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Tackle it Tuesday – My Bathroom Shelves

February 22, 2011 By
Bathroom Shelves

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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Clever New Uses For Household Items

September 30, 2009 By

MSN Lifestyle has a slideshow article from RealSimple showing new ways to use old items around the house. Some of them are so clever, I had to share.  Tell me what you think of these ideas in a comment or share some of your ways to reuse household items! Use a Twister Game Mat as a tablecloth for a child's birthday party. After everyone eats, wipe it clean and use to play Twister! Wash out an empty ketchup bottle, let dry, then fill with pancake batter to squeeze out the perfect amount of batter! Use an empty toilet paper tube to keep your hair accessories handy. Hairclips and bobby pins go on top, ponytail holders wrap around! A six-pack drink holder is the perfect size for carrying ketchup, mustard, squeeze relish, rolled up napkins, and utensils to a picnic! Have an empty cassette tape holder? Coil up your iPod earphones and stash inside. A small MP3 player will fit inside too! Use an empty (and clean) travel soap holder (the kind with the lid that snaps shut) to … [Read more...]

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My OfficeMax shopping spree

August 18, 2009 By

I went on a shopping "spree" today. To OfficeMax.  I was only going to get a few things, but then in a total coincidence, I had just happened to buy last Sunday's paper, which I rarely do, I had left it in the van on the passenger seat, I flipped through the paper just on the off chance there were any coupons I could use, and lo and behold, there was a brown paper grocery bag for OfficeMax in the paper. Anything that fit in the bag was 20% off. It was like the universe was telling me to go shop there. Before I viewed a webcast run by TLC's Peter Walsh and posted tweets during it last week, I received a package of the new Schoolio-Von-Hoolio school supplies to check out from OfficeMax. It is the cutest line of folders, notebooks, journals, backpacks, drawstring bags, crayons, and all kinds of other great stuff for back to school. There are three different designs- Cupcake, Darling, and Body Art. I had received products from the Cupcake and Darling designs, so I wanted to go check … [Read more...]

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