to ask what little things make your life easier?!

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Some random things I've just realised make my life easier.

Book people (and prob other sites I've not found) put age range of books. I noticed it on the back of fiction books on a book shop the other day. Great when buying gifts!

Websites that accept PayPal.

Just realised I can use the click and collect drive through at asda for direct orders as its not just for groceries. Means I don't have to queue to get into ASDA which I avoid for the summer tourist season as its carnage!

Frozen veg, especially ready chopped onions and mashed potato.

The slow cooker.

The dishwasher.

iPads for the convenience of having a whole swathe of books/films that I can read/watch anywhere.

So thankful someone had confessed to frozen mash. Me too!

DP - not liking the fact that we are poorer, as he's currently out of work, but love the fact that he now does all of the cleaning and a lot of the cooking!

Online grocery shopping.

Yes to frozen vege - especially those little microwave steam packs of mixed vege.

Ready rolled pastry sheets.

Online calendar at work, that reminds me of what I should be doing and when.

A good nights sleep. I'm invincible if I've had 8 hours.

Online Ocado.

Sunshine! Seems to make everything easy.

Yy to the dishwasher

Recognising the moment I have to stop stressing and just go with the flow. Things are as easy as you want them to be.

online shopping

The find my iphone thingy on the iPad so I can't find where I put my phone again!

Slow cooker
ocado
hanging stuff up damp so I don't have to iron
dishwasher as I hate hate hate washing up
Sky+ as it means I can record everything and fast forward all the adverts
anything that does paypal

Not bathing the kids every night. And never fighting battles with them which don't matter, like mismatched shoes on the wrong feet etc

Ditto online shopping
ditto dishwasher
Love my ice maker on the freezer, especially on days like today or when nothing else will sooth a graze/bump.
Also, perhaps weirdly, no drain tuna. I always get it with sunflower oil and absolutely hate having to squish the oil out, then get it off my hands

Daycare. Routines for morning and evening. Baby sign language. Slow cooker. Parks with slides and swings, especially the parks which are fully fenced. Friends with children of a similar age. Amazon.com and online shopping for as much as possible. Balloons in the supermarket (to occupy kids on the way around...they are then left at the checkout). Bubbles. Breastfeeding to calm tempers. The list goes on...

Agree with the sunshine one!!

Baby wipes!! Every mum's must have essential!

Them cyclone washing pegs. So nice to know that your washing won't blow off the line with them bad boys!!

Oh and my slow cooker as applicator tampons. Sorry TMI!!

Huge washing machine and dryer, 2 sets of spare bedding, sleep sacks for bigger kids, prepping food at the weekends, peelable fruits for easy snacks, rucksack as a diaper bag, mobywrap for newborns, Ergo for babies, Bob stroller for jogging and el cheapo umbrella stroller for quick trips, putting the car seats on the end seat rather than the middle, having a big enough car or gigantic people mover etc etc

how could I forget...the coil! So nice not to have to remember a pill every day.

Huge American fridge - I love it despite it being far too big for the kitchen
Timer switch and slow cooker
Heinz Biscotti for tantrum diffusing and distraction
Online banking
Dog walker
A night off every few weeks

How does a slowcooker work as a tampon?!?

Cheese grater.

Ball bearings.

Pens.

Ibuprofen capsules.

Netflix. My android phone. My husband.

Online shopping
Tumble dryer
Ordering stuff on my iPhone off amazon.
Series link on my virgin media
Electric toothbrush
Email

Series link.
On demand tv.
Slow cooker.
Frozen veg - especially spinach and broccoli.
Freezer
Allotment - dh's dad delivers us a box a week of veg. At present we've got about a million runner beans.