How do you do your to do lists?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (233106)
Walnut Creek, California
December 18, 2025 1:41pm CST
I am off to pick up my pain meds. It is on my to do list. Also on my to do list is picking up some Scotch and soup (done), checking my mailbox, and calling my brother (done, but he was "not home").
I have to teach this afternoon, but I only have four students, so I should be able to get my other stuff done before then.
I hope to check my mail (if I don't get distracted by what's on the truck radio) and get those meds right now.
I am hoping some documents are in the mail that I need to sell my old Nissan Xterra. But our mailboxes are raided often here, and nobody will do anything about it. It's an odd way to live.
Anyway, this post is about to do lists.
I send myself emails, with lists of what I have to get done.
Do you do to do lists?
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@2ndchances24 (11346)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
20h
With what Dr appts we have we put them on the calendar
what bills we have hubby has a ledger he puts them in
& that's all we have to be worried about, our meds come
to the house so we don't have to worry about them & we
go shopping once a month on bill day, what to do list ?
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@TheHorse (233106)
• Walnut Creek, California
2h
@2ndchances24 I no longer allow meds to be sent to me via mail. I always pick them up.
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@2ndchances24 (11346)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
4h
@TheHorse We've had that happen once till I told
the mail people that our meds don't need to be in
the mail box for some 1 to steal cause we can't get
any more unless we pay for them & we don't have
that kind of $ & to leave them at the p o & let us
know to pick them up there & that did the trick but
NOW they shut down the po in our town & moved
so they HAVE to bring them to the house.
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@RasmaSandra (91933)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Dec
I sit at my PC, and I am surrounded by notebooks and pieces of paper. First of all, I have a notebook in which I write down per day everything that I plan on working on and writing up. Then I have a calendar notebook in which I write down exactly what I have done or completed each day. On the piece of paper, I jot down quick ideas before I check them out and then transfer them to one of the notebooks of something I want to write up.
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@RasmaSandra (91933)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Dec
@TheHorse it works very well; I always know where I am with my writing and posting
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@TheHorse (233106)
• Walnut Creek, California
19h
@RasmaSandra Glad to hear that. I will put my dishes in the washing machine now. 
@DaddyEvil (163814)
• United States
18 Dec
Yes, I make todo lists on my phone so I don't lose them.
I hope you have a wonderful day, pony.
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@DaddyEvil (163814)
• United States
22h
@TheHorse We have strong winds with gusts up to 45 mph. My trashcan outside is over in the neighbor's yard now, snuggling with their trashcan.
Everything is fine here, thanks.
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@wolfgirl569 (126632)
• Marion, Ohio
23h
I do lists for bigger project ideas and I write a shopping list. But that is all
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@TheHorse (233106)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Dec
Each Bay Area neighborhood has its own "crime pattern." Home invasion robberies are rare here, so my expensive guitars are safe. I have only been "jumped" once here, and I was able to escape with only a bruised skull and a bloodied hand. I was able to restrain the attacker. I feel totally helpless about the mail thefts. They are common, and nobody (including the USPS) will do anything about it. It is frustrating.
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@BarBaraPrz (50950)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4h
@TheHorse Because when I did do them, I'd pad the list with things like get up, have breakfast, etc. just so I could strike something off the list. I eventually realised how insane this was, so stopped doing it. And now I'm just gonna lie down and wait until my eyes clear up enough to read something.
@LindaOHio (208553)
• United States
12h
I am a freakish list maker. You should have seen the lists I made when we would travel...pages of them.
@LooeyVille (71)
• United States
9h
Yes, with my Cognitive Impairment, it's necessary to make lists and keep track
