Exchange travel to Austria

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While more people are renting homes, rooms, garden apartments or just a sofa for traveling, there’s another option that’s even better: home swapping. What is home swapping? Trading houses for […]

Why Frugal Living Matters

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It’s tough trying to help people see the value in frugal living. People mostly think of it as deprivation. Or that there’s sacrifice involved. We’re all trying to improve our […]

Home Organization Week 52 from Go Gingham

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Finally! The last week of our year long home organization project. It’s been a long year, hasn’t it? Time for another New Year and all of the resolutions that get […]

Home Organization Week 51 from Go Gingham

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Question: How can you tell when it’s time to clean out, organize, and sort through household files? Answer: When you go to file something and the drawer breaks because it’s […]

Home Organization Week 50 from Go Gingham

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We’ve waited until the gift giving time of year for this week’s home organization project and to straighten out all of our gift wrapping stuff. It’s not just the Christmas […]

Gifts wrapped Go Gingham

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Did you know that from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, the amount of trash we generate goes up by 25%? That’s a lot of stuff getting thrown out! From decorating our […]

Home Organization Week 49 from Go Gingham

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For week #49 of 2014’s New Year’s Resolution – yes, every week we’ve cleaned and sorted out a different area of the house – we’re going where very few have […]

Home Organization Week 48 from Go Gingham

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When you decorate for a holiday only once a year, do you ever forget about what decorations you have? Then, when you get everything out, does it seem like everything […]

Christmas thank you notes

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Are we all in the midst of the holiday scramble or what? Gift shopping, wrapping, and shipping. Or hiding of gifts. Card signing and sending and ordering. The parties, the […]

Home Organization Project 47

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Remember the pile of magazines from last week’s home organization week #46 project? Well, that’s what we tackled for this week’s project. We get more print magazines now than ever […]

Go Gingham approved

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How about one more giveaway to celebrate the Four-Year Blog Anniversary of Go Gingham? How about a box Harry and David pears? Harry and David is famous for their Royal […]

Home Organization Project 45

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Hello home organization weekly project #45. You’re even dustier than last week’s kitchen cabinet clean out. While I’m calling this week’s project ‘home entertainment,’ this is straight out of the […]

Home Organization Project 44

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This is week #44 of our ongoing home organization project. This crazy weekly clean-out was our New Year’s Resolution for the year. My plan was to do several projects ahead […]