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Sorry, but it’s time to get ready to go back to school. I know, I know, there is still a few weeks left of the holidays BUT… if you leave it until the last week it’s going to completely wreck the end of your holidays. Trust me, I know! For a start, it’s super stressful …

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Yeah, yeah we’ve all heard the news: chances are you’re not going to achieve your new year’s resolutions. Depending on what research you read, about eleventy-billion percent of people fail. What we really need is a new year’s revolution! (We’re talking a LIFE OVERTHROW… not the WWE wrestling match ) We all have a looooong …

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We host overnight guests quite often, especially this time of year. Barely a week goes by without friends or family coming down for a weekend in the country. We love hosting our friends and over the years we have worked out few things that make guests easier to prepare for, and the experience genuinely enjoyable …

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I’m on my annual summer decluttering binge. Something about the new year gives me energy and makes me crave order. Over the past few years I have gone through most of our house so we don’t have much unwanted clutter, but it is still amazing how much stuff can build up. Kids grow out of …

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What parent doesn’t long for a life where all of the nagging little daily stresses are gone? The good news is you really don’t have to do lots of big things to simplify your life. There are plenty of small, practical changes that you can make to start your simple life right now. Simplifying you …

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At any given time, there’s just so much to do. It can be overwhelming to think you personally have to do it all. Outsourcing to others frees you from tasks you dislike, resent, procrastinate about, can’t do effectively or that cause fights with your partner. An extract from Life Admin Hacks by Mia Northrop and …

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