What are your 1st of the month chores ??

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Not sure everyone even has 1st of the month chores, but I have several and they will come due this week.

- Monthly dog meds for Mason ~ NexGard Spectra
- Clean the washable HVAC filter ~ Keep one in the system and one backup. Haven't bought another filter in 17yrs. Rinse and repeat.
- Pay bills and tend financials ~ not always exactly 1st of the month, but done within 1st week of the month beginning on the 1st.

Well, do you have any 1st of the month chores ??
 

I really don't have monthly chores except the medications for the dogs. I use Triflexis. I have to crush them and mix them with scrambled eggs. It is like they know what day it is and get so excited when I get out the eggs and their plates.
 
I have last day of the month chores: clean up and back up our computers, including the calendars. I've done this for years; usually haven't needed the backups except for one recently, and then it was very welcome and useful!
 
If varies for me, I have some monthly tasks, a quarterly task and some annual tasks so it depends on which month. Mostly, it involves washing/replacing filters, A/C drain maintenance, back-up the computer, flea treatment for the cats, and spraying for bugs.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Update my financial spreadsheet and spend the rest of the month despairing at how much things cost.
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Update my Google sheets accounts round 10th of each month. Marvelling at how much I've saved each month. Satisfying... A saver now, a saver then, always saving.

Don't ask, I haven't found out yet, how I do it, I, somehow, just do. 🤔
 
During the cold months I always check how much heating oil and propane I have .I get automatic delivery but still I like to know
how much I have. I check it every two weeks after the 1st as well unless I get a deliver by then.
During the first week of month I pay all my bills from my checking account and then ,since they are mainly paid by automatic draw from my account ,on line at different times of the month, I know I have already accounted for them when I need food, car gas and the other things we need to purchase.

I seem to have the same monthly budget I have had for decades. I never use credit cards, just a debit card.

It is shocking to me that they say most Americans these days cannot handle even a few hundred dollars for an unexpected situation and I dont feel that is their fault because the prices have gotten so high-

I was widowed twice ,dont know if I mentioned that before, 42 years ago, and I worked very hard to keep my kids in a parochial school, as their dad always wanted for them. I learned to save for the unexpected. And it seems the unexpected
can sure come.

For some reason, there are young people in the local village ,who can help elderly people with mowing shoveling snow, etc etc, but they dont seem to want to work at all.

But there is a Youth group at my church in another village who gladly volunteer to help seniors in their same village.
 
Slightly unpredictable here. Could easily be the additional daily chore of show blowing the paths & the tracks down our driveway.

Most of the outdoor chores here have wound down. Unusual for November, we've not gotten any snow that amounted to more than two inches on the ground. And each time we got any it's melted away within a couple days. But the situation will change.
 
Mostly just the monthly bills which are scheduled and go out before the 1st of the month. The other thing is a spreadsheet where I'm keeping track of housing expenses that are irregular, like fall yard cleanup, etc. I'm doing that in order to know exactly what a year in this house costs to be able to make a good comparison to an apartment.

Will also vacuum the fireplace this week. I like to keep dust or anything from accumulating behind the glass doors.
 

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