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Evacuate your home – 9 checklists to help
We all need to be prepared to evacuate at any time. Making preparations ahead of time will make things easier during the disaster and will help you get back to your life more quickly afterwards. Do it NOW. Don’t wait!!! Evacuations happen far more frequently than we realize. We think it will never happen to us. […]
Garage Storage
Since we are in the garage looking at the turquoise door and the mini mudroom, I’ll show you the cubby storage that gets a lot of attention whenever we have a garage sale. Everyone comments on it! It was born from the different styles Wheels and I take toward storage — and a little […]
Build a Mini Mudroom in Your Garage
We lived here only a very short time before realizing that a house designed and built in 1977 needed some work to make it livable for today! When our house was built, it was a big deal to have a two car garage open directly into the kitchen so groceries in paper bags could be […]
6 tips for selling books online
Selling books online for me actually started with a huge collection of nonfiction books. Textbooks from a degree or two. Books from work in a highly specialized field which dried up with the economic changes in 2008. Each shelf holds 85 to 100+ books on a specific topic, about ½ inch wide each. Seven units […]
Clean Your Refrigerator in Three Days – Day Three
We’ve broken a big job into three smaller components that you can do at different times. Small task components help utilize your time and energy more efficiently, to work around physical limitations or demanding babies, to reduce stress and find time for you. This little secret of breaking a big job into smaller ones is […]
Welcome! I’m Charlene. I love to share quick and easy recipes, whatever I’ve learned in our last DIY project – anything that helps make life easier, better and more fun!! I hope you will find inspiration and add a pinch of joy to your day!