August 15, 2008 at 8:32 pm (CHAOS and Control)
Tags: coupons, check it out, saving, walmart, aggravation
Jawan posted today about her fantastic savings using Check It Out on Facebook. I was inspired, so I printed my own coupons and headed out to WalMart.
Jawan, I see your savings, and I raise . . . my blood pressure. OH MY WORD! True, I saved substantially. So much, in fact, that three (yes, THREE) managers had to examine my coupons. Finally, I asked what the problem was. The answer: “Ma’am, we can’t pay you to shop here.”
The tally looked like this: 6.00 off coupon for a 5.25 pizza, 3.50 off coupon for a 2.73 package of cheese, one free package of Orbitz gum, 4.00 off coupon for a 4.22 bottle of cranberry juice. It brought the total to something like $1.30 change back to me. So they just gave me free pizza, free cheese, free gum and made me pay .22 cents plus tax for my cranberry juice.
It wasn’t that I begrudged paying the .22 cents for more than $13 worth of groceries. I just hated that it took me ALMOST AN HOUR to do it. They kept looking at me like I was doing something illegal.
So I’ve come home and printed more coupons. I mean, I paid less than a quarter for supper this evening. That’s worth a little scrutiny.
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August 4, 2008 at 6:38 pm (CHAOS and Control)
Tags: cleaning, Daddy time, parenting, productivity
This morning I had an hour and a half of total chore busting productivity! In a brief 90 minutes, I managed to achieve more than I usually do in an entire day! I cleaned THREE entire rooms! THREE!
How did I do it? Well, my loving husband asked me how he could best assist me today, and I asked him if he could have a daddy morning with the mackerdoodle. He took her to Dick’s Sporting Goods and WalMart, which were clearly great choices. When they got home she was fast asleep and Jonathan was full of proud Daddy stories regarding her fascination with the bears at Dick’s.
As we all enjoyed our 90 minutes of Daddy time so well, we may just have to add this to our weekly schedule. I think the kitchen will thank me. 
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February 12, 2008 at 9:10 pm (CHAOS and Control)
Tags: chaos, flylady
If you read the titles of my posts, and if you looked with awe and admiration (and quiet pity) at my shiny sink yesterday, you’re probably wondering what happened to step 2 - 4. Um, Step 2 is to get dressed every morning. I already do that. I don’t think my boss would be too happy if I showed up at school in pajamas and bedroom slippers. Step 3 is to read through the FlyLady website, which I did before I signed up. Step 4 is to write out the steps for the mirror, but I only have one step at step 4 (shine my sink) and step 5 is to Finally Love Myself.
Frankly, I don’t think step 5 is biblical, or advisable. I love myself plenty! That’s why I don’t have a chaos free house. I love myself so much I give myself blog breaks and chocolate breaks and reading breaks and shopping breaks and . . . you get the idea. I believe that God loves me (the idea boggles the mind, honestly) but he doesn’t tell me to love myself, he tells me to love and pursue Him.
As I type this, I think I will do step 5, but instead of telling myself nice things about myself, I’m going to have a list of things about God, and focus on that. yeah. Okay, so I have some steps for that list for my mirror. I’m kind of doing this backwards. I guess that’s the way I FLY.
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February 11, 2008 at 10:05 pm (CHAOS and Control)
Tags: clean sink, flylady, housekeeping
Well, after confessing that I struggle with organizing my home, and then inviting 40 people into it, I took a look at Flylady. I think it may help, and as I go through the beginner baby steps, I’m going to post the results here, in case anyone else is wondering how this flylady thing works.
Baby Step 1: 
Result: 
So, we’ll see what tomorrow’s baby step is tomorrow.
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