Lists and Your Money

$Lists and Your Money$

Do you think of lists when you think of your money? Well you should!

Most people carry a checkbook with them everywhere they go, and a checkbook is just a list of whom you have given your money to for whatever reason.

Whether you pay your bills by automatically deducting the money from your account or write a check for them when they arrive in your mail it doesn’t matter. A bill is simply a listing of goods or services provided and how much you owe for them.

Paychecks are a good list to get! It lists the hours you’ve worked and how much money you’ve made.

Every month the bank sends a statement listing how much money you’ve earned, how much money you’ve spent, and if you’re lucky how much money you’ve saved.

Budgets are one list I do not use very often. Finance experts always agree a budget is a good list to have, so I plan to start a budget list soon.

Lists at Work

Lists at Work

Whether you realize it or not, you are probably surrounded by lists at work. It doesn’t matter where you work or what you do, stop and take a minute to just look around, you may be surprised at what you see.

I sit in a cubical where there is not a lot of room for displays of any type. I do have a couple of family photos and a couple of trinkets to make my space my own.

But I also have five different phone lists, a list of the corporate objectives, a list of my scheduled events, a list of different business units, a list of my new bosses previous accomplishments, and a list of books I’ve read.

Basically my cube is wall-to-wall lists. I decided to check my colleagues’ cubes, and was relieved to find out I’m not alone; their walls were also covered with lists!
Where do you work?

If you work in a restaurant lists also surround you:

Menus list the foods available
Order pads are for writing the list of food the customer requests
The Specials Board list the day’s special items
86 List – when daily specials are no longer available
Schedules list who’s working when and the best part of this list is when you are off the list and on the ‘day off’ list


For people who work in hospitals there are plenty of lists:

Patients Charts list medicines and procedures
Doctors Orders list timetables and requirements from the doctors
Emergency procedures are posted
Supply inventories are listed
Emergency and Department phone numbers are essential lists to have posted nearby
Break Schedule and Work Schedules are very important lists

Teachers, principals and students are inundated with lists:
Attendance lists
Lists of grades
Lesson plans are a list of what the teacher plans to do each day
Reading lists are posted in school libraries
And of course there are those spelling lists

Construction Workers may not have walls but they still have lists:
Lists of materials needed
Phone lists for suppliers
Job lists and locations
Mileage driven

Movers keep their lists in the truck:
§ Lists of what their packing
§ Lists of where its going
§ Lists of what their unpacking

Anyone doing any job has a list for something lists are everywhere.

What Work Lists do you have?