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5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Local ‘Buy Nothing’ Group

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The yoga ball and hand weights you vowed to use daily sit in the corner collecting dust, the workbench your husband received as a gift five years ago remains unopened in its original box, not to mention all the clothes and games your children have outgrown. She recently gifted several reusable container lids. “I

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How You Can Promote Social Responsibility in the Workplace

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Involve them in charitable causes such as food and clothing drives. Install motion-detection lighting systems to conserve energy in unoccupied rooms. And—this may be a pet peeve of mine—climate control your HVAC system based on the season. Even corporate parties and gift-giving makes a difference. Don’t have a kitchen?

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5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Local ‘Buy Nothing’ Group

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The yoga ball and hand weights you vowed to use daily sit in the corner collecting dust, the workbench your husband received as a gift five years ago remains unopened in its original box, not to mention all the clothes and games your children have outgrown. She recently gifted several reusable container lids. “I

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Use Lists to Manage Your Life

Ian's Messy Desk

She has lists of gift ideas, quotes for greeting cards, honey-do’s and much more. Lists are the simplest tool or system for managing your life. If we pop into Home Depot to pick up a gallon of paint, she checks to see what other hardware items we might need, saving a second trip. They consolidate all your tasks in one place.

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Episode 376: Hypnosis and Being Productively Present with Erika Flint

Productivityist

Shopping for new clothes can be needlessly stressful so why not let Stitch Fix make it easy by doing the work for you so you can spend time doing the things you love instead. Stitch Fix offers clothing hand-selected by expert stylists for your unique size, style, and budget. “Our internal state is our internal operating system.”

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Feeling stuck? Guilty? Overwhelmed? Try clearing these feelings out of your home

Ideas.Ted

Gifts you feel like you should keep, but don’t actually like. Where to look for shame in your home: “Skinny clothes” — the ones you haven’t fit into a long time but haven’t been able to let go of. Clothes you don’t like but feel you need to wear to look “presentable” to others. Overwhelm can also come from broken systems.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low-Krayman

Olympia loved that at the beginning of the movie, the women could be seen as the beloved and well worn Southern female stereotypes – preoccupied with gossip, clothes, hair, flowers, and food. The script was about the friendship of women. These women are steel magnolias – beautiful and soft on the outside and tough on the inside.