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Show Handyman Can Make Efficient Door File i w x ! ft rr v ! i IS X ' rr I l iJv ) 1 :l ' M K ? 4-it! xilS . I1 H, BY EDNA MILES SUCH labels as "scatter-brained' and "inefficient" have been tagged on women for generations. Housewives forget their appointments, lose their bills, foul up their bank accounts. Women, charge their husbands, simply have no mind for business. A more accurate conclusion would be: women have no place for business. The average home is simply not set up lor fingertip organization. organ-ization. The milk biU gets thrust in the kitchen door; the gas bill arrives in the mail, but the baby grabs it for play; receipts and important im-portant papers get stuck in with recipes or lingerie because there'! just no other place for them. Most women have neither the space nor the time for an elaborate filing system, but here's an Idea for a simple-to-make, easy-to-use file that may be bung on the back of the kitchen door for easy availability. avail-ability. This file, which is planned as a calendar system, is divided Into 35 individual pockets one for each day of the month plus four extra divisions for miscellaneous use. USE MAILING DATE AS GUIDE TT"S suggested that homemakers file their bills under the dates they should be mailed. Since most firms now use staggered bookkeeping bookkeep-ing systems, homemakers receive bills all month long. Sometimes, because there's no concrete reminder, the writing of checks in payment pay-ment gets shoved aside. By slipping your bill Into the due-date pocket, however, you will find it easy to remember to deal with it promptly. Such a file is also an aid in keeping up with social appointments. Memos iotted down just after you've received a verbal or a telephone invitation may be placed in the proper slot. By checking papers tucked into the current day's file each morning, you will have a permanent, memory-jolter. If your husband is handy with tools, it will be an easy job for him to construct a calendar file for you. The materials he'll need are: a 42-by-25-inch piece of pressed wood; 17 inches of wood parting strip, one-half inch by three-quarters of an inch, to be ripped for eight vertical and six horizontal dividers; half -inch brads, numerals, priming paint and enamel, screws and curved washers for mounting. With the calemdar file pictured pic-tured here, the busy home-maker home-maker can keep track of her bill-paying as well as of appointments, ap-pointments, parties and other dales. |