Do It Now! (Rerun)

This originally ran on August 12, 2006.

Being organized and not saying "I'll do it later!" can save you money! The past two weeks have been a little hard. It's been nearly unbearably hot, I'm just kind of meh anyway, and I've also had a lot of things to do outside the home. I've lost money in these past two weeks because I looked at a few things that would not have taken all that long to do and thought "I'll do it tomorrow."

From my life:

Air Mattress: I deflated it after we had guests, washed the sheets, and left the deflated mattress in a heap on our guest room floor. Enter Annie the house rabbit. While I've been ignoring it, she's been happily chewing it up. I may be able to patch it, but the damage is pretty extensive, so it may be a total loss. (Update- it was a total loss. She had chewed GIANT holes into it that I did not see until I started trying to fix it. 08/08)

Annie likes to chew.

Chicken: I had ten pounds of chicken in a big bag. I defrosted it, used some in various recipes, and figured I'd vacuum seal the rest into meal sized portions with my awesome Foodsaver. So about two weeks ago, I stuck it in the fridge and promptly forgot about it. This morning, I opened the fridge and was hit with a horrific smell. Yep, the chicken had gone bad. I got the chicken nearly free on sale, but still, that's a lot of food wasted because I did not take 10 minutes to Foodsave it, or 10 seconds to put it back in the freezer.

Let me be a lesson to you! What are you putting off? Take ten minutes and go do it now!