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Tackle it Tuesday – My Bathroom Shelves

February 22, 2011 By
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In the bathroom that Kaitlyn and I share, I have a deep recess in the wall with shelves that I use to store all my makeup and skincare stuff. I never meant to let it get this bad. The storage cabinets with the multiple drawers seemed like such a good idea at first, I would have one drawer for face makeup, one drawer for eye makeup, one drawer for lip makeup, etc. Everything would stay neatly in it's drawer and I'd always know where everything was. Yeah, right. Not only have I failed at keeping the drawers organized, but I have all this big stuff that doesn't fit in the drawers that ends up piled up in FRONT of the drawers. Which means I can't OPEN the drawers. I'm going to show you something that causes me all kinds of embarrassment any time someone comes over here and needs to use my bathroom: And here's my biggest problem, bigger even than these shelves - I can't throw things away if they still seem useful. For example, I have lipsticks I bought that seemed great at the store … [Read more...]

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Tackle It Tuesday – Trying to Achieve Inbox Zero

February 15, 2011 By

Tackle It Tuesday posts are usually about getting something done around the house, but I'm using it today to discuss a problem I have that is much, much bigger than just a messy house - my email inboxes. My inboxes are the bane of my existence. Everyone in my family and most of my close friends have, at one time or another, had to listen to me talk about how I cannot get caught up on email. I use Gmail, which lets me create folders to put messages in, or labels to mark what messages in my inbox are for, and I've tried. Believe me, I've tried. And to make it worse, I have three Gmails. One for Table for Five, one for MomReviews, and one for MomCooks. Gmail lets me combine all three into one inbox if I want, but with hundreds of messages a day coming into all three, it just got stressful seeing that many messages all in one place! My ultimate goal is to achieve Inbox Zero. Inbox Zero is the creation of Merlin Mann of 43 Folders, a site about finding the time and attention to do … [Read more...]

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Tackle It Tuesday – Books and Bedroom

November 2, 2010 By
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PART 1. THE BOOKS: It started with a notice at our township library that they were having a used books drive. All I had to do was pull my car up to the curb and volunteers would unload as many books as I wanted to bring in. With Chris out of town on a business trip, I wanted to do something to surprise him when he got back, the way he builds me a piece of furniture every time I go to BlogHer. And the fact is, I'm a book hoarder. I was hanging on to decades of books, stacked three boxes high in our basement. That notice at the library was the jump start I needed. I set aside 4 big packing boxes from product review deliveries and started sorting through the boxes in the basement. I made piles to keep, piles to donate, and piles to throw away. As a book lover, it's almost painful for me to throw away a book, but if I came across one with a torn off cover or the beginnings of mildew, out it went. Into the keep pile went everything by my favorite authors - Stephen King, Dean Koontz, … [Read more...]

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