Entries Tagged as 'Quick tips'

Quick Tip: Tackling Mt. Laundry

October 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Heather says:
If you have fallen behind on laundry and have several loads to do, start with the one that requires the most obnoxious amount of folding. In my house that’s the light colored load, it’s crammed with toddler clothes and other piddly items that are annoying to fold.  Finish off with towels which require the [...]

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Quick Tip: Reusable Ice Packs

July 19th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Heather says:
I recently returned to the gym and partly due to my over enthusiasm, I have come down with a nice case of shin splints.  Part of the treatment is to ice my shins three times a day for twenty minutes.   I decided to test a trick I had stumbled across several times in the [...]

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Tags: Cheap and easy · Frugal · Quick tips

Quick Tip: Hold the Mail

June 21st, 2008 · 13 Comments

Heather says:
Mr. Heather and I are going to be taking a short trip in the near future.  Rather than pester our neighbors, I thought I would see how difficult it was to place a hold on the mail.  I remember my mother having to head down to the post office, stand in line, and fill [...]

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Quick Tip: Spinach Salad

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Heather says:
Last summer I shared a recipe for Wilted Spinach Salad With Candied Pepper Bacon.  I would just like to note that adding a cup full of fresh or frozen blueberries instead of or in addition to the apple is a truly beautiful thing.
Enjoy.

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Tags: Quick tips · Salad

Quick Parenting Tip: Don’t Fear a Schedule

March 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Heather says:
If there is anything this week has taught me, it is that my young children thrive on a schedule.  When it gets thrown out of whack someone steals my children and replaces them with cranky, irritable, tantrum throwing, ill -tempered beasts.  When I first had my son I naively thought, “Schedules are so restrictive, [...]

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