Last week I challenged you to add up the damage in your e-mail accounts. Mine was 9043. I had 3 goals for the week that I planned to accomplish with just 5 minutes a day. I veered from my goals a bit and jumped ahead but I did manage to get my e-mails down to a grand total of 8320. I’m proud of my work so far, because I get about 200 e-mails a day. So I’ve actually deleted about {Read More}
Clear the Digital Clutter Challenge Part 2
August 2, 2011 by 1 Comment
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Silverware Tip for Your Dishwasher
August 2, 2011 by 1 Comment
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I posted this tip last summer, but it’s something that saves me a lot of time and I’m constantly thankful that I do it. We sort everything in our kitchens- from cups to plates, cereal to canned goods. Most folks don’t shove all the plates,bowls, cups and silver a muck on the same shelf. Each item is placed in it’s respective home so that when it’s needed it can be found easily. So why do people throw silverware haphazardly into the {Read More}
Setting and Moving Your Gadgets in Blogger
May 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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If you’re like me, you don’t like having your pictures and buttons over in your sidebar labeled. It just seems silly to label the button for Pary Moppins with “Pary Moppins” or the button for Coupon Dede with “Coupon Dede” The problem with this is that if you’re trying to add a picture or html box without labeling it, you have a hard time moving it around because it looks like all the other pictures or html boxes. Make sense? {Read More}
My Favorite Item in My Kitchen (excluding my chocolate stash!)
May 3, 2011 by 2 Comments
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My favorite kitchen tool is small, simple and cheap. It saves me lots of time and headaches, thus reducing stress in my life. This my friends, is a tool no kitchen should be without (and at such a cheap cost why doesn’t every kitchen have one already?!?) Perhaps you’ve never realized just how much one small object can do for you. For a mere $1.97 I have : reduced the amount of time I have to clean up messes at {Read More}
Super 1 Foods $.05 Bag Credit is Back!
May 1, 2011 by
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The $.05 credit for each reusable bag you use is back at Super 1 Foods. You may have to ask for it, as I almost always used a reusable bag but only even found out about the credit the week before they canceled it in early April. Not only is it good for your budget, and good for the environment, but it is much easier to carry 2 or 3 good reusable bags into the house with groceries than 12-15 {Read More}
Marinades Made Easy
April 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Our family likes to eat baked apples. With the frequency that we let apples get wrinkled and “have” to make baked apples I’d be buying lots of brown sugar and cinnamon if we always made a new marinade. Instead of putting just enough brown sugar on, we make a sort of marinade with lots of brown sugar and cinnamon. The apples get baked in it and then then it gets drained off into a bowl to be frozen until the {Read More}
Sometimes You Just Gotta Let It Go
March 22, 2011 by 7 Comments
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This post may not be anything new to you, but for me it’s been a great awakening and a huge step forward in my peace at home. I’m hoping this post will be an encouragement to other moms who feel they have to “do it all” I will be the first person to tell you that I am not a housekeeper. I’m not much of a cook either for that matter. But that is a story for another post. {Read More}
How to Remove Melted Plastic from Dishwasher Coils
February 24, 2011 by 1 Comment
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I think I can still smell the part of this lid that’s missing even though it’s been almost a month. I started to smell something but just kept working on the computer like the lazy person I can sometimes be. In my defense it was naptime, which we all know is don’t mess with Mommy time. When I went to find the smell I couldn’t find the source. The heat in the house had been on so the smell {Read More}
February Casserole Swap and Freezer Cooking
February 10, 2011 by 3 Comments
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In January we talked about 3 ways to save some time and energy with your cooking plans. ( casserole swaps, dinner/Babysitting Swaps, and Cooking Extra to Give Away at Random). I was able to get a group of 5 ladies together to swap casseroles this month. We exchanged meals on Monday and Tuesday. I spent Monday afternoon cooking up 6 batches of my chicken, cheese and biscuit casserole (5 for the exchange and one for the coupon class I taught {Read More}
Avoid Scrubbing
February 3, 2011 by 3 Comments
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I have no upper body strength whatsoever. My arms hurt after just cleaning 4 of Little One’s bottles- that’s how weak I am. Maybe it’s all the hours of scraping 3 layers of paint off the wood floors in the first house we bought, or maybe just plain laziness. Either way, when it’s time to clean the bathroom or kitchen I avoid scrubbing at all costs. When at all possible, I clean messes right away– especially splatters on bathroom mirrors. {Read More}