This week’s tasks are my passion. This is what I do! Meal planning! Meal planning is a fantastic way to save money, to save you time and to feed your family a healthy meal. It helps you spend more time with your family. I have included a ton of links in this week’s post as […]

Today we are creating an area where you can pay your bills, keep track of activities and plan your meals.  However, if you are like me, every now and then your workspace gets a little cluttered. Day 1 Even if you don’t have an actual home office, you still need a small area in which […]

If you can’t remember what you had for supper last week, why not take a peek into the back of your fridge? I often used to find interesting specimens growing in the containers, even an onion, or two, sprouting! What do you have?  A chest freezer or an upright? Even with the best of intentions, […]

In March 2015 I started a new job and embarked on a new journey – a journey to make living life easier.  This has now become my slogan for the company which I started from this blog. Clearing out clutter and getting rid of possessions that no longer serve their purpose and are just taking […]

This week we continue in the kitchen and we’re doing drawers and cupboards. The kitchen drawers A big thing in America is the kitchen junk drawer, this is the space where you put things like rubber bands, extra batteries, sticky tape (which you can never find when you need it) and other miscellaneous bits and […]

Decluttering your kitchen, if you are me, is not all that easy. I have a lot of kitchen appliances. I love kitchen gadgets! This week we begin decluttering our kitchen counters.  I have a lot of stuff on my counters.  I have eggs, my mixer, the microwave, some condiments and the vacuum sealer, (which after […]

More important than having a tidy home, is having a clean home!  You can actually have a very tidy home with everything in its place but dust on every surface, or you can have a clean home with clutter all over the place. It doesn’t matter whether you have full time help, part-time help or […]

What’s cooking? Getting rid of cooking books is really difficult for me; I never know when I am going to want to try something different. I even have two books, with recipes for one or two people; from before I got married, and that is over 20 years ago, I haven’t cooked for two people […]

Recycling is not something we, as South Africans, do very well and our waste management companies don’t appear to be very open to it. What we do have, however, are the street guys with their trolley’s making a noise and a mess on garbage collection day. These men and women go through our bins looking […]

We all think of a million ways our lives would be better, if only ……, but what are you doing to change this? We all dream of winning the lottery and changing our lives for the better but buying a Lotto ticket only helps a very few. Why not start with changing the way you […]