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Itch to Pitch Challenge ~ Week One

by Toni Herrbach

I am really excited about this summer challenge. Now I walk through my house making mental notes of what goes or stays. I also thought it would be fun, especially for you, if I added some prizes to this challenge. I am going to make it really simple to enter, all you have to do is link up your Itch to Pitch post with Mr. Linky, and you are entered. If you do not have a blog and still want to enter ...

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Confession Time and a Challenge

by Toni Herrbach

I seriously dislike messes, and I loathe clutter. I do not function well in a house that is messy or disorganized. Normally I run a pretty tight ship around here, but lately things have gone a bit awry. Remember when I wrote a few weeks back about only being able to do a certain number of things well at any given time? Well, housekeeping has kind of fallen by the wayside over the past few ...

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Cool Kitchen / Hot Meals in the Summer

by Toni Herrbach

Summer months mean hot days and a hot kitchen if you use your oven. I try to avoid using my oven during the summer months to help keep my utility costs down. There are many ways to cook without using your oven. A grill, roaster, toaster oven, bread machine, and crock pot can all be used to create meals without heating up the kitchen. But, I have found that when it is really hot even the crock ...

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Project Room Swap

by Toni Herrbach

Over at The Inspired Room there was a challenge issued to tackle a project you had been putting off. For the past 10 months I have not liked the furniture set up in our home. Our dining room is in the front of the house away from the kitchen. Since we don't have an eat in kitchen this means the kids carry food throughout the house to get from the kitchen to the table. We solved this by putting a ...

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Clothing Organization and Room Pick Up or Why I Want to Move to Hawaii

by Toni Herrbach

Spring has finally arrived in Maryland and I was chomping at the bit to get the winter clothes packed up and the summer clothes unpacked. After a few 90 degree days in which my boys were playing outside in flannel lined pants we needed to bring out the shorts! The problem with clothing organization is simple. We have a big family, and each person has a summer and winter wardrobe. Our house does ...

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Being a Happy Housewife

by Toni Herrbach

The following is a guest post from Jennifer who blogs at Getting Ahead. Jennifer is a homeschooling mom of 4, who likes practicing frugality, scrapbooking and writing articles for Hub pages. I wish I would have read an article like this when I was first married, it would have made the road much smoother for me. I was married almost 13 years ago.  At the time, I absolutely did not consider ...

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