Tip #9 – Create a cleaning bucket Make cleaning easier by creating a “traveling” bucket. Design your bucket so that when it is time to clean, all you have to do is grab this ONE bucket and take it from room to room; including the bathroom! This way, if something needs to be cleaned up,…
Tip #8 – Update Your Address Book Have some of your friends moved recently or over the past year? Have YOU moved recently? Are there people that you have in your address book that you haven’t talked to or heard from in years? By keeping them in your address book, you are assuming they are…
Tip #7 – Start each morning with the best YOU. What does it take to start your morning off just right? A good night’s sleep? Exercise? Quiet time? A good breakfast? We all have an “ideal” morning – make a list of what yours looks like. As you consider what a good morning is to…
Tip #6 – Downsize your hobbies. This may mean a LOT of work…this may mean a little work. How many of us have all the supplies to do a certain project, but have never done it? Or started it, but have not finished it? Believe it or not, hobbies are one of the things that…
Tip #5 – Purge first, organize second. Why spend all this time organizing what you are just going to get rid of anyways? When you clear out, declutter, and purge FIRST, you end up not having to organize near as much. Set out to live by this rule each time you want to live with…
Back in Michigan, we lived directly across from an ice skating rink. We knew we HAD to buy ice skates – kind of a rite of passage. Even though we only went about once a year (sad, I know…), we were always thankful we at least owned skates. Then we move to Minnesota – what I…
