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Don’t start your garden until you check out these 20 creative gardening hacks! You will be amazed at how easy it is to produce a beautiful and lush garden! Over the last year while staying at home, we have heard of many friends and family starting a garden for the first time. With the arrival of spring, it’s time to make sure you have the…
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Create a beautiful space this spring with these 15 container garden ideas, perfect for small spaces and beginner gardeners. Besides offering fresh fruits, vegetables or herbs, container gardens offer small spaces the beauty of flowers and greenery that you might not otherwise have access to. You can even upcycle items throughout your home to become containers for your plants. When you either don’t have the space…
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Does this sound familiar… You go to bed when you think you’re tired, but once there, you toss and turn and just can’t fall asleep. No rhyme or reason… Or you fall asleep easily, but wake up several hours later – not always because you had to go to the bathroom – and then can’t fall back to sleep. You may even wake up and…
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Get your home feeling fresh, tidy and clean with these 20 spring cleaning hacks. Practical and easy, they will quickly become a part of your annual spring cleaning routine! As we dig out from the cold winter and get ready for the warmer, spring weather, there is nothing better than giving everything a good spring cleaning. After months of practically being hermits indoors with snow…
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Living a Life Done Well for Less does not mean you have to stop making donations. What it does mean is that you make smart and savvy donation decisions about how your money is spent. It is even more important that you give where it counts, makes a true impact, and makes you feel good. When you give being smart and savvy, it does require…
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When you’re trying to live well on less, I hate to say it, but developing a budget is a must. There’s just no way around it. You have to know what is coming in and how you are spending it. We all remember the days of sticking to our budgets. Watching where each dollar went and trying to save wherever we could to pay off…
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Are your travel memories starting to fade? If you’re like me, you haven’t ventured far from home since the pandemic started. I actually haven’t travelled since last December. Even my ski trip for last March got cancelled. Normally, I would have had several good vacations and maybe a couple of 3-day weekends under my belt by now. But, not this year. So, how have I…
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Short on time, but still want healthy and tasty? Be sure to check out these delicious sheet pan recipes that make cooking and clean up a breeze! Even though we may be spending a lot of time at home these days, that doesn’t mean we want to spend the time cooking…enter sheet pan recipes. They make meal time so much easier. One large pan holds…
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While many gyms are open once again, you may not feel totally comfortable being inside with a group of strangers right now. We put ourselves in this category. But we still want to maintain our health and keep active. So, what are our options? Well, we have found some great online exercise programs that have kept us motivated or at least off the couch and…
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Wow – what a weird time we are in. Most of us have not traveled for any reason, not even to see loved ones. I know I am missing family and friends like crazy and I am also itching to travel. I could sure use a Covid safe getaway! I miss getting on an airplane and I miss exploring a new destination or relaxing in…
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If you’re as fanatical about your pets as we are about ours, then you probably think you are doing all you can for them. I did, too, until one day I realized just how much they were sleeping during the day while I was on the computer. They were bored and I couldn’t blame them. While I was physically present, I wasn’t interacting with them….
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Well, Hello 2021! The New Year is here which means in ordinary times, people would be thinking about either setting goals or actually doing it. Yes, I know 2020 was awful…REALLY AWFUL and worse for some than others. Any goals that were set were probably just left on the paper where they were written or drastically changed. But I’m here to say that if you…
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