Ah spring. When the weather shifts irresponsibly from “leather-jacket” to “interior-of-volcano” temps, and we celebrate the end of a long hibernation by overcommitting ourselves to stuff. This week I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed — with the upcoming Fringe festival, work, freelancing, maintaining human contact, and other sundries. Though my version of “busy” more often than not involves sitting in front of a computer writing while my cat slowly covers me in white fur, I could certainly use a break. As I’m sure we all could! Luckily, I’ve compiled a few time-saving tips that should allow us to squeeze a little more downtime into our hectic spring schedules.

1. Forget to do some of the things. This is a HUGE time saver. Doing all of the things you were supposed to do would have taken forever.
2. Shower sparingly. This will conserve water, and also conserve life minutes.
3. If you must shower: multitask. You could also be brushing your teeth, combing your hair, flossing, grinding your coffee…
4. Sleep in your jeans. Use the ten minutes you saved not getting dressed to hit the snooze button one more time, I mean to accomplish one of your many tasks.
5. Spend 30 minutes writing a To Do list. This is NOT a waste of time. Well, maybe just the last 20 minutes were a waste of time. Remember to make “write a to-do list” the first item on the list.
6. Apparate. We waste WAY too much time in transit.
7. Respond to all emails with one letter: K.
8. Ask for help. This is good advice. How did this get in here?
9. Try to save up all your sleeping needs for a dumb month, such as February.
10. Spend SOME of the time you normally spend complaining about being busy on doing some of your many tasks.
11. Negotiate with the earth’s orbit. 24 hours? You’ve got to do better than that.
12. And finally… say no sometimes. Yuck, too reasonable, right?

Carry on, busy bees!