Scheduling Your Filter Changes

This came up today, since I needed to do it, so I thought I’d post a quick tip about remembering to change furnace filters on-schedule. If you’re anything like me, you rarely go visit your utility closet in the basement, so writing down the date of the last change - or the date of the next - on a piece of paper taped to the front, like in olden times, isn’t all that helpful.

So I began scheduling them in Outlook, a couple years ago. Once you enter “Change Filter” and set it as a recurring appointment with a reminder - every 3 months is recommended - you can forget all about it! Three months later, a reminder will pop up on your screen and you’ll know it’s time. Google Calendars and any others like these two also work.

I figured with this blog-reading crowd, pop up on-screen reminders might be the only thing that gets us all OFF the internet and down to that dark basement room wherein sits the furnace.