Staying Sane With Three Under Three

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Some days I feel like I am running from one end of the house to the other. Picking up and putting away toys. The same ones I just did not even an hour ago.  Folding mounds of laundry. Which never get put away.  Attempting to stay on top of the cleaning. Cleaning? Honestly?  Patting the baby’s back and putting her back to sleep.  Sigh.  Breaking up a sibling squabble.  More like an all out brawl.  Sushing the girls’ screaming so {Read More}

Organized Home: Containing Clutter

Take a look as Molly Green from Econobusters.com share really great ideas for organizing your home with practical ways to clear the clutter and uber unique storage solutions.   In Moms In A Blog’s very own 30 Days to an Organized Home, you can work your way through organizing and decluttering every room in your house in only 30 days. Daily tasks make it easy.  Just follow along don’t get overwhelmed. There are also some helpful printable checklists that will {Read More}

Spring Cleaning for an Organized Home

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After all of your hard work spring cleaning and organizing your home, you certainly won’t want to see things back to the way they were in a matter of weeks. Staying organized takes a little work and is certainly a learned habit, but for this small amount of daily effort, you will have a cleaner home and a happier family. Try some of these tips to help keep your home looking like you just wrapped up your spring cleaning efforts. {Read More}

Overcoming Disorganization

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Strategies of a Disorganized Mom by Lori Kelley of LOLforMoms.com I am not an expert on home organization. Just come into my house and you will see this for yourself. However, I have something worthwhile to say on the matter. There is something to learn from the highly unorganized and I am here to represent them. I have written a list of several things you can do to live like me. Read my list of clutter-friendly, mess-making strategies and tell {Read More}

Living On A Dime Extravaganza ~ Don’t Miss This!

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Jump Start Your New Year’s Goals! Does your budget need a boost? The Living On A Dime Extravaganza e-book series can help turn it around! The Living On A Dime Extravaganza includes 13 money saving Living On A Dime e-books to save you money and make your life easier by helping you fix the leak in your pocketbook! Our friends at Living On A Dime have offered a very special deal to our readers… At the special price of 13 {Read More}

Organizing Paperwork :Taming The Beast

Paperwork is an ever-present part of most people’s work lives. Anyone with a position of any greater prestige than the burger-flipper at the local fast food restaurant most likely has to deal with paperwork at some level. And you may have discovered, as many people have, that papers have a tendency to pile up. Things get mixed together, lost, and jumbled, leaving you spending hours going through endless stacks of the stuff looking for that one lone order form or {Read More}

Managing Family Schedules

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Today’s world is one of ever-increasing activity. Families rush around from one thing to the next, juggling work, school, numerous extra activities, and maybe (if they are lucky) some sort of social life. Understandably, this is often a hectic and stressful process for all those involved. Parents in particular may find it difficult to orchestrate the numerous soccer practices, ballet lessons, and swim meets their children must attend. And that is not even mentioning any extra time that might be {Read More}

Get Organized: The Refrigerator

There is no doubt that nearly every aspect of your life can be improved by at least some amount of organization. Things simply run more smoothly when they are working under a well-organized system. Take, for example, your refrigerator. In most cases, people simply put whatever food they have into their refrigerator, and then just use the food as they need it. This works fairly well for the most part, but every now and then there will be a problem. {Read More}

Family Budget: Savings Suggestions

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You and your spouse have come to an agreement on the family budget. Part of that budget and part of your goal as a family is to have a regular savings program and save for high-priced items. The plan sounds great but how you go about implementing the plan is another issue altogether. The task seems quite difficult and overwhelming. The key to remember to help you get started saving is to start small. Take small steps to start getting {Read More}

Family Budget: Retirement Saving Starts Today

Most young adults do not think about retirement too much. This is definitely the case with young teenagers as well. However, it does not change the fact that we all will grow older and that retirement day will fast approach. It stands to reason that we are never too young to start planning for retirement and part of that plan is to start saving money and getting a good return on the investment of what is saved. Just think about {Read More}

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