Tax time is upon us. My husband works freelance and he has multiple employers. Some are W-2 type jobs, others are 1099s. We need to keep all the forms organized as they start arriving in the mail in January. We go back through our google calendar for the previous year and make a list of all the … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints – Tax Season
On a whim, I clicked on someone's Facebook post about an email clean up system called Unroll.me. Please see my post about needing help with deleting and organizing emails. I had so many emails that I was overwhelmed and didn't know how to get ahead of the problem. I tried unsubscribing to emails I never … Continue reading Unroll.me Organized my Email Life
Today I need YOUR hints! You know where I am NOT organized at all? In my email inbox! Which is weird because I am super organized about my files on the computer. Folders for everything, clean desktop. But for some reason, I cannot get my head around a good email system. I make the folders, … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints 07.30.14
Now that my daughter is getting older, we have several different bags that she uses. When she was a baby, it was one-stop shopping - everything in the diaper bag. Now she has her school bag, a pool/beach bag, a ballet bag, the list goes on! I have always saved the plastic cases from pillows, … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints 07.16.14
Seriously, I need to rename this My Weekend Favorites... who cares about the alliteration. On TV - I still need to catch up on Scandal , Suits, Chicago Fire & PD, and Law & Order SVU. But I am finally caught up on Nashville and Grey's ( can we talk about Isaiah Washington coming back? … Continue reading My Friday Favorites 03.21.14
I don't know about you, but the thought of taking down and storing all of my holiday decorations can be daunting. Sometimes I feel like as soon as I get the house decorated exactly the way I want it, the New Year's ball has dropped and its time to take everything down again. One thing … Continue reading Holiday Decoration Storage
Happy Wednesday - you have made it to midweek - the weekend is almost here. I'm glad to be back at My Color-Coded Life after a minor and successful surgery. I'm back on the mend and feeling good. The back -to - school time is in full swing as kids are entering their third and … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints 09.18.13
Believe it or not there are only two more weekends until Labor Day weekend. This makes me sad! I love summer. Everything seems to slow down and it gives you time to just relax. Fall is a season I love too though, and to make lemonade out of lemons it is also nice to get … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints 08.14.13
Happy Friday everyone! I took today off from work so my weekend started last night - BUT some of you only have a few hours left! My faithful readers know I love the weekends, a chance to step away from the grind, spend time with family (or get some precious "me" time.) I also love recapping … Continue reading My Friday Favorites 08.09.13
Last week's Helpful Hump-day Hints were all about how I was organizing for some day trips last weekend. Today's Helpful Hump-day Hints (HHHs) are about what I learned! For the most part we were organized and prepared - but you always learn something new! We went to Sesame Place but these hints would be useful … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints 08.07.13
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