The relationship between menu planning and shopping lists

Menu planning for a full week will accomplish four things:

• Will allow you to budget appropriately and will help you avoid those last minute trips to the store. (we all know that you will leave with more than just "one ingredient."
• Will lead you to have a structured week with the knowledge that you know what will be for dinner for each evening. This will lead to a calm sane put-together mommy. The kids will feel it!
• Will be great for the cold winter months when leaving your house becomes a hassle.
• Will lead to wholesome dinners because more time and thought will go into planning them. Healthier dinners = healthier family members. A win-win!
  

Trouble remembering appointments and other important events?

Cell phones have become extremely useful for many aspects of daily life, including the calendar app.

That is all fine and dandy, but some of us need to actually look at actual paper in order to retain information.

I suggest getting a desk-size calendar that will stay where your computer is. This will enable you to quickly jot down an important event, and it can easily be glanced at.

Junk Mail and how to eliminate it

People complain to me about the piles of junk mail sitting around their kitchen, dining room table or office.
How do you go about eliminating stacks of various magazines, offers, grocery-store circulars, and bills?

There is only one solution:

• The minute the mail comes, go right to your garbage
• Throw out the magazines you will never read, the circulars you won't get around to looking through, and the utility offers and other assorted wastes of paper!
• Take only the important bills, documents, bank statements and other related important mail to your office or filing cabinet. (if you don't have either, now would be a good time to start thinking about it)

Try this for a week and see how clutter-free your life can be