One of today's letters mentions a family bulletin board as being a help. Our family concurs in the idea. Each family can adapt the board to its own special needs. Ours is just a blackboard hung in the back hall right near the telephone and the back door.
On it we not only leave messages for one another but the feed man, relatives and friends who may drop by, telephone messages, record of callers, the daily egg record, or comments on farm work -- all these find a place from time to time.
Maybe I'll scribble "Ask me about oysters," or "News about Duke," and when Jim comes in to dinner, there'll be a reminder to tell him some joke or bit of gossip or news that he should know about but which I might have forgotten to mention. Or Jim will make a more or less cryptic report on some repair he has been asked to make, like "Some people aren't very mechanical. Thermostat needed a quarter-turn." Of course there are lots of "don't forgets" posted on the board, to catch the eye of the appropriate persons as they enter or leave.
For us, blackboard and chalk serves the purpose. Some places you might prefer a cork board for thumb-tacking notices, clippings, pictures. Ruth likes that kind. Familes with children of various ages find innumerable uses for a bulletin board. One child has to be out at Scout meeting, another at 4-H, one at high school band practice, mother shopping perhaps, dad in the field, -- but a bulletin board will keep them all posted about everybody's whereabouts, and about letters received, news of neighbors, plans for activities.
You all ought to try the system and see how much reminding and repeating it saves. -- Hope.