As many of you are aware I'm now living at my little house in North West Victoria. Today marks the end of the first week here and it's gone incredibly quickly. I'll be honest and say apart from unpacking I've mostly just allowed myself to rest. I was really exhausted by the lead up to the move as well as the move itself. It's also been really hot here.

Now that most rooms are unpacked I want to start working on the outside of the house, clearing away any long grass and tumble weeds. A lot of them have blown away but I need to clear more each day I suspect if I want to keep them from piling up. I'll need to mow in stages, the front part of the house is fine - I mowed that last visit but the rest will be done in order of priority.

My first inside job is to attach panelling to the laundry room wall to block the cat from escaping. It's only a temporary fix but it will mean I don't have to worry about her until I'm ready to fix that part properly.

I also want to cover a couple of floor holes in the back part of the house. Fixing the subfloor is the next job my son-in-law will be helping me with but he's busy replacing his own kitchen at the moment so it will probably be a while before he's available.

It's a long time between Blogs.

At the moment when I get bored with what I am doing, I will scan through old threads to find any sign of recipes in some threads, some are very long over 700 posts at times.

First, I make a list and then post to my list thread in the categories either by series or topic.

https://www.simplesavings.com.au/fora/3214777/#3318440 > topic list

The search area does find them now and links, but it can be a pain to click on MORE over 40 times to get back to the thread you are looking at each time, after you have clicked on a thread. To save time I make these lists and post them to the forum then work from it. After I have sorted them into Categories or by year.

The Current one is on Menu Plans - I have spread them over 5 posts and slowly working my way down these lists. Menu - Menu Plan - Menu Planning

I am finding a lot of threads don't not have any recipes that could be used, as if you could walk into the kitchen find ingredients and make that recipe right now. Plenty of ideas for menu plans but not lot of recipes.

I found some with recipes which I am marking in the lists as I go as to where and which threads if that thread has a lot of recipes 5 or mores and I can add an index to it, it's listed in my index post, page 2 first post on that above thread. Later I will work on making index for it.

If you do read the post above for menu plans, check any notes that I have marked next to that link. Making notes is a great help to finding that thread when you have over 10 pages of links.

At the moment I have found 80 pages of recipes in WORD that's not counting any with index in them or to be made.

I hope that help you with my way of thinking and why I do it. It SAVES TIME in the end.

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Help thread for finding threads if you can't find them! My List thread

New Recipes Threads and Indexes for All to Enjoy! My Index list thread.