Last year I bought a nice artificial tree that was pre-lit. It was so easy to set up and was really quite impressive looking. Fake Christmas trees have come a long way since I bought one. Needless to say, I was happy and content to use the tree for many years to come. Well, I [...]
I’m not sure how a mouse actually made it through the yard full of cats around our house. ( we have two cats plus my Mom’s cat hangs out most of the time AND two more who have adopted us!) Maybe I’m feeding them too well, and they don’t feel the need to hunt their [...]
If you are transitioning your little one from bottle to sippy with little success, try a Nuby sippy cup. The soft, silicone spout makes the transition easy from bottle to cup. Rae loves her Nuby and was really easy to get off the bottle. I was turned on to the Nuby sippies from a friend [...]
Each year I make my Christmas list in the same notebook. It makes it easy to look up what I got people last year or even the year before that for Christmas. When you buy for a bunch of nieces and nephews you really don’t want to duplicate the same gift from last year.
Since I [...]
Every year it seems I take part in a Secret Santa gift exchange. The part of me that absolutely loves Christmas and shopping always signs up for this. Then the Scrooge part of me comes out when or if I receive my gift. Either I get nothing or I get something that is totally useless.
Usually [...]
November is here, and Christmas is getting closer to being here by the minute. I officially kicked off my Christmas shopping today and bought my first Christmas gifts. It feels good to get started, and hopefully when December rolls around, I will be done. Here is how I tackle holiday shopping.
Make a Christmas Budget. My [...]
At my part-time job at the newspaper, I hear scanner chatter all day long. It seems in the mornings there is always something going on with trash pickup. Either residents don’t have their trash out or it’s not put out correctly. After listening to this for a few weeks now, I’ve come up with some [...]
I really need a rolling desk to use with my laptop while I’m sitting in the recliner. That way I can have a place to put it out of the way when Rae wants to be held but can still work on stuff I need to do. That’s why I think a healthcare cart would [...]
After seeing them in the store for years now, I finally bought a pack of space bags. It’s bags that you stuff your clothes in, then you use your vacuum cleaner to suck all the air out, making the clothes take up less storage space. I got a bonus travel space bag that’ll be handy [...]
I have a pair of new boots that are extremely hard to zip. Luckily I learned many years ago a neat trick to get them zipped without hurting my fingers.
It’s really quite easy to zip a pair of boots using a pair of pliers. Simply grasp the zipper with the pliers and zip it. [...]
