household Archives

when things aren’t working

We all get stuck in patterns of behaviour. Some days (many days) we just go through the motions, doing what we need to get by, even if the way we’re doing things isn’t working. We stick with the familiar routines and behaviours because it’s what we know and it’s easy, at least in the short [...]

tip tuesday – possibilities calendar

I read this tip on Lifehacker the other day, and thought it was a great idea.The article suggests creating a possibilities calendar in Google calendar or your favourite electronic calendar. The idea is that when you read or hear about an event that you think might be interesting but you don’t want to make special [...]

10 easy tips to save water and money in your home

This is a guest post by Lisa Shoreland of Go College. [source] Wasting water is harmful to the environment – and it’s also a good way to spring a leak in your wallet. It’s easy to forget how much you’re paying for the water you use every day, but once that bill comes, you realize [...]

on taking my own advice

The other day I posted about how my neighbour needed some well deserved time out. Well (I say blushing) it was a little matter of do as I say, not as I do. I could take a leaf out of my own book (or would that be a post our of my own blog?). I’ve [...]

Outside the box thinking

I received this email the other day after writing about how we get the washing dry in wet weather. Ophelia writes: One particular day the weather was good for drying clothes, but I could see that a storm was on its way – and I didn’t have time to bring clothes in and out unnecessarily. [...]

food for thought thursday – tiny living

I came across this video doing some research for the recent newsletter. This tiny 30 square metre apartment in Hong Kong has 24 rooms (as a comparison, the average sized home in Australia is 215 square metres). Don’t believe me? Check out the video, it’s pretty darn amazing.

tip tuesday – quick tidy strategy

We have a rule in our house: never walk up or down the stairs empty handed. We have a drop off point at the top and bottom of the stairs where items that need to be relocated back to their proper place are left for when one of us next treads the stairs. This keeps [...]

getting the washing dry without a dryer

You know you’ve reached adulthood when your first thought on a sunny day is “I’ll get the washing dry today.” Sunny days however, have been few and far between over the last few months and washing has been an all week chore, when it is normally a two day chore. The humidity doesn’t help. Even [...]

tip tuesday – conversions

The best website that I have ever come across for converting weights, measurements, volumes, time zones and all sorts of other conversions is Online Conversions. There is rarely a day that goes by that I don’t refer to this website, it is permanent link on my browser toolbar. My favourite section is weight to volume [...]

planning for emergencies

source When writing for this blog, it helps me to do a little editorial planning ahead of time and way back in November I had planned this week to write about emergencies. You see, despite having lived in QLD for over four years and despite having been evacuated because of bush fires down south, we [...]