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Making your freezer work for YOU

This is a guest post by Susan, from the blog Frost Bite. As women or homemakers we are juggling all day, every day and quite often we put ourselves last in the list of things to do.  So I was thrilled to hear that The Organised Housewife is focusing on YOU this month.  So what…

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{Organising} Food can’s in pantry

  This is such a simple and easy idea to store your smaller cans of food in the pantry.  Turn a magazine holder on its side, place bobby pins through the end to stop cans rolling out.  Idea credit:  PBJStories How do you keep all your can’s organised?

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{Cleaning Task} Clean the Knife Block

{A post from the vault} I store all my kitchen knives in a wooden knife block on my bench, keeping it out of reach from little fingers and easy access for while I’m cooking. Another benefit of keeping them in the knife block will minimises the risk of cutting fingers if in drawer and should…

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{Decluttering} Plastic Bags

Join me in a week of decluttering. Please comment below if your able to part with today’s suggestion, I would love to hear from you. Are you following the Declutter 52 things in 52 weeks challenge, more info HERE, it’s never to late to start! #24 Plastic Bags Do you have a big pile of plastic…

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{Declutter} Around your kitchen sink

Join me in a week of decluttering. Please comment below if your able to part with today’s suggestion, I would love to hear from you. Are you following the Declutter 52 things in 52 weeks challenge, more info HERE, it’s never to late to start! #20 Around the kitchen sink Today’s quick decluttering task is…

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{Organising} The Fridge

From the Archives – I hope you enjoy this old post from last year about organising the fridge.  I’ve been spending some quality time with the kids on these final day’s of the holiday’s.  Will be back to normal posting soon   Do you feel that you don’t have enough room in your fridge? There’s…

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It squirts so easily!

I buy Palmolive detergent in a large 4L bottle from Big W.  I find it more economical and trying to do my bit by reducing the amount of plastic in our landfill.  I used to refill an old bottle but it soon got grubby, very sticky and didn’t look all that fancy on my kitchen…

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Grocery / Shopping List Printable

Pin It Many of you saw that from a photo on a recent post that I have a grocery list on my fridge and requested the download, here it is!!! I made this up years ago from a similar idea I found on the web (can’t remember where…sorry).  However I have arranged it to match…

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Organising the Pantry

This was the most popular post for 2011 ************************************************ The pantry can be one of the most cluttered and disorganised cupboards of the home, but today I’ll give you some ideas how to organise your pantry, using boxes, baskets, containers and extra shelves.  Organising the pantry doesn’t have to be a huge task, you have two choices: Remove…

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Summer Salad

I’m loving these hot summer days.  Here’s my weeks worth of salad and veg all chopped up ready for quick and easy yummy lunch. Watermelon (chopped) Washed Baby Spinach leaves Carrot (cubed) Cauliflour (broken into pieces) Brocolli (broken into pieces) Deli Ham Capsicum (sliced) Red Onion (sliced) Carrot (shreded) Cherry tomatos Mushrooms Cucumber (cubed)

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