I love this photograph, above! Primarily because the woman in it seems pretty cool and looks like a true badass while she is doing something usually associated with "loneliness"-playing solitaire...
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Tiny Tidy: Inside the Trunk of Your Car...
Okay, we realize that this may not apply to everyone, not by a long shot. Some have spotless car trucks, many don't care about this anyway, and some live in fantastic urban cities that do not require the ownership of automobiles (lucky ducks!). SO! If you docare, and if you spend an inordinate amount of time in your car like I do, living is Los Angeles, this little Tiny Tidy is for you. So, here we go!
Spring Cleaning Start: Weekend Two!
We are on to Weekend #2 of our Spring Clean Guide. How was last week for you? Was it too much, or not quite enough? Please, do let us know below! Now, we are going to kick off this weekend with a few "big" tasks, sprinkled in with some truly smaller, more "fun" ones. Okay, ready or not! Here we go...(And again, please feel free to start Friday night, if you wish!)
Do YOU Multi-Task? Your mind is trying to tell you something...
Tiny Tidy: Your (ahem!) Nightstand Drawer
Today, we will be cleaning out our nightstand drawer(s)! We don't mean to be cheeky. But whether you store some saucy stuff in there, or not, it is completely refreshing to do this, especially if, like us, you love to lounge, eat, read, work and do tons of other fun things in bed...OKAY! Here we go...
Spring Cleaning Start: Weekend One
Are You Living The Dream, or Living IN One...?
GREAT Motivation to Declutter...
I just found out that Amazon has this sort of incredible new Trade-In Program...Actually, as soon as you hit that link, the page will even tell you which of our previously purchased products are eligible to turn in for Amazon gift cards! I think this is great, especially if you are someone who shops often on Amazon, and if you buy lots of your household staples and cleaning supplies online...
Tiny Tidy: Under the Kitchen Sink!
I know! You're probably like...SERIOUSLY? But this one came to light for me last week when it was raining here in Santa Monica VERY hard, so badly that my and my neighbor's kitchen sinks got terribly jammed up. The (awfully sweet!) plumber actually took everything out from under the sink and wiped the space down before leaving (!) And although it wasn't gleaming and spotless, it made me realize that doing a quick-clean under the kitchen sink is NOT such a difficult thing to achieve...
Getting Out from Under: The Trap of the "Bad Day"
Of course, I have to start this post by saying that I am not a therapist. Of any kind. I have been in therapy, in the past, so this post is not meant act as a substitute for that, in ANY way. It's a post for those of us who have just had too many sh*tty days, maybe consecutively, many on-and-off, but enough that you are feeling like "enough is enough..."
What Self Presentation Means To...YOU
There is so much that can be said about this topic, I don't even know where to begin. This post could be titled "Finding Your Personal Style," I guess, or "Clean Out Your Closet for Good!" But, especially for women, the topic of how a person puts themselves together, (or chooses not to) is one that can cause some considerable debate. It is politically, emotionally, often ethically charged, when we talk about the provenance and price of our clothing...
Tiny Tidy: Decant the Sweets & Snacks in Your Pantry
How to Stay on Top of the Big Things While Dealing with all of the Little Ones...
It's really hard to focus on a huge project-whether work or creative, while staying on top of your day-to-day. Countless productivity systems have been developed to help us get and stay and keep on track. They are literally almost hundreds of ways and systems that have developed over the past twenty years of chopping up one's time and focus, to try and create real and genuine balance in your life. BUT, that is NOT what this post is about...
Birds of a Feather: On Flying with Your Flock
Everyone from the ever-hustling and magnetic Tony Robbins to the most penned out of Buddhists will almost universally agree: You are who you hang out with. But what if this, well, admonition, if you want to be honest, wasn't entirely true? What if the whole of your experience as a person on this earth does not solely have to rely on what you have accomplished, or how much you have "succeeded?" What if the tapestry of your relationships and friendships can form a quilt of a different stripe, if you look it at that way...?
Tiny Tidy: Top of your Bureau or Vanity
We will be posting these little quick fixes, to get you ready for spring cleaning, or just to rev up your day or morning or evening so you can either A. Relax or B. Tackle some more important sh*t and clear your mind. So, with our further ado...Clear the top of your table top, vanity or bureau of choice, and style it! (WHY NOT?)
Pre-Game Your Spring Clean this Weekend!
Wherever you may reside, if you did not do a post-Holiday sweep of your home, spring is the time to really renew and refresh your space. But do not fret! If you are stressing about not being able to tackle your entire home, we are going to break down a few things for you that will help you be on your way. Promise! Hang on to your hat! Here we go...!
Five Steps to Help Make up for "Lost Time"
I was sick last week. To be more accurate, I was sick in bed-almost the entire week, two weeks ago, and then spent a sort of "lost week" last week: Going through the motions at work, spending an inordinate amount of time reading (James Ellroy, actually!) and feeling like crap, and guilty about it, all the while...
"Happy families are all alike..." and what I think this quote really means
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
How many times have we all heard this quite famous quote? It is ascribed to so many different things, but what the hell does it really mean, exactly? People have been excavating and analyzing this quote for decades...
