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While I was comparison shopping to set the sale price of my Arizona home, I was in a home that had a 3-ring binder with all the pertinent house info. Receipts, swatches, instructions, etc. I thought "that's a great idea!" So, yesterday I got myself a 540-sheet, 3-ring binder for the new house. I also got some tabbed dividers that have pockets in them and my big-ol'-box of sheet protectors.Now. I have to decide how to organize my Handy-Dandy-Household-Binder!(Yes, these are the kinds of things I think about - a lot!)I think these topics are set:- Financing
- Taxes
- Insurance
- Utilities
- Receipts
Now. How to sort the rest of it? By Area or by Item? I made potential lists for each method of sorting, and came up with seven sections each:Area- Kitchen / Dining Room
- Living Room
- Bathrooms
- Bedrooms
- Utility Rooms
- Garage
- Yard
Items- Appliances
- Entertainment System
- Yard
- Floors
- Walls
- Electricity
- Plumbing
So. What do you think? How would you organize your Home Filing System?How DO you organize your Home Data?- In a binder?
- In an expanding folder?
- In file folders?
- At each appliance/item/area?
- In the trash?
Inquiring minds (like mine) want to know!
Instead of putting "Billy-Joe-Bob's" Super Cheap appliances in the new houses... the developer allows you to pick out your own appliances, from your own vendor, then adds the total to the price of the house. So. You finance your appliances and you get just what you want. If we had the cash on hand, we could pay cash for them. But. We don't.So. Yesterday our offer was accepted and now I have to pick out ALL the major appliances for our house, by Monday! Agh!I've spent ALL day looking at them (in stores and or online). I just sent my hubby a spreadsheet with two to five choices per appliance. Here are my favorites of each (not that we'll buy them, but, I like them):What's that?"Where's the dishwasher?"Clever of you to notice it's absence. We haven't used one for a six months. We didn't use one for over a year in Arizona. The house is plumbed for it, but, we are having the hole "finished" and it will be our trash/recycling spot. Then, when we sell, we'll just offer an allowance for a dishwasher of the buyers choosing.We've noticed that when we hand wash, our dishes get cleaned faster and better. We've also observed that our kitchen stays cleaner. Something about waiting to load or unload and dishes always in limbo with a dishwasher. Anyway, it's just one more piece of technology we happily live without.Freezer. I've never had a stand-alone freezer. We're planning to get one though. I'm always wishing for one. We do a lot of cooking ahead and buying on sale. Plus, Grandad has a summer-time garden that is bountiful and Tom's planning to start hunting. So. Freezer will be good.Usually, I research a single purchase for, like a week! I read reviews, look at it, talk to people, get Consumer Reports, then FINALLY make a decision. This has put me into overdrive! Choose six major appliances in two days! Agh! Serious overload!So. Basically, I'm totally wiped out now and feel like just about anything will do.
