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Cut Your Food Bill By Eating at Home

If you are trying to save money this year, you may be looking for ways to cut your household expenses. If you have not done so already, you may want to think about cutting back on dining out. Dining out is often viewed as an enjoyable thing and a convenient option for those of us that are short on time and would prefer not to use our time cooking or cleaning up the kitchen. The good news is that with a little advance preparation and planning, you can spend relatively little time in the kitchen and enjoy nutritious and tasty … Continue reading →

Don’t Forget To Check Yourself

Forward motion is very important in your home based business. As important as it is to keep producing as much work as you can, it is also important to periodically evaluate the path that your home-based business is taking. By setting aside a little time at regular intervals to evaluate whether you are headed towards the goals that you have set for yourself and your business, you can make sure that you are always moving in the direction of your dreams. A good rule of thumb for how often to assess your progress towards your goals is to do it … Continue reading →

Setting Up Your Work Space

If you are working from home, you probably already know that you need a dedicated space where you can go to work. Having a home office helps you to keep your work life and home life separate so that you are not thinking about work all day while you are doing other things at home or with your family. A home office also creates a visible cue for your family which can help them to understand and respect the boundary between your work time and your personal time. That said, most of us do not have the space nor do … Continue reading →

Take It Outside – How To Use Your Computer Outdoors

While it is officially springtime, the season has yet to make a permanent appearance where I live. We got glimpses of it last week, with warmer temperatures, melting snow, and oodles of oozing mud. This week has been rather cold and we even got some more snow earlier in the week. I’m dreaming of spending more time outdoors, and since I work from home that means that I have the freedom to do my work anywhere I choose. I’m sure that I am not the only one who is looking forward to warmer weather, so I decided to round up … Continue reading →

Is Your Kid a Genius?

Of course she is. What parent doesn’t think his or her child is the next Plato, Albert Einstein or Bobby Fischer? My little genius is just six years old and wins every game she plays. She kills at Connect Four. Of course, her main strategy involves uses her finger to reserve spots on the board, thereby restricting her opponent’s checker from falling into place. She also has a habit of covering the opening at the top of the board with her hand when she is closing in on a win, so her opponent can’t insert his checker to block. Pure … Continue reading →

Setting Up a Home Office

When I first started working from home, I did it from my dining room table. But when my writing career took off and I eventually was able to work full-time from home, I quickly realized this wasn’t going to work. So I began to build my home office. Well let me take that back…my husband actually built the room that is now my office. I was then able to add things such as my desk, chair, printer and a number of other supplies. If you are looking to set up a home office there are some important things you should … Continue reading →

Tea Parties to Reinforce Etiquette: Part 2/The Homeschool Tea

Let’s discuss tea etiquette. In order for you to plan a tea for the purpose of teaching proper behavior you must be aware of the basic manners for hosting a tea. Once you know the proper etiquette and have the right supplies you will be ready to plan a tea for your homeschool co-op event. Homeschool co-op teas are quite successful if the hostess is in the know with regards to how to plan a tea. I highly suggest planning a homeschool tea as a method to introduce manners in a group setting. This will reinforce the importance of personal … Continue reading →

How Much Does It Cost to Do Your Wash?

Once you know the real cost of something, such as doing your wash, you may be surprised. And that surprise can turn into motivation for doing things differently, and thus saving money. Let us look at three households: Mrs Average, Mrs Conservative, and Mrs Thrifty. They each do laundry a different way, and so they spend different amounts getting the same size load completed. We will assume that they all have a standard washing machine and dryer. It is true that you can usually save more with a high efficiency washer and dryer. We’ll also assume that they do their … Continue reading →

How We Saved Money on Furniture and Home Decor

We are in the middle of fixing up our dining room, complete with a new dining room table, a set of six chairs, and all of the tablecloths, place mats and decorative touches. We’ve already installed a new lighting fixture. One thing we haven’t done is to spend a lot of money on any of this. Here is how. First, we scouted around for a dining room set that we liked. We finally agreed on one that was cherry wood with simple lines. We knew that it needed to seat at least five (6) on a daily basis and be … Continue reading →

Home Swapping Instead of Home Selling

With more and more homes remaining out on the market for longer periods of time, desperate homeowners who want to move are looking into alternatives to getting their home sold the traditional way. One of these way is through home swapping, trading an existing home for someone else’s existing home. Even developers and real estate agencies are looking into home swapping in order to get their new homes sold. In the case of developers, the home swap is more like a trade in, just as if you were trading in an old car for a new one. While home swapping … Continue reading →