Tiny home interior photo courtesy of Tammy Several years ago, I remember watching one of those ubiquitous organization/cleaning shows that you'll see on TLC and other channels of that ilk. The family that the professional organizer was helping had a problem with kid stuff in particular. When the...

Photo courtesy of Glenn Fleishman , Interface copyright Apple, Inc. (As if that needs to be said) Monday evening, J and I had the following conversation: Me: Have you seen the iPad? J: No. I haven't seen it for a while. Me: [In my head] Oh my goodness, someone broke into the house and stole the iPad...

I mentioned a while back about how I had recently started using Simple Mom's Daily Docket . While I really loved the way Simple Mom set up a daily to do list with her docket, I found after using it for several months that it didn't necessarily work for me. My most productive days since I started...

This afternoon, I sat down to reconcile my check register with my bank account. I generally do this about once a week, although traveling and having J and LO off of work/school has thrown off my routine. That meant I had nearly three weeks worth of transactions to reconcile. No matter. Balancing my checkbook...

Photo courtesy of opendream.co.th and Nogia123 I seem to have misplaced a check. This did not used to be a problem. Back when I was in graduate school, I used to tutor a kid once a week for $30 an hour. Her parents paid me with a check every time, and the ink on those bad boys was barely dry before I'd...

When I was young enough not to know any better, I took a job as an administrative assistant for an ice cream company. (One would think that this would be my dream job. One would be wrong. I'm neither cut out for office work/politics nor strong enough to handle the temptation of ice cream available...

Photo courtesy of Joe Mabel I apparently come from a long line of envelope budgeters. When J and I started doing the envelope system several years ago, I mentioned to my father what we were doing. He teased me about it being a very progressive budgeting strategy--one that my great-grandma Mae (his grandmother...

Over Labor Day weekend, I had a single, acheivable project that I wanted to complete. The dining room closet/pantry has been a catchall for the entire two years we have lived in this house, and so I wanted to empty out the contents, do a little purging, and then replace everything in the closet in an...

(Pictured: what happens when you don't realize that there is hardware missing until after you've already spent 3 hours trying to construct a piece of fershtunkiner furniture.) As you may recall, I was pretty gleeful last week when I thought that a minor inconvenience when purchasing our new filing...

Photo courtesy of Sreejithk2000 and Pptudela You may recall that I was working apathetically feverishly to clean up our guest room/office earlier this year. One of my goals was to finally be rid of the broken down metal filing cabinets that J and I have been carting around since before anyone heard of...