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We love good household tips around here, especially when they come from The Country Women’s Association of Victoria. The CWA knows their homemaking! We’re talking household tips passed from woman to woman over generations. The kind that work and are often a bit quirky. Here are 25 of the best household tips from the CWA …

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While the term ‘life hack‘ generally makes me switch straight off, I can see no other way to describe this collection. Rest assured, these are useful life hacks – not bleeding obvious things that you’ve probably already tried (no, internet, a complicated way to fold fitted sheets is not a good life hack when balling …

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After every school day there’s a sprint to the school gate as kids race to attend extracurricular activities. Most kids, most families, are committed to some kind of after school activity on most days of the week. The things is, there are so many brilliant extracurricular activities available that it’s hard to limit our kids. …

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I’m not sure why we call them ‘back to school‘ tips. Kids go ‘back to school’ a small number of times, but they are ‘at school’ for thousands, and thousands of days. Don’t tell them that! You know there are probably more back to school tips floating around than there are school children. It’s not …

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This quick guide to organise daily family life is part of our quick guide to life series. Short, sharp advice that tackles the pain points of parenting. The overwhelm of daily family life comes swift and mercilessly. One minute we feel like we’ve got this, the next we are drowning in a sea of paper, …

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