By: Amy Hannold 247Moms Frugal Living Editor Now that Christmas gifts have been opened, you’re looking at stuff you would like to swap. Shelves are a little fuller and your interests may have shifted to new goals. Where can you make great exchanges – for either cash or “new-to-you” items? Swap.com: Swap.com is a world-wide, [...]
When the nights get longer and the air gets colder I begin to hibernate and look for simple projects to organize my home over the weekends when life is not as busy. Are you ready to hibernate indoors and accomplish a few “organized-in-a-weekend” projects? Choose one or two of the simple organization ideas I have [...]
The truth is, I don’t pick up my mail every day. I think of my mailbox as the junk mail keeper until I have the time to read, sort and recycle it. Why? Because about 75 percent of the mail I receive is junk mail, catalogs and solicitations that I’m not interested in. I recently [...]
I love reading books. The problem with this is that my family ofseven all have the same affection for books. We love to read, and welove to continually build our growing library of books. The truth is wehave officially run out of bookshelf space for our growing collection. Myparents also love to read – just [...]
Our children arrive into the world empty-handed and within days oftheir birth, the clutter begins! The clutter starts off with diapers,clothes and rattles and as they begin to grow, so does the amount ofitems and clutter they obtain. You may begin to ask yourself how muchstuff does one little person really need? Maybe your childrenare [...]
With the upcoming holiday season upon us, my family will soonacquire a few new items that will arrive with instruction manuals,receipts and warranties. Every year after the holiday cleanup, I findthem piled on my desk and waiting for me to find a safe place to keepthem just in case they are needed at a future [...]
Not only has the Internet given us the ability to search forinformation in seconds, it has also given us the convenience to paybills and shop through many online services. Check out my list of ways to begin saving time and money using online services on the SC Johnson Family Economics blog. Click here to read [...]
By Leslie Pleasants Yes, it is the beginning of November but now is the time to start planning/organizing for your Big Thanksgiving Day! If you are hosting it at your house you know that it can be a little stressful. There is so much that needs to be done. If you wait till the last minute [...]
The planning has begun for the upcoming holidays! With so many things to accomplish this season, I have found it easier to break everything into categories and schedule one thing at a time to be completed on my daily calendar. This approach will help me experience holiday joy instead of the holiday stress! My list [...]
Each Sunday I sit down and break the upcoming week into days so that I know what I need to do, where I need to go and what events we have on the calendar that week. This helps me see what I need to prepare ahead for and be ready for my week s a [...]
