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Choosing Home Improvement Goals
Homeowners are often faced with choices in prioritizing improvements based on budgetary and time constraints. Here are some ways to choose your home improvement projects.
home improvement • home management • home projects • home budget • renovations

Christmas Tree Safety for Kids
A Christmas tree is a sight to behold by the families who take the time to decorate one. Here are some tips to keep your tree from becoming a safety hazard for your kids.
christmas tree safety • artificial tree • young children • children safety • home management

Home Management to Consider for Busy Moms
Generally, housekeeping is the responsibility of homemakers. Successful home management is achieved through proper planning, implementing and directing of ideas.
housekeeping • organizing • home management • busy mom • housewife

How to Create a Blackboard Anywhere, on Anything
You can easily custom make your own message centre using erasable blackboard paint anywhere whether it's a wall or a storage tin.
blackboard message centre • bulletin board • home management • organization • erasable

How to Make a Chalk Blackboard
Use blackboard paint to transform an old wood frame into the perfect place to keep track of appointments, grocery lists, notes and reminders. No frame,? Make your own.
blackboard • chalk • bulletin board • message centre • organized

Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook
Another of Martha Stewart's high-end domestic bibles, The Homekeeping Handbook is a must for everyone's home library.
martha stewart's homekeeping handbook • home maintenance • home repair • home management • how-to guide

Green Home Concierges in Demand
Some busy homeowners think about reducing their carbon footprint and going greener, but never find the time to start. Now there is a green home concierge to help.
green home • going green • green home concierge • environmental home consultant • helping people be ecological

Advantages of Built-in Storage
Need space? Storage at home is a common problem. Find out the advantages of customising built-in storage systems for a one-time investment for your home.
built-in storage • built in cabinets • built in cupboards • advantages of built-in storage • storage systems

Are You Paying For Free Things?
Some items that are free people don't think twice about spending money on. Some of these items include fabric, clothes, water, food, and many others. Are you paying for free items?
tightwad • tightwad • tightwaddery • cheap • frugality

Butlers' Trainers Give Simple Living Advice
Former Butler and current CEO of a Butler Training School, Charles MacPherson gives advice in running an organized and green household.
butler's tips • home management • home organization • green living • butler's use of organization

Choosing a House Cleaning Service
To get the best cleaning service at the best price, here is a list of questions for home owners to ask themselves and the provider when hiring a new cleaning service.
cleaning services • cleaning service • housekeeping • housekeeping service • housekeeping services

Choosing to Stay at Home
While about half of all mothers choose to stay at home, it is still viewed as the lessor of the two choices. There are benefits to full-time mothering
stay-at-home • mothers • household • working full-time • cost savings

How to Be Your Own Butler
Founder and CEO of Toronto's first Housekeeper training and Butler School shows Suite101 reporter how to look like she has a staff of butlers on hand.
butler's tips • home management • home organization • packing clothes • wrinkle-proofing

Martha Stewart
The Queen of Home shares some of her secrets on all things domestic on her website
martha stewart • martha stewart website • home decor • home organization • home management tips

Tips for Time Management
These tips for time management can help you meet deadlines, become more productive, work less hours, get more done, and reduce stress.
manage time • get more done • time management • setting priorities • time management stragegies

Adult Halloween Parties Book
If you will be planning or attending a Halloween party this year, a new book has arrived that wlll help you with decorating, food, drinks, costumes and beyond!
halloween parties • adult halloween • halloween book • halloween author • party planning

Blessings For Tightwads....
In this article I explain some of the most awesome reasons why it's great to be a tightwad. I also share how to be more happy with your life as a tightwad, and a few things that we should all be thankful for. As always, this week's Cheap Meal and Tip From a Friend!
tightwad • tightwaddery • tightwad • tightwaddery • cheapskate

Book Review: Sorted! A Home Organisation Guide
Australian Professional Organiser Lissanne Oliver has combined her years of industry experience into a handy how to guide to help readers achieve a more organised life.
sorted! • home organisation guide • lissane oliver • guide to better home and life management • more organised

Diary of a Thrifty Housewife
Even with the best of thrifty intentions, nobody is perfect. But don't just take my word for it; see for yourself.
thrift • money • save money • thrifty diary • thrifty journal

Get Kids Involved in Home Energy Savings
Teach kids to save energy at home through simple language and your positive example. Encourage them to engage in energy saving activities and reward their actions.
parenting tips • parenting advice • teaching kids to save energy • teaching children to save money • save energy

Happy Birthday On the Cheap
Birthday gift shopping is stressful, especially when you have little available cash. Planning a party for someone can be overwhelmingly stressful. Inside are some ideas on how to do it, with what, and where. Also included are ideas for cutting costs on the cake, the decorations, the gifts, and the guests. Come inside and grab your noisemaker. In addition you’ll find this week’s “Cheap Meal,” as well as this week’s “Tip From a Friend.”
tightwad • tightwaddery • budget • frugal • frugality

Home and Family Organisation Websites and Books
Many home organisation books and websites offer advice and strategies to help create less cluttered and more organised home environments and family routines.
home and family organisation websites and books • busy mothers' companion • sandra felton • flylady • emilie barnes

Make a Home Organizer Notebook
With today's busy families, a vital key to running your daily household is organization. A home organizer can vastly improve your ability to organize your family life.
home organizer notebook • home organization • home organizer • family checklist • home management

My Utmost Tightwad Survival Secret....
This article discusses my number one secret to tightwad survival. This is the secret not only to my success, but to others as well. I know that this may be the most unpopular and poorly rated article I have written to date; however peace shall come to me upon finally bringing this secret to surface... In addition in this article you'll find this week's "Cheap Meal", dessert and "Tip From a Friend".
tightwad • tightwaddery • tightwad • tightwaddery • cheapskate

One Step At A Time
A friend learns that her dirty little secret isn't quite as big a deal to overcome as her mind has lead her to think. She learns a new method to her madness and her whole family gets the reward.
organizing • organizing • time • time management • organized

TV's Peter Walsh On Clutter
In his new book, "Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?" Peter Walsh explores the psychological reasons behind the clutter compulsion.
peter walsh • peter walsh clean sweep • it's all too much • peter j. walsh • clean sweep

Why Bother To Be Organized?
Answering the question "why bother to be organized?" for those considering making a committment to get organized.
organizing • time • time management • organized • clutter

The Ultimate Homeschool Planner
Whether you are naturally organized or grasping for straws like the rest of us, this planner will help whip your family into shape painlessly and with very little time or effort. The format is great, the resources seem endless and its offerings will last indefinitely!
homeschooling • curriculum • review • planner • home

Sexy TV Dads
Sexy TV dads are nurturing, flexible, suportive, collaborative and intelligent. Could this indicate a paradigm shift in fatherhood?
gender equality • gender inequality • women • men • childcare

Book Review - Dinner's in the Freezer
Book review on the book, Dinner's in the Freezer by Jill Bond
food • foods • recipe • recipes • cook

Boxing Day History and Lesson Plans
Boxing Day in Canada is a way to teach social skills like helping others. Boxing day is more than just a busy shopping day, empty boxes hold character lessons.
boxing day • boxing day history • lesson plans • the day after christmas • teach social skills

Book Review: A Rose for the Anzac Boys
As three teenaged girls seek to make a difference in the ongoing struggles of World War I, they find that the war will impact them in ways they could never have imagined.
a rose for the anzac boys • jackie french • historical teen fiction • australian author • the role of women in war

Finding Community Service Projects
Volunteering with children and teens is a great way to be involved in the community. Finding service projects and getting homeschoolers involved can be fun.
community service projects • homeschooling volunteer • volunteer opportunities • volunteering with children • children and teens

Investing in Your Home
Unlock the potential of your house by treating it like an investment. Although Real Estate requires constant attention, it can be just as rewarding as stocks or bonds.
real estate investment • investing in your home • pick the right neighborhood • homeowners • property values

Online Home Schooling Resources
Find free education website information and resources for learning games and printable worksheets and activities, plus homeschool support and other online resources
online home schooling • home schooling resources • home school materials • educational activities • activities on the internet

Start a Residential Recovery Home for Addicts
To work with those who are in denial about the seriousness of addiction takes dedication and understanding. Policies and procedures provide a basic structure.
drug addiction • break through denial • recovery home • one year sobriety • addiction recovery

THE 80/20 RULE OF BUSINESS
The well known 80/20 rule of business states: "If all of a given category of items are sorted in order of value, 80 percent of the value will come from only 20 percent of the items." Think about that in terms of clutter. Eighty percent of the space on our shelves is occupied by stuff we don't need or use.
80/20 rule • business • massie's • craft talk • crafts

The Home Office Deduction
Whether you use your office as your place of business or are an employee working from home, you may be able to claim a portion of your expenses on your tax return.
deductions for home office • irs home office deduction • tax deductions for home office • home office tax deduction • irs home office deductions

What to Do for a Child with Croup
The respiratory distress caused by croup can be alarming for both patients and parents; knowing how to respond when croup strikes will help to alleviate those fears.
treating croup at home • signs and symptoms of croup • what is croup • signs of severe croup • how to treat croup

Keeping ourselves Inspired
Judaism holds homemaking and motherhood in high esteem. We must do our best to ignore comments made by ignorant or misled people, and avoid being affected by society's "woman movements". Nevertheless, staying inspired is not always easy. Here are some ways to keep G-d's Presence in your home and raise your spirits high!
jewish • jewish women • orthodox • traditional • judaism

Mud Season
As surely as April will bring showers your pets and family will track into your house and grind it into clothing. Find a number of tips for removing mud from carpets and clothing.
april • showers • mud • carpet • liquid detergent

How Can I Homeschool If I Can't Even Keep My House Clean?
Do you know of someone who says they don't homeschool because they can't get control of their home as it is so they figure it would never work? Read my story and you'll see how anyone can make small steps to change from being a "housework-phobic" to a benevolent Queen over a peaceful castle.
homeschool • home • school • houswork • cleaning

How to Carry Out a Declutter
Once the various boxes and bags needed for dealing with a declutter are in place and a decision has been made as to where the tidy up will start, it's time to begin.
decluttering • declutter • clutter • decluttering the home • tidying up

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