Daylight savings time has officially ended. Have you set back your clocks one hour? This potentially means an extra hour of sleep, as long as the kids and pups don’t catch on to the time change and continue to sleep in. (Note to self, as long as time can fall back one hour, what will it take to fall back a few years? Or how about the scale? Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Potential topics for an upcoming blog? Hmmm…)
With the time change, expect shorter days and longer nights. Whether you’re a fan or not, you should take this opportunity to update a few things around your home and life.
Time Change Checklist
- Change time back) Update the clocks and alarms, moving the time back one hour.
- Check smoke and carbon monoxide detectors) Inspect the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and change their batteries.
- Update lights) Check and replace light bulbs to help brighten the shorter days. Make sure you’re using the correct wattage bulbs to maximize lighting and change any blown bulbs in fixtures.
- Save money) With the New Year ahead of us, use this time to kick start improving your financial health. List all your expenses on a piece of paper. Then analyze each expense and decide if you need it and how you can cut it. For instance, how much are you paying for insurance? Homeowners insurance? Life Insurance? Property Insurance? Health Insurance? Etc… Once you know this, then contact us at Oak Insurance Solutions so we can show you how much you can save with one of our quality coverage plans. You have nothing to lose to get an estimate, besides a little bit of your mind once you realize how much you could have saved if you called in sooner. (Where’s the wink emoji at?)
- Make more money) On the topic of savings, with all the money you’re going to save, start a new piggy bank. Then use your newly saved funds to pay off additional debt, invest, or even purchase a vacation for this upcoming summer. You can even add more by decluttering your home and selling off those items that you no longer use or bring value to you. You can further pull out your entrepreneurial side and start a side gig. The ideas are endless.
- Declutter and deep clean) New seasons are always an excuse for a fresh start. In Feng Shui, they explain that clutter is anything unfinished, unused, or disorganized. Therefore, when you clear clutter, you create space for new things and will see your energy and creativity increase. Accordingly, if you declutter your home as well as your life of stress inducers, old ideas, unhealthy relationships, and bad habits…you’ll find yourself maximizing your potential and increasing your happiness. Looking for some creative ways to declutter? Here’s a great article by author and minimalist, Joshua Becker. After you’re done decluttering, give your home a thorough cleaning from top to bottom. This includes cleaning out the fridge, touching up dingy walls, and washing floors.
- Improve your diet and fitness) While you’re in the process of decluttering, you can take this time to clean out the pantry and fridge of all (or at least most of) those food items that you know are unhealthy and you have been meaning to avoid, but their presence continues to tempt you to eat them. Again, New Years is right around the corner. Why wait till the clock strikes midnight before you make a resolution to eat healthier and workout more? Start now. You have an extra hour, use that time to squeeze in a 20 minute or so work-out.
There you have it; a checklist to go through at your own pace, but hopefully you’ll start it before Day Light Savings 2018. And don’t forget to reach out to us for an estimate and see how much you’re going to save once you switch over to OAK Insurance.
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