- Joined
- Sep 11, 2006
- Messages
- 8,284
- Reaction score
- 7,296
- Points
- 749
- Location
- CA
- Resorts Owned
- SDO, Quarter House, Seapointe, Coronado Beach, Carlsbad Inn, Worldmark
Glad that it's not just me. I used to remember everything. Now I feel like I remember nothing. In the last 10 years or so, there are a lot of reference points that correlate with timeshare vacations.It's seems like when you are retired, the years roll into one another. I used to be able to keep many things in my head, I was a single mom of 5. Working, soccor, baseball, scouts, etc I was a multitasking queen. Now not so much. I'm married now and I was trying to remember which year I started dating my husband. I remembered that the first vacation we went on was welk, and he proposed to me at flagstaff. So now I have the timeline down. Thank you rci. That's rather sad or funny. Now I have to write things down.
I also use excel. I have an ownership tab for each resort, a usage tab so that I can easily see when/where we are going, and another tab that tracks my deposited weeks - where they are and when they expire. I used to track my Interval costs and my RCI costs but that was too much of a PITA so I stopped updating those.
I also use Tripit to track our vacations. That is invaluable as it loads dates into my calendar automatically, and I can scan in other miscellaneous (non-confirmation) documents, so everything is in the same place. Directions to places are part of the Tripit information, as well as weather. I also share the trip with the family so that they have our itinerary.