A frugal life is an easy life!

One of my biggest failings, is being unorganised. As anyone who knows me will tell you I am forever running out of time.

Being frugal/thrifty, can be helped by organising your time more effectively. It could be shopping a month earlier for christmas presents or christmas food, allowing more time for a job, not spreading yourself too thin.

Another problem thrown up by my lack of organisation, is the time I get with sprog2.
All too often, I end up running around like a headless chicken and I miss everything around me.
One of the joys of looking after a baby, is the escape from the "rat race" - I had to nip out for a loaf last week, I walked down to the shop rather than drive, as it was bang on school run time, I walked past the long queue of cars of drivers, sat with their noses up against the windscreen, waiting for a gap in the traffic to get out or another driver to get on to the roundabout, etc.
I smiled on the inside, picking the loaf up, then walked back, safe in the knowledge that I am not a slave to the rush hour every morning and night, wasting money on petrol to sit and watch the bumper of the car in front as the minutes tick by before the daily grind starts.

Of course, I am very very lucky to be able to do this, I realise that, but I could smell the fresh autumn air, I looked up in the trees and the sunshine passing through them, etc, is this the kind of thing we should strive for in life?
Careers are all well and good, but do we really need to run around doing mundane tasks, with less support as business squeezes another pound of profit out of us, to line the pockets of the suits upstairs?
I don't recall at school being told that if we work hard, keep our heads down, we will be able to grind our lives out, with the occasional night out, until we pass on?
Sprog2 benefits (I hope) from having me around, I could not palm her off to a child minder whilst I run around trying to earn enough to pay for the childcare.

I know of a couple of people who work fulltime just to cover childcare costs, why not just look after your own children?
Why not spend time with them instead of at work?
When you are a child, you have time by the bucket load, everything moves in slow motion, until you reach 16, then it gets serious and the chain-gang like work to live routine kicks in and you are stuck.

By organising my time better, I find I not only benefit frugally more from being better prepared, but my family benefit, from the quality time I get to spend with them.
In return I am more relaxed, not stressed out and I am not wasting money by sitting in a car chasing my tail trying to get to a job that lines the pockets of others.

Come the special times, halloween, bonfire night, christmas, etc, I should be better prepared and as I am better prepared, I will also save money by not running around at last minute.