How To Organize Kids’ Schoolwork
November 17, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under organization
If you have school aged children, then papers are probably a major issue in your home. Here’s a video from Real Simple with some simple tips to help get those papers organized.
Easy Fake Desserts
April 3, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under food, recipes, time saving
I recently discovered the website Real Simple. Maybe you already knew about it and I’m naive. Regardless, I really like this site.
Last week when my daughter had to go to the doctor, I found a copy of their magazine in the waiting room. I was pretty impressed with the magazine too. It was one of those magazines I wanted to take home with me, read, and return. I knew that would be dishonest, so I resisted temptation.
While I was reading, I found out that Real Simple has recipes for fake desserts. They call these “Fake It, Don’t Make It Recipes”. Here’s an example of …read more
Deciding Which Financial Records to Keep
March 22, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under financial matters, odds and ends, time saving
I don’t know about you, but papers and records are a major burden, baggage, thorn in my side, . . . you get the picture.
To me, papers, receipts, and all that stuff are worse than laundry. It seems the laundry never goes away. Even if you are “caught up”, you know that everyday 4 more people will come home with dirty clothes on their bodies and create another 1 1/2 loads for you to do. I feel the same way about papers.
Thankfully, I just found an article that tells which papers to toss after 1 month and 1 year, which ones …read more
