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Changes In The Blog

Changes In The Blog

Hey y’all! Google Reader is doing something tragic! They are closing that handy little service as of July 1st. Google Reader is also taking Feedburner with it! Seriously?!?! What does mean for you? If you subscribe to me by Google Reader or Feedburner, you will need to change the way you subscribe to me by July 1st. There are a number of ways you can do this and I will go through them all. First, you can sign up for…

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How to Simplify The Life and Mind: Home

How to Simplify The Life and Mind: Home

Simplifying the life and mind is to get rid of the stuff not needed anymore. Needing less to live better. When I talk about simplifying my life, I am not talking just about the material things I own. I am talking about the commitments I have, the obligations I try to meet, and the people in my life as well as our homes. For now, I will talk about the home and things we have in it. As this series…

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Frugal Tip Friday: Waste Not The Paper!

Frugal Tip Friday: Waste Not The Paper!

With all the decluttering I have done in the office and seems to never end in that room, I have come across an amazing amount of papers. School papers. Notices. Junk mail that I thought was not. Things that I printed out. The things these papers all have in common? Only one side is used! The waste! I have trouble letting some of this paper go because the other side is clean and available. So we reuse it! If it…

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Decluttering Life and Mind

Decluttering Life and Mind

Lately I have been doing a lot of decluttering at home. As I alluded to in Monday’s post, I have been noticing things. The more cluttered I am in mind, the worse the stress seems. If my house is really messy and very disorganized, I feel disorganized and sort of lost with what I need to do. If I go through a pile of papers and deal with them, I feel better. If I clean, tidy, and organize a shelf,…

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Monday Update

Monday Update

Hello everyone again! This week is a new week. At least, that is what I keep telling myself. I am tired and I did not sleep so well last night. Sometimes I think sleep and I could be better friends, but we both have different agendas so what is the point? Saving money has been an unusual experience these last few weeks. I guess my tax refund was in my account on the 8th. I didn’t realize that fact until…

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Weekend Links

Weekend Links

Before the weekend truly gets started for me, I wanted to get some posts written! This day is proving to be fairly busy already and it is only 8:00! I wanted to start something for the weekends and I couldn’t really decide what. I have a lot of interests and I read about a lot of different things. I always want to share that information with you and I couldn’t decide on the best way for a long time. I…

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