Celebrate Success: Two Recruits Qualify for Woo Hoo - Toot Toot This Week!

[pamperedlinda]

Ann....is there ANYTHING that you don't know?

 

[Jilleysue]

Well very small steps for example by keeping track of things in closets that get lost in shuffle that we continously spend money on. ISO is about analyizing things that may keep costs up, so that is what I do at home. Once I got really good at this (ISO & Compliance and understanding what it was about). I went into my pantry and cleaned it all out. I noticed that I had shelves and shelves of food...tons of duplicates that I would go into the store and but time and time of again, so now I take an inventory of the panty and tape it to the wall. When I use something I cross it off. I know how much is in there and I don't have 12 boxes of spagetti. I do the same thing for the bathroom so that I don't have 8 bags of cotton balls.

I don't do Spring cleaning...what a way to get over whelmed. One small project a night. Sunday night I cleaned out Kevin's bathroom cabinet. I threw out the icky colognes. Kept the good ones. Wrote down what he needed. Packed his travel bag so it is ready when we go away. Crossed it off my Spring cleaning LIST. You can't do Spring cleaning all in one weekend like my mom use to do...NO WAY. Just like you can't do ISO all in one WEEK. It is an ongoing process of improvement. Last Thursday I cleaned out our nightstand drawers. Small improvements everyday.

Oh and Kevin has an List and I have a list. I tell him everyday, do one little thing a day. If you do more..great, but atleast do one improvement a day, even if its change light bulbs, that way things are constantly improved. Last night before I did my workout, I cleaned and oiled the treadmill, bike and elliptical. Done! Small steps, small improvements. If you try to do it all, things spin out of control and you just don't ever want to do anything.

 

[chefann]

Out of curiousity Ann, how did you know about ISO?

I live in the Detroit area, which has (well, had) a lot of manufacturing. In '95-97 I worked at Ford as a temp (yes, a 3-year temp job). The office I was in, non-production purchasing, which handles all the stuff Ford uses to run but doesn't actually go on the cars, was just starting the push to be ISO 9000 certified. I remember having to put a desk procedure together for my job, which helped when I was pushed out to make room for an employee whose position had been eliminated and I had to train her. (She was so stupid she couldn't handle it. I was the file clerk - 3 years of purchase orders in a room full of file cabinets!)

And as a programmer, I encounter other things that mention ISO in relation to the other things that fall in their bailiwick.

 

[chefann]

........dork!

I've admitted it before!! And I'm married to a dork, too.

 

[gilliandanielle]

It just makes me feel better to repeat it! LMAO!!

 

[chefann]

No doubt! It is pretty amazing what is in her head already! LOL!

Mostly it's a lot of hot air in there... If you put your ear to mine you can hear the ocean.

 

[Jilleysue]

PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES.....words I live by.
Instead of happily ever after...LOL

 

[chefann]

I thought of you yesterday, Gillian. I was online taking a survey for Coldstone Creamery and saw that they have a store in Wasilla. mmmm..... cake batter flavor ice cream with chocolate chip cookie dough mixed in....

 

[Jilleysue]

OH MY GOD..CAKE BATTER ICECREAM. I don't eat sweets alot, but I would kill for that!!

 

[chefann]

OH MY GOD..CAKE BATTER ICECREAM. I don't eat sweets alot, but I would kill for that!!

There's a "pre-designed" flavor (they still mix it in front of you) that's called Birthday Cake Redux - cake batter ice cream with a brownie, rainbow sprinkles, caramel and whipped cream mixed in. Or Candyland: cake batter ice cream, M&M's, Kit Kat and Snickers.

If anyone likes ColdStone, they've got a BOGO coupon on their website that's good this month! And you can sign up for their birthday club - get a free "Love It" size on your b'day (that's almost a $5 ice cream). You can sign your kids up, too.

 

[dannyzmom]

OH MY GOD..CAKE BATTER ICECREAM. I don't eat sweets alot, but I would kill for that!!

Jill, you need to go into Evan's store and get "Birthday Cake" Italian Ice. It's cake batter Italian Ice with chunks of birthday cake mixed in. You'd DIE!!

 

[Jilleysue]

Oh My God...italian Ice?????????????? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Yummmmmyyyyy!!!!!

 

[gilliandanielle]

I thought of you yesterday, Gillian. I was online taking a survey for Coldstone Creamery and saw that they have a store in Wasilla. mmmm..... cake batter flavor ice cream with chocolate chip cookie dough mixed in....

It is in a strip mall with Joann Fabrics... I could spend all day just walking back and forth between the two!!

 

[rebeccastt]

I went into my pantry and cleaned it all out. I noticed that I had shelves and shelves of food...tons of duplicates that I would go into the store and but time and time of again, so now I take an inventory of the panty and tape it to the wall. When I use something I cross it off. I know how much is in there and I don't have 12 boxes of spagetti. I do the same thing for the bathroom so that I don't have 8 bags of cotton balls.

This idea is REALLY intriguing me....Is the list just a piece of notebook paper? I would imagine it would have to be done on the computer....how often do you update and print a new one? Please tell me more...my pantry is a nightmare. It is poorly designed/really deep so things get lost.