Recipes for Simplifying This Crazy Life

Y'all. This. Is. So. Cool.

I realize I may be behind the times, but when I learn something new that totally blows my mind I feel like I have to share it!! Even if you probably already know about it, haha!!

In searching for a way to connect my Finding Dream Homes Blog with my Facebook page, I found this nifty little site: IFTTT.com, which stands for IF This Then That. You know, so IF I publish a new blog post, THEN auto publish it to Facebook as well. Yea, it totally worked.

However, after I registered, I saw a suggestion for recommended "recipes" (what they call the sequence you program based on whatever trigger you select) and one of them was called Recipes FOR THE HOME.

I'm like, "How do they know I love Real Estate?! (followed by: Oh this isn't about Real Estate per se, but about life at home.) But yea, OK, let's check it out!!"

And - Whoa! 

They have recipes to sync so many of the electronics I already have (or hope to get soon, hehe) in my home to make the most of them all and simplify my life all the more! Here's a peek at the few I could fit into a screenshot:

I don't know about you, but most days I feel like I'm a chicken running around with my head cut off. Because I am totally that girl who would lose her head if is wasn't attached. Which is why I have to write everything down. (And I do! I obsessively take notes all.the.time to make sure I don't forget something important. Like my clients' children's names or their anniversary or the fact that they absolutely MUST have a home with a basement. Whew... wanted to make sure you knew that so you didn't think I'd be a crummy agent!) But anyway, to learn there's a way to make my coffee maker start brewing WHEN I'M ACTUALLY AWAKE so it's ACTUALLY hot by the time I go get it, Um Yes Please! Since my schedule is crazy and I don't have regular hours (which I love) it's hard to know exactly when to program my coffee maker. So I never bothered to want a programmable coffee maker. But now, I kinda do! That way I can have hot coffee every morning, not just the mornings my son remembers to make it. (HA! No seriously, I love when he brings me my coffee in the mornings!! So Sweet!) And auto-opening the shades? How cool is that?!

Anyway, I'm getting off topic again. Can't wait till I have time (??) to browse through all those recipe recommendations and see how I can simplify some more besides auto-posting my blogs!! Let me know if you find some cool recipes on their, too!