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Just Give Me the Smiley Face: A Pet Peeve

A quick reminder that today is Day #1 for the Cool Bloggers Walking Club: October Edition (you do not need to be a blogger to participate). There’s even a printable if you’re inclined to…

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  • Personality Insights, Pet Peeves, Random
  • Oct, 01, 2024
  • 44 Comments

I’m Not Here…

…because I’m Kristen’s Meet A Reader guest over at The Frugal Girl talking all things thrifty and frugal.

I’ll be back in my blog space tomorrow to vent about a pet peeve (hey it can’t…

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  • Blogging, Budget, Guest Post, Money, Thrifting
  • Sep, 30, 2024
  • 17 Comments

Happy Things Friday Turns One

Today marks one year since I clicked Publish on my very first Happy Things Friday post. I started this series on a whim and here we are a year later.

It might sound ridiculous…

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  • Habits, Happy Things Friday, Joy, Personality Insights
  • Sep, 29, 2024
  • 27 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 27 September

September is almost behind us; typically that astonishes me but this September has felt pretty accurate at being twenty-seven days so far. There haven’t been high highs or low lows for me, but there…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Sep, 27, 2024
  • 33 Comments

Favourite Things: June – September

It has been a while! I find Favourite Things posts are getting harder to write because I re-use old favourites over and over and don’t tend to be very adventurous with branching out and…

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  • Favourite Things
  • Sep, 26, 2024
  • 36 Comments

Where Do You Keep That? (Part Two)

This is the first of (at least) two follow-up posts about where we keep various standard household items.

The first two categories were inspired by Engie.

SUNGLASSES

I am the only one who can always find their…

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  • Home, Minimalism, Organization
  • Sep, 25, 2024
  • 31 Comments

Are You Clean, Neat, Both, or Neither?

I’m not obsessive about neatness or cleanliness, but I definitely would tend toward neatness. I like everything to have a place and everything to be IN that place. But when it comes to cleaning,…

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  • Habits, Home, Minimalism, Organization, Personality Insights, Random
  • Sep, 23, 2024
  • 42 Comments
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