Running Your Home for Fun & Profit
Enjoy saving and making money at home!
Plan a Quick Fix Meal Daily One of the most frustrating parts of homemaking is the need to feed the family every day. It never stops. People need nourishment daily. The only way I have found to make it somewhat easier is to plan ahead and choose quick fix meals. So, I put together a simple menu consisting of several easy meals that my family really enjoys, that I pull out during those times when…
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One of my favorite methods for killing time, instead of actually accomplishing something, is looking for cool homemaking tools. I’m always looking for easier ways to accomplish my housework, so I can move on to the more creative activities that I enjoy. A Useful Phone App This past month, I discovered a nice and useful phone app, available for both iPhones and Android, that can be shared by all family members. There’s also a web…
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Restarting Our Spring Cleaning In order to restart our Spring Cleaning, let’s start the laundry again. Then we’ll move on to the kitchen. For a review of our earlier steps, check out this post. So gather the dirty laundry, sort it, and start a fresh load in the washer. Now, let’s head to the kitchen. Open the dishwasher and make sure it’s empty. Using a 16 ounce measuring cup, mix a cup of hot…
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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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