No More Wire Hangers!!! Stress Free Holidays

Many of you may already know this but I have to give a little hint for making your life and Christmas shopping a bit easier especially if you have young children like me. Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Overstock.com and Drugstore.com are my favorite websites for holiday shopping. You can buy EVERYTHING (from coffee to housewares to luxury clothing and toys!) and with free shipping it's a no brainer. Walmart offers free site to store shipping so many items you'll have to go pick up from the closest store but you can ship anything free to their store including very heavy items and most of my orders have come in significantly faster than the estimated shipping time.

Amazon has something called Lightning Deals where they sell various products at a discount for a limited time. I've gotten some pretty good deals this way.
They also offer free standard shipping for anything they ship out of their warehouse(they also sell other retailers products) over $25. You can get "free" 2 day shipping by signing up for their Amazon Prime service which has a free one month trial which then costs $79 per year. Don't forget to cancel before the month is up! Great way to get your gifts quickly with free shipping and cancel should you not need the service any more!

Drugstore and Overstock I shop at less but they're also fantastic choices.

If you're like me and you don't have family close by to watch your kids thus having to hire sitters as your best solution for shopping with your hubby, do what we did- put the kids to bed early, grab a glass of wine and go shopping together. Much more intimate and stress free!

Happy Holidays!

No More Sticky Feet

Have to give a shout out to another product I LOVE. Amazing how things change. Appliances really do excite me. Anything that makes life in between Mina's cleaning visits easier & more livable. I bought this a few months ago and it changed my life! My kids can use it and it is actually really powerful. No need for 2 seperate devices and there are 2 switches & uses. One to vacuum all the particles left behind by my little gremlins and another that steams away & even better sanatizes! all remaining traces of their muck!

My only complaint (and the kids if I ever convince them to do it for me) is that the vacuum is quite loud. My solution for them- noise cancelling headphones and away they go vacuuming to thier (and my) little hearts desire..


I paid $150 but you can get one at Amazon.com for $99.
http://www.amazon.com/Shark-Vac-Then-Steam-Mop/dp/B003KKD7DY

Keep your mouth shut!

This is just an advice post.
Twice this week I experienced things that I had said getting misconstrued and retold to some of my friends with negative end results. So I really thought long and hard and came to the realization that even if they're your "good friends" they may not trust you as much as you would think or like and the power of persuasion of others can be dangerous to your relationship sometimes. Whether it's intentional or not, I still haven't decided. I do think sometimes others look at your friendships and get a bit envious and a well placed comment could rock that friendship a bit or perhaps just and unintentional slip of a shared topic can cause a friend to feel a little betrayed. So the moral of the story is... Keep Your Mouth Shut. If you feel like you need to vent. Vent to your husband, your priest or your shrink. (I would include sisters in this list but I have several and they all talk to each other so the same thing can happen with us sometimes!) If you're like me and you love all of your friends to be friends with each other and go out of your way to make that happen, chances are they will vent to each other too and some comment that you've made could inadvertently cause a bruised feeling or two. So, just don't do it. And don't worry... Everything's good in my life no more drama... I just wanted to share with you my lesson of the week. :) Happy Sunday!