Lifestyle tips

Here are some great tips for organising your office clutter

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How is your office clutter looking??

For a subtle room fragrance, put a few drops of your favourite essential oil on a lightbulb before turning it on.

I have written an article for Quest Newspapers on planning for your shopping trips to save money. If you'd like some handy hints, check it out here

Do you struggle to know or remember whether things need to be washed in warm or cold water? Whether you shold dry clean or not? eLaundry have put together a great Fabric Care Table to sort out the confusion. You can take a look here. There is some great information to be found!

It will be quite a few years till I need to make use of this tip, but for those of you with older kids....

A nice housewarming present when your kids leave home for the first time is to give them a notebook with recipes for all of their favourite home cooked meals

 

Young girls tend to have lots of hair accessories (I'm sure they multiply when I'm not looking!). Keeping them all in one place and tidy can be quite difficult to do. Most of the time they end up looking like this:

In some sort of order, but not easily accessible withough pulling everything out.

By taking some time to sort through everything and throwing out the things that are no longer used, you will find things a lot easier. By going a step further and using containers that fit everything and allow you so see things easily, you can end up with a much better looking finished product:

The moral of the story here (apart from the fact that you end up with hair accessories that you can find when you need them) is that you need to find the right container for the job. Something that is sitting around the house not being used might be fantastic, but then again, it may not work. Spending a bit of time now finding the right container for the job could save dollars and time later on.

For those of you that are interested, the hair accessories were broken up into drawers - elastic head bands, ribbons, elastics and hair clips. Plastic headbands are kept together on the side. This way, miss 6 can find what sheis loking for without them being pulled out and strewn everywhere.

6 weeks later, it still looks this tidy.