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Organizing our home, starting with the playroom

Anu — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:42:21 +0000

Guest post written by Cheryl Hunt

One of the things that I wanted to do before my husband went back to work after the holidays was to organize our home. Well, I think I’ve basically run out of time to get his help on that, but I’m just going to move forward and try to tackle all of this on my own. I thought a good starting place would be the kids’ playroom. That’s one area that’s always messy, so I thought it might be good to get that worst room out of the way first. Plus, my kids will get to start enjoying it more again that way.

I looked online to find some tips about that and while I was looking, I ran across some info on new doors. Our front door looks so beat up and awful that I decided to use that site to get it replaced.

I’ve already started sorting through the kids’ toys, which is kind of just where you have to start out with this. It’s going much easier than I expected and I just hope that it keeps going that smoothly!

Going to the Golden Corral

Anu — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:39:22 +0000

Tonight we are going to eat out at the Golden Corral. We are celebrating my sister’s wedding anniversary, so we are joining several other family members there. I like the Golden Corral; it is an all you can eat buffet with the best tasting yeast rolls I’ve ever tasted in my life! I sneak a zipper storage bag into my oversized purse that I bring just so I can bring the leftover yeast rolls home to eat later! They are the best! And I really like their mashed potatoes and their macaroni and cheese, too. Oh, and I love hush puppies! I’d really like to eat there EVERY DAY! Their salad bar and dessert bar is terrific, I like to eat a little taste of everything!

Online shopping

Anu — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:34:26 +0000

Do you enjoy shopping online? As consumers find that their spare time is becoming more precious, many of us are turning to shopping online instead of going to the local shopping mall. Within just a few minutes, the consumer can order a wild variety of goods, like leopard print plates for a housewarming gift, bamboo strands for making placemats for a craft class, and a
God Bless Our Home Cutting Board, all while dinner is being cooked in the microwave in the room next to the computer.

Using the Internet to shop has opened up the entire global shopping market to everyone that has an Internet connection. Many companies now offer free shipping, and having the goods delivered to your doorstep, or if it is a gift they offer giftwrapping, a gift card, and delivery to the recipients address. How’s that for convenience?! And best of all, there is no worries about finding a parking spot, or locating your car in the parking lot after a long day at the mall! Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy shopping at the mall from time to time, but sometimes the mall just does not have what I’m looking for, and sometimes I just don’t have the energy to deal with it.

Good Example

Anu — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:46:46 +0000

Contribution by Saul Martin

I try really hard to be an example for my children, and to show them the importance of saving money. We have a “coupon clipping hour” every Sunday afternoon, where we all gather around the table and cut out our coupons for the week. We make our grocery list based on what’s on sale, and we’ve turned it in to a little game. The person who can make the most creative meal plan with the fewest amount of ingredients wins. Bonus points if all of those items are on sale, and extra bonus points if the meal ends up being delicious. I think it does a lot to really instill the value of money in them, and we actually all have a lot of fun every Sunday sitting around the table together. I was talking to a friend recently though who convinced me that saving money is not only about clipping coupons. It’s about making wiser choices with your money across the board. She even called shop electric companies in texas to see if she could get a more affordable energy provider, and she ended up saving a ton of money. I wonder if I could convince one of my kids to make the call for me…they really love to save money!

Life would be so much easier

Anu — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:36:54 +0000

Have you ever wished that your employer would provide a company uniform for employees to wear at the companies expense? And by that I don’t mean a vest to wear, I mean an entire outfit, shirt, shoes, pants, the whole nine yards. Life would be so much easier if I could simply obtain a work outfit from http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/ and have the company reimburse for the expense. Scrubs are both modest and comfortable to wear. If everyone wore a uniform to work, you would never be having to suffer the bad taste of the person who wears their skirts or shorts way too short and their shirts way too low in the neck.

I know that a lot of people would object, saying that they want the freedom to choose what they wear, to be able to express their individuality, but I think it would be a great benefit for people to not have to spend a lot of money on work clothes. It would be even better if the company had a uniform laundry service. My uncle used to work as an automobile mechanic in a well known shop and his company provided the mechanics with work clothes and even had them laundered. I think that would be a wonderful benefit to have, don’t you?

Hard work

Anu — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:35:28 +0000

Thanks for the guest post by Susan Dorman

When my husband decided to surprise me with the birthday gift of one of those upright style commercial vacuum cleaners I exclaimed that it was the best birthday gift I had ever received, he looked at me quite skeptically. “It is?” he queried. “Well, yes of course it is” I replied. “When you give me a tool for floor care it means that you are going to take on the chore, and I can’t think of a better gift than for you to take on the carpet cleaning chore.

Well, what could the poor man say after that? He said “well, I wasn’t planning on taking on the vacuuming.” My reply was “then you should not have bought me a vacuum cleaner! I was perfectly happy with the cannister style vacuum that I have owned since before we met and the upright styles are too hard for me to push back and forth, so if you expect our carpets to be vacuumed with that, then YOU are going to be the one to do the vacuuming.”

Well he hemmed and he hawed and said that it was easy to use the upright vacuum, much easier than using the cannister style. So I told him that was great news because HE was going to be the one using it. Well, he tried to put on his best game face and he DID use it to vacuum the floors for about a month. Then he declared that it was, in fact, harder to use than the cannister style vacuum and he put in out in the garage, never to be used again. Until, of course, we broke up and I kept the cannister style vacuum! And when it came time that my cannister style vacuum broke down I ended up buying another cannister style vacuum. The upright ones are just too hard to use!

Spray on snow

Anu — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:18:11 +0000

Yesterday I was reading an article about dying Christmas traditions. One of the traditions mentioned was the use of the spray-on-snow. Did you know that the snow used to be made from asbestos? I wonder how many people now are suffering from mesothelioma as a result of the spray-on-snow that they used to decorate their houses with? I can remember when I was a child my parents used it to spray on the Christmas tree!

I don’t know

Anu — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:25:43 +0000

Ginny has asked me to move to Edmonton with her. I’m really not sure that I want to go; this is a big decision to make. My father is encouraging me to take a leap of faith and go up there – saying that I can always come back home again if it doesn’t work out. Ginny is my best friend, and I agree that it would be quite an adventure; we could scour the Edmonton rentals for the perfect place for two young single ladies to share and to call their home base and be each other’s “wing man” when we go out to paint the town red.

I’m just not quite sure if I want to move that far away from my parents; it would be very strange to not be able to just hop in my car and drive for an hour to go see them whenever I want to go see them. Sure, we could keep in touch by telephone, but that would be very different. I think that I’ll agree to go with Ginny for a week’s vacation to check out the area and see if the area appeals to me at all.

Steak and cheese sub sandwiches for supper tonight!

Anu — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:58:08 +0000

I didn’t sleep well last night; I only got six hours of sleep. Then I have had a really busy day. I’m tired and cranky, I have a headache and I don’t want to cook supper tonight. My honey just got home and said “what’s for supper?” I asked him to please cook up some quick steak and cheese sub sandwiches for us to eat. I really like them, those frozen thin sandwich steaks. They cook up quick and easy and are really yummy! So, he is cooking supper right this minute, while I’m typing! We’ll be having chips to eat with dinner and my tummy will feel so much happier; when I come back to the computer I’ll probably be in such a better mood!

Will it work?

Anu — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:21:57 +0000

My cousin’s girlfriend Bri has been raving about how much she loves her new magnetic bracelet. She said that it has helped her arthritis tremendously! So I started doing a little bit of research on magnetic therapy. I couldn’t believe how many ailments magnets are supposed to help! From headaches, backaches, insomnia, stress, to diabetes! Bri told me that she bought her bracelet at the billythetree.com website. So I’ve gone online to check them out.

Their prices certainly seem reasonable enough, and they have a good shipping and satisfaction policy. I think I’ll order one for myself and see if I notice any difference in how I feel! Sometimes I wonder if these things “work” because of the placebo effect, so I’m always curious, yet cautious. What is your experience? Do you have any magnetic jewelry? Has it improved your life?