Sg2009wc:savetime
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Title: How to Save Time
Session: 5-D Bay Area Jan 2009
Attendees: DeborahS, JillW, Muit, Sadie, DancyF
Notes:
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Home
- Use meal prep kitchens/freeze dinners for the month. You can spend two hours cooking meals for the month at one of these locations.
- Use an iRobot Roomba, to eliminate your need to vacuum. Works with low-pile carpet and hardwood floors.
- Exercise in the morning to jump start your day.
- Set a timer (alarm) to start tasks.
- Decide to perform a task for a particular amount of time, or pick up a set number of items to put away, etc.
- Donate the clothes you don't wear. Put safety pin on all your clothes, remove the safety pin over the course of two months. * Any item that still has the safety pin are clothes you haven't worn in two months -- donate them!
- Set short time limits, like the length of a song, to perform a task or chore.
- Use a slo-cooker to setup meals ahead of time.
- Use a timed rice cooker.
- Pay bills online.
- Before laundering socks, safety pin them together to make it easier to find the matches when you take them out of the dryer.
Work
- Use a calendaring/scheduling system.
- Use outlook to schedule tasks and block out time
- When time frees up on schedule, pick a task you don't want to do and doit in that time slot.
- Limit Internet time.
- Listen to audio books in the car on your commute.
- Telecommute instead of commuting to work
Play
- Read reviews of vacation destinations online, instead of calling around. And, plan itinerary.
- Use an eye fi (sd card with wi-fi) to upload pics by wireless connection "automatically"
- Book reservations to hotels, rental cars online.
- Limit the amount of time you spend watching TV -- or do chores while watching/listening to TV.
- DVR TV shows to watch on your schedule, instead of network's schedule.
- Listen to audio books while cleaning house, etc.
Other Discussion
How to save time may not be the correct question -- do something you like in place of what you don't. Example: Ride your bicycle (productive) instead of you car (non-productive).
Website Recommendations:
- Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/)
- Quick & Dirty Network (http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/)
- Get it Done Guy (http://getitdone.quickanddirtytips.com/)
- IT Conversations Network (http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/)
- Cooking for Engineers (http://www.cookingforengineers.com/)
- 43 Folders (organization help) (http://www.43folders.com/)