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Simple Ways to Streamline Thanksgiving Dinner Preparation

November 13, 2023 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

By streamlining the preparation of Thanksgiving dinner, we can save time and energy while still getting all our favorite dishes on the table.

For many families, the focal point of Thanksgiving Day is a table laden with delicious food. As nice as it is to dive into these foods, getting them to the table often requires a lot of work and can be stressful. Last year, for example, we spent the entire day before Thanksgiving preparing various dishes. Then I was up and cooking again … [Read more...] about Simple Ways to Streamline Thanksgiving Dinner Preparation

Filed Under: Keeping the Home, Rejuvenating Friendships, Strengthening Family Tagged With: cooking tips, holidays, hospitality, organized living

Tips for Meal Planning While Moving

October 10, 2023 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Though we can’t adhere closely to a menu while moving, we still must eat! Here’s how we are eating nutritious, filling meals during our move.

I didn’t post a menu this month because there is absolutely no way we would be able to stick with it! We are moving in the middle of the month. I’ve already started packing up the kitchen, and eventually it will all be in boxes. Even though we can’t adhere closely to a menu, we still must eat! Though we are making some impromptu choices … [Read more...] about Tips for Meal Planning While Moving

Filed Under: Keeping the Home Tagged With: menu planning, organized living

11 Tips for a Successful Garage Sale

May 30, 2023 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Thinking of having a garage sale? Check out these simple strategies that can make your garage sale easy and effective.

We had a garage sale earlier this spring. The sale was more successful than I imagined it would be! We started with a driveway full of furniture items, clothing, toys, housewares, etc. and ended with a single box of items that didn’t sell. We owe a lot of our success to my parents. We strategically planned to have the sale while they … [Read more...] about 11 Tips for a Successful Garage Sale

Filed Under: Keeping the Home, Managing Finances Tagged With: eliminating debt, organized living

Essential Items for Your Disaster Preparedness Kit

September 24, 2022 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Disasters are common and no location is immune, so each of us should have a disaster preparedness kit. Here are the items to include in a basic kit.

You can’t go but a day or two without turning on the news and hearing about a disaster. Sometimes these are natural disasters such as floods and wildfires, and other times they are man-made disasters such as hazardous material spills and industrial accidents. Because disasters are common and no geographic location is immune to them, it is … [Read more...] about Essential Items for Your Disaster Preparedness Kit

Filed Under: Promoting Healthful Living Tagged With: health and safety, organized living

How to Get Up the First Time Your Alarm Sounds

April 16, 2022 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Is it difficult to get out of bed when your alarm sounds? Here are thoughts on why it’s beneficial to get up with enthusiasm and tips on how to do it.

I frequently find myself reexamining content contained in blog posts I wrote years ago. During the past few weeks, the post I’ve been considering is about getting up the first time your alarm goes off. I wish I could say that I mastered this after writing about it seven years ago. It seemed that I had—I did quite well for years. … [Read more...] about How to Get Up the First Time Your Alarm Sounds

Filed Under: Promoting Healthful Living, Reflecting on Life Tagged With: health and safety, organized living

Printable Vacation Packing List

April 7, 2022 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Pack for trips quickly and easily with the help of this printable packing list! It’s editable, so you can customize it to meet your needs.

When I begin preparing for a trip, the first thing I do is print a copy of my packing list. You can see my old packing list in a post I published eight years ago. That list is perfectly functional, but I decided to create one that is less colorful and that has slightly different categories. These are the categories I’ve included in my … [Read more...] about Printable Vacation Packing List

Filed Under: Keeping the Home Tagged With: organized living

Multitasking: Constructive or Destructive?

February 25, 2022 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Multitasking is supposed to bolster productivity, but what if it actually hinders productivity and harms our brains?

Whether it is in the workplace or the home, multitasking is something we all feel the need to do on occasion. Sometimes it’s even a necessity! With so much to do, why wouldn’t we benefit from completing more than one task at once? In recent years, many researchers have studied multitasking. Their findings are interesting and are … [Read more...] about Multitasking: Constructive or Destructive?

Filed Under: Keeping the Home, Reflecting on Life Tagged With: health and safety, organized living

5 Strategies for Creating Effective To-Do Lists

February 9, 2022 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Not all to-do lists are created equal. Some are endless lists of tasks; others are roadmaps that foster productivity. Here’s how to create the latter.

I wrote about workload paralysis a couple of weeks ago. Workload paralysis is when the weight of having so much to do leaves us feeling powerless to act. When we feel this way, we tend to freeze and avoid getting started on tasks. As I noted in that post, one of the reasons we sometimes feel workload paralysis is because we have far too much … [Read more...] about 5 Strategies for Creating Effective To-Do Lists

Filed Under: Keeping the Home, Reflecting on Life Tagged With: organized living

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