Happy July to all! In honor of summer and vacations, I thought I’d pop in with some QUICK tips and tricks.
Pick one, any one, do it and then spend the rest of the month patting yourself on the back!
QUICK Tips & Tricks
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Dig out the carryout menus that may be crammed in a drawer or piled on a shelf. Recycle the duplicates, places you no longer call and put all the remaining menus in a giant envelope, see-through envelope or folder and label it “MENUS.”
Go through your coupons and recycle the expired ones – or better yet – save time, toss them all and start from scratch.
Go to your nearest vitamin/medicine cabinet and toss all out of date/expired bottles. Can you feel the space just opening up?!
Go to your spices cabinet and get rid of the old ones, the ones you don’t use or the ones with barely anything left. According to McCormick, the shelf life of properly stored spices and herbs is approximately 3-4 years for whole spices and seeds, 2-3 years for ground spices, 1-3 years for leafy herbs, and 1-2 years for seasoning blends. For more information, go to www.mccormick.com.
Pick one junk drawer in the house and see what you can toss or take to its rightful “home.” Every room needs a junk drawer but they work better if there’s room to put your junk in!
In closing…..
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For those of us who lean toward perfectionism – please see if you can “act as if” your attempts at decluttering and organizing don’t have to be done perfectly. Doing an average job is really ok. Like anything else in life, the more we do it, the better we get. Practice does make perfect but perfection does not need to be reached today.
Tell me how you’re doing – I’d love to hear from you!