Make a list and check it twice!

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Last Minute Checklist for an Organized Holiday
For your business:

Have you changed your voicemail greeting to reflect what your hours/availability will be during the holidays?
Have you created an auto respond for your email account? (since you won’t be checking it as often- you will be spending quality time with your family)
Have you mailed [...]

52 Ways You Know You’re A WAHM

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You know you are a WAHM when:

The shirt your child needs for school pictures TODAY is at the bottom of Mount St. Laundry
Your child develops a fever the night before a big presentation and then proceeds to throw up on said presentation
You are reading a book aloud to your child while glancing [...]

15 Ways Baby-Wearing Helps The WAHM

Now, don’t try to tell me you haven’t heard of all the hype and outrage about the latest Motrin commercial. The makers of Motrin actually think that women who wear their babies are trying to be fashionable and look like an official mom. I will not even humor them with my thoughts on this [...]

20 Ways To Keep The House Clean

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Note to readers:  In order for you to keep your house clean, it must first be clean to start with

Make sure everything in your home has a home of its own.  Things are much more likely to get put away if everyone knows where the item belongs.
Have everyone do a [...]

10 Ways To Be A Productive WAHM

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When you work from home, whether you have a whole room set aside for your office or a corner of the computer desk in the family room, having an organized workspace is key to productivity.  Often we have to grab moments to work between carpools, naps, making meals and doing laundry.  If you [...]

Controlling Holiday Clutter

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Holidays are a hectic and busy time. In addition, the gift giving and good intentions of family and friends usually means more “stuff” accumulating in your home. Add that to the decorations, the cards, the gift wrapping supplies and you can have a recipe for a clutter strewn zone. [...]

Organizing Basics for Busy Moms

Organizing Basics: We all want more time- if I did a poll of what you would ask for if you could have anything most of us would probably say more hours in a day before we would even ask for money or fame. An organized life is a simplified life and a simplified life means [...]

Overcoming Paper Clutter

Even with all the technological advances in the world I don’t think our society will ever truly be paperless. In fact, the recent technological advances seem to have created more paper to deal with in many cases.
We have receipts, bills, insurance policies, certificates, investment statements, health records, and more. Then added to that is [...]

Organizing for the Holidays- Save time and money

The holiday season can be a stressful and chaotic time for any family.  There are so many additional obligations and tasks to complete with no extra hours added to the day.
If we allow ourselves to be caught without a plan from October to January, we will face a new year deeper in debt, exhausted and [...]

Organizing the Car

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Keeping your car organized can be a challenge. We all know the scene- open the mini-van door and hold your breath to see if anything falls out. Animal cracker crumbs on the floor, toys strewn about, DVD’s not in their cases and random shoes under the seat. Then as your kids [...]

You Can Make Money. You Can Spend Time with your Kids. And, you Can Enjoy Life ... While Working from Home!