Archive for the Techniques Category

Getting Kids to Pick Up: The Saturday Basket

Posted on March 4, 2010 by LJ

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50 Ways to Organize Your Home, Part III

Posted on February 24, 2010 by LJ

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

During the past two weeks and this week, I’ve decided to offer a sampling of my tips on how to simplify and organize your home.
Books

Purge what you aren’t going to read. Be honest. If you have had a book for a while, are you [...]

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Sometimes you just need to throw in the towel…

Posted on February 18, 2010 by LJ

Sometimes you just need to take a break.
After a week of playing catch-up and being swamped at work, not feeling 100%, and watching blogging tasks pile up, I was getting downright snarly. And getting even snarlier because I knew I wasn’t getting things done according to my schedule.
Well, sometimes, you [...]

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How To Work At Home…With Kids

Posted on January 25, 2010 by LJ

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Since the end of our school semester is this week, and my daughter has four “adjusted dismissal days” (read: half-days), I decided now would be a good time to share how I work from home while my daughter is there.
Note: I normally do my [...]

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Decluttering Firefox

Posted on January 22, 2010 by LJ

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog.

I switched to Firefox almost as soon as it came out. While I work with Microsoft products for a living, I hated working with IE6. Firefox gave me so much more… tabbed browsing, and the ability to expand functionality with extensions! Oh my, the [...]

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Organized Does Not Mean Storage Boxes

Posted on January 20, 2010 by LJ

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

An acquaintance of mine was eager to talk. It could have been out of a sitcom: a woman walks into a house, laden with bags. She announces: “I’m going to get organized. Look at all the containers I bought!”
Stop.
All that pretty containers will [...]

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