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Clearing out the clutter

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I’ve been spending a little bit of time cleaning out drawers and closets and other storage areas in my house lately. Unfortunately there’s a lot of stuff to clean out and go through since we’re kind of pack rats or so it seems looking at the stuff we’ve stored away.

My greatest problem is that I don’t know where to start. I suppose I should just start in one room and work my way through the house, but so far I’ve just been doing a little bit of cleaning and clearing out here and there. Oh don’t worry the house isn’t overly cluttered or anything … it’s just that we’ve accumulated a lot of stuff that we just don’t use and that I’m sure we won’t ever use again.

The other day I was looking in an upstairs closet where we keep things for the bathroom, hair care and so on and I came across some older straightening irons. I think I’ve had those for twenty years or more. I keep my hair short these days but a long time ago I used to have it longer and when it’s longer it gets wavy and sometimes I’d use the straightening iron to straighten my hair for a sleek look. I probably should get rid of them but lately I have been thinking of growing my hair longer again so maybe this was a good find after all?

How often do you go through your closets and drawers to clear out the clutter? Regularly or almost never?

Trying to get some Christmas shopping done

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Well it’s already November and as usual I still haven’t started my Christmas shopping yet. Oh I know – some of you reading this have been finished for months. I know, I know! Still … there are plenty of you out there that are in the same boat as me – you either haven’t started shopping yet or you’ve only just started … or worse, you might not get started until the week or so before Christmas. I’ve done that too!

I would like to get some, if not all, of my Christmas shopping done before November is over if that’s possible. I’d love to be finished before the stores and malls are crowded with people. Better yet – I might even be able to do some of my Christmas shopping online. I found a site that has some great ideas for personalized mens gifts and that might help me cross a few names off my list.

How are you doing with your Holiday shopping? Did you start yet? One thing that I know for sure – I’m going to try not to spend too much this year!

It’s getting cold!

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Well it’s starting to get cooler out. As much as I hate to admit it – winter is coming. I know … I can’t do anything to make it stop. I’d love to just skip ahead to April or May – at least weather wise, but it doesn’t work that way does it? I guess if it did I’d save some money too ’cause my furnace wouldn’t be running all winter either!

A couple of weeks ago I put the warm duvet on our bed but I’m still freezing. Maybe I’m just cold this year? I’ve been thinking about taking a look at electric blankets. I have a queen sized electric blanket in my closet but my husband moved the plug and controls away from where we keep the blanket for some reason and now we can’t find it … so that makes the blanket pretty much useless – well as an electric blanket anyway. So .. I guess I need to get an new one.

Is your home getting cooler now too? Are you dreading winter? What are you doing to stay warm?

Nice teeth and beautiful jewelery have something in common

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I was in the basement the other day going through some old stuff and I came across a box of things that I used to use in my jewelry business. I guess I should put some of those things up for sale on eBay or something or sell it to some of my old jewelry trade friends – those few who are still in the business that is!

It’s funny, I’ll bet that those of you who’ve never seen a jeweler at work have no idea what kind of tools we work with, but you’d probably be surprise at just how many dental tools we use. In fact quite a few of the tools that I used when I did designs on pieces of gold manually with a spinning diamond (diamond cutting) I did with one of those dental foredom drills! I guess it’s kind of like a Dremel drill but more powerful. Anyway … the jewelery tool suppliers likely bought some of their supplies from discount dental equipment suppliers because I swear 25% to 50% of the tools and products that jewelers use are the same ones that dentists use too.

I bet you never thought that nice teeth and beautiful jewelery had something in common? LOL

Now what should I do with my old “jewelry” equipment?

Thinking about a second cellphone?

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I’ve been sort of thinking of getting a second cellphone lately. I’m not 100% sure that we need two cellphones in our home since we don’t use our current one all that much … but it seems that whenever I need a cellphone my husband is out and he’s got mine. So … yeah – maybe a second one wouldn’t be the worst idea.

If we were going to get a second cellphone I have no idea which kind to get. Something simple or another smart phone? I love my current smart phone and so does my husband … so maybe something like a Atrix 4G might work? But then if we want to keep thing simple since it’s a second cellphone that we’ll barely be using maybe a really bare bones cellphone might be better? Any ideas?

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