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4 Ways to Pay to Simplify Your Day

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photo by epSos.de Being stuck in the bed postpartum with two bouts of double mastitis has forced me to simplify my days even more than I thought possible before.   But note, this post is not titled “5 FRUGAL Ways to Simplify Your Days,” so you might have to cancel the cable to pull this off, [...]

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Home Management Notebook: Quick Instructions

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The step by step instructions I listed in these posts build your notebook from daily to yearly: Step 1 :  Decide on your sections. Step 2 : Record your usual chores and daily routines. Step 3 : Record your basic weekly routines and break home into zones. Step 4 : Print out long term project [...]

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Garden Planner for Notebooks

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I promised that I would get a Garden Journal going for my Home Management Notebook, so here it is. Garden Journal Year XLS : Calculates the dates if you enter your area frost date and tells you what to plant.  Sheet one is Spring, sheet two is Fall. Garden Journal Year PDF:  Print out of [...]

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6 Lazy Ways to Reduce Housework

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TL and I spend very little time doing housework.  So, how do we get away with that? 1.  We have LITTLE HOUSES–less house means less to clean.  I can whip around this sucker in half and hour and have it sparkle. 2.  We don’t buy stuff–less stuff means less stuff to clean.  The vast majority [...]

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5 Lazy Ways to Simplify Your Days

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WOW, that calendar is blue, huh?  Trick of the camera, but the more important thing is that it’s also really EMPTY. And this is a really busy week for me! 1.  We shop only once a week and refuse to go back. If we’re out of milk, that’s just how it goes, drink water.  If [...]

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