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The Big Bedroom Makeover!
I’ve been itching for change lately, and now that I have all this spare time on my hands I’ve been working on some “projects” that I’ve wanted to do for a while. My most recently completed one was the bedroom makeover! My old room was awesome, but it was cluttered, busy and not very relaxing. […]
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Roommate-free Since 2011
It’s true! My roommate has moved out! Rejoice! Lucky for me it was a somewhat-mutual decision, and also fairly amicable. There was only limited stealing of stuff this time, so I consider it a success. Assuming everything goes well with my new job, I will be able to manage the $1300/mo rent by myself now. […]
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DIY: Magnetic “spice rack” for the fridge
Lately I’ve been trying to learn how to cook more at home. What I’ve come to discover is that proper application of herbs and spices can make all the difference in a good meal! As my cooking skill grows, my spice drawer has also grown exponentially. It’s so full that when I went to buy […]
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Moving Day!
Well, today’s the big day! My old, financially-unreliable roommate is moving out, and the new one is moving in! What’s funny is that it seems everyone else had the same idea for this weekend! My street is positively filled with moving vans, giant garbage heaps of old furniture and people milling about with boxes! It’s […]
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The Purge Project: Bath & Body Products
This weekend while I was waiting for a friend to come over I took a moment to organize one of my drawers by my desk. It holds a myriad of items, including hand and face creams, prescription lotions and pills, dental stuff like floss and picks and a bunch of other random crap. As you […]
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The Purge Project: Makeup Drawer
This is the next installment in what I hope will be an ongoing series of decluttering, paring down and organizing my life and belongings. Earlier this week I decluttered my purse (which was very much needed!) and took a load off my shoulders. This time around I went to work on my makeup drawer *shudder* […]
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The Purge Project
My good friend T came down and spent the weekend with me, in which we did all manner of girly things including home spa treatments, trying out new hairstyles, and of course, shopping! During one of our down times at my place we were lying on my bed when T noticed my giant copy of […]
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Swag Alert: Teletoon Goodies
Yay! The drought may have finally ended! Since the economy has been doing so poorly lately, the stream of events, parties and general free stuff in the ad world has all but dried up 🙁 Since moving to my position a year ago I was receiving much less anyway, but since Christmas it has been […]
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No Spend Days!
There is a PF blogger that I really admire, Canadian Saver over at Saving4Later. She’s really good at keeping track of her daily expenses, budgeting and instituting No Spend and No Driving days. I’ve been trying to incorporate a few of her methods into my own life recently, especially as I try to frantically save […]
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Bye bye, Christmas!
I finally got most of my Christmas stuff put away… with the renovations still not complete it’s hard to get organized, but I’m slowly getting there. Tonight I skipped my kung fu (which I feel really guilty about since I haven’t been in months now) but ended up sweeping our upstairs landing, the entire staircase […]