Admin of life

Buggins

Hi
Does anyone else get fed up with spending hours on admin? I seem to spend so much time checking on MSE for discounts (thank goodness this resource is available) plus entering meter readings, comparing insurances before renewing, checking bank statements for fraud, etc etc.
Any ideas on how to minimise hours spent on Internet. Life used to be so simple and I dread forgetting passwords - how will we manage long term?
Buggins

Savvy_Sue

Let me know when you find out. I've spent all evening working through Martin's car insurance guide, and I'm not done yet ...

missile

.... I too am pedaling very hard just to keep up.

Minor victory with the tax man today. They just accepted my appeal and agreed to refund erronious penalty payments totalling £564.95. No appology, nor will I get a refund of those hours I have wasted on correspondence added to my life.

Savvy_Sue

Well done missile!

Tonight's victory, admin related: DH owes me £289. He lost his glasses last week, while I was away overnight. He said he'd been pottering around, tidying up, throwing bits of paper away etc, and had been in just about every room, so had no idea where he'd lost them. He'd stayed up to the early hours looking for them, and in the end gave up and found his spare pare.

When he woke up he was very confused, because he'd forgotten that last time we bought him new glasses, we bought two pairs on a BOGOF. And got the same frames. So he thought for a moment his 'best' glasses had reappeared in the night, except that a) they didn't have the transitions lenses and b) they were very clean! :rotfl:

Today I went into the opticians and asked how much for a replacement pair: £289.

This evening I decided to turn the cushions on the sofa and re-arrange the throws. Behold, the glasses! I've been sitting on them all week ...

lessonlearned

Admin :mad::mad:

I seem to spend/waste great chunks of time on this. When did everything get so complicated.

My OH and I used to run two businesses and a household. I could zip through the paperwork in no time, do the accounts for both businesses, all the banking etc. and then pass the final bits for processing to the accountant.

Then OH became ill. Cue DWP, Social Services etc and now I find I'm drowning under a sea of admin. Just one damn form after another, which of course they deny having received......

Ah well - back to that pile sitting on the dining table.:o

whitesatin

Strangely, I enjoy the admin involved in life. I like nothing more than sorting out my finances (such as they are). I reckon it is because it appeals to the organisational side of me. I lke getting things in order. Years of teaching involved lots of paperwork and although I don't miss that in the slightest, I do enjoy my home paperwork. Weird.

NAR

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

This evening I decided to turn the cushions on the sofa and re-arrange the throws. Behold, the glasses! I've been sitting on them all week ...

Ah so you were deliberately hiding them, bad girl!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Savvy_Sue

NAR wrote: »

Ah so you were deliberately hiding them, bad girl!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

:rotfl: TBH I hadn't really started looking for them, although he'd asked me to. But as I had not the first clue where he'd been that evening, it seemed patronising to look in the obvious places. Well, I had looked in all the 'plain sight' places: I have threatened him with granny string before now because he will put them down and forget where he put them. Bathroom, wrong bedroom, kitchen, windowsill, under a pile of paperwork ...

Also he doesn't have the right kind of memory, IYKWIM. I can think back to where I last had things, and retrace my steps, he's not so good at that.

BTW, if you're offered the very forgiving frames which you can practically tie in a knot, they're worth it. Glasses are good as new, and I'm no sylph! :rotfl:

Can you get a 'find me' alert placed in glasses? You know, a bit like when you lose your mobile and have to ring it (if it's switched on) to find it again? Mine's sometimes in my pocket. :rotfl:

NAR

My wife is the same with her glasses, forever forgetting where she put them down. :mad:

Savvy_Sue

NAR wrote: »

My wife is the same with her glasses, forever forgetting where she put them down. :mad:

I've solved that up to now by having a pair wherever I need them. I do have a prescription pair now, but I tend to keep them for work!

Newly_retired

Yesterday I decided to simplify the admin for DH or whoever is left when I die, by putting vital documents all together in one file.