Dentist - new app't is made on the same day that we attend the current app't ........ Except, in 6 months time, their timetables will have changed or they are attending a practice or clubb that wasn't on when you booked the original appt
Bills are direct debit so don't need much in the way of setting up - although every year I spend some hours making sure (at different times of year) I'm getting best deal on 2 x car insurance, 1x house insurance (I know others have life insurance and pet insurance and phone insurance and boiler insurance); on utilities; on broadband; on mobile phone deals; on bank account savings rates; on credit cards; on current accounts; etc
Forms are filled in as and when required, once every few months at the most and the majority don't take that long to do ..... I take it you don't have kids going off on residentials / school trips / cub camps etc then, as I used to get this joy4 or 5 times a year x 3 dc
Ds's app'ts with the paediatrician are generally sent by the hospital so we just have to ring and say yes, it's convenient or no, it's not and can we make it another day. We don't have many other health care things apart from ringing every few months for a repeat prescription YOur hospital must have more efficient admin system than my local hospitals then. I'm pleased for you. Genuninely.
The car is a lease car so we don't have much to organise with that apart from the tyres (they come to us) and the service and all that takes is a 5 min phone call........ well, I have MOT as well as 'things that crop up' like a puncture or some twat taking the wing mirror off when it is parked. So then it is a diary check to find who can manage without a car, when, before phoning the garage to book it in - that may then be followed by calls to other parents to ask for help with lifts if it is more than a day job without the car
I go through the dc's bookbags every day or read the updates on their app. It doesn't take much to send an envelope with money in or sign a note for whatever they want permission for....... if you have been to the cashpoint to get the cash out......and if you have envelopes in...... and if the dc has efficiently brought the letter home..... and if you can fit in rummaging through 3 x book bags whilst trying to get the evening meal on, whilst simultaneously getting them to find their swimming trunks / cub uniform / football boots / 'thing' they need for school next day / actually shutting the curtains in your house or going for a wee for yourself....
We don't meal plan much and the shopping list is generally the same every week so that doesn't take much time and it's not a difficult or strenuous job ordering it online......... no, not in itself, but it is the layers and lists of jobs, none of which take that long individually, but then they add up when you need to do several of them
Dh sorts his own stuff out All fine
We share the kids' stuff so it doesn't all fall onto me and childcare is probably the biggest headache, especially since they started school and we have to rely on a childminder ........ yes, but it is still family stuff that needs sorting, and you need to be clear who is fetching whom from where, and when if it is shared.