How well is your agenda working for you?

Everybody knows what a calendar is and how to use it. Or do they? Because soccer practice is every Monday, do you bother to write it down? When you consider how much your time is worth to you, you must see the significance in this minor task. How many families complain about not enough quality time - but do they schedule it? Your agenda is your best friend - you should never leave home without it! It doesn't matter if you think you have the most mundane and repetitive schedule or you have a fantastic photographic memory, you should have an agenda that meets your needs.

I have one that cost ONE DOLLAR at the local discount dollar store. I am extremely frugal and refuse to spend more than necessary on everything. This agenda must have the dates filled in, its not done for you, but it works for me and that's the point. You must find what works for you. My darling husband has an IPhone and uses an app that allows him to exactly what I do except it is electronic. He likes the fact that his whole agenda fits in his pocket. I like the fact that I can see my whole week every time I open my agenda. When I decided that my mundane and repetitive life needed a schedule I explored my options at that local office supply store. I didn't like what I found. Either it was too bulky, or the boxes to write in were too big and didn't have times, or it had times but it was a big binder, or it was simply too expensive. Now, just because I'm frugal doesn't mean you should go get one like I did. There were plenty there I could have bought that would have worked perfectly but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. My husband, on the other hand, would have had no problems spending the money. (We don't always see eye to eye, as you can tell.) Honestly, in the end it really doesn't matter how it is done, as long as it is done.

Once you can see your week at a glance, believe me, it is the first step in saving tons of money. As I said before, my schedule doesn't change much from week to week, but it allows me to plan my menu based on my family's activities. When I started planning my menu, my grocery bill was cut in half! I now spend on average about fifty dollars a week on groceries for my family of four. Research shows that most families our size or bigger spend double or triple that in a week's time. Wouldn't we all love to save money in this recession?

Not only are people spending too much money on groceries, they are also spending too much time in the grocery store. If you could take the time to keep an agenda you would see immense savings in time and money. Taking the time to keep an agenda, create a menu for the week, and shop just the list you need would save you so much money it would knock your socks off! But, here's another stopping block: impulse buying. How many times have you been in the store, with a list, and spent money on things not on your list? Every ounce of planning went out the door with those extra purchases. Here's how you could remedy that expensive mistake: call Grocery Getters! They will shop your list and no more for an amazingly minimal cost and deliver it all to your door at the most convenient for you. Now, that's worth keeping an agenda!