Tag: organizing
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21-day challenge: a whole-house purge
Last week, I had spring break. While I wanted to get a lot of things accomplished, I also wanted to have some down time. I managed to get our garden plowed and some flowers planted. I also completed a whole house purge, where I went through our home room by room and got rid of…
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Simplify Saturday: Spring cleaning
Some of us have been elbow deep in our spring cleaning routine. Because I am a teacher, spring cleaning takes me a lot longer than most. I don’t enjoy losing my whole spring break to cleaning, so I have to stretch my spring cleaning out across several Saturdays and evenings. This means my projects are…
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How to make faux vintage signs
I really love those antique farmhouse style signs, but I don’t always love how much they cost. Did you know there are websites chock full of vintage graphics that are royalty-free and copywrite free? One of my favorites is The Graphics Fairy. It was on that website that I not only discovered this super cool…
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Simplify Saturdays: Using Cozi to organize your family schedule
My family has been using an app called Cozi to better organize our lives and manage our time more efficiently. So far, it’s working really well for us. First, we loaded our family’s names into the app, and each of us were assigned a different color. Now, when we schedule events on the calendar, it’s…
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Under the sink: practical and cheap organization
Our daughters’ bathroom needed some serious organization beneath the sink. The vanity cabinet is a nice size, but there is only a big cavernous space to put things. I wanted to make a better use of the space. I purchased a riser, and put a large bucket on top of the riser to hold our…