ORGANIZING AN ENTERTAINMENT AREA ~ UNREAD BOOKS

ORGANIZING AN ENTERTAINMENT AREA ~ CAST ASIDE UNREAD BOOKS

Are you like me, a lover of books.  I am forever picking up books as I visit used book stores, library sales or garage sales.  Pretty soon I have at least 30 to 40 books just waiting to be read.  On top of that some one is always giving me a book to borrow.  They think I will love it and now I want to read that one so I can return before I forget to give it back. 
Only keep the book you want to read on or near your night stand.  If you gather more books than you can possibly read how about donating some to your thrift store or library sale.

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TIDY TIP OF THE DAY ~ YOUR NIGHT STAND

TIDY TIP OF THE DAY ~ YOUR NIGHT STAND

Your night stand should only be used for items you need in bed.  Your books, your reading glasses, cell phone and memo pad. 
Now of course this should not all be on top of your night stand. A drawer makes things neater or if your night stand does not have a drawer you can always use a pretty wicker basket underneath.

Thanks for stopping by for Tidy Tip Grace

WHAT'S FOR DINNER ~ HOME MADE CHICKEN SOUP ~ ON A COLD NIGHT

It is snowing and cold out.  What would be better than some home made soup. 
We took some chicken out of the freezer the night before to thaw. 
Next day we baked, cooled and deboned. 
Next boiled up the bones for some broth.
To that more canned broth is added along with the diced up chicken. 
Add 1 tsp of pepper, 1/2 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of garlic
Add to all of this 1 can of diced tomatoes with spices
a handful or two of frozen mixed vegetables
and pasta already cooked and drained.

Simmer for about 30 to 45 minutes and homemade soup is made.
Forget the canned chicken noodle soup and taste what soup really taste likes.
Thanks for stopping by for dinner.. Grace

TIDY TIP OF THE DAY ~ SLIDE IT UNDER YOUR BED

TIDY TIP OF THE DAY ~ SLIDE IT UNDER YOUR BED

Your under bed storage does not have to be for bedroom items only. You can organize anything that needs a place under your bed.  How about office supplies, sports items.  We store a folding table under our bed.  Out of sight is great and if we need it for a family doings just pull it out and we are ready to go.
45 years ago we went to a Sunday lunch at the apartment of a lady from church. She pulled out a tray of cut up carrots and celery from under her bed.  You should of seen the look on my mother's face.  I do not suggest keeping vegies under your bed for your next party.  After all these years I still have to chuckle and share that story. 

Thanks for stopping by and thanks to Mrs.S for the memories and the chuckles after all these years.

TIDY TIP OF THE DAY ~ REVITALIZE YOUR ROOM PLAN ~ The Bedroom Design

Who says we need to place our furniture evenly around the bedroom. Why not place your dressers side by side near the closet. 
It will make getting dressed faster and putting away your clean clothes.

Thanks for stopping by.. lets keep saving together.. Grace

WHATS FOR DINNER ~ PURE COMFORT WITH HAMBURGER HOT DISH

Tonight it is snowing out. Cold and yukky but inside everything is different. For dinner we had home made hamburger hot dish. Pure comfort food. Only thing that would of made it better is if we had some hot garlic bread to go with it. 
You can find the recipe by going to this previous post.  So let it snow and get the snow plows out guys.

Now back to watching the Academy Awards and Billy Crystal.

thanks for stopping by.. lets keep saving together.

GARAGE SALE SEASON CAN NOT COME FAST ENOUGH

Almost the middle of February and I am getting antsy for garage sale season. It can not come fast
enough for me. At this time of the year hubby and I limited to either thrift stores or the local auctions.

There is estate sales every once in awhile but they are always priced higher so I have to watch myself so I do not spent too much for an item. There is one estate sale today and bargain day tomorrow so maybe I will find some treasure to resell. Hubby and I went to one of the local auctions last night. Pickings were slim. I saw one mid century round shelf I liked was considering to resell but it went to high to buy and make any money. Then there was a cute little chair mid century also, I considered it until they moved it to go with a desk that it did not match. There were boxes of books but nothing caught my eye, hubby is more patient and dug a bit and found two boxes that he thought were worth while bidding on. He did the bidding and won the two boxes. We went through them and picked the ones we wanted and the remainder will be resold at another auction. After they finished with things we were interested in we left and headed home. Got home just about 9 pm and sat at our computer to check out our books. I ended up listing four of them on Amazon for an asking price of $ 75.00 . The treasure of the bunch in my opinion is this 1915 copy of Duluth Central High School yearbook. I had not bothered to look in these boxes because it looked like old junk. That behavior will change from this day forward. This is my high school and they closed it for good last year. Shame on the beings that chose to close my school and then sink money into the other two high schools. That is another rant for future days. Duluth Central opened up in 1892 in down town Duluth and it is a thing of beauty. This yearbook is fantastic, after all these years it is in amazing condition. There are 266 pages plus an index of the students and the quality of the pages is outstanding. This would make a great addition to any family history collection. I will be selling this vintage year book  But until it is sold will enjoy looking through it. There are at least two memoriam's to students who died before the class graduated. One is a female named Rae Madge Abraham who died from illness and then two boys who drowned. The boys names were James Arthur Kelly and Gerald Francis McCormack. I did not have any family members living in Duluth at this time so no chance of finding family members. Have you found anything of interest to resell lately.  I would love to hear your stories of found treasures.