Lifestyle Choices

Every home should have some place where these beautiful bottles of wines are always handy in case of thirsty need. Your wine storage should be kept neat and orderly at all times. It need not carry a large stock wine supply. But several wine racks and simple wines are always helpful in the time of festivals.

Too many wine cabinets are filled with useless junk, such as boxes and bottles without labels, all of which should have been thrown away long ago. Some people are like squirrels, always hoarding everything. Then they are never able to find what they want! (more…)

THE DRAWER WITH THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING and what to put in it

Filing is a word that makes most women look mutinous, but it’s not only a good idea, but in home emergencies absolutely essential. Don’t be frightened by the idea of filing. The verb only means putting things in a sensible place where you can find them quickly and easily. Four years of my filing fit into a suitcase.

Know your limitations and don’t plan a filing system that is better than you are, as you won’t stick to it and you will find that even more depressing than doing it.

What follows sounds amazingly neat and tidy, but it isn’t. Most of my key work seems to be on the front of old envelopes (backs already used for key work). If I stopped to type or write them out they would never get done; it’s easier to shove any old scrap of paper into its correct place in the system than to have it lying around. (more…)