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How to Organize a Small Homeschool Room (Especially If You Rent)

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Duck Brand® for IZEA Worldwide. All opinions are 100% mine. Take a homeschool room tour and check out our homeschool room setup! It is full of homeschool organization for small spaces ideas! A few months ago we moved into a bigger place and left the world of apartments behind! We now rent ...

What to Do When Your Landlord Doesn’t Refund Your Deposit

A few months ago, I posted a special article for all you renting novices out there about how to get your security deposit back in full. So, what happens if you feel you’ve followed all those steps, and your Landlord still stiffs you? As long as you have performed your obligations and upheld your part of the lease contract, you have ...

7 Steps to Get Your Security Deposit Back in FULL

Want to know how to get security deposit back on your apartment? Then you'll love these tips on how to get a full refund of your rental security deposit! Whether or not you paid a small or large security deposit to rent the place you call ‘home’, nothing feels more like a sucker-punch to a renter than when your landlord keeps your deposit after ...

How to Wash Your Car in an Apartment Yourself Without a Hose!

This is a sponsored post by Armor All. All opinions are my own. Here's how to wash car in apartment without water! As a child, I loved washing my father's semi truck. It took a long time to clean, and I had to do right or I'd have to do it again, but when I was done I felt a sense of pride as my father paid me $20 for washing his truck for him. ...

The Downside of Buying in Bulk

I never shopped at a big club warehouse before I went to Utah for school and I shopped at a Costco for the first time. I thought it was both awesome - "Oooh! It's a better price per unit! And look at this jumbo package of toilet paper! We'll never run out!" - and crazy - "You have to spend money before you can spend money here?" I mean, what? You ...

The Ridiculously Easy Way to Fix Broken Mini Blinds

You need to know how to fix broken mini blinds if you have kids or a naughty pet that repeatedly love to break and damage them. It's actually way easier, and cheaper than I thought to do your own mini blind repair!We live in an apartment, like a bajillion other people, so every window comes pre-installed with white mini-blinds. The apartment ...

How to Recycle When You Live in an Apartment

When our twins were babies, WIC gave us a crazy amount of baby food in glass jars, and it felt wrong to chuck all that glass into the regular trash, especially when glass is 100% recyclable. But, we lived in an apartment without recycling bins, and I had no idea how to recycle in an apartment. But, my inner Green child was bound and determined to ...

23 Places to Stockpile in an Apartment

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Kleenex® & Cottonelle®. All opinions are 100% mine. When you live with a husband and four small children in an apartment, the last thing you think you can do is stockpile in an apartment. When closet space is limited, and garages, basements, pantries, and storage sheds are nonexistent, you ...

Small Apartment Organization Ideas

If you are like me, and live in a relatively small apartment, organization and storage are super important, especially when there are several people living in a small space. So, I've decided to put together a list of small apartment organization ideas and suggestions so that you can better manage the space that you are blessed to have. Small space ...

Small Space Living – Apartment Organization Ideas and Storage Solutions

Since I left home for college in 2006, I have been living in a dorm, apartment, or townhome. This small space living has often presented me with different configurations of closets and cabinets, and limited storage, especially as our family has grown. I often have had to find creative storage solutions, and be wise about different apartment ...

Use This Apartment Checklist to Save Yourself from Ending up in a Dive!

Looking for a new apartment? Use the following tips as an apartment checklist to make sure you get the right place, and the best place for you and your family. Looking for a new apartment can actually be a lot of fun sometimes, imagining you, your family, your stuff in a new environment, with new furnishings, rooms, storage, and amenities. But, ...

Why I invite people over to my small apartment anyway

Life as a family of five in a 1200 sq. foot apartment townhome can get kind of crowded. One of our three bedrooms is a split baby room and storage room. Really, it's a storage room with a crib, changing table, and glider. Everything else in there is storage because we lack a garage and shed. Our kids' bedrooms are less than 100 sq. feet each. With ...