Because we have all our little things that we make life simpler, and because it’s always nice to share … This page is dedicated to all my little tricks … You will also find quick and simple recipes special page in my kitchen. Everything concerning the machine is now in my linen side. The program for this page:
There are also sites that provide tips, ideas for organization:
* You will also find lots of stuff stored on this site québecois!
* FlyLady method is a way to learn to organize when we no longer know where to take the house and its BAZARD can also just dip new ideas, the main site is in English.
* Home Made Simple is a site advertising “group Procter & Gamble, but full of practical ideas and decorating
SUMMER.
In summer it is hot sometimes, but nothing more than agrable eating out? The butter does not necessarily against … So I landed on a freezer-pack (or vice versa) and it is not too soft …
MAINTENANCE / HOUSEKEEPING
* To ease the household tasks, it is better to avoid dirty … When I prepare a meal, I was always a plastic (who used to pack the reviews that we receive) on the plan where I work: one gesture my peelings go in the trash without having to manipulate or to move the towel on the work plan …
* On top of high furniture, I put newspaper, I change from time to time without having to dust …
* When we build a house, provided for a maximum built-in cupboards, this avoids having to sweep under the furniture and to dust …
* After a repair of the car to the garage, I kept the protective plastic driver’s seat as protection for the stroller that remains in the garage …
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KIDS MEAL
* Since they have 3 years to no longer having to move or have to fill their glass of water at all times, I bought a clear plastic jug 0.5 l, they can easily manipulate, we have as their aim the pot. The rule: they must drink all the water they have paid to free them to do several small time … (+ + Finally we have 2: one on each end of the table, to avoid commuting, plus our glass pitcher …)
* To hang napkins around your neck without having to sew elastic on each … I use 2 mini clamps mounted curtain rings, I will tie a rubber band and voila. There is just pinch the towels. You can use the towel grip too.
* Practice this funnel to bottle, it avoids to put anywhere … Found in Baby-Walz.
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CHILDREN GAMES
* Stickers: kids love them, but hey, they often use just any drawings for how they lay in the trash in the week … As they do not worry about what is on the sticker, if it sticks … I keep all the stickers that I find right and left labels prices of vegetables, stickers flyers catalogs VPC, on bananas, pears … They are thrilled! (begin provisions during the first pregnancy!)
* To avoid m’encombrer boxes of puzzles, but not to lose the parts, I use freezer bags, zipped … of course it does not leave more than 2 puzzles at a time … (same for all games that we cut in their journals Pomme d’Api or slide).
* I use organic detergents, they are sold in plastic buckets, I recycle for storing everything that is used to apply (clay, color window, or even small trash …)
* Some puzzles for toddlers are sold without a model sheet, I then copied once all the facts (tricky), they can use the model to the first trial and error.
* To make dining more attractive, we add the boxes of cereal samples and other, smaller bottles of milk trade, the crates are wooden boxes of St Aubin (cheese) and mini food containers that do not drink, yet … (but also the food timber from HABA, see page Ludothèque).
* When I change oilcloth (kitchen table), I do not throw, but I shall, for the “messy” as the paint or clay.
* The dose washing powder are used for practices bucket of paint.
* It is a joy to play with family, but this is not always easy if it comes to games with questions, since not everyone has the same level … When we play to “E = M6″ for example, Marie advance his pawn, like everyone else and when to listen to the question which is intended, I use a range of “The unbeatable” adapted to their age, I ask him a question, she can not respond oun, like the others, and she participates as much as we do!
* For the game of Monopoly, that’s another story … Peter and Thomas have a desire: to build houses! So that the party does not drag on, we begin to distribute all the cards properties (if available, we are laying on the shelf, the first falling on the case concerned the purchase will then …), we look at our properties and each has the right to sell 2 properties and buy 2 properties … The game begins … This does not spare the tears of losing more (if someone has a trick to it I’m preneuse !!!), but at least they really feel they have done!
* For Lego, just have a big square of fabric (1.5 to 1.5 m. ..), to hang a big ring to the three angles, a strong link in the fourth. We play on the square, once the game finished, it folds from the link within 3 rings, he’ll just have to suspend the wall .. For most patients make a disc (1.5 m in diameter), put carnations in the hem, pass a rope in these eyes, to store, grab the cord in several places to form a bag (the manner of a chaplain). closed / open
* Collect small jars lids, 4 months they use them in pairs to beat them together, later they may try stacking them between 18 months and 2 years, it can be collected in pairs, those on the effigy of the small Blue Bear (full of different designs and colors that vary for pots of vegetables, grains and fruit): the match, and later, they returned to serve as memory!
* I have acquired a number of plastic trays (or Curver Allibert), I stacked and in the Class I games (puzzles, music, magnetic objects, beads …) my children are accustomed since the age of 18 months and are delighted to find their games in the right place (this also avoids the need to empty an entire toy box to find the missing piece!)
* I found these modules to Ikea furniture absolutely brilliant, it is Kämpe, they are boxes that allow the cabinet to develop we want, the doors are made of ABS lightweight, they fit inside the cabinet when ‘on the open (and therefore does not hinder) it can also immediately see what is in each case while remaining discreet (tinted glass). In this furniture store my children their Playmobil, Lego, books … and if the need arises, we can always enlarge …