Why is it that the sight of neat little rows make me smile? How is it that I find something as simple as a clear glass storage container beautiful? I’ve been needing to find a better way of organizing my pantry, especially since I’ve ditched the habit of shopping weekly in favor of shopping for two weeks at a time AND buying some extra things. I didn’t just run out …
Tackle It Tuesday
Tackling the Kids’ Books
We like books around here, and with my kids’ penchants for picking up books at the thrift store or the Dollar General, we started having a little bit of a book overflow issue. Since we no longer do school in the corner of Little Prince’s room, there really wasn’t a reason the tall bookcase had to be in there, so I decided to switch it with the short one in …
Tackling the Shelves
Our big tackle for this week was de-cluttering and weeding the bookshelves, which had once again attained “quite horrendous!” status. We needed to rearrange a little to make room for the Christmas tree – and you need to clear big heavy bookcases before moving them anyway – so I finally reached a point where I didn’t have a choice but to do anything about it. Oh, I suppose I COULD …