and then walk down the allotment and do as many jobs as time allows. It's only the dusting every gets out of order.