Expiring to-dos:

This topic has been on my potential topic list for a while. As I am posting this late, it seems very a propos.

Expiring to-dos are those things that need to be done by a certain date/time and after that there's not much point. They're dead and that's that.

Hotel rooms expire: if they're not booked, they're not. Having a guest the next night doesn't change that. Front page deadlines for newspapers expire too - if you miss one day's deadline the story same can't catch the next one.

Birthdays expire too, perhaps not as drastically. A belated birthday card is better than nothing - to some people, others find it 'too much, too little, too late'.

I believe a lot of our 'to-dos' are like this, where a belated effort is a bit better than nothing but not genuinely satisfying. If you don't order air-conditioning during the winter, then the summer will be as hot as ever and knowing next summer will be cool won't make you feel much better.

A bit like this post, really, post 40 of 100 posts.