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Giveaway: Win a $50 Shopping Credit on Hoseanna!

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I've blogged about Hoseanna before, but the site (and business) has undergone some major changes since then! To celebrate the new site and categories, Hoseanna is offering a special prize to Corporette readers — a $50 shopping credit on Hoseanna, good for all your ‘Monthly Musts'!

As a quick reminder (I'll do a full site review next week), this is a cool new site for women that is premised on the idea that, while the shopping/browsing experience is fun, sometimes busy women just want things to be auto-shipped. Accordingly, you can sign up at Hoseanna to have hosiery, feminine products, health & beauty supplies, and even intimate supplies automatically delivered to your door on a regular basis. The brands are all curated, and the prices are reasonable.

The Rules: Comment on this post (including your email address in the “email address field”), telling us ways you like to automate your life (whether it's through shopping deliveries, bill payments, or other ways). The winner will be announced on Tuesday, October 31. You must include your email in the email address field so you can be contacted by Kat in the event you win the giveaway. Your information will be held in confidence by Corporette pursuant to The Corporette Privacy Policy, and you will only be contacted by Kat in the event you win the giveaway.

All right, readers — how do you simplify your life through automation?

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128 Comments

  1. My iPhone automates almost everything for me and puts them in one place, reminders for bill payments, checking account balance, appointments, etc.

  3. I work crazy hours from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm, by time I get home at 8:30 I grab some food and crash! On the weekends I teach at Church so I only have time to do lesson plans. I could never keep track of my bills, or making sure there is enough toilet paper lol! I need things at my door so I don’t have to leave my door.

  4. I automate all of my bills. I need to automate groceries and dry cleaning. We seem to always run out.

  6. Groceries, Dog Food, and Housekeeping! If someone would take of those for me, I’d have plenty of free time and no more stress.

  7. Now that I have two kids, I automate everything I can. All of our bills and student loan payments are autmated. We use peapod for grocery delivery (which has an ipad app and keeps all of your recently ordered items in a list, so i can literally grocery shop in 10 minutes); diapers.com for diapers and other baby supplies, and soap.com for detergent etc (both of which also keep your past orders so you can re-order in a snap). We use a cleaning lady twice a month, which means I never have to do the big cleaning items. And I have even started using Fresh Diet — which delivers freshly made, pre-portioned, 40/30/30 food for the entire day to you door each morning. And while I can automate my workouts, have have started putting them in my Outlook as an appointment to help me get there more often.

  8. I automate almost all of my bills, buy groceries online, and am considering having core staples (toilet paper, paper towels, etc.) auto-delivered as well! It would be fantastic to auto-deliver hose and beauty products!

  9. I automate my life with my to-do lists and calendars. If it’s not written down somewhere, it’s in one ear and out the other.

  10. i automate my calendar with reminders – google for personal and outlook for work; have all of my dry cleaning and tailoring delivered (love!) and have plenty of online alerts for all of my financial accounts.

  11. I automate as much as I can. My Amazon subscribe list is growing. It’s great for things like water filters that need to be replaced periodically.

  12. I automate deposits from my check into several ING subaccounts so I can automate saving for odd non-regular expenses (yearly auto insurance, next car, repairs on a rental property, etc). It makes it waaaay less painful to write a big check when you know the money is coming from an account that exists for that purpose. It keeps me from having money anxiety :)

    Next automation plans? Automatic cat feeder and litter box. Recommendations welcome.

    1. For the cat feeder, go with one that does portion control, not just all you can eat buffet. The all you can eat buffet led me to a 19 pound diabetic cat :) He didn’t have the self feeder all the time but had found the 25 pound bag of cat food, chewed a hole in the side and was self feeding as much as he pleased. We also refilled his bowl whenever he cried and had the buffet style self feeder when we were away.

      Now he has portion controlled diabetic cat food and insulin shots! Learn from my mistake!

      For the litter box, do you have a dog walker or anyone else that comes to your house? My local dog walking service includes free litter scooping. They also have a litter scooping only service for people that can’t scoop.

      PS: my cat is doing much better with the pancreitis and eating his regular food now.

      1. Poor cat- I’m glad he is doing better now! I wondered what would happen if my cat had access to limitless food, because it seems like that’s how some of the feeders work. I’ll take the warning.

        I have a cat sitter who I use when I travel, but I was thinking I’d like some kind of litter box that cleared out messes as they occur, just for odor control.

  13. I love auto shipments. I have The Laundress laundry products auto shipped to me by Amazon. I never run out, never have to think about it (and my clothes look great,too!)

  14. I automatically transfer money into savings every paycheck! It keeps adding up without me even thinking about it!

  15. I automate bill pay for the credit cards. I would love to automate other things like packing the kids’ lunch or making my bed. :-)

  17. I autopay for the ASPCA. I also have autoship for my coffee and for my vitamins. Obviously this means I have to think about a few less things and I am always stocked so I never have to make a trip for my “essentials” (vitamins and coffee, of course). I also like to use saved lists on sites like Peapod or even Amazon (I buy food items from Amazon) to help make finding my favorites quick.

  20. Like many others here, we automate many of our bills. And we also get a box of veggies from our CSA on a biweekly basis. Works out very well!

  21. I automate bill paying through my checking account, health care reimbursement through my health savings account and house cleaning with a cleaning service who comes every two weeks. I also have a handyman who I trust who has a key and regularly checks in with me and I give him my up do date repair list.

  23. I’d love to automate my billing, both those I pay and those I collect from my small business. Most of the bills I pay are automated, but some of my creditors are in the stone age and require me to go online each month to make payments.

  24. I use automatic payments for reoccuring bills. I also love that I can deposit checks to my bank through the IPhone – you simply take a picture of the front and back of the check and it automatically appears in my bank account — brilliant!

  25. I automate my savings through my 401k and now my iphone updates! I keep saying I’m going to automate my bills but I get such a sense of relief and satisfaction from actually making the payments myself.

  26. I would love to win! I use a CSA – you get veggies every week, and it definitely helps you cook healthy because you have the food on hand and you want to use it all up before it goes bad.

  27. I love autoship, autopay, auto-everything! I hate being late, but I have a horrible memory. My filofax is bursting at the seams with items I *must* remember so the more things I can automate, the more ordered and less frenzied my life feels.

  28. I like automating my life by receiving mail electronically. I have everything in one place and I don’t have to worry about shredding things with my name on it.

  29. Bill paying. I would love to have automated grocery delivery — but I need to re order on the Safeway delivery site — its one step shy of automated.

  32. I do my bills automatically, and my dentist is very high tech so all my apts. are automatic too which is awesome!

    Hoseanna looks like a great time saving website- thanks for sharing it!

  33. I do bill payments and that stuff. But it is the automated reminders of birthday and anniversaries and such that is a real life saver.

  34. Charity comes out automatically, and every other thursday a box of produce shows up at my doorstep. I get emails from each reminding me that it happened/is happening, but I don’t have to DO anything. Genius.

  35. I automate all my banking and payment things much like a lot of ladies here. I have yet to automate food items just because sometimes I like to browse and be spontaneous.

  36. Busy women unite! I am trying desperately to get away from the “I can do it all” mentality because, guess what, I have no time to do it all. So, if I can automate the things I do on auto-pilot anyway, I have the satisfaction of checking off those “to-do’s” (shaving cream, purchased! stockings, check!) without having to run around to three different stores. Sounds almost like cheating, in the best way!

  37. I only automate a few bills – gym membership, subscriptions to magazines, etc. Everything else, I like to see it before I pay it.

  38. I automate all my bills/banking stuff. I need to look into if Fresh Direct does an automated thing, because I basically place the same grocery order on the same day every week from them.

  40. I don’t think I’d still have a roof over my head, a phone or a semi-stocked fridge if it wasn’t for automated bills and automated deliveries/refills. All my bills are automated, from the obvious (mortgage, phone, electricity, transfer to savings/investments/pension accounts, charities, magazines, prescriptions, etc) to some of my make-up (automated refills) and toiletries/household items (shared between drugstore.com and alice.com), organic veggies/fruit box, and lastly and most importantly: my monthly spa visit – same time/day every month and automatically paid on the first of the month…I think all I need to get is an toothbrush subscription (thanks Anon in NY for that suggestion) and I’m set!

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