Because of bad health, I rarely know when or if I will have the time or energy for an activity, so I try to make the most of what I can. For instance I try to wash the dishes from the last 24 hours while I'm cooking supper. If I have to be standing up I might as well keep doing things.
My delicate cycle of clothes takes 34 minutes to wash so many times when I dump them in I start the cleaning of the second floor (our washer is up there) and usually can have that done by the time the load is washed, then I can start a new load and hang my delicates up on the dryer rack to dry.
I try to find ways to save that may take some initial set up time, but after that it is automatic and I don't have to think about that again. Some of those things were automatic payments for my medicare supplements which saved me about $50 per year!
I try to do little things to save. I sat down and in about 10 minutes made a plastic bag holder dispenser out of some old fabric. I now have it next to the washer, so when I need to empty the trashcans upstairs, there are free bags up there already even if it takes 2-3. I'll be able to just refill them as needed--I had been going downstairs to get bags every time I needed to empty the trash. I save all our plastic grocery bags and can get quite a pile, but I also use them as padding when shipping things out that sell on ebay.
Getting into a good time saving habit can take awhile, but it pays off once you are doing it. I have now been living in our house for a year and have learned it oddities and how to save time doing things. Even now that I have observed how the sunshines during each part of the year, I'm better at shutting and opening the curtains for passive solar heating/cooling.
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