It Really Is The Little Things

Amazon is truly a marvel!  I have found things I never knew existed but somehow desperately needed and have been able to receive it in just one day!  I have taken beautiful vacations, been given jewelry and shoes, and eaten the most amazing steak dinners but I don’t think I have ever been happier than I was yesterday when receiving the kitchen sink sponge holder I ordered just the day before.

As I get older its amazing the value shift from simply getting things to getting things that make my life easier to manage and getting them quickly.  Time is so much more valuable now.  Jewelry and shoes are lovely but my new sponge holder saves me from having to dig around under the sink looking for a sponge or from having to clean the counter daily from the mess the sponge makes when you have no holder to put it in!  I have truly become what the old sitcoms used to joke about, the woman who actually wants an appliance as a birthday/anniversary present.

Over the past few years it was imperative to find time saving tricks as my life was so overflowing with work and responsibility but now that things have slowed down a bit I find it’s still nice to be able to save time and energy to use on more enjoyable pursuits.  I happily forgo a new pair of shoes for a baseboard cleaner that makes it so I don’t have to bend over to clean the dog hair off, I can just walk along beside them with a dust cloth on a pole, it’s brilliant!  I have two stick vacuum’s one upstairs and one downstairs because although they are very light weight, why have to drag it up and down the stairs and wait while it charges when you can have two.  I have a dryer that can steam my clothes to get the wrinkles out so I don’t have to iron and a mitt with rubber bristles on it so I can brush the dogs while petting them and the hair peels right off into the trash.

Add it all up and the time savings is at least an hour a week.  That’s an hour I can spend reading a good book or catching up on a tv program I missed or scrolling on Amazon to find other time saving treasures (which I know is a waste of time but I’ll take the win anyway).