being organised

Perhaps it starts with the art of learning to do one thing at a time. Instead of trying to ALL the good things at once, pick on the one that would serve your needs best and just do that one until it becomes routine, then add the next best one... and so on.

It's impossible to take all this new stuff in at once, especially as it often means a change in whole life style and not just spending habits.

You couldn't pass your GCSE's after your first day at school - so you shouldn't expect yourself to pass the MSE exam in one day either

I know the feeling. I decided to re-decorate the hall today and instead of rushing to B&Q i used the existing paint in the shed andthen ended up going to the pub for dinner as I was too knackered and unorgainsed enough to have got one of the ready cooked meals out of the freezer in tijme.


Still I suppose it still cost a lot less than I could have spent on new paint & lots of other bits I could have convinced myself I 'needed'.

Hall way looks nice though:rolleyes:

After my big rush at trying everything out, and buying all the bargains, and using all the discount vouchers etc, since I arrived here just short of 3 mths ago, I'm now in a position to evaluate everything and set too "organising" lists and budgets to maximum effect.

For the first time this week I went to put my order into Tesco but couldn't think of anything that I actually needed :eek:

Now's the time for me to take stock of freezer and cupboards and go back over some of the old challenges of recent months to use what I've already got

For me, bread and milk are my two essentials and I don't have room to store a week's worth, so that means two tempting supermarket visits.

Since I got my new breadmaker, I make bread every day and have some run the freezer for emergencies. So now it's just milk.

I had a nice system going with freezing, we use 6pints a day maximum, 4 minimum so I'd buy enough for the week, fridge half and freeze half. But no matter how I perservered,the kids complained.

My new plan is to get £10 cashback when I go shopping and that'll be milk money. All I have to do now is hold on to that £10, not take my debit card with me and remember to get the cashback every week. So far, it hasn't happened.

I can't have cash in the house. There are too many requests for 'a couple of quid in case I need to get a late train', '50p to spend at the pool', money to sponsor this at school A, raffle tickets for school B ...

Often there's a promise to repay tomorrow but then I forget, easier to say I haven't got it.