Meal prepping is great...I don't do it often though. I would love to listen to stuff while I work, but trying to find the balance with that and interacting with my daughter while I work is tricky. I get very focused on what I'm listening to! Favorite podcast...now that we're a family
Ughhh! A robot vacuum! Yes! I would love one. Do they do stairs!? Looking back at my busiest years of parenting, I could have saved SO much time if I'd just stuck to my core values and priorities. If I'd made a "top 5 list" every day and practised "first-things-first", it would have been a less stressful stage. Of course, to work, we have to have total peace about letting go of the tasks of lesser value (even if other people value them for themselves). A good example is this. I love plants. I love them as decor. I see beautifully decorated spaces with plants. I see beautiful pics on pinterest. In magazines. In youtube videos. But...looking after plants is not on my "top 5 values or priorities" list. So. No plants. Someone else might feel this way about having knick knacks to dust. Get rid of them. Clothes to iron. Buy fabrics that don't wrinkle. Pets. Don't own a pet. Cooking. Give your kids the same simple lunch each day. Picking up toys constantly. Get rid of most of them or rotate them. It's so important to know your priorities and let go of the rest; atleast, for a season. ❤❤❤
Meal prep is mandatory for me if we are not going to eat out that week! It never fails we get to Wednesday-Saturday and I just don't feel like spending a half hour to an hour in the kitchen to cook a healthy meal! Dry shampoo 🙌 yes!!! My husband has been trying to get me to buy a Roomba, but I just got my Dyson and am in love. I'm thinking when we have more kids I'll go the robot vacuum route! Great tips! I love how down to earth your videos are! 🙂
I was feeling a little resentful of all the repetitive chores I have to do, and friends were talking about hiring a housekeeper. Not really in our budget, and I personally do not feel like I can hire somebody when technically I could do it myself. So--I am with you on this--robot vac to go under the furniture and get all the dog hair and glitter on the floor! I am a lot less irritable when I don't see dust bunnies all around. haha!
Your office looks so good (is this your office?). Okay, this has been my concern with grocery pickup: the produce. We get a lot of produce at Walmart. I'm guessing you get produce there, too, and have been really happy with it? I do the same thing with meal prep - two or three things a couple times a week. My mom LOVES her roomba and has had it for many years! I have always wondered if it could keep up with our dog hair and legos and all the stuff we have. It helps to hear your review of it!
I've never had an issue with produce. I think they're trained to get the nicest looking item to keep the customer happy. If they're out of something they'll give you something similar at the same or higher quantity for the lower price which is great. Last week they gave me three small tubs of organic spinach since they were out of the large tub of organic spinach. If you're particular about a certain brand you can uncheck the substitution option for that item. They don't have absolutely everything online that they have in the store, so I don't use it every single week, but I use it probably 3 times a month.
My robot vacuum keeps up with the floor WAY better than I was before I got it. Our dog was in shedding season and we had just ripped out all the carpet and installed tile, so I was struggling. 😂
I use the Hoopla app. If your library supports it you get 8 free audiobooks or ebooks per month. Libby is a similar app that I sometimes use as well. I find Hoopla to be more user friendly. If your local library doesn't support it you could look into purchasing a library card to a bigger county library that supports it and come out way ahead over an audiobook website's monthly fee. 💖
love these great time saving tips. Never heard of castbox I'll have to take a look into that. I got rid of my FB account and I have gotten so much of my time back lol. 😃 So my husband works from home now to and I would LOVE to see some homeschool tips for when your spouse works from home. My son trys to get his attention alot since he knows he's home and can be a tad distracting for schooling (I say schooling loosely since he's only going to be 4). ❤️
