Running Your Home for Fun & Profit
Enjoy saving and making money at home!
I SURVIVED THE BOMB CYCLONE The weather is changing and Spring cleaning the house is on my mind. The bomb cyclone blizzard was all over the news here in Denver recently. It was amazingly cold and windy with deeply reduced visibility, icy roads, and the occasional falling tree. We all stayed home and rested up as long as we could. But the day after the blizzard ended, the roads were mostly clear and my…
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SAVE TIME AND MONEY EASILY Here are some quick tips from me and my vintage library to help you save time and money. Want to know how to stock up easily? First clean out a closet, if possible, or set up a large set of shelves somewhere. This will be Supply Central. Now each time you need to go to the grocery store, check your list (which I am sure you write out each time,…
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Homemaking, or running a household, seems to be viewed in one of two ways, for the most part. Either people proclaim it to be total drudgery, or they opine that it is “the most wonderful and important job in the world”. I lean toward the latter theory, but then I really don’t want to try it and mess it up. Okay, I was just kidding! Making myself actually keep up on the cleaning is very…
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Keep Your House In Good Shape In my mind, these are the 12 basic steps to keep your house in good shape: picking up out of place items and straightening removing trash washing laundry, then folding and putting it away (while continuing to work between starting and finishing loads!) ****** washing the dishes cleaning the kitchen cleaning the bathrooms ****** cleaning the furniture cleaning the floors meal preparation food and goods procurement planning and…
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Metal detecting is a fun and profitable hobby. It sounds like a lot of fun to me. Finding lost treasures, helping others who have lost treasures, walking in the outdoors — all of these are part of this fascinating hobby. Getting the Right Equipment My original thought was that you could buy whatever metal detector the local hobby shop had and then head out to the nearest empty lot to start finding fun stuff. It…
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I want to know how to live a quiet life in a noisy world. My grandparents (both sets) had remarkably quiet and serene homes, even when all the cousins and aunts and uncles gathered there. There was chatter and laughter, but no electronic noises. Even the telephone on the wall was remarkably quiet. It almost never rang. And all the kids went outside to explore. Noise, flashing lights, or bright lights seem to be an…
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