My husband recently started cleaning out a storage room in our basement, in which he found china and crystal. It was hard to recognize what the pieces were at first because they were covered in sawdust. Yes, they had been kept on a shelf in the same room my husband did some of his sawing in. While I wanted to wash and clean the pieces, I remembered that that we don’t have enough space in our kitchen to store it. That was the whole reason for these beautiful pieces to be stashed away for the past several years. And it’s … Continue reading →

How is your pantry looking? I don’t have one but no matter where you store your cans and boxes, you might be looking at nothing more than a hot mess. The other day I blogged about organizing your spices so they are easily accessible. I mentioned how I had duplicates and sometimes several containers of the same spice. Well the same thing can happen with your non-perishables if you don’t have a good organizational system in place. You may be wasting money on items that you already have. Let’s start with your cans. It’s best to organize them by category. … Continue reading →

It feels like I am constantly running to the grocery store. If I’m lucky, I only go a couple of times during the week. But more often it ends up being three or four times that I visit. Now that it’s gotten colder and I am thinking ahead to the winter months, my goal is to eliminate unnecessary trips to the store. The only way I can really do that is to improve my meal planning skills. Last year I had this great idea of trying three new recipes every week. I was tired of cooking the same things over … Continue reading →

Do you own a dishwasher? Do you find that others in your household can’t seem to figure out when the dishes are clean and when they are dirty? I can’t tell you the number of times the dishwasher has been stocked with clean dishes but I open it up to see someone has placed a knife caked with peanut butter inside. They couldn’t tell the dishes were clean. Or when the dishwasher is filled with dirty dishes, yet everyone keeps putting cups, bowls and utensils into the kitchen sink instead of the dishwasher. In my eyes, all you have to … Continue reading →