One thing our family has learned to do well is to change our day around in non-traditional ways to meet the needs of our family. In order to save money and not go out to supper, we often will change our meals around so we do a supper-type meal for lunch and then have our sandwiches for supper when we're on the go. That way we don't end up going out to eat and spending money, or not doing things that we want to do, but would be too hard to do because of the supper hour.
For example, we need to drive in to town to go shopping and it's a big event. To make it easier, we'll have a big supper-type meal at lunch, then right after naptime we'll load up in the van and bring our sandwiches with to eat in the van. Tonight we're going to look at a couple houses that we may be interested in buying. We want to do this after our business hours, so we'll have a big lunch again and then eat our sandwiches in the van and have the home showings during the normal supper hour. We do this a lot in the summer if we go to the lake. Instead of trying to plan a big meal to bring along to the lake or out hiking, we'll just switch things around for the day.
The key is to do what makes sense, not what's traditional. Think out of the box about how things can be done better in different areas of life! |
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• Tue 27 Feb 2007 - Untitled Comment
Thanks, Cammie