Look what my mother brought my kids for Easter: You see something fun. You see kids running around the yard, joyfully making a colorful mess. I see everything I ever knew about my own mother and her aversion to pointless messes . . . shattered. Shattered like colorful eggshells strewn across the sidewalk. Hmmmph. (I feel the need to … [Read more...]
Cleaning In the Midst of a Mess
If you've read the blog the whole way through, or even if you've just been around a while . . . you have likely noticed a recurring theme. Nony likes projects, but projects give her tunnel vision. Tunnel vision means Nony's house gets messy*. Again. *Messy: Grocery bags on the kitchen floor, TV trays left out until no one can remember the … [Read more...]
028 Garage Sale Pricing & Set Up Tips Podcast
In this podcast, I'm sharing tips for pricing and set up for your garage sale. Posts mentioned within this podcast: Garage Sale Tips (Includes the link to the counterfeit-money-checking-marker) Pricing Set-up See all my garage sale posts here. How to quickly determine "value" on eBay. Connect with me on my social media … [Read more...]
Filling Up the Donate Box
With end-of-school-year-madness already beginning, I've been so very good about putting things into the calendar on my phone AND setting reminders to appear the day before and hour before. Really, that kind of brain-saving technology was made for me. But I hadn't remembered to put Monday's donation pick-up on my calendar, so I was excited … [Read more...]
Idea for Decluttering Old Cell Phones
This post is one big affiliate link. I don't usually do those, but this one came to my attention and I wanted to share since it's something I personally needed! I'm in the market for a new iPhone. Honestly, I assumed once I hit my "eligible for upgrade" moment, I'd march right into the store and do the deal. I did march right in, but … [Read more...]
Reduce the Bedside Pile of Books! $49 Sale on Basic Kindle Today!
Affiliate links are included in this post. In fact, they're the main reason I wrote it. Well, affiliate links and a desire to be helpful, of course. Really. I had to share that the most basic Kindle (the one I have and loooove) is on sale today, April 29, 2014 for only $49!!!! That's an AMAZING price, and would make a wonderful Mother's Day … [Read more...]
Subconsciously Decluttering
When it was time to dye Easter eggs, I headed to the coffee cup cabinet. We had five colors, so I chose my five least favorite coffee cups to hold the colored water. As I pulled those coffee cups out of the dishwasher on Monday morning (we didn't have time to dye eggs until Sunday afternoon), I realized each cup was chosen because there was … [Read more...]
HUGE E-Book Bundle Available Through Monday!!
So sorry, but the bundle has ended. If you want to be sure you don't miss future time-sensitive things, sign up for my free newsletter here. Affiliate link alert!! Before it's too late (this ends on Monday, April 26), I felt the need to share that there's another Ultimate Homemaking Bundle sale going. I posted like crazy last year about it … [Read more...]
An Overly Proud Decluttering Moment
By bragging about what I did, I'll also reveal that I don't always declutter so perfectly and considerately. Honestly, sometimes I throw things into a box in a moment of frantic madness, desperate to get STUFF out of my house. A slob's gotta do what a slob's gotta do. But this time, I was the Model Declutterer. When I ran across the … [Read more...]
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