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Although it will take some up-front time to organize it will save you eons of wasted hours and dollars in the long run. If you create a place for every object in your home, you’ll never find yourself asking, “where did I put that?” Whenever my husband asks a question like, “where are the scissors,” … Read more
Tonight I came across the 100 Thing Challenge. One man’s challenge to rid his life of unnecessary possessions. His ultimate goal is to own no more than 100 things. Over the last few years I have made extraordinary progress towards eliminating unnecessary objects from my life and home, but I can not imagine owning less … Read more
Since my husband and I purchased our beach house we’ve driven back and forth between Maryland and North Carolina many more times than I ever would have imagined. With all of these trips under my belt I’ve learned quite a few packing tips that help us load and unload the car in no time. If … Read more
For a week and a half my husband and I focused on making breakfast, lunch and dinner with the food we had on hand. Our goal was to clean out the fridge prior to our 2 week vacation and so far we’ve been extremely successful. We managed to finish off quite a few half-empty jars … Read more
Do you find yourself buying duplicate household items? You head out to the store in search of spot remover only to come home and find three used bottles sitting on a shelf in the closet? I used to run into this problem quite often. I had so many bottles of this and that on the … Read more
I’ve had a hard time concentrating over the past few days. My mind seems to be wandering in a million different directions all at once. I’m not sure why I feel so restless and distracted. Whenever I get this way I tend to clean the house. I’m not sure why, but somehow or another it … Read more
I’ve been struggling to figure out how to store and categorize my coupons for months. It seems like no matter how I organize them I inevitably end up standing in the middle of the grocery store isle with a wad of unwanted coupons in hand. I waste so much time leafing through piles of coupons … Read more
My mother-in-law just handed over two or three weeks of coupons from the weekend edition of the Washington Post. Rather than using any brain power this late on a Sunday night I’m planning on taking a pile of circulars and a pair of scissors upstairs, so I can spend the next thirty minutes clipping coupons … Read more
Eight years ago my husband picked up two little kittens from the Washington Humane Society. At the time my husband, (then boyfriend), lived alone in a small two bedroom apartment. The kittens were prone to scratching, but we bought them two large scratching posts and for the most part they kept their claws off the … Read more
As I’ve mentioned before I am a bit of an anti-clutter fanatic. When we first moved into our house my husband joked about the chotchke law I enacted. Initially, I allowed no more than three chotchkes to cover the shelves and table tops in each room of our home. If an extra chotchke was added, … Read more