940 Saturdays

So, my son’s teacher posted this on his classroom blog a few weeks ago. Ponder this for a moment….

No, pressure, right?

For the perfectionists and/or doubters out there, okay, I haven’t actually sat down to do the math, but whether or not the count is accurate (ignoring leap years and such), the point hits home. And hard.

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For us, Saturdays are busy days. The “get-a-haircut/run-to-the-dry-cleaner” days. Soccer games. Paying bills. Now, this is kinda random, but I had to mention this as my brother recently got caught for not paying his mortgage on time. As a result, he’s got a ridiculously low credit score. Not good by any means. One thing to take from this article is not to void on your repayments otherwise, you’ll be checking out these 7 ways to fix a low credit score!

I prefer to dedicate my Saturday’s to “must do” things. I need to have plenty of time to sit down and thoroughly go over everything that needs to be done in detail. I don’t want to get my bills wrong, do I? I definitely don’t want to turn into my brother. The one thing that does concern me about my bills though, is that I seem to be paying an awful lot of money for the things that I need, not want. Without electricity, I wouldn’t have access to lights or the computer, and without water.. well I wouldn’t have water for a shower or to wash the dishes. I told my friend about this and she told me to have a look at something like these Reliant Energy rates to see if there would be any way to lower the cost of my current plan. I guess it’s worth having a look at, but that might have to wait for another Saturday. I’m just so busy at the moment, and paying my bills is only half of it. You may think that when I’m not paying the bills, I have time to sit down and relax? All I can say is that you’re very wrong. Something always needs to get done, and this is especially the case when it comes to our errands.

The Hubs does a good job of making an outing out of running errands – it’s a chore to run errands with mom, of course (mine usually mean a trip to the grocery store, and what fun is that?), but with dad, it’s a treat. I’m grateful. Oh, alright – a tad jealous, perhaps, but I remember what a treat it was to run errands with my dad when I was a kid. It was a big deal.

And isn’t that what it is all about?

Spending time together, building memories – it doesn’t really matter what you do – just that you DO it together.

How did you spend your Saturday?