Food on the Table is an online service designed to help families eat better and save money at the grocery store. They take the sales at your local grocery store and your family’s food preferences to create a meal plan based on kid-friendly recipes hand picked by their chefs.
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I have talked before about a Home Management Notebook and other ways to be more efficient in the home. WELL my system or lack of system has gone to the proverbial hell in a handbasket. Where did that term come from any way?? I digress…
You all know we moved into a new home and in addition to me having no desk yet, (or working printer – AHHHH!!) I realized in my last home that my desk top WAS NOT a good place to organize the family – school papers, important reminders, calendar, etc. They got swallowed up and were not visible when we need them. So what I need is COMMAND CENTRAL!!
Here is what I have:
This is what I WANT...
photo credit: PotteryBarn
I mean I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT this system from Pottery Barn. I am sooo tempted, except the price tag is HUGE!!! So this CHEAP gal needs to find a different solution that does not short change what I NEED only to save money.
Here is where I need your help – HELP me scour the internet and stores to find similar, CHEAPER solutions. Send me pictures and ideas. I will pull them all together and document my progress in building my families HOME MANAGEMENT COMMAND CENTRAL. Once we do that, then I can revisit my home management notebook, cleaning schedules and dare I say menu planning (eek!).
PLEASE JOIN MY DESIGN TEAM and send me IDEAS!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
I hope you survived the holidays and the BACK TO SCHOOL routine this morning. Personally I have a love/hate relationship with New Years. I HATE thinking about all the things I DID NOT accomplish the previous year, but I LOVE thinking about all the cool things I CAN do this year.
I have so many ideas that I want to do with the blog this year. We have grown so much over the last year and I cannot wait to see where we are headed in 2011. If you are NEW HERE – WELCOME and you can read all about me and Maven of Savin’ HERE. Do not worry, all the deals will still be here, but I really want to get back to my original intent for the blog…
Be on the lookout for our weekly LIVE CHAT on Wednesday’s from 8pm – 9pm. I will also be creating a bunch of polls I will need you to participate in so I can better understand what you all want. WOO HOO – it is going to be great. You will see some new tools as well. We already have the coupondatabase and the NEW Shipping List feature (tutorial coming…), but I love techie toys, so who knows what is next.
HOWEVER – keep in mind that I always BITE OFF MORE THAN I CAN CHEW – so rather than me making all kinds of timing promises to you all, I am going to try to pace myself. My family is also moving in 3 weeks – so needless to say, the saving time and organizing stuff will clearly have to wait until I get settled. So as I say… BABY STEPS. But there is one thing I will be starting tomorrow…
I am so pleased to be starting a RENEW FOR YOU 2011 writing series collaborating with Kelly from Kansas City Mamas, Shelly from Coupon Teacher, Melissa from Stockpiling Moms and Sarah from Give Me Neither. Sometimes we get bogged down with everything (the deals 
) and do not get to write about the things we want. So now – cue the music – “it’s my blog and I’ll write IF I want to, write WHAT I want to, write WHEN I want to”!
This series is about Renewing yourself for YOU in 2011. Every week, each blogger will be writing about different resolution type topics like budgeting, frugal weight loss, organizing, making time for yourself and accepting you for you. I hope you will join us as we help support each other in RENEW’ing ourselves. Look for new posts on Tuesday afternoons.
So even though I will be doing a poll, feel free to chime in now – WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE on Maven of Savin’ in 2011??
If you are out shopping late night this weekend, head to Smoky Bones for 8 FREE wings with the purchase of any drink from 10pm – close. It is valid through 12/20/10.
There is a HOT Black Friday sale on AmyLynnAndrews new eBook Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled. Right now you can download it for 50% off – it is only $6 when you use code MONDAYBLACK at checkout through Cyber Monday!
Since we are also about SAVING TIME here as well, I have decided to do a series of posts as I go through this journey with Amy. Do you want to join me? I will break it up into bite size pieces and share how I am going through it – my GOAL is to have a transformed schedule with life priorities and goals by Christmas. (OK – we have had to postpone due my selling my house and moving immediately after Christmas – however, what a wonderful thing to do as I settle into my NEW home) That is my gift to me and my family. We will have live chats in my NEW chat room on as well. Here is a preview of the table of contents:
If you want to follow along and transform your time management issues into triumphs, grab a copy of Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled. It is only $6 for a few more days . For me, this is a $$ investment I need to make today for the happiness and well being of my family. I am hoping this will be a New Years Resolution that will stick.
The other day I quickly told you about AmyLynnAndrews new eBook Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled. I am so excited to read every page and go through the PROCESS of MAKING CHANGE.
I NEED to do this badly for my family, things are slipping through the cracks left and right. OK, to be serious for a minute – they are not cracks, but more like big, cavernous abysses that are popping up all around me. Before someone falls in, most likely ME, I need to address it.
Since we are also about SAVING TIME here as well, I have decided to do a series of posts as I go through this journey with Amy. Do you want to join me? I will break it up into bite size pieces and share how I am going through it – my GOAL is to have a transformed schedule with life priorities and goals by Christmas. That is my gift to me and my family. We will have live chats in my NEW chat room on facebook as well.
If you want to follow along and transform your time management issues into triumphs, grab a copy of Tell Your Time: How to manage your schedule so you can live fulfilled. It is only $7 for one more day using code InTheClub – then the price will go back up to the regular $12. For me, this is a $$ investment I need to make today for the happiness and well being of my family.
You may have noticed this NEW Facebook “LIKE” button at the bottom of every post. This is an easy way for you to tell your facebook friends that you like a deal or post. It is a little easier than the SHARE using the “Tell -a-friend” widget.
What will appear on your wall is “so & so LIKES post title” and the post title is the link to the post. How easy is that?!
Let me know what you think about it. Also, do you often tweet about deals or posts you find. You can always use the TELL A FRIEND widget to share anything through many different avenues, BUT there is also a really easy re-tweet button I could install if you would be more likely to use that.
I said at the inception of this blog that I would talk about saving money AND SAVING TIME!! Is this you trying to get out shopping??? If it is, READ ON…
Do you want savings, but are too busy to get to the stores and find all the coupon clipping deals & sales on these blogs? Do you enjoy purchasing online from the comfort of your home? If so…
There is a NEW WEBSITE… Alice.com
Hearing Alice reminds me of the housekeeper on Brady Bunch – LOL!!! Alice is there to help when it comes to home essentials. According to the website, Alice can:
You tell Alice what you buy—choosing from great deals on 1000’s of products—and Alice goes to work. We organize all of your products, find coupons and deals for you, remind you when you might be running low, and help you order just the items you need so you can avoid that trip to the corner drugstore or the big-box store. And all this convenience comes direct to your door with free shipping included.
“The site will offer 7,000 products made by 55 manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble (PG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), and Clorox (CLX). Shipping is free, and the company pledges to offer low prices that are competitive with discount retailers like Wal-Mart. “On average we are at or slightly above [the prices at] big-box retailers” (from an article in Business Week)
Let me know what you think!!! What can they do to improve???
thanks Aimee!!
