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The Benefits of Lists

Housekeeping is about more than just the best household products and tips on how to better clean a room. Housekeeping is about keeping your house in order and what better way to do that than finding an organizational system that works for you. I am amazed at the majority of people who push their carts through grocery stores, wandering aimlessly and grabbing whatever they think they need. Rarely do I see someone with a list. Sometimes I feel a little odd, with my list and pen in hand. But at the same time I feel a sense of triumph in … Continue reading →

The Perpetual Grocery List

I realized this afternoon as I was sitting at my work desk and jotting down a few items on a slip of paper to pick up at the store this evening before heading home for the night that for nearly twenty years I have been keeping track of an unending, perpetual grocery list. Even though I think of my family of three kids as being a fairly small one—it never fails that when I return from the almost daily trip to the grocery store thinking that I’ve finally caught up—there is something else that we have run out of. We … Continue reading →