June 21: Time Keeping Study
by Mie
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In 1959, the late Ms. Motoko Hani, the founder of
Group of Friend, had established the rule
to check the time keeping status of the Group
branches all over Japan every five years.
This time is the ninth checking. I have been involved in it since the third checking.
Each member records the life time of the
home for a week in detail according to the
format. All events, such as wake-up, breakfast
preparation, taking breakfast, who took the
breakfast together, dish washing, house cleaning,
laundry, and all other small time fractions,
are carefully picked up and recorded on the
sheet in unit of one minute using specified
colors.
The magnificent work was carried out by 27,000
members in the first ten days of June throughout
Japan. The original data will be sent to
Tokyo head quarters for processing and analyzing
to produce very precious information. When
the information is compared with that of
the past files, the change of our life style
and the whereabout of the problem to be improved
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Starting this year, the individual raw data
is to be added up by personal computers.
Today, three members came to my home to do
the input work: Mrs. Yasui, in charge of
the add-up of our Oita branch, Mrs. Anan, the leader, and Mrs. Matoba
who is in charge of house account and an
excellent user of a PC in her home. Before
the working, we have a short time to sing
a hymn |
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The recording sheets were sent from the members
of Oita Group of Friend. Ms. Yasui has already
checked it, but we again look them through
for double assurance. |
 
Now, two couples started to enter the data
into two PCs. Mrs. Anan reads up the data
and Mrs. Matoba put it into the PC (left.)
Likewise, I input data by picking up Mrs.
Yasui's reading (right.) There are so many
filling-up mistakes in the sheets. Every
time we find a mistake, we call up the recorder
for re-confirmation. Data input work requires
a lot of painstaking works. |
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Tiredness may result in the increase of input
mistakes. The time is already turned noon.
We made up our mind to open the brought-in
lunch boxes. Mu husband has prepared for
us clear soup of Soumen noodle which he has just learned in the Cooking
Class last Saturday. The dessert was tasty
brought-in yogurt jelly.
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Here comes an express delivery. A member
sent the sheet after the deadline. We soon
checked it and included the add up data. |
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At 3:30 p.m, the hard work was over. The
individual record was summed up like this,
totaling 52 members. The next step is to
gather all 20 branches' data in Kyushu district
for the final add up all over Japan basis.
The data will be put under careful examination
and hot discussion to make clear good or
bad points of the current time keeping status.
We will then make the most of the result
on our life, recalling the word of the founder
Motoko Hani, "Time keeping is life keeping."
Five years ago, the final data tells the
decrease of sleeping time compared with p\the
previous research. This means adults and
children as well are turning into a "night-type"
life. Housekeeping time was decreased as
well in sewing cloths and house cleaning
in particular. What tendency will come up
this time? I am expecting the result.
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All the works were over. we are relaxed around
the table on the terrace over my home-made
sweet cream puffs and tasty coffee
my husband
prepared for us.From left: Mrs. Yasui,
Mrs.
Anan, Mie, and Mrs. Matoba. Thank you
for
your cooperation today. |