Author Archives: Mrs. A

What To Do When Your Man Can’t Clip Coupons It was a snowy Sunday morning here in Utah. I was eager to get the Sunday paper to clip coupons and my husband was eager to play with power tools. “Can’t … Continue reading →

I met a man who lived in an upscale neighborhood. His neighbors made more money than he did. He kept pace by being a do-it-yourselfer. He built much of his house, and landscaped and maintained it himself. He took pride … Continue reading →

1. Don’t pay interest. Most of us must for a house. But even this can be minimized. Debt service is money down the drain. 2. Live in a house that meets your needs but don’t get carried away. Keep it … Continue reading →

Value-Based Spending This, in itself, could fill a book. Masters of time and lifestyle management, such as Stephen R. Covey (author of "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"), teach us that day planning is not just making a "to do" … Continue reading →

  We focus so much on the payoffs of organizing; time and money savings, clutter reduction, utilizing akward space. The following photo was taken by the Hubble Telescope. It is the Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas within … Continue reading →

Who Needs a Day Planner?  In our last issue, we posted a lengthy article about the lifecycle of a coupon. This month, I’d like to present a memory enhancement for your head.  We hear lots of cell phones ringing in the grocery … Continue reading →

  Do you remember the articles such as “I am Joe’s pancreas” in Readers Digest describing how parts of the human body worked? Perhaps this article should be titled “I am Jane’s coupon”. My son asked me why women wear … Continue reading →

In our last entry, we began to talk about principles of Beneficial organization, that is organizing in such as way as to derive a benefit. The first principle structures the elements so that all can be seen equally readily, and one … Continue reading →

From Wikipedia.org "Organizing is the act of rearranging elements following one or more rules. It can also be seeing as the opposite of messing up. Anything is commonly considered organized when it looks like everything has a correct order of … Continue reading →

I sat in a Radio Control (RC) air park on the shores of Lake Benbrook, Texas. A gentle breeze wrestled the remaining leaves on a late fall day. The sun’s light was fragmented into a million pieces by the rippling … Continue reading →