Choose the three most important things on the huge to-do list and put them on a new list with due dates. Only look at that new list until those 3 things are done. Then go back and repeat.
I successfully picked up the habit of always making the bed a couple years ago. I make it when I get dressed in the morning. The key for new habits is to tie it to something you already do so it ...
I'm not really following the cure this year, but I'm just doing some major, major de-cluttering and selling tons of stuff on craigslist. It's shocking how much stuff we've crammed into our apartme...
I think the shop farther apart suggestion is exactly BACKWARDS. The farther ahead you shop, the more likely you are to buy things that will spoil before you use them up. Shop every couple days (w...
I wish there was something like this for international moves since re-used cardboard boxes are not so good for shipping (as in on a ship in a not-necessarily-watertight shipping container).
I recently spent an afternoon going through a drawer and a box of old cards and letters. That was some difficult decluttering because of the emotional tie to the people who sent the letters and ca...
Books are probably the hardest for me ... or rather, the hardest that make a major impact. There's some small things that I've gotten quite sentimental about, but the books take up a LOT of space ...
This is quite beautiful from an architectural perspective, but the hiding of everything makes it feel clinical and not like a "home", for me. I like uncluttered, but not if that means no art on th...
We need some craigslist Customer Rules too ... like:
1. Don't email me asking for my address to come see the item if you will then fall off the face of the planet and never respond to ...
Having to call a phone number definitely puts me off. When someone's chosen to look for things on the internet, that generally means that's their preferred means of communication in that instance....
This spring it was chocolate chip cookies. I had a recipe that I had messed up once and loved how they turned out, then had to experiment to figure out how to reproduce the delicious mistake.
I had it at cafe de Jaren. The menu I looked at was in English, so I can't tell you what they called it in Dutch. It definitely didn't *taste* overcooked. The crumb of it was dry-ish ... not as dr...
The pictures of "dutch baby" pancakes look quite thin ... this was about 3/4 inch thick and totally consistent texture throughout. I'm sure a lemony-dutch-baby would be quite yummy though, so I'm ...
Definitely paint!! I painted the wall that divides my living room and kitchen (both sides) and it was about 2 hrs per coat of paint (I did 1 of primer, 2 of paint, spaced over 2 days). It makes a...
The bottom freezer on the new fridge is also such a nice thing. And removing the pot rack over the island makes for a more open look. It does kind of look like they removed their extractor fan an...
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Choose the three most important things on the huge to-do list and put them on a new list with due dates. Only look at that new list until those 3 things are done. Then go back and repeat.
I successfully picked up the habit of always making the bed a couple years ago. I make it when I get dressed in the morning. The key for new habits is to tie it to something you already do so it ...
I'm not really following the cure this year, but I'm just doing some major, major de-cluttering and selling tons of stuff on craigslist. It's shocking how much stuff we've crammed into our apartme...
I think the shop farther apart suggestion is exactly BACKWARDS. The farther ahead you shop, the more likely you are to buy things that will spoil before you use them up. Shop every couple days (w...
I wish there was something like this for international moves since re-used cardboard boxes are not so good for shipping (as in on a ship in a not-necessarily-watertight shipping container).
I recently spent an afternoon going through a drawer and a box of old cards and letters. That was some difficult decluttering because of the emotional tie to the people who sent the letters and ca...
Books are probably the hardest for me ... or rather, the hardest that make a major impact. There's some small things that I've gotten quite sentimental about, but the books take up a LOT of space ...
This is quite beautiful from an architectural perspective, but the hiding of everything makes it feel clinical and not like a "home", for me. I like uncluttered, but not if that means no art on th...
We need some craigslist Customer Rules too ... like: 1. Don't email me asking for my address to come see the item if you will then fall off the face of the planet and never respond to ...
Having to call a phone number definitely puts me off. When someone's chosen to look for things on the internet, that generally means that's their preferred means of communication in that instance....
This spring it was chocolate chip cookies. I had a recipe that I had messed up once and loved how they turned out, then had to experiment to figure out how to reproduce the delicious mistake.
like others, my first thought is the nightmare of dustiness.
I had it at cafe de Jaren. The menu I looked at was in English, so I can't tell you what they called it in Dutch. It definitely didn't *taste* overcooked. The crumb of it was dry-ish ... not as dr...
The pictures of "dutch baby" pancakes look quite thin ... this was about 3/4 inch thick and totally consistent texture throughout. I'm sure a lemony-dutch-baby would be quite yummy though, so I'm ...
Is a pudding-cake gooey? This definitely wasn't gooey. There were no obvious pieces of lemon in it, just the zingy flavour.
I'd say neither! You should be able to cook anything you want in the 3 frying/saute pans that you already have.
Definitely paint!! I painted the wall that divides my living room and kitchen (both sides) and it was about 2 hrs per coat of paint (I did 1 of primer, 2 of paint, spaced over 2 days). It makes a...
The bottom freezer on the new fridge is also such a nice thing. And removing the pot rack over the island makes for a more open look. It does kind of look like they removed their extractor fan an...
I've always separated them and thought it was weird and annoying when cooking in other people's kitchens who didn't.
I would want to see a lot more rigorous research before I started eating them.