Comments on: Tightwad Tuesday: Talking About Time

By: music knowledge

music knowledge — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:32:09 +0000

It’s surprising how a messy room relays a feeling of helplessness. If you’re at a loss, Ivy has some great posts on getting started

By: Jenifer

Jenifer — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:08:45 +0000

Believe me, i was very much worried about the price. Thank you, that i got helped by your post. U have said well about online business.

By: Kristena C.

Kristena C. — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:05:43 +0000

Was there ever a followup to the Spring Cleaning: room-by-room post? It says in the post there will be a followup with the rest of the house but I can’t seem to find it.

By: Keter

Keter — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:04:32 +0000

As a chronic over-committer, I have a real issue with a long to-do list, so time is probably my most precious resource. When I was younger, I had to work every waking hour – sometimes two jobs, sometimes job plus learning a new skill, and always single parenting. Now that I have more time for myself, I find that when I budget my time, I tend to choose activities that have both a practical and emotional payback, like gardening or home improvement projects. Digging and hammering is good therapy and good exercise for a person who spends so many hours on a computer (for work and personal projects).

Every morning, I ask my husband “what’s on the itinerary for today?” This makes us both think about what we want to accomplish and coordinate. For example, one of us may have a project that will require a second set of hands for part of it. We also schedule trips into town and bundle our activities so we aren’t spending too much time and gas driving around. Driving is a HUGE waste because there’s really nothing else you can do during that time, it accomplishes nothing, and it costs a lot, so we minimize it as much as possible.

We don’t have a TV, and aside from following the occasional YouTube link, we don’t use the computer as a TV. My computer time can easily take over an entire day, so I segregate it into distinct time blocks. My husband is into talk radio, so he has a radio on all the time in his workshop – that would make me crazy! But I do put on music when I do housework or projects with a lot of repetitive steps, as it seems to make it go quicker.

By: gracie

gracie — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:27:43 +0000

i knew it was bad when in her sleep my then 3 year old said: ‘ buy me that for my birthday’, which she did for a while when she was in front of the boob-tube, our cable goes away on june 21st! – when the contract is up

By: ThatBobbieGirl

ThatBobbieGirl — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:32:11 +0000

Thanks for the reminder about being frugal with our time. Doing a time inventory will probably make me cringe. I know I can do better.

Re: commercials – ten years ago, when we built this house (ok, started building – it’s still far from done) we didn’t realize that we would not be able to get cable here without actually paying for the cable company to run the line up the road. Since we didn’t have an extra $5000 to spare for that, we’ve been cable-less since 1999. Neither do we have a dish, because where we are located, it just will not work. Our kids were never huge on begging for things that they saw on TV, but after a couple years of no commercials, they just didn’t ask for stuff very much. Then, when we started homeschooling, it just stopped. They were no longer around other people who talked about their new cool stuff or the new cool stuff they wanted to get, ALL THE TIME. They were much more content with what they had, and when it came time to make Christmas wish lists for relatives, my kids would have a hard time coming up with items to ask for!

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:23:31 +0000

I came across another time-management blog entry today:
http://www.momadvice.com/blog/2009/05/7-tips-for-leading-balanced-blogger.htm ,
which was linked from Cheap Healthy Good: http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:48:36 +0000

Well said about internet and online business. I am very much worried about the price. Every website have their own pricing with hidden terms and conditions which is really shocking when it comes to picture. Time matters!

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:09:06 +0000

Great post.

The way I see it, time frugality is a lot like money frugality. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Just like overspending can lead to debt, which can lead to increased spending (on interest), being disorganised leads to spending more time finding, tidying, shopping ….

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:38:39 +0000

Angela, that’s a great suggestion. I wince every time I think of the honey-do list we have looming. We need to get back to being productive ::shakes fist at Netflix and their complete seasons of Lost::