513: The Automatic Home with Roger Lipp
Part 1
Have you ever dreamed for an automated house like the Jetsons had? While Rosey may not be moving in, Kathi and Roger Lipp are here to help walk us through setting up a home that works for us and not against us. The keys to an automated home is in the decisions and the planning. There are so many ways to automate our home. Join in the conversation to hear about some of the key automations that serve Kathi and Roger well and how to:
- Think through the automations you need
- Set your home up to make things smoother
- Maintain the automations once they’re in place
Tell us – what automations serve you well in your home? Let us know in the comments below!
The Clutter Free Home: Making Room for Your Life
When it comes to your home, peace is possible…
Longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.
Let author Kathi Lipp (who once lived a life buried in clutter) walk you through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality. Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process of dedicate, decide, declutter and “do-your-thing” to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.
Meet Our Guest
Roger Lipp
Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.
He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.
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Auto-pay! We have a credit card that stays at home and is automatically charged monthly with cable, electricity, gas, insurance, and water bills. We earn points for those charges, too.
iCal! We have a digital calendar shared among all of our devices where each of us can input events at any time (different colors for different events) with alerts, and we can have these events automatically repeat weekly, monthly, annually.
iPhone alarms! For daily events such as take the kid to school, pickup the kid from school, take the kid to dance, pickup the kid from dance, get ready for church, etc.
Gmail filters! Different e-mails are automatically sent to differently named inboxes such as 1st Of The Month and 15th Of The Month (to follow the pattern of bi-monthly paychecks). 1st Of The Month inbox receives with the monthly e-mailed invoices for household expenses such as cable, electricity, gas, insurance and water bills. 15th of the Month receives the monthly e-mailed invoice for the credit cards.
DVR! Automatically records every episode of our favorite series!