# Your current to-do list
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 16, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439 "2010-12-16T23:25:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@With\_Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/With_Rye)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/1 "2010-12-16T23:25:49Z")
Mine is huge and causes me despair. Here are a few items from the list:
- Inflate bike tires
- Get car into auto shop to replace brakes
- Pay uncle’s $300 illegal U-turn moving violation fine
- Repost rent ad on Craigslist for parents’ house
- Buy more black socks
- Submit rebate for new toilet
- Return “The Last Page” by Anthony Huso to the library
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/2 "2010-12-17T00:10:33Z")
The work list is long – we’re two weeks out from a website launch – but the home list is pretty manageable right now:
Take books back to library
Buy dried apricots
Pay gas bill
Reply to T’s email
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### Author:  [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/3 "2010-12-17T06:32:58Z")
Exchange boots I got for my birthday with other sized boots I will give my daughter for christmas.
Clear database errors in 50 employee work schedules.
Meet with boss one last time before vacation.
Wrap gifts.
Do laundry
Make and keep dentist appointment.
As of today there is a very festive tree in my living room though, so that’s one less thing on the list 🙂
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### Author:  [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/4 "2010-12-17T08:21:54Z")
Mine is the same as [Patrick’s](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2190/2424198118_7307ebac5e.jpg). 😃
(Well, it was a lot longer a week ago…)
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### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/5 "2010-12-17T16:30:47Z")
My work list is ridiculously long, and so is my home list:
1. Clean kitchen
2. Put away laundry
3. Clean bathrooms
4. Make cookies for cookie exchange
5. Vacuum
6. Get overlyson to clean up toys in living room
7. Clean off dining room table (actually my husband’s job since he uses it as his desk at night)
8. Oil change & brake check
9. Finish Christmas shopping & then wrap gifts
10. Box outgrown clothes for the kids
11. Shop for self (I haven’t done this in over a year, and then I was in maternity clothes)
12. Clean basement (again, mostly my husband’s job; most of his computers live downstairs)
We also had finding a hot water heater on the list, but so much is going on with both my work and my husband’s business, plus kids and holiday planning that we’re hiring a concierge service to hang out at our house and get bids for us. They’re coming to visit us on Sunday - we want to make sure we’re comfortable with the lady before we let her have a key to the house. I’m actually really relieved; if she works out well, we might ask her to do a few other projects for us.
I also need to plan my garden for next year and get the tree cutting guy out to shape up a few trees in our lawn, mostly because I don’t want a limb landing on the house at some point over the winter should we have an ice storm.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/6 "2010-12-17T16:39:08Z")
Vacuum
Dust
Mop
Clean kitchen surfaces
Clean bathroom surfaces
Make up guest room
Do laundry
Bake five separate pies for four separate occasions
Big grocery shopping trip for Christmas dinner
Make Christmas dinner
Make all the other meals while guests are here
Road trip to visit aunt this weekend
Move sewing room to new location
Set up baby nursery… start by assembling crib I guess…
Take down Christmas decs after Christmas
Goodwill run
Start eBaying stuff after the holidays
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### Author:  [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/7 "2010-12-18T00:11:56Z")
I have to take some vacation before the end of the year or I will lose it. So, I will be off for the next two weeks. In that two weeks, I hope to:
1. Install ethernet cables in the attic for Uverse TV (the Mrs. wants a HD DVR capability for Christmas),
2. Remodel the entertainment center to hold a bigger TV and install said TV,
3. Finish painting the rear entry door I installed last weekend,
4. Cook all of the meat for the wife’s dysfunctional family Christmas,
5. Get the inspection sticker on her motorcycle,
6. Clean the gutters,
7. Trim the tree limbs in the back yard and dispose of them,
8. Saw a trailer load of 2" x 6"s for my uncle,
9. Saw enough fence pickets for my step-son to be able to re-fence his yard,
10. Saw some walnut crotches into slabs for my uncle,
11. Saw and split at least two more cords of firewood,
12. Sort through a stack of quarter-sawn white oak that’s been drying for two years, trim and plane it into grade lumber,
13. Oh, yeah, relax a little.
If I finish all of that, I can start remodelling the master bedroom. I’ve put that off way too long.
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### Author:  [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/8 "2010-12-18T00:51:19Z")
1. Karen
2. Rebecca
3. Lexi
4. Melissa
5. Christina
6. Maxine
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### Author:  [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/9 "2010-12-18T01:57:42Z")
Get stocking stuffers for all family members.
Help my son with his landscaping.
Teach my grandsons how to make cookies.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/10 "2010-12-19T00:19:59Z")
1. Get over this head/chest cold WITHOUT becoming dehydrated.
2. Return _The Lucifer Effect_ to the library and good riddance.
3. Wash, dry, and hang/fold a huge pile of clothing.
4. Scrub floors.
5. Vacuum and spot clean couch and love seat.
6. Clean fridge.
7. Clean bathroom.
8. Organize linen closet.
9. Organize pantry.
10. Go grocery shopping.
11. Wrap gifts.
12. Clean spare bedroom.
13. Bring dogs to the groomer.
14. Host my (mercifully small) family on Christmas Eve.
15. Host my boyfriend’s much larger family on Christmas day.
16. Clean the house again.
17. Donate platelets.
18. Relax and enjoy the 3 weeks until school starts again.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2010, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/11 "2010-12-19T11:01:57Z")
Clean out my car
Return cat food to the store for a refund
Make grocery list, then get groceries
Email mother-in-law about Xmas plans
Finish wrapping presents
Pay bills
Install new doorknobs
Locate the paperwork I need to bring to my immigration interview
Pack for my trip home
Set up my mom’s new laptop with everything she’ll need
Get pants hemmed so I can wear them
Make gift tags for the stuff I’m giving the folks at work
And so much more. It never ends!
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### Author:  [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-to-do-list/564439/12 "2010-12-19T18:31:57Z")
> [@With\_Rye](#):
>
> - Pay uncle’s $300 illegal U-turn moving violation fine
Just curious - why do you have to pay this?
I have to
Finish my current assignment
Find my birth certificate
Ring the TV installation guy to get our new TV hooked up & the old tv running in my son’s bedroom
Finish my Xmas shopping (now at a manageable level)
Pay a couple of bills (& won’t this be fun, going to Post Shop this week! :rolleyes:)
Ring my mother & wish her Happy Birthday
Remind my son to confirm his navy interview time 😃
Organise the stuff said son needs from the doctor for the above interview
Look up a recipe for a white chocolate trifle & get the ingredients