I am one of those people who can't remember what needs to be done unless it is written down. Therefore, I have about 4 to-do lists floating around at any one time. One for home, one for work, a grocery list, a Target list, an event planning list, etc. Unfortunately, the lists never seem to get shorter and they tend to get lost before they can do any good.
Well, I found a great site on-line called
In other news, we got the new rates for Caleb's daycare that go into affect next week. Was really hoping for a significant change so that we could put more towards debt payments. I should have known better. We went from paying $218/week to paying $213/week. Know we can almost afford to go out to eat once a month. Also, we found out that the cost for an infant for the next year will be $288/week which is more than we had planned on for sure.
All we can do is try even harder to get out of debt as quick as possible to free up a little more money for daycare payments. I am going to have to propose some pretty tough restrictions on spending if that is going to happen, though. Once again I have to be the bad guy...
Well, we were able to avoid having 3 separate repair people come to our house last night. I managed to fix the DirecTV ($0), Scott fixed the garbage disposal ($0), and then we both worked at fixing the weed whacker ($13 for parts). I figure we saved ourselves about $600 by repairing what we had instead of throwing it out and buying new.
August 30th, 2007 at 06:55 pm 1188500114
www.freewarefiles.com that is pretty good for keeping organized. The program I got is Chaos Manager and its works good. Its a to do list, calender and notebook sort of thing all combined. They have a number of other similar ones too but I prefered the Chaos Manager out of what i've tried.
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I agree that Backpack is very good, especially for those who want to coordinate their business-related... business online.
If you prefer outlines, I like the way www.loosestitch.com is shaping up so far. Check it out!
August 31st, 2007 at 01:57 am 1188525462
Unfortunately, those are the going rates for daycare in this area. It is truly outrageous and there is nothing we can do about it. The cost of daycare is the reason that most people with more than 1 child around here have one parent who stays home full time. We just aren't willing to do that at this point.
I will have to check out loosestitch. That sounds interesting....
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