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Posts tagged “personal health”

Flickr Find: Creating a Space for Yourself

Talk about a small space! This image we found on flickr reminded us how important it is to have a place we feel comfortable and centered. If it isn't your whole house, then what part of your house i...

Urbanic Tips for Staying Ahead of Clutter

We're huge fans of Urbanic Paper Boutique. Not only does Audrey stock the best letterpress cards and journals, but the store always looks so stylish and organized. How does she do it? (Did we menti...

skinny skinny Book of Soaps

We're not going to lie to you: we're suckers for nice packaging (what do you expect from a graphic designer?), and these gift box sets of soaps from skinny skinny are grade A awesome. Not only are the...

Earthquake Preparedness

With news of China being rocked by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake, we're reminded 1) how you never know when disaster will strike 2) how quickly life can change and 3) how grateful we are that we're back ...

Organizing Tips for the Overtired and Overstressed

When our lives and minds are already overwhelmed with their own kind of clutter, decluttering and organizing our homes can seem like the ultimate impossible task. Mom of 2 Missuswayne asks how to ove...

Clutter: The But I Might Need It Syndrome

But I might need these catalogs!So we're trying to get organized this month (or at least take a stab at it, right?). Well as Flylady says, you can't organize clutter, you can only get rid of it. One...

How To: Squeeze Out All the Toothpaste

Here's a great idea we saw recently online: using an art paint tube wringer to get every little bit of toothpaste out of your tube. We'd like to make wall mount this and just give a slight twist each ...

Color Inspiration: Playing with Crayons

We got a chance to play around with some kids this weekend and remembered how much we love to play with color and crayons. ...

Look! A Rose's First Bloom

As rose enthusiasts know, there is no replicating the vigor, the intensity, of a rose's first bloom. We're lucky enough to have received some freshly cut blooms and will be making a point of seeking ...

Media Fast: Cutting Down on Blog Clutter

Last week when we were talking about How To Media Fast, it seemed that more than watching TV, people are spending hours and hours everyday (even after they get home from work) on the internet. A huge...

Calories Burned Around the House

We've been making a concerted effort to not neglect our physical health all this year...something all too easy with a job sitting in front of computer in a home office for most of the day. That means ...

What is Your Most Indulgent Collection?

As we mentioned yesterday, we have zero closet space. Collections seem to be the biggest challenge for us since we have no place to store them and even less to display them. But we persevere and our...

Nice Things for the Bath

As Abby has been talking about in this week's cure, it's important to take time for ourselves, to not add one more thing to the pile of what needs to get done today and to remember to take time out to...

Human Touch HT-1470 Back Massage Pad In The Test Lab

Product: Human Touch HT-1470 Back Massage Pad Designer: Human Touch Price: $199 Rating: Recommend* Who doesn't love massages? We sure do, especially since we're on our softening behinds all day (tryi...

Eucalyptus in the shower

There's been a nasty cold bug that has been spreading and many friends we know have been bitten by it. We were looking through the latest issue of Body+Soul magazine and came across this natural aroma...

Unique Novelty Hand Soaps

We've pragmatically replaced our bathroom sink hand soap with a refillable Method pump soap (Ivory or Softsoap). But we know some people like novelty and shaped soaps, since they add a bit of characte...

Wooden Tissue Box by Yamato Japan

Although there are a ton of design patterns, we dare say that the average tissue box is pretty... ugly. There are tissue box covers, but we've never found one that seemed right. We also never really w...

Inherited Clutter

Yes, half of this is at our house nowAs we begin the Cure, we're faced with all this stuff in our homes. Even if we've put the apartment on a diet it can still be emotionally taxing to sort through w...

Could Your Furniture Be Making You Sick?
O, The Oprah Magazine 2/08

Cleaning out our February magazines, we came across an article we'd flagged in O, The Oprah Magazine. We couldn't find it on the website to slink it, so we thought we'd share what we learned here... ...

27 Household Uses For Citrus Fruit

A staple in most homes, citrus fruit, including oranges, lemons and limes, makes a beautiful, fragrant display that can piled in a bowl. We also like to use them in a flower arrangement. Peeking o...

Putting the Apartment on a Diet

To go along with yesterday's things cluttering up the bathroom post and Gregory's post about when things start possessing you, we were reminded that if we feel overwhelmed with how much stuff we have ...

5 Things Cluttering up the Bathroom

Having just moved, I had a chance to take another look at everything I was hanging onto in the bathroom and all that I could let go of. Ironically I still moved it all and decluttered once I was in t...

Gal Pal Retro Ice Bag

No medicine cabinet would be complete without something to help soothe burns, aches, pains, and cramps. These retro inspired ice bags can be used hot or cold to comfort whatever is ailing you. And ...

Six Best Hair Dryer Holders

We keep our hair dryer out hanging by a simple hook through a loop we made with the cord, ready to coif our 'do at a moment's notice. We like that it's right there when we need it, but also because we...

Hinoki Tissue Box

TGIF everyone. There's hardly anyone out there who is more excited it's the weekend than myself. I've been amongst the congested/sore/hacking zombies who've been trying to survive this wildfire of a f...