What I Have Learned At Home
1. Simply being at home does not get things done. You have to think and physically put your body to work in order for any actual change in your environment to occur.
2. Timing is critical if you want to wash towels, wash dishes, and scrub tile all with hot water.
3. It feels really good to provide your loved ones with clean clothes!
4. I enjoy cooking when it's not after a long day of talking to grouchy people.
5. It's easy to let the computer distract you...
6. Audio books make things move along much faster.
7. Idleness is definitely the devil's workshop, at least for me. If I'm not busy I start to overthink EVERYTHING.
8. I didn't realize how much time 9 hours really is.
9. I can focus a lot more on my husband and what his day was like when HE gets home when I'm not consumed with how horrible my day was when I get home.
10. It's a lot more challenging to plan a budget-wise grocery list than I thought!
11. My few efforts at taking at-home surveys have all been a flop because I know nothing about tires, don't shop at the mall every 2-3 months, and we don't have cable. I am a very unexciting person.
12. I googled "What to do with odd socks" and discovered that there are many cleaning applications for them. And that you can turn them into monkeys.
13. Trying to catch the blender soaking in the sink mid-tip results in soaking one's clothing.
14. Dried beans and rice is REALLY GOOD if you add a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of cheddar cheese!
15. Our house gets unbearably hot on sunny afternoons -- except on the couch in front of the tv.
16. And I just learned seconds ago that if Terminix comes but you're not able to answer the door immediately, don't go step out on the stoop in your bare feet when you get to the door because they spray it with poison.
2. Timing is critical if you want to wash towels, wash dishes, and scrub tile all with hot water.
3. It feels really good to provide your loved ones with clean clothes!
4. I enjoy cooking when it's not after a long day of talking to grouchy people.
5. It's easy to let the computer distract you...
6. Audio books make things move along much faster.
7. Idleness is definitely the devil's workshop, at least for me. If I'm not busy I start to overthink EVERYTHING.
8. I didn't realize how much time 9 hours really is.
9. I can focus a lot more on my husband and what his day was like when HE gets home when I'm not consumed with how horrible my day was when I get home.
10. It's a lot more challenging to plan a budget-wise grocery list than I thought!
11. My few efforts at taking at-home surveys have all been a flop because I know nothing about tires, don't shop at the mall every 2-3 months, and we don't have cable. I am a very unexciting person.
12. I googled "What to do with odd socks" and discovered that there are many cleaning applications for them. And that you can turn them into monkeys.
13. Trying to catch the blender soaking in the sink mid-tip results in soaking one's clothing.
14. Dried beans and rice is REALLY GOOD if you add a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of cheddar cheese!
15. Our house gets unbearably hot on sunny afternoons -- except on the couch in front of the tv.
16. And I just learned seconds ago that if Terminix comes but you're not able to answer the door immediately, don't go step out on the stoop in your bare feet when you get to the door because they spray it with poison.
*Melissa
*Moserary
*Katydid
*Ashley
*Holly
*Dougie
*Becca
*My Amber!
*Ajjie
*Megs
*Maria
*Juli
*Allison
*Extremely Huggable
*Mr. "Eclectic"
*Lauren L
*Micah
*Abi
*Miss Matthews
*Crystal C
*Leah
*Aaron C.
*Melinda (not Melissa)
*Jessie
*She Who Would Not Join Pleonast
*Jesse
*Brooke
*Cuz
*Ma Souer
*Ma Souer Deuxieme
*Ma Souer Troisieme
*Sarah K
*Angelina
Caleb
anniemay
*TrefeTHEN
Jonathan
Charlie
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I've discovered it really helps to have a written out daily routines and a list of weekly chores and to-dos.
The key to the grocery budget is meal planning. I've discovered if you plan your meals around cheap, healthy staples and shop sales, there's really not a lot of need for obsessing over coupons.
Your comment about at-home surveys was interesting to me, because when I do surveys they seem to always revolve around toiletries and personal care items half the time. I'm a member of several survey websites, but I only do surveys that will pay at least $1 for every 10 min. of my time. If they say, we will pay you .50cents for doing this 20 min. survey, it's really not worth my time.
I laughed aloud at number 12.
To help pass time, I recommend listening to Phil Roberts sermons from the Antioch website. :-)