What good decisions have you made recently? →[More:]Mine:

1. Because of parking restrictions, I now have to walk to the station in the mornings (or pay £2.50 a day to park). It's a mile, a pleasant enough walk, mostly downhill on the way to the station, so mostly uphill coming home. Because I work from home two days a week I'm either carrying files to or from the office. I was using a lightweight nylon backpack that was, yes, light, but which had no structure, so the files slid around, leading to shoulder and neck tension as I tried to keep the thing balanced and sometimes horrible backache.

So a week ago I invested in this - it's lightweight, framed and designed for women (so the frame is shorter). It has chest and waist straps and even with heavy files in it nothing at all moves!! It was £50 (a little over $100), but is totally money well spent.

2. Yesterday I got my act together enough to prep my dinner last night, so I threw it all in the slow cooker this morning and came home to the wonderful smell of peppered beef stew. The veggies are steaming as we speak, so dinner is nearly ready, with very little effort. On a cold, wet, windy day like today there's nothing nicer than coming home to a hot dinner all ready and waiting.