Jenn Tries...

The Hack How To Hang Your Sweaters (So you don't get hanger bumps!) Photo and Tip from  One Good Thing by Jillee (Please check this website out. I follow it on my blogger feed and I find new ideas to try all the time.) Results I love this hack! I wish I found it when I was in college and used to wear sweaters on a regular bases, but you know I'm glad to have found it now. All you have to do is just drape the sweater over your hanger, like so: (I left my arms folded out to show off the elbow patches ) And it really doesn't take up that much more room in my closet either! So get out there and hang your sweaters right!

The Hack from  The Simple Home Results So while I was cooking my pumpkins, I froze my second batch of pumpkin puree. And luckily around this time I was able to save the lid off the peanut butter jar. So I decided to put this hack to the test. After a few twists I was able to get the peanut butter lid firmly on my mason jar . And once I was ready to use it, the lid came off fairly easily (after I defrosted the jar a little) and there was (obviously) no sign of rust

The Hack Store Your Markers Upside Down (You'll get more from them!) Read All About It From you don't have to read v2.0 Results This is actually one of my favorite hacks ever. (I've actually been doing it for as long as I can remember) And I actually find this works with all types of markers ( permanent , dry erase , kids markers ; etc. And as proof that it actually works, I present to you my calendar I like to have a rolling month calender (so once the week is finished I erase and put the next month's week there). So to see the fully effect, start at Nov. 13th. As you can see the orange is very light. Those were my dry erase markers straight from the package. It works fine, but as we move down the calendar to the bottom, every week the orange gets darker. (And the blue as well). And if you want to know why, I'll tell you. The secret is that you are letting gravity work. Gravity pulls the ink down towards the tip instead of aw...

Even before I started this blog, I've never had any real issue with laundry. Sure I would put if off as long as I could, but once I got around to it I didn't mind putting it into the washer and then switching it over to the dryer. What's so hard about that really? It was always the putting away part that I never got around to. Sure I would get it out of the dryer (I can't stand when people do that. I really can't.), but I never got around to folding it and putting it away in a timely manor. And even one I started this blog and after I started bullet journaling, I just got myself in a schedule of doing laundry on one day and putting it away the next. Overall it was just a mess (but I didn't realize that at the time. I thought it was a great system and I thought it worked.) Until I found this article from on Pinterest (and now that I need it again I can't find it, but I'm sure I'll find it again soon!), which basically was a long way of giving...

I've been talking about growing a garden for a while now. (I think more so in my head than any where else) And I've tried a couple different times, and quite frankly I've always felt in over my head. But this I decided to just go for it. And since Lion (and Mike) love bell peppers (and after reading about them and learning they are fairly easy to grow), I thought that would be the perfect place to start. And naturally this all led to testing out the life hack below! (An upcycle and life hack together... my favorite!) The Project Make Planters Out Of Toilet Paper Rolls Hack From this picture (I'm not sure where this picture originated from, but I love it and I'm glad they made it!) Results The only hard part about this hack is figuring out how far up the roll to cut to make the flaps. And I've not quite sure I ever quite cut them right, but regardless of how big or small I made the flaps, I was still able to mash them together and create ...

After ("dangerously") deciding to run through the hurricane on Thursday afternoon (I maintain it was just feeder bands before any of the real wind or rain had hit us, so it really wasn't anymore dangerous than running in any ran storm), I realized that I have this adventurous spirit in me and its no wonder that I am the mother of two boys. I read somewhere that having boys shortens a mother's lifespan. I can't seem the article now (everytime I try to find it all I end up with is scientific research that might not be all that accurate), but in the article it talked about how mother's of boys often do crazier things and have bigger adventure than mother's of girls. I'm not sure how accurate those findings are either. I just assumed that I always had an adventurous spirit lurking inside of me and once I had Blue I lost a lot of my silly fears. Actually, that's a lie. I'm still scared of a lot, but I try to pretend like I'm not so that may...

I'm celebrating throw back thursday again here on the blog. This time I'm taking it all the way back to March, when I decided to try out one of my favorite organization hacks: using a wire basket to store a surger protector under my desk and help organize the cord clutter. And I now that its been over six months later, I just wanted to give an update on how things are going. (Because a hack is only useful once its been thoroughly tested and if it works in the long run) The Project Easy Way To Organize Office Wires Tip From  DIY Home Sweet Home Results So I tried out this wire organization hack about six months ago, I was so excited to try it. I even wrote a post about it. And how great it was to baby proof an otherwise unbabyproofable spot. I even included a cute little picture of Blue not being able to get into the cords. (And instead was just able to play with the main plug). I was really hopefully that this was going to be a great home improvemen...