Looking for a shidduch can be overwhelming. Before you are drowning in scribbled pieces of paper, set up a process to keep all that information at your fingertips. Whether you’re ready to listen or not, whether your child is ready to start dating or not, you might just end up with a shidduch resume or…
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Learn How To Get That Perfect Picture + More Photo Skills
Devorie Zutler, pro-photographer turned photography teacher has the perfect course for you. Plus, check out her brand-new, stunning Birchas Habayis, featuring the doors of Eretz Yisroel. Whether you only know how to use your iPhone camera, or you have a new camera and can’t do anything besides turn it on, or you already love photography…
I Booked Get Handi to Install These Closets. Here’s How It Went.
Get Handi was professional, neat, efficient, and had all the supplies needed to install my closets. Ninety minutes later, I was so, so happy. When we first introduced the Get Handi service to you back in this post, we hadn’t yet used it ourselves. If we were going to continue to advertise, we had to…
How to Handle a Disagreement with Your Husband
There’s a bit of strategy involved when hearing what he wants and expressing your own desires. How does decision-making happen in your family? Does it start with a fight? With you explaining why things should be your way? Do you find yourself “being mevater” to preserve the peace? When do you keep quiet? When do…
A Welcoming, Neat Home In Minutes? Yes, It Can Be Done
Someone coming over and you want to feel like you have it all together? Here is a plan for getting that house straightened up–pronto. Sometimes, we look at a room and wonder “Why does this room feel messy?” Or, we say “I gotta clean up a bit, but I only have a few minutes. What…
This Label Printer Will Take Your Freezer Stash to the Next Level
A little bit extra and a lot of fun, this label maker is the kitchen toy we’re having fun with these days! Last Pesach, my family spent some time together at a hotel over Chol Hamoed. Of course, that means schlepping along boxes and boxes of food. Matzah, cheese sticks, hard boiled eggs, cakes and…
How to Organize By Color
You can organize by type or category, or you can make your shelves pretty and pleasing by organizing by color. The method of organizing by color, particularly books, has been something we’ve seen before. Especially when you’re organizing items that are on display, it simply makes everything look more pleasing to the eye. This method…
How to Organize the Freezer in 3 Simple Steps
Is your freezer a completely random place? Get it in order once and for all. I hate to be the one who reminds everyone that summer won’t last forever. Soon we will all be back to the busy life of school and Yomim Tovim. Which means that the cooking and baking marathon will soon begin….
Nine Ways to Achieve a Productive and Refreshing Summer
How do we turn our “Vacation” into a real “Bein Hazemanim?” It’s that time of year that has children all over celebrating, and many adults too. Even if you aren’t a teacher, there is something exhilarating about summer vacation, whether it’s the ability to sleep a little bit later, fewer buses to catch, less homework…
11 Ways to Conquer (and Enjoy) Cleaning for Pesach
Let’s put the joy, meaning and fulfillment into our Pesach cleaning. We are all doing it anyway, and getting so much sechar in the process, we may as well make the most of it and turn the experience into a positive one all around. I have surprisingly fond memories of Pesach cleaning growing up. This…