When you’re moving, sometimes it’s all you can do to get everything packed and ready for the day the truck arrives. But you know as soon as you get to the new place, you’re going to be frustrated if you can’t find the items you most need when you need them. Just a little bit [...]

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Even if you find a way to keep your cords neat and tidy, you still need to be able to identify which plug goes with which component so you can unplug what you need to, and not something else.
Here’s a really super-easy, cheap way to do it:

Cut an index card into thin strips - maybe [...]

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I recently discovered that my dresser drawers don’t come out. They’re bolted to the track somehow. And there’s a slab of wood between each drawer. Manufacturers make them this way to prevent drawers falling out, but it has a  side effect you’re much more likely to encounter: when something gets jammed behind the drawer, it [...]

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One of the most frustrating things about moving from one home to another is that after all the furniture gets moved, you’re still living in boxes for a while. The stuff you need to get dressed and go to work can get misplaced in the shuffle. My classic favorite is being unable to find any [...]

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Today’s Sunday Dinner features Sesame Chicken Tenders with a garlic-soy dipping sauce… I picked a relatively low carb recipe for the tenders partly because I’m on a mild low carb diet (advised by a doctor, not a magazine) myself, but also because using flour or bread crumbs will detract from the sesame flavor, which I [...]

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About seven years ago, I went paperless when I realized how much money I’d save on moving expenses if I didn’t haul boxes and boxes of papers with me. At the same time, I realized how much of my stuff really didn’t mean anything to me anymore. I took a very bold step and got [...]

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I learned early on the importance of working when you don’t feel like it. Whether I was sick, tired or just out of touch with my creative muse, I mastered the art of staying on task no matter what. The problem is, I didn’t know when I was burnt out. In adulthood I realized this [...]

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If you constantly bring home clutter, you constantly have to declutter or find yourself in a mess in no time. Who has time to declutter 15 minutes a day, or an hour a week? If you do, you’re lucky.
Ways clutter can sneak into your home
It sounds simple, but clutter is sneaky. It masquerades as the [...]

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IdeaSandbox has a very cool free tool that helps you prioritize your to do list. You enter all your tasks into it, in no particular order. On the next page, it shows you two tasks and asks which one is more important. The one you choose gets paired against another task, and so on until [...]

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CDs can take up a lot of space. Now that downloading is an option (saves you money because you only pay for songs you want; saves on plastic because it doesn’t use any), you can stop buying CDs altogether. But what about the collection you already have?
If you’re brave, you can burn your whole collection [...]

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