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Supplies and services
What you use up and buy again, and who you call. Both keep what they cost, and both feed the history of the thing they are for.
A thing or a supply?
A thing is something you look after. A supply is something you use up and buy again. Does it get used up? It’s a supply. Does it get looked after? It’s a thing.
- Things: the fridge, the well, a fire extinguisher, a smoke alarm. They have a page, check-ups and a history.
- Supplies: furnace filters, softener salt, 9-volt batteries, dog food, propane.
They meet in a task: the smoke alarm’s battery change is a check-up on the alarm that uses a battery from your supplies.
Supplies
Add one from › A supply, or from a thing’s page, where it is already for that thing. Each has how many you have, what it is counted in, the price each, where you bought it, a link, and what it is for.
- adds to the count, and what you paid sets the price for next time.
- takes one off: a bag of food opened, a battery swapped in.
- A task can say what it Uses. Marking it done takes them off the count, every time a repeating task comes round.
Supplies are on Home under Supplies, and a thing’s own are on its page under Supplies for it. Buying and using them shows in that thing’s history. Deleting a supply takes it, and its lines, off the page.
When it runs out
Once a supply has been used at least twice, it says when it will run out: how fast it has gone between uses, and how many are left. It always says what that is projected from, like projected from the last 3 uses. Until then it doesn’t guess.
Running low on Home lists anything at or under the Buy more at count you set, or projected to run out within two weeks.
Services
A service is a company, what they do, what it is for, how often, and what a visit costs. Add one from › A service, or from a thing’s page.
- How often makes it a check-up. It comes due on Home with the company’s name on it.
- Marking it done is their visit: it goes in the thing’s history with what it cost, and the next one is counted from it.
- adds one by hand, including from before you lived there. Tick Before we lived here.
Services show on each thing’s page under Who looks after it, under Services in People and companies, and on each company’s page with when they came.