Sourced guides on the tasks nobody taught you: how often, says who, and what to write down. New posts most weeks.
The nine columns a job application tracker needs, a fixed status list, a weekly review routine, how to log interviews and networking contacts, what to do with rejections, and spreadsheet versus fillable PDF.
A week-by-week table from eight weeks out to the first week after moving day: quotes, decluttering, change of address, utilities, records, box labels, the open-first box and what to update in the new home's binder.
A step-by-step 72-hour money checklist for the days after a layoff: read the paperwork, lock in health coverage, file for unemployment, compute your runway and rank the bills, with sourced deadlines.
Zero-based budgeting and the 50/30/20 rule explained side by side on one illustrative income, with a comparison table, what to do with variable income, how sinking funds fit, and how to build either in a spreadsheet.
A ten-minute ADHD brain dump: get every open loop onto one page, sort it into Today, This week, Someday and Not mine, pick three, write the smallest first step, and park the rest. With a worked example.
Dated planners turn missed days into a record of failure. Here is what an ADHD planner needs instead, from undated pages and a brain dump field to phone-fillable PDFs, and how to restart after a lapse.
A ten-minute ADHD brain dump: get every open loop onto one page, sort it into Today, This week, Someday and Not mine, pick three, write the smallest first step, and park the rest. With a worked example.
Dated planners turn missed days into a record of failure. Here is what an ADHD planner needs instead, from undated pages and a brain dump field to phone-fillable PDFs, and how to restart after a lapse.
The nine columns a job application tracker needs, a fixed status list, a weekly review routine, how to log interviews and networking contacts, what to do with rejections, and spreadsheet versus fillable PDF.
What to build in a caregiver medical binder the week a parent comes home: medication list fields from NIA and AHRQ, appointment and symptom logs, provider directory, insurance and directive paperwork, and copies.
What belongs in each of nine sections of a family emergency binder, drawn from FEMA's Emergency Financial First Aid Kit, where to keep it, which numbers to leave out, and a review routine.
A week-by-week table from eight weeks out to the first week after moving day: quotes, decluttering, change of address, utilities, records, box labels, the open-first box and what to update in the new home's binder.
Spring, summer, fall and winter tasks with intervals from NFPA, ENERGY STAR, the Department of Energy and the U.S. Fire Administration, laid out in one table, plus the four tasks with safety consequences.
Check a 1-inch HVAC filter monthly and replace it within 90 days; 4-inch media lasts 6 to 12 months. Sourced intervals by thickness, why the task gets forgotten, and a tracker that fixes it.
A step-by-step 72-hour money checklist for the days after a layoff: read the paperwork, lock in health coverage, file for unemployment, compute your runway and rank the bills, with sourced deadlines.
Zero-based budgeting and the 50/30/20 rule explained side by side on one illustrative income, with a comparison table, what to do with variable income, how sinking funds fit, and how to build either in a spreadsheet.
Same publisher, different question. These posts cover intervals and paperwork; Savings Algorithm covers the cash — beginner savings guides where every figure carries the date it was read and the arithmetic is shown next to the result.
How the 52-week savings challenge works, why the standard ladder breaks on irregular income, and four fixes that keep it going.
A step-by-step audit of one bank statement to find recurring charges, forgotten subscriptions and price creep.
A beginner guide to emergency funds - starter amounts, the essentials-month target, where to hold it, and what it is not for.
Six guides in total, all free and none of them carrying a commission link: blog.savingsalgorithm.com/articles.
Twelve recurring adult tasks you are probably overdue on, with the intervals nobody taught you, on one free fillable page. Write "never" where you don't know. Ten minutes a week.
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