I have been doing some form of menu planning ever since we got married, a little over seven years ago. But my menu planning has evolved quite a bit since those days (think a list of three or so "helper" dinners, split between beef and chicken, with a random recipe thrown in). Here's what I do now. This might seem complicated, and it kind of is, but I know myself enough to know that if I don't write everything down, I'll miss something or forget to buy something, so this is what works for me … [Read more...]
My First Attempt At Kon Mari: My Clothing
Last week, I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. This is one of the first times I've actually read what I would consider a "trendy" book while it's still trendy, by the way. I usually don't get to them until a few years later... I decided to give some of the KonMari organizing principles a try. You organize by category, and one of the key things is to gather everything from that category in one spot. The first area to tackle is clothing. So I gathered all of my … [Read more...]
How I Decluttered My Pinterest (And You Can Too!)
Earlier this week, my Pinterest account had over 3600 pins and almost 100 boards. Call me crazy, but that seems a little excessive. What's the point of holding onto so much stuff, anyways? If this is supposed to be a place to save ideas and find things you want to use later, it might be time to pare down. So I did. As of this post, I have about half the boards and only a third of the pins left. I condensed my recipes into just a few broader categories. I got rid of individual holiday … [Read more...]
How To Clean Greasy Residue Off Of Pans
Let me preface this by saying that there are two groups of people who will read this post. First, the people who think this is a great trick and want to try it immediately. Second, those who wonder why I would even care about cleaning the bottoms of my pans in the first place. To you, I say, because they look so pretty when they're nice and clean. You can continue to think I'm crazy. I'm okay with that... I was doing dishes last night, and noticed the bottom of my muffin pans are seriously … [Read more...]
Two Minute Christmas Card Organization
I know, I know, Christmas was a month ago. But I finally got around to making this Christmas card flipbook, and I wanted to share it with you. Each year I keep one of our family Christmas cards because I am sentimental like that. But I didn't have a good way to store them (case in point: I've already lost the one from 2011). Enter the metal binder rings! I finally bought a pack for less than $2.00, and quickly put our family cards together on two of them. I wrote the year on the back of … [Read more...]
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