Risen from the ashes ...

GKIM

I may have skimmed a few pages but mostly, yes

The important thing I think is that you are on top of it now, obsession with figures has got to be one of the more healthy obsessions, right??

Must be so difficult to juggle all that on one person's earnings though :eek: That's where I'd like to be in 4 or 5 years time, able to pay a mortgage and be all nice and independent

GK x

banwa

Maisie, of course. She is gorgeous. :heart2::D

I must go back and read through, I didn't know you'd been ill even. I do hope you're on the mend.

rising_from_the_ashes

So .... a few days ago I sorted through a huge laundry hamper full of [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] stuff and came across bits of ID, qualifications etc - which is when I discovered the nearly OOD passport:( - and realised I should have all this stuff properly filed ..... (well, I knew that but ).

These are now all filed & labelled properly in expanding folders:T but then got to thinking of other stuff that gets filed.

I tend to just shove everything in an A4 folder and have one for each calendar year but this goes wrong if I need stuff that's been filed in previous years files (as don't know which one they might be in & they're up in my loft & not easy to get to!) - I was trying to find my original mortgage docs .......

Have a spare expanding file so thought all the insurance policies could go together in there & thought the other important stuff like mortgage docs, car reg docs, driving licence (or would this go with my ID :huh:) & tv licence (has anyone had one of these recently? Mine runs to March 2016 :eek: - how many people will lose that!) could go in a big box file I have - all in report files for each subject - so nice & tidy;)

Other stuff like bills can stay in the yearly file ..... So ... have been busy doing that - really exciting eh!:rotfl:


Will need to amend the Rising Household Emergency Plan (yup, there really is one ) and add on to grab:

Pink box file
Pink A4 pets folder *
Black Expanding file - ID / Qualifications
Black Expanding file - Insurances

* struggled with this one - do I put their insurance policies into the expanding file with the other insurance docs - or leave them in the pets folder with the rest of their stuff?


And I now have 4 things I need to grab!

Arrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh:rotfl:see when you start thinking about things too much!;):o:eek:

slowlyfading

Sounds good! I really need to have a good sort through all of our paperwork, but keep putting it off

sistafromanothermista

:T Go you :T

I have an arch lever with every bill alphabetically filed (how sad am i)

Then a blue folder with important bits in like marriage cert, passports etc.

We are ultra organised (or at least try to be )

rising_from_the_ashes

sistafromanothermista wrote: »

I have an arch lever with every bill alphabetically filed (how sad am i)

:rotfl:OMG ........ there's someone more pernickety than me!:rotfl:

sistafromanothermista wrote: »

Then a blue folder with important bits in like marriage cert, passports etc.

Thanks Sista ........ I feel much more "normal" now!:T

RosaBernicia

I have lever arch files for Work (which includes qualifications etc), Health (GP, dental, eyecare), Personal (that's ID, travel insurance etc) and Car (reg docs, insurance, breakdown cover etc). Plus one for each year that has bills etc. Have just started a file for each cat and have put their insurance stuff in there, along with their adoption certs and microchip details - mainly because then it's all together for taking to the vets etc.

Can't immediately remember where I filed the driving licence... but I do also have a file for Driving as I had more than one provisional licence, then the Pass Plus, and also kept the stuff from when I was learning the advanced stuff (ooh, I didn't finish that - should do sometime).

Am impressed with emergency plan - think mine consists of 'take phone, cat carriers are in house to avoid having to find in shed' :rotfl:


Rosa xx

rising_from_the_ashes

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Am impressed with emergency plan - think mine consists of 'take phone, cat carriers are in house to avoid having to find in shed' :rotfl:

Ohhhhh I'm impressed with your files Rosa

I've already changed mine again as decided there was no way I'd manage to grab 4 - so now have insurance stuff in an expanding folder, pets stuff in another and everything else in the box file ..... only 1 less but *sigh*

Re the emergency plan I am a bit OCD / Obsessive about things (as those who've worked their way through / been with my the whole diary will know) - I live near a nuclear power station :eek: which is really what started it off when I moved here ......

The problem is that now I have Dinky, there is no way everything would fit in - 1 x dog, 2 x cat carriers, 1 x litter tray, cat litter, dog & cat bowls & food & beds, spare fuel (tiny fuel tank) and she'd be full - oh and the files of course:rotfl: ...... let alone trying to fit everything else (ie anything for me!:rotfl:) in!

I need a trailer ..... but can't really justify the cost of a) it and b) getting a tow bar fitted for something that I know will in all likelihood never be needed but ...... :eek:

RosaBernicia

How about scanning the key bits of paperwork and emailing them to a web account (Gmail, Hotmail, etc) or uploading them to Google Docs?

That way you'd be able to access them from anywhere (assuming it isn't the no-phones-or-web apocalypse type of emergency, in which case you won't be able to get hold of the insurance companies anyway) and you wouldn't need to worry about the actual paper folders. I am about to have a Great Paper Cull here so this kind of thing is on my mind :rotfl:

If it came to it I'm sure the animals would manage to eat out of and sleep on different things and cope without their litter tray, so I'd focus on food for them and stuff like carriers or leads to keep them safe. Medication would be top of the list, both for them and you.


Rosa xx

rising_from_the_ashes

RosaBernicia wrote: »

How about scanning the key bits of paperwork and emailing them to a web account (Gmail, Hotmail, etc) or uploading them to Google Docs?

Ohhhhh that's something to think about ......

RosaBernicia wrote: »

cope without their litter tray

:eek: ohhhhhh noooooooo - worst nightmare!

Funnily enough, I changed back to 1 tray a couple of weeks ago and ..... they're bloomin' fighting again and yet when there was 2 down, they rarely used the 2nd one ..... grrrrrrr

I do need to revisit the emergency list ...... I like lists!