I don’t keep records. I usually just want to see the growth which seems kind of unfair to include my deposits in. But I suppose it doesn’t really matter all that much either way since I can’t control it or withdraw it anytime soon. 
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Growth/change is made up of two parts - the stuff you added/removed, and the stuff the market added/removed.
So you can measure just one of those, or two, or three (the sum of the two), but none is more intrinsically valid than the others imo.
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So when we bought our house (took possession end of January), there were some roof issues that the sellers agreed to fix. Turns out they did not, which I only realized in November (yes ideally I should have realized that earlier, but we had so many other repairs going on that I simply missed it). We just got the roof fixed today and the guy confirmed that the issues could definitely have let water in.
How worried should I be about mold and other water damage issues? I do live in a very dry climate (my house’s baseline humidity is like 25% lol), but we have gotten a couple of good rains and snows over the past year. We got new insulation in the attic in September - they didn’t mention anything then, but I don’t know how much stock to put in that, or if something could’ve happened since then.
This rant brought to you by more annoyance at our house’s sellers (that we have nicknamed Break and Exit) 
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Do you want to do a video call inspection of the area you’re worried about?
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This is so sweet, thank you 
Unfortunately our attic access is just a hatch in the ceiling, and I just realized we don’t have a ladder tall enough for me to look in, much less get up there. And much of the area I’m concerned about is pretty inaccessible in general.
If I am eventually able to get up there (or can get my partner up there), do you happen to have suggestions of what to do or look for? New insulation is blown in cellulose. Or is it worth trying to find someone to go up there and take a look, if I’m not confident we can get up there ourselves?
Thank youuuu
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I also live in a very dry place and I don’t worry much about mold or mildew once a water problem has been resolved. If there is some kind of adequate airflow the previously affected area will dry out.
If you stick your head in the attic and it smells musty, investigate further. If you aren’t sure, check back every so often. There is also a test you can get at home depot that checks the levels. It might be worth it for peace of mind.
If the roof has vents (you can tell from looking at the outside) there will be ventilation up there. If nothing is leaking any more it’s probably fine.
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That is extremely dry! I wouldn’t worry about it.
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@Smacky You are a lifesaver - thank you thank you!! We do have multiple vents (even after closing up the leaks lololol). This is all extremely helpful, both for current reassurance and future monitoring.
@Meowmalade Thank you!!
Seriously I don’t know what I’d do without y’all 
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That’s a “humidify your space so that your piano doesn’t get damaged due to dryness” number 
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We are usually 15-20%! Good thing we are a piano free household.
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Confused in Floridian
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Harps too! Luckily I don’t have either right now because I don’t feel like running a hardcore humidifier 24/7
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I’m originally from Houston (and my parents still live there) so definitely took some getting used to the dryness and going back to the humidity is An Experience
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I want to try having a paper planner this year to keep track of my daily plans (I don’t have a ton of meetings) and make notes and whatnot. I don’t want to spend a million dollars. What’s a good starting place for a neophyte? I don’t have time to join the social media on planning!
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My “non-planner planner” approach - I look at stuff weekly, I use a notebook with dot grid pages and part of my routine is to do the week vertically on the right, then on the left I have to do items. Higher priority or easier tasks in the top area, the rest down below. Sometimes I have tasks that creep on over weeks (but isn’t tied to a particular month) and I don’t want to rewrite them, that gets a sticky note.
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I found a planner I’m really enjoying at Target for $12. I shopped for it the old fashioned way, by going to the store and looking through everything they had until I found it.
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what is the problem you want to solve by ‘keeping track of daily plans’? what is happening right now that is suboptimal for you?
when will you be looking back at the notes you make? (what purpose will the note making fulfill?)
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I want to look at screens less and still remember what I had in mind for a particular day. Notes are usually more ephemeral, like what the vet said.
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how far out in advance are you putting things into the plan for the day? what percentage of things are ‘had in mind’ and can easily be moved if life comes up?
I run a double planner - the electronic is where I capture the appointments and events we might go to, and if I have a random thought for the spring I could put it in for a day in May, and it’s easy to either put into my phone while I’m in transit, or send myself an email to do it.
Then on a weekly basis (generally sunday) I move my notes from electronic to paper, with a few lines for each day, plus a column of ‘sometime this week’ stuff.
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