Is it my imagination or did we skip from summer to fall in a couple of days? Last week it was sweltering hot, today I’m thinking about digging out a sweater or two.
And I don’t know about you but catalogs full of Christmas items have been dropping into my mailbox. It began the day after Labor Day and hasn’t let up yet. Does the push to get your holiday money get earlier each year or is that my imagination too?
After the dismal economic reports and employment figures that were released last week, I wonder if retail sales are going to be down this holiday season? Maybe that’s why companies are thinking let’s hit the shoppers with the catalogs before they realize they don’t have any money.
At lease my local supermarket hasn’t skipped Halloween. When I shopped in there last week they were starting to fill the shelves with all the candies and costumes. But I’m taking a guess as soon as November 1st rolls around we’ll see Santa and the gang hit the shelves.
I finally made it out to the local farmer’s stand last week. I bought a whole bunch of stuff reading to make soups. I saw that their trays of tomatoes were $12 each, and I’m very tempted to buy one and make my own sun dried tomatoes. They also had basil a $1 a bunch, it used to be 50 cents, but it’s still a bargain. Now I’m thinking when will I have time to make up some pesto sauce to freeze for the winter.
I headed outside to pull some more weeds from the flowerbeds, hopefully for the last time this year. One of the trees in our front yard has also been dropping its leaves for the last four weeks and it feels like fall already. Every year when my back starts to ache from raking I say the same thing, if I only had a dollar for each one. Or in our yard, even a penny a leaf would yield me a significant amount of money.
I started to write a new novel a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t written one for many years and I’ve been making myself write for at least an hour a day. Sometimes it’s hard when you write for a living and the last think you want to do is quit for the day and go and write some more. It’s a bit like trying to save money and stick with a budget, it’s hard to get yourself into the habit, but after a while it becomes second nature and you don’t give it a second thought.
For money saving tips visit www.gardenandhearth.com/Bargain-Shopping.htm and www.gardenandhearth.com/EatingWellonaBudget.htm
And I don’t know about you but catalogs full of Christmas items have been dropping into my mailbox. It began the day after Labor Day and hasn’t let up yet. Does the push to get your holiday money get earlier each year or is that my imagination too?
After the dismal economic reports and employment figures that were released last week, I wonder if retail sales are going to be down this holiday season? Maybe that’s why companies are thinking let’s hit the shoppers with the catalogs before they realize they don’t have any money.
At lease my local supermarket hasn’t skipped Halloween. When I shopped in there last week they were starting to fill the shelves with all the candies and costumes. But I’m taking a guess as soon as November 1st rolls around we’ll see Santa and the gang hit the shelves.
I finally made it out to the local farmer’s stand last week. I bought a whole bunch of stuff reading to make soups. I saw that their trays of tomatoes were $12 each, and I’m very tempted to buy one and make my own sun dried tomatoes. They also had basil a $1 a bunch, it used to be 50 cents, but it’s still a bargain. Now I’m thinking when will I have time to make up some pesto sauce to freeze for the winter.
I headed outside to pull some more weeds from the flowerbeds, hopefully for the last time this year. One of the trees in our front yard has also been dropping its leaves for the last four weeks and it feels like fall already. Every year when my back starts to ache from raking I say the same thing, if I only had a dollar for each one. Or in our yard, even a penny a leaf would yield me a significant amount of money.
I started to write a new novel a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t written one for many years and I’ve been making myself write for at least an hour a day. Sometimes it’s hard when you write for a living and the last think you want to do is quit for the day and go and write some more. It’s a bit like trying to save money and stick with a budget, it’s hard to get yourself into the habit, but after a while it becomes second nature and you don’t give it a second thought.
For money saving tips visit www.gardenandhearth.com/Bargain-Shopping.htm and www.gardenandhearth.com/EatingWellonaBudget.htm
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