Since I am the only one of my cousins who has any sewing abillities, I got all my Grandma’s sewing things when she passed away. This little sewing accessory cabinet was one of those treasures. I usually don’t like to hang onto family heirlooms unless I can put them to use somewhere in my home. …
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Streamline Your Grocery Shopping
When you take the time to streamline recurring tasks, your efforts repay you many times over. For most of us, tasks like grocery shopping are on our agenda at least once a week — sometimes more. So just think of how much time you could save if you streamlined your grocery shopping process! Here are …
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Jalapeño Poppers {a spicy summer treat}
10 Uses for Coffee Grounds
How many times a day do you make a pot of coffee? Do you throw your used grounds away? Before your throw out your next batch of coffee ground, look over these10 simple ways to put your coffee ground to work around your kitchen, house, garden, and more! 1. Compost – Add coffee grounds to …
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Simple Fruit Salad
This fruit salad is simple and delicious; it’s probably one of my favorites to date. One reason I love it so much is because you really can’t mess it up (I promise)! Use whatever seasonal fruits you have on hand and feel free to throw in a few frozen berries, canned fruit, or anything that’s …
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Baskets {My go-to Organizing Tool}
I often receive questions about the organizing tools I use in my home. While I don’t shop at one specific store, I do have one “go-to” tool that I love using whenever possible — baskets! Baskets are a great organizing tool because they come in so many shapes, sizes, colors (and prices)! I guarantee you can find …
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Love It or Lose It
Is it time for you to eliminate some of the clutter from your home and your life? You know it’s time to get more organized if… However, knowing it and actually doing it are two totally different things! It can be difficult to eliminate unnecessary and useless items from your home, even though you know …
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Top Ten Tips to Spend Less
These are tough economic times. Lots of people are feeling the stress — are you? If you’re trying to simplify your spending, follow a few of these strategies: Pay cash: It’s much easier to spend money when you use plastic. Keep yourself accountable by using cold hard cash. Don’t buy too much at one time: …
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Quick Tip: Simplify Your Spending
Personally, I believe that financial matters are one of the most important areas of your life to get organized. If your finances are already organized, you are headed down the right path — and you’re teaching your children a very valuable lesson! If you have a little work to do, here are 3 ways to …
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One Closet — Three Uses
Our home office is one room in our house that we could not do without. However, the room is just a small extra bedroom and the closet is even smaller — so I knew it would require lots of organization to function at maximum capacity. We needed our closet to function in 3 very specific …
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Tomatoes
It’s the middle of July which means my vegetable garden is finally starting to look good — it always seems to take too long! My garden is very small this year but I’ve already picked herbs, rhubarb, beans, zucchini, summer squash…and the tomatoes starting. I don’t know about you, but I never get tired of cooking …
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Mini Fruit Pies
I love pie. I love eating pie, I love making pie, I love nearly all vartities of pie! The only problem with pie is that the crust always seems to get soggy before we can eat it all — there are just 2 of us you know. So today — as I was contemplating whether …
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Earn Rewards with Swagbucks
Do you use Swagbucks? If not, you should be! I set up my account in June of 2010 — even though I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I was skeptical to say the least. However, since it’s free to sign up, I figured I didn’t have anything to lose. How it works: Swagbucks.com is an online …
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Find Great Coupons
I LOVE saving money and finding great deals — I think it’s in my blood! However, I also value my time and try to only spend time on things that are important to me and my family. Sometimes, I am able to save both time and money, other times I have to choose what is …
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Low Maintenance Garden
I love to garden. In fact, if I had my way, I would spend most of my summer hours outside in my garden. It’s definitely not a perfectly groomed garden, nor is it professionally planned — I simply took plants that I liked and planted them where I thought they looked good. For the most part, my …
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Simple Summer Pleasures
We are fully into summer. Have you started enjoying it yet? I don’t know about you, but my summer always seems to fly by way too quickly. I love thinking about lazy summer days, even though in reality, life happens, and I feel so busy. Since we are already 2 weeks into July (and I …
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Keep your Children Clutter Free
Is your child’s bedroom a cluttered mess? Often, children’s bedrooms are messy — but it might not be entirely their fault. Kids can’t keep their rooms organized if they don’t have homes for their toys, clothes, craft supplies, and other treasures. That’s our job as grownups! We need to show them how to be organized, …
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What is your Time Worth?
If you had to place a dollar value on your time, what would it be? $25 an hour? $50 an hour? $100 an hour? Maybe even $1,000 an hour!? Your time is precious and very valuable, wouldn’t you say? Have you ever felt that your time was being wasted? Maybe you’ve been on the phone …
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