Organisation is Key!

Good Morning Campers!

How many of you have bought at least 1 christmas present already?

I start collecting all year - which means i'm organised but also means i always go over budget as i forget what i've already bought! Especially when i'm out and i buy another present for someone i've already bought one for! I'm so bad when it comes to my children - i buy them bits then feel guilty they haven't got enough so impulse buy without actually realising what they already have!

I have 36 people to buy for - the woes of having a big family! And i'm a present perfectionist in the fact that i love people getting gifts i know they are going to love!!!

So this year i downloaded 2 christmas list apps and i've been testing them out against each other to see which one i prefer! This way if i'm out and haven't taken my list i know that its on my phone!

App 1 = Gift It - A Christmas Shopping List App £0

This wasn't for me! It's got some good reviews but its not user friendly and its a bit messy looking and when i'm organised i like things to be neat and precise! Its good but its not great!

App 2 - No More Socks £0

WOW this app is simply the best!!! Its sooooooo good!!! You can add people from your contacts, add pictures, set budgets! Add their birthdays and you get reminded 4 weeks before hand! Its very very clever!!!

I love it - love filling it up with what i've bought and ideas i have rather than trying to remember them! Its so user friendly and easy!

You can add retailers to the gifts you buy so you can remember where you bought it from incase you need to return it! You can also browse shared ideas! Its sooo good! You can lock the app with a passcode so no one can snoop like i would haha!

I'm addicted!!! And its an all year round list and its free!!!!

Start adding your contacts and their birthdays now - go go go

Happy Sunday
Love
J xxx

Apps im currently loving!

I love hearing about fab new apps people are using so i thought today i would share with you some of my current favourites!

First up is Artkive

This is a brillant app that allows you to take pictures of your childs artwork and log the date, time and a note about the picture. It stores it all in a folder by age or school year so you can easily look back without having to keep every single piece of art they ever do! I love it!

The next app im currently loving is Duolingo

Described by the Duolingo peeps as a free language education for the world i have to say this is brilliant! Its a step by step language course and you cant carry on to the next lesson till you pass the one your currently in. It teaches you to write the language as well as speak and theres a choice of 6 languages you can learn. For a free app i think this is fabulous!!

Lastly are 2 apps that work with each other. Any.DO and Cal

Any.DO is a fabulous award winning task app. You can list all your to do's quickly and easily under different folders like home, work and all that jazz and if you have the cal app to (which is a calendar app) it integrates perfectly and adds all your to do's into your calendar so you know what your schedule for your days looks like! With the Cal app you invite peeps from your contact lists to events you have put in your calendar and i know it doesn't sound that amazingly different to the standard calendar on your phone but trust me its fabulous and it looks better and its just fab (i know i said that twice in one sentence). 

The Any.DO app is super cute too it has a little personality and it calls me beautiful so i just love it.

And when you work through scheduling your tasks it finishes with cute messages Then i'm all, hell yeah i'm a boss and anything IS possible today! 

                       

So there you go, my fave apps at the moment! Let me know if you download them and love them too! Or if theres any amazing apps we need to know about! Sharing is caring.

Love 

L xx