Archive for the ‘Homing Instincts’ Category

Trip Snippets – Seeing the Fruits

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

As my hubby and I are working so hard here in the UK, we make sure that we hide a small portion of our income in the form of investments so that we can have something to show for all our efforts when we retire. We are paying a small lot in a small subdivision Read More …

Tidy Tip

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Do you recognize the little net bag pictured above? I have more than a dozen of these which I keep for future use. I get them from each box of detergent tablets that I buy. One doesn’t need to change them every time the detergent tablets run out, do they? So, I try to set Read More …

Sharing my Writer’s Side

Friday, July 10th, 2009

As you all very well know, I write for this writers’ website called Helium. One time, as I was going through the articles that I have managed to submit so far, I noticed that they somewhat fall under the categories of topics of this website. Thus, I decided to re-use some of these articles and Read More …

My Newest Subscription

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Ever since we arrived here in the UK, we started subscribing to different publications using our Tesco vouchers. So far, we are on our 2nd year in our Reader’s Digest subscription and almost completing a year’s worth of National Geographic Kids. Elijah will be hell-bent to carry on with this one so our next Tesco Read More …

Hoarding as a Disease: Do we Hold the Cure?

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Image: from Google Images

Very recently, two incidents of death happened here in Britain that are related to hoarding. One of the victims was a male who died of thirst and starvation as he could not find his way out of his stuff to get water. His “stuff” were actually rubbish he collected through the years.
The Read More …

De-clutter With Your Tidying-up Army

Friday, March 7th, 2008

I discovered a great TV show here in the UK for moms and homemakers called “Houses Behaving Badly”. It is hosted by a gentleman and a pretty lady. Viewers nominate houses that are seriously cluttered and dirty, which the hosts visit to tidy up and fix (at least the minor problems). The intention is to Read More …