Real Skills for Real LifeFrom keeping your home clean and in good repair to preparing your own food, self-sufficiency rocks. Having an understanding of the domestic arts gives you a sense of control over your life. These skills also help you save money, not by chasing deals, but by teaching the principle of the mantra: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Life skills are the essence of frugality. Whether you just moved out of your parent's basement or...

The New York Times Acclaimed BestsellerHundreds of Thousands of Copies Sold!“If I had had Julie Morgenstern's tips on how to organize my workload and prioritize my days, balancing my growing business and family life would have been much easier.” —Lilian Vernon, Chairman and CEO, Lilian Vernon CorporationThe New York Times bestselling guide to putting things ...

Negative self-image. Fantasy-induced overspending. Marital tension. A new kind of airbrushed concoction is wreaking havoc on homes and psyches, and Sarah Welch and Alicia Rockmore have a name for it: org porn. It’s in magazines, coffee table books, advertisements, and TV shows, promoting a perfect - and entirely imaginary - world in which everything is always pristine, serene, and flawlessly organized. Pretty Neat is a handbook that embraces the chaotic reality that lies beneath o...

Learn how easy it is to make natural handmade shampoo bars. This innovative eBook includes 25+ recipes for shampoo bars, hair rinses, and hair masques. Contains more than 50 color photos, step-by-step instructions, and a chapter on natural additives. You get fragrance and essential oils information, and the creative labeling and packaging ideas chapter includes several photos. There is lots of information for both melt and pour and rebatch/hand-milled soap bases and how to craft fine bases...

Don't you just love coming into a well-organized living space with all the things that you love in perfect order?Isn't it a wondrous feeling when you've eliminated all the clutter in your home?Just walking into a room with a low or total lack of clutter allows your most prized possessions to stand out. The art of de-cluttering your world using Japanese influence is best described by the term Ma Ma is the void that exists between all things.By using ...

"How to be a smart mom by using effective recipes for overall well-being, green cleaning, personal care, and hormone support." —Dr. Jolene Brighten, ND, author of Beyond the PillAs a mother, you are always looking for ways to make your family safer, happier and healthier. This book shows how essential oils can help you achieve all those things. And you'll save money!An easy-to-use handbook for creating natural solutions, green cleaners, and toxin-fre...

A lot of people wonder why despite their wealth and availability of all the things they need in life they are yet to achieve an easy but happy life. Many would reason that happiness does not lie in money while others would argue it is all in people’s inability to determine what is really important in life. This implies that most of the things they buy and try to find happiness from are not the right options for an easy but happy life. These sentiments are true but not applicable to all peo...

Originally published as twenty-four newspaper columns from 1859 to 1861, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management is many things, but it is first and foremost a guide to managing a household during the nineteenth century.Beeton wrote, As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so is it with the mistress of a house.” Running an extravagant household was a monumental task and a responsibility not to be taken lightly. It meant supervising every empl...

You are also thinking how nice it would be to have the time to get organized. But with work, taking care of the kids, keeping up with their activities, the cleaning, the laundry, the cooking, and squeezing in time for just you and your honey and finding a few minutes of complete solitude once in a while…there’s not time to get organized.With this book I aim to give you a 30-day decluttering plan. By following this plan you will have a hous...

Organize Your Day in One Hour is the ultimate guide to increasing your productivity by making small tweaks to your current habits. Forget the self help books that ask you to get up hours earlier to add time to your day, this manageable guide focuses on small changes that make a big impact without robbing hours from your already pressed schedule. Forget losing that precious hour of sleep or that extra hour at breakfast, this book will teach you how to increase your productivity by organizin...

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