Category: Lifestyle Guides
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What are the day to day expenses you can easily make or produce?
One of the primary things to look at when you’re working on getting out of debt is where you spend your money. Where are some areas your money is going that you could make with ingredients you already have at home? All you need is to buy some extra supplies like citric acid and lye…
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How to Replace Toilet Paper/paper towels or Baby Wipes.
With the talk of the Coronavirus, people have been freaking out and hoarding toilet paper. It always helps to be prepared in case of emergency but if you run out and can’t find any sold, you don’t have to resort to stealing from businesses or using leaves. If you have access to a washing machine,…
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Tips to Get Better Sleep
It’s a common theme- getting too little sleep. People joke about living on coffee and we are all familiar with the groggy feelings on first waking up, the 2:00 crash and other problems that come from getting bad sleep or lacking sleep. If you have no medical problems like Sleep Apnea, insomnia or other disorders,…
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What Type of Cleaning Do you Do Daily, Weekly and Monthly?
When you’re living on your own, owning or renting a home and especially after you have kids, you want your home to be a relaxing sanctuary. The last thing you want to worry about is waking up in the middle of the night, turning on the bathroom light and watching hundreds of roaches scattering. You…
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Book Review: The Year of Simple Living
The Year of Simple Living is written by Steph Parrell She is the creator of ScaleitSimple.com. She wrote this book as a guide to living a more simple life over the course of one year. The book starts off with the author listing the benefits beyond financial to living a more simple, back to nature…
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Decluttering to Move on a Tight and Busy Schedule
I have largely been inactive on this site due to finally closing on a house we have been trying to buy. We cut the lease on our apartment and have one more week to have our stuff out, we have been living here for about two weeks now. Like most couples with kids, we have…
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Are Any of These “Fad” Diets Right For You?
Anyone familiar with dieting has likely heard of a few of the new diets put out. Some are best as medical and have no health benefits outside of those who need them (Gluten free for example) and others can boost your overall energy and wellbeing, while helping figure out if you need to avoid any…
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Why is Sleep Such an Important but Neglected Resource?
This post does contain an affiliate link, so I will be paid a small commission for any purchase of the book but I am NOT affiliated with the book itself, I just found the book extremely useful and want to recommend it. In our society and age, the phrase “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” is…
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Simple Steps to Green Up Your Life and Live Healthier
You don’t have to live out in the country to live a more sustainable life. You also don’t have to be a stay at home mom/housewife/house husband or stay at home dad in order to cook more home made meals or start making your own detergents, cleaners or anything else around your home. Batch cooking…