January Tip-a-Day calendar: Hints and tricks to make life easier

[Texasmujer]

1: Learn to say no. Pick one or two requests and focus your efforts on those.

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19: Use empty suitcases to store out-of-season clothing or bedding on closet shelves or under the bed.

20: To make sure all phone messages get written down, buy an erasable memo pad with an attached pen and nail it to the wall near the phone.

21: Avoid hunting through your closet each day: Hang like items together.

22: Use hanging shoes bags to organize socks and toys in kids' rooms; needles, thread, buttons in the sewing room; hats, gloves,scarves in the front closet.

23: Set up car pools for kids' after-schoool activities.

24: Keep a box near the laundry room for stray socks, and safety pins, to you can pin the mates together.

25. Store often used things where you need them most. Don't keep the ironing board in the basement if you iron in the kitchen. Put coffee coups near the machine.

26. Put a red mark nect to any tax item in your checkbook. At tax time you can easily spot deductible expenses.

27. Install a lazy susan in a deep storage cabinet or on refrigerator shelves so you can swing items into view.

28. Throw away all outdated or unused items in your medicine cabinet and organize what's left.

29. Plan for 30 minutes of time to yourself each day nd focus on something you want to get done.

30. Get clothes ready for the weel ahead.

31. Store kids' bath toys in a mesh bag.