Posted in Chores, Organization, Recipes on September 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Remember when I blogged about our brand new, yet-to-be-implemented, menu planning idea? After a month and a half, I’ve found it to be a super-effective, time-saving, money-saving, sanity-saving method – after a few minor adjustments.
What wasn’t working:
A month’s worth of on-hand food and planning is just too much for a family my size.
Having specific days [...]
Posted in Organization, Tips, Travel on July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Inspired by Raising Olives (as I often am), I decided to finally put together an emergency box for the van. Not “emergency” in the usual sense – I don’t mean breakdowns or flat tires. By “emergency,” I am referring to kid-related emergencies. Things like bladder accidents in the grocery store, a unexpectedly sick child, an [...]
Posted in Chores, Organization, Parenting, tagged children's chores on July 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Recently, a dear friend recommended that as a follow-up to my blog post about our new chore system, I write about what chores my children do. This friend has children that are all very young (3 girls age five and under, and expecting her 4th child). I know exactly where this friend is coming from, [...]
Posted in Organization, Tips, tagged Frugal Playroom Ideas on July 14, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’m a bad blogger.
A good blogger anticipates that when you do a new household project, you’ll eventually blog about it. A good blogger will take “before” pictures, “during” pictures, and “after” pictures, so that her readers can experience the whole thing with her.
Not a bad blogger. A bad blogger will remember to take pictures as [...]
Posted in Organization, tagged bunkbed bedding on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Remember my bunkbed dilemma? We seem to have arrived at a solution, or at least a seasonal one. We decided on #3: No regular bed blankets. We removed the topsheets of all the kids’ beds so there is a fitted sheet only. The kids now each have one machine-washable blanket, which they use at night [...]
Posted in Lots of Kids, Organization, Tips, tagged help for growing families on February 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A large family means you typically store a large amount of food. SAMS Club is no longer a place where you stock up on the staples for a few months, but the place where you go for your regular grocery shopping. At the same time, those small baking pans and sauce pans get relocated to the back [...]
Posted in Favorite Posts, Organization, tagged budget software, budgeting, Dave Ramsey, Managing your finances, ynab, you need a budget on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For years, Iron Man and I felt that we were okay financially. Although we did not have a budget, we were heavily funding a 401K and college savings for our children, we had no debt other than the mortgage and the car, and we never spent more than we made. We used credit cards almost [...]
Posted in Organization, tagged organizing photos, mozyhome, computer backup, digital photo backup on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I confess: I am a photography addict. My mother feels sorry for my poor children for having to put up with cameras constantly flashing in their little eyes. We rarely visit portrait studios because I like to shoot the pictures myself. Photography is a love of mine, so organizing my photos is particularly important to [...]
Posted in Organization, tagged organizing books, organizing CDs on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Media
Audio CDs, DVDs, computer software, cassette tapes, VHS tapes… keeping it all put away can be very overwhelming! All of these small items can work together to take up a large amount of space!
For CDs, DVDs, and computer CDs, I have implemented a system that I first learned about here.
Here’s how I did it:
I purchased several large CD [...]
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