Today's Helpful Hump-day Hint will hopefully help you with organizing your makeup. I love my Orla Kiely by Target makeup bag. It's the perfect size to throw in a purse. It's not too bulky, but can still hold all of the essentials. When I don't carry it with me, it stays in a bin in … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints – Makeup Organization
Some of you with a good eye saw there was something else in my purse that I didn't describe in this week's Practical Packing post. That's because I was saving it for now. Today's Helpful Hump-Day Hint will help you remember what toys your kids already have when you are out trying to buy gifts. In today's toy world everything … Continue reading Helpful Hump-Day Hints – Buying Toy Collections
For the longest time, whenever I received a gift card as a present in a greeting card, I always "saved the card" so I wouldn't lose the gift card. Then I had all these piles of greeting cards in different places, some in my desk, some in my bedside table, and some in the living … Continue reading Helpful Hump-Day Hints – Gift Cards
Do you have to hunt around for a pair of scissors every time you have to cut something? Or walk all the way to another floor or across your house to get the one pair of scissors you own from the designated place you always put them so you won't lose them? I started out … Continue reading Helpful Hump-Day Hints – Scissors
It's Spring Break Week and here is the list of cleaning I am going to tackle: Clean refrigerator and freezer - inside and out! I do this twice a year. Spring break week and right before Thanksgiving. Check out my how-to on this here: 8 Tips for a Cleaner More Organized Refrigerator Dust the tops … Continue reading Spring Cleaning To-Do List
When you get an invitation in the mail, what do you do with it? Do you put it in your planner? Tack in to the bulletin board above your desk? Hang it with a magnet on your fridge? I always did the latter, for a long time. I even have this fancy magnet with the … Continue reading Helpful Hump-day Hints – Party Invitations
We have all done it at some point. Running around Monday morning, throwing lunches in bags, searching for something to wear, organizing backpacks, dashing out of the house only to find the gas tank almost on E, and speeding so we won't get to work late. Of course the last minute lunch you packed in awful, … Continue reading Planning Ahead. 8 Tips to Make Your Week Less Stressful
Inspired by an article I read in HGTV Magazine's March issue, today's Helpful Hump-day Hints show how I use everyday kitchen items to organize my life. I'll start with the most obvious - coffee mugs. I have a ton of coffee mugs (it is the go-to teacher gift, people must think we love telling ourselves … Continue reading Using Kitchen Items to Organize Your Life
Happy Friday! Here is my weekly round-up of my favorites for this week. Enjoy! On TV - I have finally caught up on a lot of shows. Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Chicago Fire & PD, SVU and How to Get Away with Murder (the ending did surprise me! My husband and I thought it was Bonnie … Continue reading My Friday Favorites 03.06.15
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
My Color-Coded Life 