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Live Organised – now on Goodreads

Hi all It’s over a year since Live Organised was first published and I still get excited when I see this beautiful cover. It’s available both as a physical copy or as a Kindle copy on Amazon. But best of all, you can now add it to your books read, or mark it as a [...]

Go vertical for storage

I used to keep all the healthy snacks in this pink metal basket. There was nothing really wrong with it as it looked cute and the snacks were easily accessible but it did take up more space than I liked. So when I got my jars from Consol, I decided to put one of [...]

Six questions for your half-yearly life review

I do a monthly goals review every month before I set goals for the new month ahead. I find that it helps me take stock of what went well and why, and what I need to work on. I like to think that if I’m 4 months into the year, then technically I should be [...]

{Marcia on money} 6 – do you still suffer from “first job” syndrome?

I finished a book last month called Nice girls don’t get rich by Lois P Frankel. She’s written another book called Nice girls don’t get the corner office that I read AGES ago and keep re-reading actually. It’s one of the best career books for women out there (I’ve read plenty). In the finance book, [...]

The perfect green bag

If you’ve been reading here for a bit, you’ll know I love handbags. LOVE So I always stop by the handbag section in any of the clothing shops. And when I saw this bag from Woolworths, my heart stopped for a minute. It doesn’t look like anything fancy initially until you open it up and [...]

What’s in that box on your desk?

Back when I posted a tour of my desk in March (!), Renee asked the question, “what’s in that box?” referring to the box on the left of the pic below. Well, I intended to post about it but I had to get organised and take pics when it was light. In summer I can [...]

{Marcia on money} 5 – obstacles to your plan

Do you have your copy of 10 steps to your financial freedom yet? Remember, it’s only $10. Thanks so much for your support. ***************************** If you love a plan as much as I do, when snags come up, it can be… well… frustrating. Some things that come up will be expected but annoying, like the [...]

Storage idea for washi tape

I was playing around with storage on the weekend and I decided to see if my washi tape would look good in a huge glass jar. Have a look and tell me that’s not one of the prettiest things you’ve ever seen. The only snag is that I have too many rolls – there were [...]

Some more on accountability

I’ve mentioned often enough that Beth and I are each other’s accountability partners. What that means is we chat once a week and set goals together, and hopefully when we chat again, those things have got done and we can set new goals. An interesting thing has happened over the last 12 to- 18 months: [...]

{Marcia on money} 4 – managing your expenses

I interviewed a very organised financial person a few weeks ago. We chatted about the time taken to do certain of her tasks and that the variance was due to balancing the books. If things didn’t balance it would obviously take hours and hours longer. I told her, “well, if my personal account doesn’t balance, [...]