Tidy up!

The assessor of the insurance company was here yesterday and luckily there were no problems. Hopefully I'll soon have a new computer and Jan and Hendrik their new cameras! Jan must get a quote for his hairclipper today, so that he can buy it before he needs a haircut. His ring was stolen, so we can get shop for a new ring too. That should be fun. We can get married again!

Going through all the warranties and instruction booklets, to get proof that we owned these things, I realised that the study was due for a major overhaul, so this week
I tried to tidy the study!!
I sorted a pile of papers on Jan's desk into 17 different files yesterday.


Jan seemed very grateful last night and will now also drill a hole through the desk so that the spiderweb of cables can be tidied up!




My own "now" files with titles like "Addresses", "Blog and Internet", "Book", "Health" and "Overseas Holiday" I keep on their backs in a pigeon hole above my desk, so it is not difficult to shove papers into them. My desk is also cluttered most of the time, but never with such a pile of "deurmekaar" papers! Today I want to figure out a way of how to make filing and keeping tract of papers easier for Jan and I need to check the contents of some of my files - especially one marked "Recent Receipts"! We regularly keep book of our expenses and then immediately throw away the receipts, but I keep ones of things that I might have to return like small appliances, car batteries and the like.

Thanks Frans and Gert for my pigeon holes: they work well!

Making new calenders and a new Excel bookkeeping file also took up a big chunk of my last week of holiday. My last back-up was Feb 2009, so at least I did not have to do it totally from scratch, but still.

Other small opuses this last week of holiday was to really get the smaller mats clean - they never look good, even after a lot of vacuuming. I discovered that the magic broom - the green one that they advertise on T.V. does wonders to lift hairs and stuff out of the mats. I was so surprised to see how much hair accumulates in such a mat. We do not even have pets in the house, so I guess a lot of the hair is my own! Yuck. Anyway I am really chuffed with my clean mats, especially in our bathroom and bedroom. I loosen the hair with the broom or handbrush and then vacuum away. Last night Jan lengthened the cord of the vacuum cleaner with 5 metres. What a difference - no more "gesukkel" with unrolling extention cables and plugs that get caught around every nook and corner! Thanks Jan!!

P.S. I have started on the filing cabinet and came across 2000 (the year) Pretorium Trust statements: Shoprite amounts were mostly R30 - R40; big Shoprite amounts were between R250 and R300 and the monthly total for Pretorium Trust (including several tanks of petrol circa R150) was between R2000 and R3000 a month... and those days we still fed three students! Our latest Pretorium Trust total is R8168 - without any petrol. Generally Shoprite and Spar amounts are above R100 and a big one at Menlyn Hyper was R1,785.24! What will our Shoprite shopping trips cost in 10 years time?