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Reviewing Insurance
Our insurance agent retired, and a new man took his place. Soon afterward, we received a call that the new agent wanted to review our policies with us. We put it off for a while, thinking it was all about selling us more insurance. However, we went last Saturday, and made some astounding discoveries:
My husband [...]
Decluttering Jewelry
Jewelry collections grow. With gifts and inheritances, it can grow quickly.
I found that even as my collection was growing, I was wearing the same pieces over and over, simply because there was too much.
Here is how I brought my jewelry collection down to a size where I use everything.
Separate Heirlooms
For those pieces that are heirlooms, [...]
Simplifying Last Minute Meals: Stir Fry
How many evenings have you stared into the kitchen, trying to think of something to cook for dinner, conscious of how many times you have already gone out to eat this week? Or you just don’t feel like eating what you had planned? Or perhaps you forgot to take something out of the freezer in [...]
How To Clean At Work
They are currently putting up the walls to a new office outside my cube. While it will be a nice change for the person getting the office, it has meant a lot of inconvenience and dust for the two of us next to the new wall.
Yesterday we all left to work from home because of [...]
Bouncing Back From Busy
Have you ever had a busy stretch where you were asked to push your output to the utmost, cutting back on everything except a vital project? How did you feel when it was no longer required for you to put forth that effort?
Recently I had a project hit unexpectedly. I came home from work, then [...]
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