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Home Management Notebooks are a great idea.

by Tsh

Home Management Notebooks absolutely work for me. Here’s are quick links to my Home Management Notebook series: Having a Home Management Notebook is good. Identity and target your Most Important Tasks. Consider using a Daily Docket. Use a Weekly Checklist as your main reference point. Brainstorm ideas for what else you might need in your [...]

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money management

Free Giveaway: The Total Money Makeover!

by Tsh

This giveaway is now closed.  Thanks for entering! To those of you hopping over from Bloggy Giveaways – welcome to Simple Mom! For this season’s Bloggy Giveaways, I’m giving away ONE reader one of my favorite books, The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. Since this blog is about simplifying the job of home management, [...]

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food & drink

Hooray for Coffee!

by Tsh

Photo by Yes Becky This is a great find from my all-time favorite household management tool – the internet. It’s a free Starbucks Recipe E-Book. Here’s to saving money by making overpriced-yet-scary-how-many-times-they’re-necessary espresso drinks at home! HT to Money Saving Mom.

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productivity

Toggl: a nifty time management tool for COOs of the Home

by Tsh

I work at home as a part-time graphic designer, and I also manage a lot of my work as a stay-at-home mom on the computer. Combine that with using language learning software, writing two blogs, reading plenty more, and keeping up with friends and family far away, that can equal a lot of computer time. [...]

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making your home a haven

Adding Background Music at Home for Free

by Tsh

I love music, and I love to have it playing all day at home. It adds to the mood and the ambiance of our environment – when I clean, I have more energy and a better attitude if I’m listening to this song; I love reading and writing with anything by this guy in the [...]

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