Next time you start feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have enough space, spare a thought for Felice Cohen, a Professional Organiser living in an 8.3 square metre room in New York’s Manhattan. For US$700/month in 2010 Felice traded her lifestyle for space where neighbour’s are paying US$3000 for the same conveniences of this …
Bag Yourself a Crafty Idea!
Bags in a variety of colours and fabrics can be great and colourful storage solutions! If you’re good with a needle and thread, you may want to check out some of these DIY storage bag making projects: Basic Drawstring Bags for Any Size from Treasure Play & Go DIY Lego Bag and Playmat from Clarks …
Recycling Ideas for Plastic Bags
I came across this fantastic article on The Spruce on 23 Genius Ways to Repurpose Plastic Bags. Of course the trick is not to accumulate them in the first place, but there will always be a time when you don’t have your other reusable bags with you, and if you’ve run out of bins to line, …
Helping the Animals in Crisis
As cyclone Yasi was about to hit Cairns, I received notification via a friend of a friend of a friend who had lost their dog in Cairns and was desperately trying to locate him before disaster struck. I did my part in forwarding on this message through my own circle of friends, and it wasn’t …
Planning in Advance for Natural Disasters
Cyclone Yasi is yet another reminder that preparation and being organised is truly an important step in every day life. To read that there was no loss of life during what has to be one of the worst cyclones in our life-time is phenomenal. We’ve certainly learned a lot from recent years whether that be …
Lessons Learned as a Mud Army Volunteer
Act now, prepare for the future and don’t leave things to the last minute. As a member of the mud-army. I’ve come away from my brief time in the sludge forever changed. Things in my life that used to matter no longer do, and other things that were perhaps put on the back burner, taken for-granted, …
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