Lists, charts, and planners, oh my!

So I used to plan my meals monthly but after discovering 5dollardinners.com , I found that I can save a lot more money creating weekly meals to match the ads and coupons from the paper. Well, since my husband likes to know what he's having for dinner everyday, I decided to post it on one the bulletin board for him to see. While looking for the new bulletin board (the old one has been destroyed by the 7 yr old), I find 4 chore charts, 2 dry erase calendars, 1 big poster calendar, and about 6 new unopened planner refill packs.

Um, I guess I've been getting "organized" (and wasting money apparently) a little longer than I realized. No harm, I decided "I'll donate the items I won't be using to fellow un-organized moms", I declared. To make myself feel better I decided that I would implement at least one new tip I received or thought of weekly. This week's tips (which won't start until tomorrow, because I don't believe in starting anything new on Saturday) are:

Week 1 Make the kids lunches for the entire week on Sunday
Prep my dinner meals for the week on Sunday
Iron the kids/hubbies clothes for the week on Sunday.

So here's the thing, I've actually attempted to do these things before and with success for a half a second. However, I seem to get bored with things and "routines" pretty quickly. I'm hoping by posting this for all to see, it will almost act as an accountability partner. After all who wants to admit that yet again, they didn't follow through.

Back to my store of organizational supplies never used, my friends informed me they are not very interested in them right now, so they moved to the place everything I don't use goes...the OFFICE . It's scary to think of everything that's in there, but also kinda exciting because I'm going to IKEA to find some new storage options, or new things to leave in the office unopened, only time will tell! Oh, and I've heard The Container Store is awesome so I'll be checking out that site shortly.

Later for now!

Why don't you get a proofreader?

Okay, since this is the inaugural post, I thought I might as well start off being honest. No point in having high expectations, just for them to be shot down.

I am NOT an english major. I have been know to use a double negative a time or two. I have created words by combining two different words. I have used a comma when I should have used a semi-colon. I have written a sentence that was 22 words long without any forms of punctuation. There I said it. The first step is admitting, right?

So, in telling one of my girlfriends about my blog, I expressed that I was a little hesitant to actually post anything for the world to see, since my grammer/punctuation wasn't the best. She simply asked, "Why don't you get a proofreader?

Umm...yeah, she actually said that!

Shauntay