Showing posts with label housekeeping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label housekeeping. Show all posts

Saturday, November 14, 2009

"Time-Saver" Grocery Shopping List

I want to believe that somebody might have noticed that I don’t blog anymore as often as I did. I’m so sorry. Blame it to our new house as I am enjoying very much making it look pretty. It could also be because every time I get online, the things that I checked are the local job opportunities that I might be qualified and I did some action on it right away. Also, our internet connection right here and now is not very good. Well, I am not making excuses for not posting often and for not visiting your blog, I am just raving about my new life here which I thought would be a lot more of free time than when we were still in Michigan, but don’t get me wrong, I want everybody to know that I am enjoying every single second of our life now here in Florida.
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Well, I have been to Wal-mart to buy the things that I need in preparing dinner tonight, but it is so frustrating that I can’t find everything that I need there. I just don’t want to go to another store just for the remaining stuff on my list that I didn’t find. It is wasting time and I hate it. But hey, I found a website that come up with this cool “grocery shopping list”. It is a very innovative way for housewives like me who value time very much because of too many things in the list that are waiting to be taken care of. Through this website, you simply add the product that you are looking for (be sure to add their local names, too, because for some matter, people from different places or countries call the same thing with different names). You can also use “My favorite” page and then quickly prepare your shopping list, print it out and off you go to pick them up from the stores that you have selected.
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Isn’t this cool? Visit their facebook profile and become a fan of this to keep up with all the updates. Let us all be a smart housewife serving our husband joyfully.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Keeping Neat The Plastic Shopping Bag

One of the things that my mom-in-law was impressed about my housekeeping is the way I keep the plastic shopping bag. Every after we unload the stuff in the bag, I would smoothen, fold it neatly, file them and keep them in a place where we can easily reach them anytime we need it.
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I used to do this when I was till in the Philippines. Keeping them neatly folded does a lot of advantage. When you need a bag, you save trouble looking where they are and they are perfectly ready; no need to smoothen them. Carrying a badly crumpled plastic bag does not make a good impression. There are a lot of things that we may need the plastic bag, too. (I'm sorry to those who campaign about not using neither plastic nor paper in shopping anymore.)