Thanksgiving Hacks For a Stress-Free Holiday

This post was originally written in October 2016. It has been updated November 2023.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. From my early childhood, Thanksgiving has meant family, friends and of course, wonderful food. A perfectly roasted turkey is a beautiful thing. Mother would always use her best china, her silverware, a lace tablecloth, and her crystal. It was special. It also involved many pots, dishes, pans, and clean-up. I was usually involved in the clean-up.

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Christmas Storage Labels

It’s almost a new year and soon all the holiday decorations will be packed away.   Sometimes it just makes me happy to have a clean box and a cute label.  I wanted a nice attractive label to make it easy to identify the boxes and the contents.  I designed 2 with Christmas designs. I used Avery Presta 94229 label template with 2 labels to a 8.5 x 11″ page.  All the labels are PDF’s and should print easily on your labels, cardstock, or regular copy paper.

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Spring & Easter Storage Labels

Like many of you I have spent some time organizing my home.  I have emptied my boxes of spring decorations. I will replace each with a new crate and label when I put the decorations away.   Sometimes it just makes me happy to have a clean box and a cute label.  I wanted a nice attractive label to make it easy to identify the boxes and the contents.  I designed 3 with spring and Easter designs. I used Avery Presta 94229 label template with 2 labels to a 8.5 x 11″ page.  All the labels are PDF’s and should print easily on your labels or paper. Read More

Morocan Roasted Chicken

A friend of mine, Anita, loves to collect recipes and crafts from magazines. She has decades of cut-outs (pre-Pinterest ladies Anita & I are retired.) and recently has been weeding thru them to re-organize the keepers and eliminate those she doesn’t use. She then extended her clean out to her cookbooks.  Since she lives in an apartment, all unwanted cookbooks were deposited on a table at the building entrance for one of her neighbors to take.  I do love the sharing of things like this.  I myself did something similar to this back 10 years ago when I was downsizing.

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