Site Glossary
I’ve written my own definitions for these specialised or less-common terms, based on a wide range of reading and how I used them in the Everies Book. Look them up further in a good dictionary or a search engine if you’d like to know more. For each word or term, I’ve provided an example of its usage in some way. Sometimes this is simply a sentence or phrase, but may also be a tip. Yes, it’s a biased glossary. Where I did get definitions more from references, these are marked with a number in square brackets, e.g., [24], A reference list follows the glossary.
If you’re an expert in a field where any of these words hail from, and don’t agree with my definition(s), I may be happy to stand corrected. Supply details using the contact form, with supporting references where applicable. I love to learn!
If you turned to the Glossary to look up a word that turns out not to be in here, it should be easy to find in a good dictionary or online. If not, use the contact form as above and I’ll look into it.
Do follow up on such words, because I want you to fully understand what I’ve written. (And I certainly want to understand what I’ve written, too!)
3-2-1 backup copies [24]
Backups based on the idea of making 3 copies in at least 2 different formats, with 1 stored off-site. For example, 1 paper copy safely filed, 1 copy on a USB kept locally and the other on a USB at another physical location. These are in addition to the original.
Formats & locations chosen for your 3-2-1 backup copies will vary with the item being backed up, and the level of security you require.
archives
In the purest sense, these would be records kept for posterity – those you never want to part with. In practice, it’s best to give these a review date so that after a certain amount of time you can reconsider their importance and save yourself, your heirs or your descendants the pain of trawling through a lifetime of record clutter.
If you think of them as the papers you intentionally keep for a long time, along with other keepsakes, souvenirs, photographs, etc., it will help you to distinguish archives from regularly accessed records and ‘stuff’.
assessable (income)
Able to be included in the amount that is taxed.
Tax rules mean that some income may be excluded from the amount you pay tax on; the rest is assessable.
bah-lees
Something of an Australianism, it means similar to ‘time out’, or even ‘ceasefire’. It’s used in children’s games to halt action while someone sorts out their understanding of a rule or gets their breath back, etc. It can be used loosely to mean a break from anything that is becoming overwhelming or dangerous.
After wrangling with his children over chores all week, he called bah-lees on Friday to play ball with them instead.
balance sheet
Roughly: a report where the total assets (what you have) are balanced against total liabilities (what you owe) to provide an immediate picture of the financial health of a business (or an individual).
A balance sheet does not usually actually balance; it is made to balance by calculating the difference between assets and liabilities, and this difference is called the ‘equity’ (as in, ‘making equal or even’), which may be positive or negative (a surplus or deficit, respectively).
Business Activity Statement (BAS)
A business tax report form which accounts for GST collected and paid.
A BAS is easier to fill out when your data entry is kept up to date.
business plan
A plan of how you will set up, run, grow and exit your business.
A good business plan considers the effects of possible changes while growing.
button-pushing
Saying or doing things to try to get a negative reaction, ‘win points’, rob another of voice, &/or put them down. Here are the most common ones that show up in crucibles like the Family Regroup: making needling or aggravating remarks, asking pointed or patronising questions, shouting people down, dismissively talking over them, passing judgements, pulling faces, etc., etc. The worst part is, it’s contagious. Be the change you want to see at the table.
While good friends often enjoy mutual banter with its lively give-and-take, unwelcome or underhanded button-pushing is not friendly and can create ‘ricochet’ conflict even after the button-pusher leaves.
Counter
A bookkeeping tool, called a Counter (Book). The name could be attributed to the fact the book is used for literally counting the money going in and out, and/or that it was traditionally kept on the counter in a shop for the purpose of entering all transactions, in or out, in a running list.
Sometimes called a Day Book or Cash Book, they’re readily available in stationery stores & some newsagents. Use one of these books, or the Income/Expense data-entry function of a software program, for your own Counting. You can also get an App of this nature for your phone.
Whichever type you use, the main feature you want in a Counter is that it is very easy to access and use.
Counting
(Capitalised in this book only to denote special meaning of a common word.) Keeping track of all income and outgo by entering money movements into a running record, preferably daily. This ensures you know at all times exactly how much money you have available, which helps you avoid overspending.
The practise is old – my mother used it in hard times, and I used it in better times, but I found the term for it described in a great book about transitioning between the two kinds [2].
Her Counting was out of date so she accidentally went into overdraft.
cull
To declutter by reducing numbers or paring down contents so that there is no more than you need for a particular purpose.
To cull a kitchen drawer, you might throw out anything broken, and recycle any unwanted or duplicate items until all that is left are the utensils you actually use and like when cooking.
data
See ‘information’
data entry
The entering of financial data into a bookkeeping program, a spreadsheet, or even a simple, written Counter.
Try to keep all your data entry up to date for each month-end.
debit card
This term is a bit loose and can mean your everyday EFTPOS card, or a card designed for use with the convenience & security of a credit card, but using your own funds instead of borrowed funds. That last definition is the one I mean in this book.
Always clarify with your bank exactly what terms govern the debit card(s) that you have.
diarise
To enter [information] in a diary. Especially, to assign a planned or recorded action or event to a particular day &/or time.
If you diarise an idea you get for some intended action, you are more likely to remember to do it even if you forget to refer to your diary later.
diary
It may seem strange to define this, but since I’ve used the term rather particularly in places, yet loosely in others, I should make it clear why:
The terms planner/diary/journal can be used interchangeably in many cases. When they all mean ‘a book, file or electronic program designed to help you keep track of date-related activities’, they are indeed interchangeable. That is the way I usually mean ‘diary’ in The Everies Book.
However, each term has come about through specific usage, and in some contexts the differences matter:
· A planner shows forward time intervals, sometimes in larger spans like weeks or months, and helps the user plan ahead, often with the addition of tips, extra information, tables or prompts of various types – it is a predictive tool, relating to the future.
New Year’s Resolutions are more likely to be kept if you write them in a planner.
· A diary is dated in days or even down to half-hour intervals, with the idea that one can plan more minutely and enter micro-tasks like appointments or to-dos as they arise – it is an active tool, to keep you aware of, and acting in, the present.
New Year’s Resolutions can be broken down into their steps in a diary.
· A journal may be pre-dated or left blank for the user to date, in order to record progress, activities done, or thoughts, ideas, and even general plans as they are made or being tracked – it is a reflective tool, either recording the past for reflection now, or recording present actions, events and ideas for reflection on the past, in the future. That’s diabolical, isn’t it?
New Year’s Resolutions can be monitored and supported by tracking their progress in a journal.
disposition
A records term, meaning ‘a disposing of’, but not only in the way we typically think of that. It could be discarding, but it could also mean any other way that the item leaves our possession. E.g., recycling, upcycling (converting into something better for new use), selling, etc.
When you’ve decided on the appropriate disposition of decluttered items, make sure you do remove them to their assigned destinations within 7 days.
dream boards
A board or other (usually large) space where you can post symbols, images, quotes, etc. to encourage yourself to persist in your journey towards a dream or goal.
Many people use their fridge door as a dream board.
EFTPOS
Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale.
When you use EFTPOS, money comes right out of your account, so keep receipts to enter in your daily counting.
ephemera
Literally, ‘things that last for only a short time’. In archive terms, this refers to items of fleeting value in themselves, which become worthy of preservation when they help to connect historical dots.
He kept his last drive-in movie ticket as ephemera after the theatre was bulldozed for redevelopment.
Everies
Those tasks we’ve read, or been told, we should do every so often in order to keep things running smoothly at home and in life.
Each of the following is an Every: “exercise every 3rd day”, “mop the floor once a week”, or “make New Year’s resolutions” (yet there have been, until now, few follow-up Everies for those!).
false economy
An overly cheap, quick or easy action (or inaction) now, which invites expense or negative repercussions later.
Not putting things away when you’ve finished with them is a false economy of time, energy or other costs.
family historian
See ‘genealogists (or family historians)’.
Feng Shui (or feng shui)
The Chinese art of placement, from two words meaning ‘wind’ & ‘water’ respectively. The core principle is that a life force (chi, or qi) surrounds and pervades everything, and that this life force may become either beneficial or detrimental depending on the placement or actions of material objects or forces (like wind & water.) These should allow movement of the life force in gentle curves.
Feng Shui is practised in different ways (‘schools’), all of which greatly expand on these principles, but which seem to consistently produce a very aesthetic, comfortable space.
A glance at the images in a good quality Feng Shui book will serve to illustrate the beauty of this practice.
file (in computing use)
A single electronic document or picture etc. with its own name.
When looking for my short story, I had trouble finding the file because I forgot the story’s title.
file path
The location of a file, made up of the trail that leads to it through a computer system. E.g., For the document in the diagram below, the file path would be: Folder\Sub-folder\Sub-folder\Document.docx
Note: the ending of file names is called an ‘extension’. The icon (little image next to the name) and the extension match, telling you what kind of file it is.
folder (in computing use)
Like a manila folder for paper, this is a place where a collection of files may be stored electronically. It may have sub-folders , in which case these would be more like manila folders, and the largest folder would then compare with a suspension file in a cabinet, holding sub-folders.
The folder in the illustration above has 2 sub-folders.
genealogists (or family historians)
Specialists or hobbyists in family history. Often, this is a family member who has taken on the role. Professional genealogists may also research local histories or whole dynasties.
Genealogists were excited to find the long-lost birth certificate.
GST
Goods & Services Tax. A tax applied to certain goods & services. The payments are collected, reported and relayed by registered business owners under certain conditions, who may then claim back the GST paid on their own purchases.
There is a lot of work involved in managing GST for the government.
hazwaste transit
A place in the home where hazardous waste can be safely stored until it can be taken to a disposal facility.
I put the old batteries in the hazwaste transit container.
hibernating
The literal meaning, as you probably know, is about the practice of certain plants & animals tucking themselves away for protection in winter. Yet people can tuck themselves away for protection, too – not always wisely. It may be obvious (whether calmly or dramatically so) or perhaps more subtly, through interpersonal disconnection while appearing to carry on with ‘business as usual’.
He’d been hibernating so long he’d forgotten how to belly-laugh.
hoarding
Gathering more and more and more ‘new stuff’ of either specific or general kinds, failing to properly store or utilise existing stuff, and rarely – if ever – disposing of old stuff. Eventually, so much is accumulated that it overwhelms its owner and any other occupants of the house.
Even routine belongings – or whole rooms – can no longer be safely accessed or used. The sheer amount blocks the free flow of persons and appropriate other ‘stuff’ through the area.
She’d been hoarding so much that she ended up living out of a suitcase in her front room.
income/expense statement
A report showing the difference between the business income and the business expenses; the term is usually applied to a business that provides services. (See profit/loss statement.)
If a tradesperson’s income/expense statement showed higher expenses than income, he/she could reduce expenses, charge more, or get more customers to improve the next statement.
information
data collected together or interpreted in such a way that it can be used for some purpose. E.g., a list of figures is just a collection of data, but if it is put into context or explained, it becomes information.
Data can be visual (photographs), auditory (recordings), or anything else one can perceive, but if it’s captioned or part of a compilation, its information function becomes clearer – it now means something, it informs you.
journal
See ‘diary’ for a full explanation of both these terms.
long-term filer
Any cabinet or system where papers or e-documents are filed for the longer-term (longer than 1 year) – either for a definite period of, say, 3-5 years, or indefinitely.
Insurance policy brochures can be kept in your long-term filer.
malodour
A bad smell.
Pet beds, shoe stands and unsealed food can produce malodour.
Neurobics
A combination of Neural + Aerobics: brain exercises. Everyday activities to help prevent your brain from aging by making it send and receive messages along different pathways. See Reference [5].
Doodling with your non-writing hand is an easy way to practice Neurobics.
notional
Based on notions (ideas or theories) only, not necessarily to be taken as real or typical. For example, the form letters you get from banks and other large corporations are usually written to a notional customer, not especially to you or even people very much like you, just to the corporation’s idea of their customers.
objets d’art
‘Objects of art’ – decorative elements not easily described as ornaments, paintings, etc., although it can include those, too, loosely speaking.
Knick-knacks are a common form of objets d’art.
offsets
For tax purposes, some activities or life situations that reduce the amount of tax you have to pay, by reducing the taxable amount of your income.
Offsets change a little from year to year, so read the instructions for your tax return carefully.
optimum
The very best you can do with the time and other resources available.
It might seem ideal to live happily ever after with no further effort, but meanwhile, it’ll be optimum to use selected Everies to get happier outcomes now.
paperwork
Usually, this literally means any actions you need to take with pieces of paper in your possession. It can also mean official procedures where someone else does the paperwork on your behalf (such as when you call to report a change of address), or it can of course mean electronic management of information, too.
Morning paperwork in the Everies system should only take a few minutes.
Paperwork Course, or ‘the Course’
A shortened reference to The Everies Paperwork Self-tutoring Lift-out. This lift-out is part of the full Everies Reminder Diary.
Use the Paperwork Course to develop better paper-management systems.
passive solar design
Design that capitalises on the location’s available warmth & light from the sun, in order to enhance the aesthetics, comfort and energy-efficiency of the structure.
Solar panels and north-facing windows are aspects of passive solar design in Australia.
Note: Lately we're hearing more about 'passive house' -- this is different and you can look it up here: https://passipedia.org/basics/what_is_a_passive_house
placement arts
Those arts and sciences devoted to the relative benefits or drawbacks of placing items in distinct locations, along with the selection of those items in themselves. These items may be tangible of any size (buildings, furniture, decorations), or less tangible of any size (openings, traffic routes, an absence of decoration).
The best-known example is Feng Shui. Less well-known are Vaastu (or vastu) Shastra and Wabi Sabi. There are others. These are as far as I’ve gone in my research & the terms are in this glossary. See also ‘Space Clearing’.
I would argue that passive solar design and sustainable building or home-making are modern versions of the placement arts, and that all listed here have drawn on the good science available in their time.
planner
See ‘diary’ for a full explanation of both these terms.
pooja room
From its traditional Hindu use as a prayer room or altar, you can think of it that way – or consider it any aesthetic space, however small or humble, that allows you to retreat, unwind and commune with your ‘something higher’.
Whether you choose to study, pray, meditate or daydream in your pooja room, keep it sacred from mess, conflicts, or other ‘bad vibes’.
profit/loss statement
A report showing the difference between the business income and the business expenses, usually applied to a business that supplies goods. It literally shows whether the cost of producing and selling the goods resulted in a profit or a loss. (See income/expense statement.)
If a craft business’s profit/loss statement showed a low profit, one could reduce costs and increase sales to raise the profit level.
push-pencil
One of those refillable pencils with an eraser at the end that can be pushed down to ‘sharpen’ the pencil by lengthening the lead.
Everyday push-pencils are best in 0.5 – 0.7mm thickness of leads, so they don’t cut into paper when you write.
rapid-declutter
A fast, superficial sweep of clutter in 4 easy steps: 1. Carrying 2 rubbish bags, go around quickly to pick up all the trash to bin or recycle; 2. pick up all the items that don’t belong there and put them in a decent ‘Keep Elsewhere’ container; 3. tidy up what’s left; 4. properly relocate each Elsewhere item within 7 days.
A rapid-declutter is not a substitute for real decluttering, but it’s a good way to get started.
reconcile
To compare transactions in a statement with other records, to check if they are correct and valid.
When you reconcile your bank statement, there should be no transactions that cannot be explained, and all should show the correct amount.
When you reconcile a credit card statement, be alert for any purchases you don’t recall making.
recordkeeping
In this book, synonymous with ‘paperwork’, but it especially means capturing, maintaining and preserving important records.
Recordkeeping should be treated as quite important – it can protect, help and empower you in your own life, and give much pleasure to family historians who may become interested in you– warts and all – in future generations.
records
Individual pieces of information which show evidence of some entity, fact, action, interaction, event, achievement or transaction.
Sometimes letters are the only records people have of their ancestors.
regroup
To re-assemble together, regenerate, and exchange information after ‘splitting up’ to tackle outside factors.
If taking separate routes around an exhibition or fair, it’s wise for friends to regroup at regular intervals.
retention date
The date before which a record should not be disposed of; the record should be retained (kept) until that date.
A retention date should be set for stored items that are not expected to be kept forever.
risers
The vertical part of a step, often overlooked in cleaning & maintenance.
It can be hard to scrub scuff marks off risers – another good reason for removing shoes at the door!
sacred architecture
The design and/or construction of buildings to support or adhere to the culture’s religious or spiritual beliefs and practices.
Temples and other places of worship are the most common type of sacred architecture, which can incorporate their surrounding structures or other environment – from streetscapes to whole settlements.
schedule (in tax terms)
A required form completed in addition to your tax return and/or supplement forms.
E.g., ‘Business and Professional Items Schedule’.
Shakespeare
I’ll assume you know who Shakespeare was. The word is used in the text as a reference to his body of work, and how difficult it is to properly understand Shakespeare and other Elizabethan writers until one discovers that historical definitions and cultural context can give words a vastly different meaning than in today’s language.
A good glossary for Shakespeare will also explain a little English history to clarify what definition would have applied at the time.
shoebox
Any small box used to isolate tax records during the year. If you have an accountant or bookkeeper, it’s a perfectly legitimate way to store & deliver the required papers to them for periodic data entry.
If you don’t use an accountant or bookkeeper, or if you deliver the information electronically, a shoebox still works, but discipline yourself to enter and file the paperwork before each month’s end.
short-term filer
Any container where papers or e-documents are filed for the short-term (up to 1 year).
Newsletters of interest could be filed in your short-term filer.
Space Clearing
Literally, clearing spaces of undesirable elements. These may be tangible (broken furniture, dust & spider webs) or intangible (bad ‘vibes’) or both (negative images, melancholic keepsakes). This is an ancient concept practiced by many different cultures. As such, it has employed a wide variety of methods, including the placement arts, often (incorrectly) thought of as inseparable from Feng Shui (or feng shui).
One might employ Space Clearing in a house where domestic arguments have tainted the pleasure and peace which being at home should afford.
spiritual architecture
Not to be confused with sacred architecture, although it is born of that concept: it means the design and/or construction of buildings to enhance the spiritual (or simply personal/subjective) experience of being in the building, and, consequently, the wellbeing of its inhabitants and associated persons.
Holiday huts built in trees are one unusual use of spiritual architecture for guests who love nature.
spiritual housework (also see The Placement Arts)
House ‘work’ carried out with the purpose of improving or preserving the spiritual/personal/subjective experience of being in the home. That is, housework not seen as material chores, nor decoration for mere appearance-sake, but as a specifically beneficial gracing, if you like, of the home’s inhabitants.
Polishing all the reflective surfaces so that the place ‘feels’ brighter and more open is one example of performing spiritual housework.
spot-clean
Thoroughly clean only those grubby spots that stand out.
There is no need to remove every mark during a spot-clean – limit treatment to stains and concentrated areas of grime such as those around doorknobs and light switches.
sub-folder (in computing usage)
See ‘folder (in computing use)’.
sustainability
The degree to which something can survive or continue in operation, in harmony with the survival or continuance of elements on which its own survival or continuance depends, either directly or indirectly. Think about it. Can you envisage any knock-on effects from the example below?
One could say a draughty, leaky home with low insulation properties in Australia has poor sustainability.
tax return
General term for any type or format of Individual tax report submitted at the end of each year.
It takes less time to complete my tax return if I click on all the question mark links to be sure of what I’m doing.
Vaastu (or Vastu) – both can be lower case
The pre-Feng Shui, Indian discipline of spiritual architecture, from a word meaning habitat or dwelling. When applied as an art of placement, its full name is Vaastu Shastra, where ‘shastra’ means variously skill, science, knowledge, artistry. Vaastu as a subject has other applications, too, but the word Vaastu when used by itself usually refers to Vaastu Shastra [25].
It shares the concept of a life force (prana) with Feng Shui. However, the movement of prana is thought of more as breathing than as inherently flowing the way chi does. This makes a difference to how architecture and furniture layouts are recommended, and from there other differences develop.
Certain ancient and far-flung structures outside India show signs of having been built on Vaastu principles, including the astonishing Machu Picchu site in Peru [26 ].
When you arrange your home on the principle of ‘straight lines and right angles’ – which you may have heard of in Organising conversations before, you are employing Vaastu rather than Feng Shui ,which favours curves.
values
This can be an awkward word these days, becoming clouded through a couple of societal and workplace uses. In The Everies Book, it just means ideas you have about what is important, good or right, and what you feel comfortable tolerating from others in your own life.
I don’t feel good after listening to gossip; it goes against my values.
Wabi Sabi
A somewhat reactionary practice to Feng Shui, arising in Japan. It rejects the attempts to control fate, attract abundance and strictly place items, encouraging a more organic yet minimalist expression of everyday living and the gentle passage of time. Both words have a variety of translations into English which range from sad to happy concepts [27]. My preferred summing up is: wabi ~ honouring the life cycle of things + sabi ~ happy to just be, without things.
An uncluttered yet serendipitous room arrangement is an expression of Wabi-Sabi, which I would also suggest is the art of placing things accidentally-on-purpose J
Whispers
A game where one person in a row of people whispers a message to a person beside them, who whispers it to the next person and so on, until the message gets to the end and is reported out loud to the originator. The object is to see if the intended message arrives back faithfully without alteration – a rare event!
Information can become altered just like a message in Whispers if it has been passed on verbally, or rewritten and translated many times, or even if it has been transcribed faithfully while its word meanings or context – cultural, situational etc.– have changed.
Now you’re an expert on the Everies language!
If you’re an expert in a field where any of these words hail from, and don’t agree with my definition(s), I may be happy to stand corrected. Supply details using the contact form, with supporting references where applicable. I love to learn!
If you turned to the Glossary to look up a word that turns out not to be in here, it should be easy to find in a good dictionary or online. If not, use the contact form as above and I’ll look into it.
Do follow up on such words, because I want you to fully understand what I’ve written. (And I certainly want to understand what I’ve written, too!)
3-2-1 backup copies [24]
Backups based on the idea of making 3 copies in at least 2 different formats, with 1 stored off-site. For example, 1 paper copy safely filed, 1 copy on a USB kept locally and the other on a USB at another physical location. These are in addition to the original.
Formats & locations chosen for your 3-2-1 backup copies will vary with the item being backed up, and the level of security you require.
archives
In the purest sense, these would be records kept for posterity – those you never want to part with. In practice, it’s best to give these a review date so that after a certain amount of time you can reconsider their importance and save yourself, your heirs or your descendants the pain of trawling through a lifetime of record clutter.
If you think of them as the papers you intentionally keep for a long time, along with other keepsakes, souvenirs, photographs, etc., it will help you to distinguish archives from regularly accessed records and ‘stuff’.
assessable (income)
Able to be included in the amount that is taxed.
Tax rules mean that some income may be excluded from the amount you pay tax on; the rest is assessable.
bah-lees
Something of an Australianism, it means similar to ‘time out’, or even ‘ceasefire’. It’s used in children’s games to halt action while someone sorts out their understanding of a rule or gets their breath back, etc. It can be used loosely to mean a break from anything that is becoming overwhelming or dangerous.
After wrangling with his children over chores all week, he called bah-lees on Friday to play ball with them instead.
balance sheet
Roughly: a report where the total assets (what you have) are balanced against total liabilities (what you owe) to provide an immediate picture of the financial health of a business (or an individual).
A balance sheet does not usually actually balance; it is made to balance by calculating the difference between assets and liabilities, and this difference is called the ‘equity’ (as in, ‘making equal or even’), which may be positive or negative (a surplus or deficit, respectively).
Business Activity Statement (BAS)
A business tax report form which accounts for GST collected and paid.
A BAS is easier to fill out when your data entry is kept up to date.
business plan
A plan of how you will set up, run, grow and exit your business.
A good business plan considers the effects of possible changes while growing.
button-pushing
Saying or doing things to try to get a negative reaction, ‘win points’, rob another of voice, &/or put them down. Here are the most common ones that show up in crucibles like the Family Regroup: making needling or aggravating remarks, asking pointed or patronising questions, shouting people down, dismissively talking over them, passing judgements, pulling faces, etc., etc. The worst part is, it’s contagious. Be the change you want to see at the table.
While good friends often enjoy mutual banter with its lively give-and-take, unwelcome or underhanded button-pushing is not friendly and can create ‘ricochet’ conflict even after the button-pusher leaves.
Counter
A bookkeeping tool, called a Counter (Book). The name could be attributed to the fact the book is used for literally counting the money going in and out, and/or that it was traditionally kept on the counter in a shop for the purpose of entering all transactions, in or out, in a running list.
Sometimes called a Day Book or Cash Book, they’re readily available in stationery stores & some newsagents. Use one of these books, or the Income/Expense data-entry function of a software program, for your own Counting. You can also get an App of this nature for your phone.
Whichever type you use, the main feature you want in a Counter is that it is very easy to access and use.
Counting
(Capitalised in this book only to denote special meaning of a common word.) Keeping track of all income and outgo by entering money movements into a running record, preferably daily. This ensures you know at all times exactly how much money you have available, which helps you avoid overspending.
The practise is old – my mother used it in hard times, and I used it in better times, but I found the term for it described in a great book about transitioning between the two kinds [2].
Her Counting was out of date so she accidentally went into overdraft.
cull
To declutter by reducing numbers or paring down contents so that there is no more than you need for a particular purpose.
To cull a kitchen drawer, you might throw out anything broken, and recycle any unwanted or duplicate items until all that is left are the utensils you actually use and like when cooking.
data
See ‘information’
data entry
The entering of financial data into a bookkeeping program, a spreadsheet, or even a simple, written Counter.
Try to keep all your data entry up to date for each month-end.
debit card
This term is a bit loose and can mean your everyday EFTPOS card, or a card designed for use with the convenience & security of a credit card, but using your own funds instead of borrowed funds. That last definition is the one I mean in this book.
Always clarify with your bank exactly what terms govern the debit card(s) that you have.
diarise
To enter [information] in a diary. Especially, to assign a planned or recorded action or event to a particular day &/or time.
If you diarise an idea you get for some intended action, you are more likely to remember to do it even if you forget to refer to your diary later.
diary
It may seem strange to define this, but since I’ve used the term rather particularly in places, yet loosely in others, I should make it clear why:
The terms planner/diary/journal can be used interchangeably in many cases. When they all mean ‘a book, file or electronic program designed to help you keep track of date-related activities’, they are indeed interchangeable. That is the way I usually mean ‘diary’ in The Everies Book.
However, each term has come about through specific usage, and in some contexts the differences matter:
· A planner shows forward time intervals, sometimes in larger spans like weeks or months, and helps the user plan ahead, often with the addition of tips, extra information, tables or prompts of various types – it is a predictive tool, relating to the future.
New Year’s Resolutions are more likely to be kept if you write them in a planner.
· A diary is dated in days or even down to half-hour intervals, with the idea that one can plan more minutely and enter micro-tasks like appointments or to-dos as they arise – it is an active tool, to keep you aware of, and acting in, the present.
New Year’s Resolutions can be broken down into their steps in a diary.
· A journal may be pre-dated or left blank for the user to date, in order to record progress, activities done, or thoughts, ideas, and even general plans as they are made or being tracked – it is a reflective tool, either recording the past for reflection now, or recording present actions, events and ideas for reflection on the past, in the future. That’s diabolical, isn’t it?
New Year’s Resolutions can be monitored and supported by tracking their progress in a journal.
disposition
A records term, meaning ‘a disposing of’, but not only in the way we typically think of that. It could be discarding, but it could also mean any other way that the item leaves our possession. E.g., recycling, upcycling (converting into something better for new use), selling, etc.
When you’ve decided on the appropriate disposition of decluttered items, make sure you do remove them to their assigned destinations within 7 days.
dream boards
A board or other (usually large) space where you can post symbols, images, quotes, etc. to encourage yourself to persist in your journey towards a dream or goal.
Many people use their fridge door as a dream board.
EFTPOS
Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale.
When you use EFTPOS, money comes right out of your account, so keep receipts to enter in your daily counting.
ephemera
Literally, ‘things that last for only a short time’. In archive terms, this refers to items of fleeting value in themselves, which become worthy of preservation when they help to connect historical dots.
He kept his last drive-in movie ticket as ephemera after the theatre was bulldozed for redevelopment.
Everies
Those tasks we’ve read, or been told, we should do every so often in order to keep things running smoothly at home and in life.
Each of the following is an Every: “exercise every 3rd day”, “mop the floor once a week”, or “make New Year’s resolutions” (yet there have been, until now, few follow-up Everies for those!).
false economy
An overly cheap, quick or easy action (or inaction) now, which invites expense or negative repercussions later.
Not putting things away when you’ve finished with them is a false economy of time, energy or other costs.
family historian
See ‘genealogists (or family historians)’.
Feng Shui (or feng shui)
The Chinese art of placement, from two words meaning ‘wind’ & ‘water’ respectively. The core principle is that a life force (chi, or qi) surrounds and pervades everything, and that this life force may become either beneficial or detrimental depending on the placement or actions of material objects or forces (like wind & water.) These should allow movement of the life force in gentle curves.
Feng Shui is practised in different ways (‘schools’), all of which greatly expand on these principles, but which seem to consistently produce a very aesthetic, comfortable space.
A glance at the images in a good quality Feng Shui book will serve to illustrate the beauty of this practice.
file (in computing use)
A single electronic document or picture etc. with its own name.
When looking for my short story, I had trouble finding the file because I forgot the story’s title.
file path
The location of a file, made up of the trail that leads to it through a computer system. E.g., For the document in the diagram below, the file path would be: Folder\Sub-folder\Sub-folder\Document.docx
Note: the ending of file names is called an ‘extension’. The icon (little image next to the name) and the extension match, telling you what kind of file it is.
folder (in computing use)
Like a manila folder for paper, this is a place where a collection of files may be stored electronically. It may have sub-folders , in which case these would be more like manila folders, and the largest folder would then compare with a suspension file in a cabinet, holding sub-folders.
The folder in the illustration above has 2 sub-folders.
genealogists (or family historians)
Specialists or hobbyists in family history. Often, this is a family member who has taken on the role. Professional genealogists may also research local histories or whole dynasties.
Genealogists were excited to find the long-lost birth certificate.
GST
Goods & Services Tax. A tax applied to certain goods & services. The payments are collected, reported and relayed by registered business owners under certain conditions, who may then claim back the GST paid on their own purchases.
There is a lot of work involved in managing GST for the government.
hazwaste transit
A place in the home where hazardous waste can be safely stored until it can be taken to a disposal facility.
I put the old batteries in the hazwaste transit container.
hibernating
The literal meaning, as you probably know, is about the practice of certain plants & animals tucking themselves away for protection in winter. Yet people can tuck themselves away for protection, too – not always wisely. It may be obvious (whether calmly or dramatically so) or perhaps more subtly, through interpersonal disconnection while appearing to carry on with ‘business as usual’.
He’d been hibernating so long he’d forgotten how to belly-laugh.
hoarding
Gathering more and more and more ‘new stuff’ of either specific or general kinds, failing to properly store or utilise existing stuff, and rarely – if ever – disposing of old stuff. Eventually, so much is accumulated that it overwhelms its owner and any other occupants of the house.
Even routine belongings – or whole rooms – can no longer be safely accessed or used. The sheer amount blocks the free flow of persons and appropriate other ‘stuff’ through the area.
She’d been hoarding so much that she ended up living out of a suitcase in her front room.
income/expense statement
A report showing the difference between the business income and the business expenses; the term is usually applied to a business that provides services. (See profit/loss statement.)
If a tradesperson’s income/expense statement showed higher expenses than income, he/she could reduce expenses, charge more, or get more customers to improve the next statement.
information
data collected together or interpreted in such a way that it can be used for some purpose. E.g., a list of figures is just a collection of data, but if it is put into context or explained, it becomes information.
Data can be visual (photographs), auditory (recordings), or anything else one can perceive, but if it’s captioned or part of a compilation, its information function becomes clearer – it now means something, it informs you.
journal
See ‘diary’ for a full explanation of both these terms.
long-term filer
Any cabinet or system where papers or e-documents are filed for the longer-term (longer than 1 year) – either for a definite period of, say, 3-5 years, or indefinitely.
Insurance policy brochures can be kept in your long-term filer.
malodour
A bad smell.
Pet beds, shoe stands and unsealed food can produce malodour.
Neurobics
A combination of Neural + Aerobics: brain exercises. Everyday activities to help prevent your brain from aging by making it send and receive messages along different pathways. See Reference [5].
Doodling with your non-writing hand is an easy way to practice Neurobics.
notional
Based on notions (ideas or theories) only, not necessarily to be taken as real or typical. For example, the form letters you get from banks and other large corporations are usually written to a notional customer, not especially to you or even people very much like you, just to the corporation’s idea of their customers.
objets d’art
‘Objects of art’ – decorative elements not easily described as ornaments, paintings, etc., although it can include those, too, loosely speaking.
Knick-knacks are a common form of objets d’art.
offsets
For tax purposes, some activities or life situations that reduce the amount of tax you have to pay, by reducing the taxable amount of your income.
Offsets change a little from year to year, so read the instructions for your tax return carefully.
optimum
The very best you can do with the time and other resources available.
It might seem ideal to live happily ever after with no further effort, but meanwhile, it’ll be optimum to use selected Everies to get happier outcomes now.
paperwork
Usually, this literally means any actions you need to take with pieces of paper in your possession. It can also mean official procedures where someone else does the paperwork on your behalf (such as when you call to report a change of address), or it can of course mean electronic management of information, too.
Morning paperwork in the Everies system should only take a few minutes.
Paperwork Course, or ‘the Course’
A shortened reference to The Everies Paperwork Self-tutoring Lift-out. This lift-out is part of the full Everies Reminder Diary.
Use the Paperwork Course to develop better paper-management systems.
passive solar design
Design that capitalises on the location’s available warmth & light from the sun, in order to enhance the aesthetics, comfort and energy-efficiency of the structure.
Solar panels and north-facing windows are aspects of passive solar design in Australia.
Note: Lately we're hearing more about 'passive house' -- this is different and you can look it up here: https://passipedia.org/basics/what_is_a_passive_house
placement arts
Those arts and sciences devoted to the relative benefits or drawbacks of placing items in distinct locations, along with the selection of those items in themselves. These items may be tangible of any size (buildings, furniture, decorations), or less tangible of any size (openings, traffic routes, an absence of decoration).
The best-known example is Feng Shui. Less well-known are Vaastu (or vastu) Shastra and Wabi Sabi. There are others. These are as far as I’ve gone in my research & the terms are in this glossary. See also ‘Space Clearing’.
I would argue that passive solar design and sustainable building or home-making are modern versions of the placement arts, and that all listed here have drawn on the good science available in their time.
planner
See ‘diary’ for a full explanation of both these terms.
pooja room
From its traditional Hindu use as a prayer room or altar, you can think of it that way – or consider it any aesthetic space, however small or humble, that allows you to retreat, unwind and commune with your ‘something higher’.
Whether you choose to study, pray, meditate or daydream in your pooja room, keep it sacred from mess, conflicts, or other ‘bad vibes’.
profit/loss statement
A report showing the difference between the business income and the business expenses, usually applied to a business that supplies goods. It literally shows whether the cost of producing and selling the goods resulted in a profit or a loss. (See income/expense statement.)
If a craft business’s profit/loss statement showed a low profit, one could reduce costs and increase sales to raise the profit level.
push-pencil
One of those refillable pencils with an eraser at the end that can be pushed down to ‘sharpen’ the pencil by lengthening the lead.
Everyday push-pencils are best in 0.5 – 0.7mm thickness of leads, so they don’t cut into paper when you write.
rapid-declutter
A fast, superficial sweep of clutter in 4 easy steps: 1. Carrying 2 rubbish bags, go around quickly to pick up all the trash to bin or recycle; 2. pick up all the items that don’t belong there and put them in a decent ‘Keep Elsewhere’ container; 3. tidy up what’s left; 4. properly relocate each Elsewhere item within 7 days.
A rapid-declutter is not a substitute for real decluttering, but it’s a good way to get started.
reconcile
To compare transactions in a statement with other records, to check if they are correct and valid.
When you reconcile your bank statement, there should be no transactions that cannot be explained, and all should show the correct amount.
When you reconcile a credit card statement, be alert for any purchases you don’t recall making.
recordkeeping
In this book, synonymous with ‘paperwork’, but it especially means capturing, maintaining and preserving important records.
Recordkeeping should be treated as quite important – it can protect, help and empower you in your own life, and give much pleasure to family historians who may become interested in you– warts and all – in future generations.
records
Individual pieces of information which show evidence of some entity, fact, action, interaction, event, achievement or transaction.
Sometimes letters are the only records people have of their ancestors.
regroup
To re-assemble together, regenerate, and exchange information after ‘splitting up’ to tackle outside factors.
If taking separate routes around an exhibition or fair, it’s wise for friends to regroup at regular intervals.
retention date
The date before which a record should not be disposed of; the record should be retained (kept) until that date.
A retention date should be set for stored items that are not expected to be kept forever.
risers
The vertical part of a step, often overlooked in cleaning & maintenance.
It can be hard to scrub scuff marks off risers – another good reason for removing shoes at the door!
sacred architecture
The design and/or construction of buildings to support or adhere to the culture’s religious or spiritual beliefs and practices.
Temples and other places of worship are the most common type of sacred architecture, which can incorporate their surrounding structures or other environment – from streetscapes to whole settlements.
schedule (in tax terms)
A required form completed in addition to your tax return and/or supplement forms.
E.g., ‘Business and Professional Items Schedule’.
Shakespeare
I’ll assume you know who Shakespeare was. The word is used in the text as a reference to his body of work, and how difficult it is to properly understand Shakespeare and other Elizabethan writers until one discovers that historical definitions and cultural context can give words a vastly different meaning than in today’s language.
A good glossary for Shakespeare will also explain a little English history to clarify what definition would have applied at the time.
shoebox
Any small box used to isolate tax records during the year. If you have an accountant or bookkeeper, it’s a perfectly legitimate way to store & deliver the required papers to them for periodic data entry.
If you don’t use an accountant or bookkeeper, or if you deliver the information electronically, a shoebox still works, but discipline yourself to enter and file the paperwork before each month’s end.
short-term filer
Any container where papers or e-documents are filed for the short-term (up to 1 year).
Newsletters of interest could be filed in your short-term filer.
Space Clearing
Literally, clearing spaces of undesirable elements. These may be tangible (broken furniture, dust & spider webs) or intangible (bad ‘vibes’) or both (negative images, melancholic keepsakes). This is an ancient concept practiced by many different cultures. As such, it has employed a wide variety of methods, including the placement arts, often (incorrectly) thought of as inseparable from Feng Shui (or feng shui).
One might employ Space Clearing in a house where domestic arguments have tainted the pleasure and peace which being at home should afford.
spiritual architecture
Not to be confused with sacred architecture, although it is born of that concept: it means the design and/or construction of buildings to enhance the spiritual (or simply personal/subjective) experience of being in the building, and, consequently, the wellbeing of its inhabitants and associated persons.
Holiday huts built in trees are one unusual use of spiritual architecture for guests who love nature.
spiritual housework (also see The Placement Arts)
House ‘work’ carried out with the purpose of improving or preserving the spiritual/personal/subjective experience of being in the home. That is, housework not seen as material chores, nor decoration for mere appearance-sake, but as a specifically beneficial gracing, if you like, of the home’s inhabitants.
Polishing all the reflective surfaces so that the place ‘feels’ brighter and more open is one example of performing spiritual housework.
spot-clean
Thoroughly clean only those grubby spots that stand out.
There is no need to remove every mark during a spot-clean – limit treatment to stains and concentrated areas of grime such as those around doorknobs and light switches.
sub-folder (in computing usage)
See ‘folder (in computing use)’.
sustainability
The degree to which something can survive or continue in operation, in harmony with the survival or continuance of elements on which its own survival or continuance depends, either directly or indirectly. Think about it. Can you envisage any knock-on effects from the example below?
One could say a draughty, leaky home with low insulation properties in Australia has poor sustainability.
tax return
General term for any type or format of Individual tax report submitted at the end of each year.
It takes less time to complete my tax return if I click on all the question mark links to be sure of what I’m doing.
Vaastu (or Vastu) – both can be lower case
The pre-Feng Shui, Indian discipline of spiritual architecture, from a word meaning habitat or dwelling. When applied as an art of placement, its full name is Vaastu Shastra, where ‘shastra’ means variously skill, science, knowledge, artistry. Vaastu as a subject has other applications, too, but the word Vaastu when used by itself usually refers to Vaastu Shastra [25].
It shares the concept of a life force (prana) with Feng Shui. However, the movement of prana is thought of more as breathing than as inherently flowing the way chi does. This makes a difference to how architecture and furniture layouts are recommended, and from there other differences develop.
Certain ancient and far-flung structures outside India show signs of having been built on Vaastu principles, including the astonishing Machu Picchu site in Peru [26 ].
When you arrange your home on the principle of ‘straight lines and right angles’ – which you may have heard of in Organising conversations before, you are employing Vaastu rather than Feng Shui ,which favours curves.
values
This can be an awkward word these days, becoming clouded through a couple of societal and workplace uses. In The Everies Book, it just means ideas you have about what is important, good or right, and what you feel comfortable tolerating from others in your own life.
I don’t feel good after listening to gossip; it goes against my values.
Wabi Sabi
A somewhat reactionary practice to Feng Shui, arising in Japan. It rejects the attempts to control fate, attract abundance and strictly place items, encouraging a more organic yet minimalist expression of everyday living and the gentle passage of time. Both words have a variety of translations into English which range from sad to happy concepts [27]. My preferred summing up is: wabi ~ honouring the life cycle of things + sabi ~ happy to just be, without things.
An uncluttered yet serendipitous room arrangement is an expression of Wabi-Sabi, which I would also suggest is the art of placing things accidentally-on-purpose J
Whispers
A game where one person in a row of people whispers a message to a person beside them, who whispers it to the next person and so on, until the message gets to the end and is reported out loud to the originator. The object is to see if the intended message arrives back faithfully without alteration – a rare event!
Information can become altered just like a message in Whispers if it has been passed on verbally, or rewritten and translated many times, or even if it has been transcribed faithfully while its word meanings or context – cultural, situational etc.– have changed.
Now you’re an expert on the Everies language!
Further Reading
Following are the references I used in writing The Everies Book & developing the Inspector Ross approach. They’re taken from the back of the book with minimal editing for inclusion on the website. Let me know if any links or sites don’t function any more.
You may be surprised at some of these references – they’re rarely the latest publication or the most recently popular websites. If you want to know why, you’ll have to read the book!
I’m aware that the way references are constructed & punctuated can be off-putting enough that browsing visitors may brush over them. Therefore, I’ve simplified the presentation of these so they all follow the basic format below as far as possible and regardless of media type.
It goes like this:
Copyright holder. Title: subtitle; Article/chapter/tab title, page number. Publisher: Place [or website address], Year, &/or last access date.
Annotations (explanatory notes) where relevant.
References
(In the order in which they are drawn on or mentioned in the book.)
[1] Cobb, Linda. The Queen of Clean: a queen for all seasons. Pocket Books: New York, 2001.
[2] Bryan, Mark, & Cameron, Julia. Money Drunk, Money Sober: 90 days to financial freedom. Random House: New York, 1992.
[3] Davey, Murray. 24 Weeks to Wealth: you can create wealth from your own efforts. Useful Publishing: Mt Lawley, WA, 1994.
[4] Hamilton Keare, Miriam. The Sneaky Kitchen, Golden Rules for Living. Cited by Ann Landers, via Bess W. Metcalf, in http://sneakykitchen.com/Ten_commandments/golden_rules.htm , 1999-2016, accessed 3 April 2016.
[5] Katz, Lawrence C., & Rubin, Manning. Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic exercises to help prevent memory loss and increase mental fitness. Workman Publishing: New York, 1999.
+ Manning Rubin. Keep Your Brain Alive. http://www.keepyourbrainalive.com 1999-2014, accessed 2016.
[6] Alexander, Jane. The Five Minute Healer: a busy person’s guide to vitality and energy all day, every day. Gaia Books: London, 1999.
[7] Alexander, Jane. The Weekend Healer: essential home programmes to refresh body, mind, & spirit. Gaia Books: London, 2001.
[8] Aboriginal Health Team. Noongar Calendar: for mums and bubs. Department of Health, State of Western Australia: 2015.
+ Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Nyoongar Calendar: Nyoongar calendar from the south-west of Western Australia showing six seasons. http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/nyoongar/ , 2014, accessed 3 April 2016.
+ Rainbow Coast Web Design. South Coast Seasons Calendar for the Rainbow Coast of Western Australia. http://www.rainbowcoast.com.au/areas/rainbowcoast/seasons.htm , accessed 3 April 2016.
[9] Gardening books & calendars. See biblio-/webography.
[10] ABC. Organic Gardener: Full moon rising.
https://www.organicgardener.com.au/articles/full-moon-rising , 2013, accessed 3 April 2016.
[11] Government of Western Australia. Department of Fire & Emergency Services, Emergency Kits. www.dfes.wa.gov.au , accessed 3 April 2016.
healthdirect Australia. First aid kits. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/first-aid-kits , accessed 3 April 2016.
[12] Too, L. Lillian Too’s 168 Feng Shui Ways to Declutter Your Home, Tip 38. Cico Books: London, 2002.
[13] Planet Ark. RecyclingNearYou. http://recyclingnearyou.com.au ,2016, accessed 25 June, 2016.
[14] World Health Organisation. Health topics: Electromagnetic fields. http://www.who.int/topics/electromagnetic_fields/en/ , accessed 3 April 2016.
[15] Further decluttering & organising information. See Bibliography.
[16] Caldwell, Rod. Learn Bookkeeping in 7 Days: don’t fear the tax man. WrightBooks: Milton, QLD, 2010.
[17] Quoted variously in places such as:
http://quotes.lifehack.org/quote/denis-waitley/expect-the-best-plan-for-the-worst/ or http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/z/zigziglar133664.html . Both accessed 3 April 2016.
[18] Australian Home Journal. 36 Home Handyman Projects, Office in a Cupboard, p.63. K. G. Murray: Sydney.
(This concept is popular today, but one of the first times I saw it was in this undated 70s-era publication. I had to include it to let you know how long I’ve been following this subject!)
[19] Too, L. Lillian Too's Easy-to-use Feng Shui: 168 ways to success, Tip 51. Collins & Brown: London, 1999.
[20] Your Colours. Your Colours: Image Consultants. Perth, WA: http://www.yourcolours.com.au 2016, accessed 25 June 2016.
[21] Commonwealth of Australia. Australian Tax Office (ATO), Individuals. https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/ , accessed 3 April 2016.
[22] Roberts, Dorothy E. Faculty Scholarship, Spiritual and Menial Housework, Paper 1282. http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1282 , 1997, accessed 5 April 2016.
[23] Building Biology & Ecology Institute (New Zealand). http://www.ecoprojects.co.nz , Undated, accessed 7 April 2016.
[24] Budge, Darryl. Challenge News, Computers & Technology. Distributed in Perth, WA, Undated, column read September 2012.
[25] Craze, R. Vaastu: the Indian spiritual alternative to feng shui. Carlton: London, 2001.
+ Dee, J. An Introduction to Vastu: the Hindu tradition of arranging your home to improve health and wellbeing. Silverdale Books: Devon, England, 2002.
[26] Vastu Design International, Inc. Vastu Design: Master Builder Uncovers Striking Similarities In Indian and Incan / Mayan Sacred Structures – Architecture Reprinted Courtesy of Hinduism Today, June 1995. http://www.vastu-design.com/ht-article.php , Vastuved International LTD.: Nelson, New Zealand, 2003-2016, accessed 2016.
[27] Brown, Simon G. Practical Wabi Sabi: create the home that will make you happier, more in tune with nature and capable of meeting life’s challenges. Carroll & Brown: London, 2007.
[28] Naidu, Som. Distance Education 36(3), Lessons we are not learning or choosing to ignore!, Editorial. Taylor & Francis Online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01587919.2015.1083645 , 2015, preview re-accessed 3 April 2016.
Bibliography & Webography
(In alphabetical order.)
Australian Securities and Investment Commission. ASIC’s MoneySmart: Financial guidance you can trust, Debit Cards. https://www.moneysmart.gov.au/borrowing-and-credit/debit-cards , last updated 14 Dec 2015, accessed 25 June, 2016.
Barnard, Julia, & Barnard, Nicholas. New Decorator: how to combine well-being and style in your home. Dorling Kindersley: London, 1999.
Beattie, Antonia, with Stevens, Rosemary. The Feng Shui Guide to Clearing Your Space: How to unclutter and balance your environment using feng shui and other ancient cleansing rituals. Lansdowne: Sydney, 2000.
Bed Linen Online. Bed Linen Basics: Duvet, Quilt or Doona? December 3, 2015.
http://www.bedlinenonline.com.au/duvet-quilt-or-doona/ BedLinenOnline.com.au: Melbourne, 2016.
Clason, George S. The Richest Man in Babylon. Signet: Ringwood, Victoria, 1991.
Eco Organic Garden. Gardening Tips: gardening calendar.
http://ecoorganicgarden.com.au/garden-calendar/ , accessed 3 April 2016.
Hollo, Nick. Warm House, Cool House: inspirational designs for low-energy housing. UNSW Press: Sydney, 2008.
Howarth, Peter & Reid, Anita. Allergy-free Living: how to create a healthy, allergy-free home and lifestyle. Mitchell Beazley: London, 2000.
Humphrey, C. & Vitebsky, P. Sacred Architecture: symbolic form and ornament, traditions of East and West, models of the cosmos. Duncan Baird: London, 2003.
Lavery, Sheila. The Healing Power of Sleep: how to achieve restorative sleep naturally. Gaia Books: London, 1997.
Sones, Melissa. Full frontal fashion: never worry again about what to wear. Penguin: New York, 2005.
South West Aboriginal Land & Sea Council 2016, Kaartdijin Noongar – Noongar Knowledge: Sharing Noongar Culture; Food. http://www.noongarculture.org.au/food/ , accessed 3 April 2016.
Wu, Baolin & Eckstein, Jessica. Lighting the Eye of the Dragon: Inner secrets of Taoist Feng Shui. St Martin’s Press: New York, 2000.
(I collect placement art books, but I’m especially pleased to own this one. I understand it’s as close to an ‘original text’ of Feng Shui as I may ever see.)
You may be surprised at some of these references – they’re rarely the latest publication or the most recently popular websites. If you want to know why, you’ll have to read the book!
I’m aware that the way references are constructed & punctuated can be off-putting enough that browsing visitors may brush over them. Therefore, I’ve simplified the presentation of these so they all follow the basic format below as far as possible and regardless of media type.
It goes like this:
Copyright holder. Title: subtitle; Article/chapter/tab title, page number. Publisher: Place [or website address], Year, &/or last access date.
Annotations (explanatory notes) where relevant.
References
(In the order in which they are drawn on or mentioned in the book.)
[1] Cobb, Linda. The Queen of Clean: a queen for all seasons. Pocket Books: New York, 2001.
[2] Bryan, Mark, & Cameron, Julia. Money Drunk, Money Sober: 90 days to financial freedom. Random House: New York, 1992.
[3] Davey, Murray. 24 Weeks to Wealth: you can create wealth from your own efforts. Useful Publishing: Mt Lawley, WA, 1994.
[4] Hamilton Keare, Miriam. The Sneaky Kitchen, Golden Rules for Living. Cited by Ann Landers, via Bess W. Metcalf, in http://sneakykitchen.com/Ten_commandments/golden_rules.htm , 1999-2016, accessed 3 April 2016.
[5] Katz, Lawrence C., & Rubin, Manning. Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic exercises to help prevent memory loss and increase mental fitness. Workman Publishing: New York, 1999.
+ Manning Rubin. Keep Your Brain Alive. http://www.keepyourbrainalive.com 1999-2014, accessed 2016.
[6] Alexander, Jane. The Five Minute Healer: a busy person’s guide to vitality and energy all day, every day. Gaia Books: London, 1999.
[7] Alexander, Jane. The Weekend Healer: essential home programmes to refresh body, mind, & spirit. Gaia Books: London, 2001.
[8] Aboriginal Health Team. Noongar Calendar: for mums and bubs. Department of Health, State of Western Australia: 2015.
+ Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Nyoongar Calendar: Nyoongar calendar from the south-west of Western Australia showing six seasons. http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/nyoongar/ , 2014, accessed 3 April 2016.
+ Rainbow Coast Web Design. South Coast Seasons Calendar for the Rainbow Coast of Western Australia. http://www.rainbowcoast.com.au/areas/rainbowcoast/seasons.htm , accessed 3 April 2016.
[9] Gardening books & calendars. See biblio-/webography.
[10] ABC. Organic Gardener: Full moon rising.
https://www.organicgardener.com.au/articles/full-moon-rising , 2013, accessed 3 April 2016.
[11] Government of Western Australia. Department of Fire & Emergency Services, Emergency Kits. www.dfes.wa.gov.au , accessed 3 April 2016.
healthdirect Australia. First aid kits. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/first-aid-kits , accessed 3 April 2016.
[12] Too, L. Lillian Too’s 168 Feng Shui Ways to Declutter Your Home, Tip 38. Cico Books: London, 2002.
[13] Planet Ark. RecyclingNearYou. http://recyclingnearyou.com.au ,2016, accessed 25 June, 2016.
[14] World Health Organisation. Health topics: Electromagnetic fields. http://www.who.int/topics/electromagnetic_fields/en/ , accessed 3 April 2016.
[15] Further decluttering & organising information. See Bibliography.
[16] Caldwell, Rod. Learn Bookkeeping in 7 Days: don’t fear the tax man. WrightBooks: Milton, QLD, 2010.
[17] Quoted variously in places such as:
http://quotes.lifehack.org/quote/denis-waitley/expect-the-best-plan-for-the-worst/ or http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/z/zigziglar133664.html . Both accessed 3 April 2016.
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(This concept is popular today, but one of the first times I saw it was in this undated 70s-era publication. I had to include it to let you know how long I’ve been following this subject!)
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(I collect placement art books, but I’m especially pleased to own this one. I understand it’s as close to an ‘original text’ of Feng Shui as I may ever see.)
