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The Nest Newlywed Handbook
Carley Roney - 2006
A 24/7 virtual married-best-friend-who’s-been-there-before, the site and its thousands of just-married members dish out advice on everything from how to get your permanent roommate to pick up his or her dirty socks, to how to inspect a property when you’re buying your first home, to foolproof guidelines for entertaining the in-laws. Unlike single friends (who don’t have the experience to give tried and true advice) or Mom (who has lots of experience but tends to give too much advice), Nesties share their experiences with no strings attached—and free of the worries that come with real-world friendship. Now the editors of The Nest have brought together the very best of this hard-won knowledge, plus their own astute insights into the early years of marriage, to create a unique resource for navigating the sometimes bumpy road of marriage. Touching on everything from money to sex and starting a family, they go where no etiquette book or self-help manual has gone before, providing real-life solutions for the myriad problems even the happiest couple can encounter when two become one. The first in a series of books for any couple who wants every day of their new lives together to be as fulfilling and meaningful as the day they walked down the aisle, The Nest Newlywed Handbook goes beyond platitudes and pep talks to explore the many rich rewards of married life. An offshoot of the hugely popular wedding website The Knot, The Nest started out as an online community of girls grappling with the emotional issues—and enormous to-do lists—that come with the first years of marriage. The Nest has grown into a weekly webzine, a print magazine, and now a book series—all 100% committed to the phrase “happily ever after.” Visit us at thenest.com.Secrets every couple needs to know, from the website that put marriage on the mapWhether you’re about to tie the knot or are already well into your first years together, you are sure to have realized that this is not your parents’ marriage. Oh, how the rules—and roles—have changed. Who does the housework now that everyone works? If you want to keep your money separate—does it mean you’re not committed? Is it OK to order takeout when the in-laws come for dinner? The Nest Newlywed Handbook is your road map to modern married life, guiding you through the ins and outs of tackling life as a twosome.Get tips and tricks on:•Merging your money (or not)•Building the family fortune •Loving your in-laws•Buying your first home •Decorating as a duo•Divvying up the chores•Keeping the flame alive•Fighting nicely•Talking about kids•Maintaining your single friends •Hosting during the holidays•Figuring out the futureThis book is filled with advice, detailed to-dos, checklists, quizzes, and worksheets that are sure to spark conversations, fix problems, and get your new life together on track and off to a good start.
Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
Gretchen Rubin - 2019
In a new book packed with more than one hundred concrete ideas, she helps us create the order and organization that can make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. In the context of a happy life, a messy desk or crowded coat closet is a trivial problem–yet Gretchen Rubin has found that getting control of the stuff of life makes us feel more in control of our lives generally. By getting rid of things we don’t use, don’t need, or don’t love, as well as things that don’t work, don’t fit, or don’t suit, we free our mind (and our shelves) for what we truly value. In this trim book filled with insights, strategies, and sometimes surprising tips, Gretchen tackles the key challenges of creating outer order, by explaining how to “Make Choices,” “Create Order,” “Know Yourself–and Others,” “Cultivate Helpful Habits,” and, of course, “Add Beauty.” When we get our possessions under control, we feel both calmer and more energetic. With a sense of humor, and also a clear sense of what’s realistic for most people, Gretchen suggests dozens of manageable steps for creating a more serene, orderly environment–one that helps us to create the lives we yearn for.
How to Organize Your Life (At Home)
Higher Read - 2012
You can live in an architectural masterpiece, but if you can’t see the floor, it is hard to appreciate it. How to Organize Your Life (At Home) takes you room-by-room through your house and shows you how to organize and enjoy your home again.The first book in this series, How to Organize Your Life (Every Day), provided detailed steps for organizing your daily routine. This sequel helps you bring that kind of order to your home space. Both books are for people who want to live an organized life, but are not sure exactly where to start.How to Organize Your Life (At Home) also includes tips for people who live in small spaces, have limited time, or have roommates. So whether you own a mansion or rent a room, this book can help you take your home from chaos to order.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing) by Marie Kondo | Summary & Analysis
aBookaDay - 2015
Not Just on a Short Term Basis but for Life! Be Free of Clutter Forever, Once you Read this Book you will Know How! Are you are someone who is truly seeking to find a way that will work on getting your home in order? As well as getting other aspects of your life in order? Then, this book will offer you some great guidance on how to achieve these goals. Offering you not a quick fix, but a long-term solution to the clutter in your life. Starting with the basics—the clutter within your home environment. This is A Preview Of What You'll Learn…
how to tidy
how to aim for perfection
how to make tidying a special event, not a chore in your life
how to start discarding, all at once not a little bit at a time
how to visualize what your end result will be
how to reach the lifestyle that you want to have
Would You Like To Know More? Download your copy today! Available on PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. © 2015 All Rights Reserved
The Art of Thank You: Crafting Notes of Gratitude
Connie Leas - 2002
As an all-inclusive reference on thank you notes, this book, also, teachers readers how to eloquently and acceptably craft them. But unlike other thank you notebooks on the market, this book doesn't stop there. Readers will be inspired to hear how the soul benefits from the act of writing thank you notes and how it can actually become a spiritual practice. THE ART OF THANK YOU goes beyond simple gift acknowledgement to a thorough coverage of a variety of business and social situations. Readers will learn when and when not to send a card, what type of stationery to use in each situation, if it's ever appropriate to send an e-mail thank you and even how to get children to write thank you notes. With its appealing and approachable style, beautiful gift presentation, charming examples, and real life anecdotes, THE ART OF THANK YOU has the power to galvanise the readers resolve to start writing their all important thank you notes.
Clutter Busting Your Life: Clearing Physical and Emotional Clutter to Reconnect with Yourself and Others
Brooks Palmer - 2012
Although this distracting bulk never serves us, it can provide the illusion of insulation from our essential fragility, a quality that Brooks sees as essential to existence but also the root of many futile efforts to build power that would obscure it. Alas, these tricks never work, but the clarity of awareness can prevent the clutter-building part of us to learn to appreciate space not as void, but as a life-giving resource that renews us. Brooks illustrates these points through anecdotes, gentle discussions, and abstract jokes and cartoons, never forcing the reader to accept his thesis but prodding the subconscious with subtle suggestions that bring about deep change with the absence of blame. In Western society, we’ve accepted that more is always better, and our houses and garages, basements and storage lockers, are jammed with things we never use but feel we need to hang onto until some future event will prove their usefulness, or because they were valuable to someone we loved (or hated). Brooks Palmer’s advice: “cut the crap.” Cut the crap of pretending that we need these things and cut the crap of the way we talk about clutter, both emotional and physical. By clearing physical clutter and acknowledging the lack of inherent value in many of the possessions we cling to, we also learn to cut the crap around relationships and emotions and discover who and what really matters in our lives. For example, if someone hangs on to their great aunt’s bureau, a white elephant but a family heirloom, they may also be hanging on to repressed feelings about their own worth, hoping to demonstrate that they care about family, or tha
Fit Girl's Guide: The 28 Day Jumpstart
FGW Media, LTD - 2014
Many girls repeat the book multiple times, and even have their significant others join in! Once you have purchased you are eligible to join all future #28DayJumpstart Group Challenges.The 28 DAY JUMPSTART includes …FULL MEAL PLAN* Easy-to-make recipes* Tons of substitution options* Grocery lists for each week* Meal prep schedules* Flat tummy eating* Vegan, vegetarian & gluten-free friendlyFULL EXERCISE PLAN* Beginner-friendly* No gym required* No equipment required* Full body toning* Burn more calories throughout the dayWe look forward to meeting you soon!
Meditation: 30 Days of Meditation - Fun Techniques for Beginners (Relaxation)
Inbar Shahar - 2013
You will learn basic meditation techniques, chakra meditation, mantra meditation, and variety of other types. By the end of the month, you should feel relaxed, focused, and re-energized. After 30 days, meditation should be a habit for you. As you continue to meditate, you and your life will benefit. Soon, you may even crave meditation.
Notes to Each Other
Hugh Prather - 1990
Prather subtitled the book, "My struggle to become a person." It was the deeply felt record of his journey to a state of heightened self-knowledge and spiritual flowering. It became a perennial best-seller, and continues to enlighten, comfort, and amuse to this day.Notes to Each Other bravely explores the heart of a relationship that has lasted for 35 yearsthe relationship between Hugh and Gayle Prather. With remarkable candor, one couple traces the emotional route traveled to reach the coveted place where genuine communication, cooperation, and compassion dwell. First published 10 years ago, the book has here been updated and enlarged by the greater wisdom that comes with the experience of raising children and growing older together.Although drawn from two hearts, the book speaks with one voice, asking the questions all couples ask, from "Did I choose the right person?" to "How can you stand me?" Let it speak to you.
Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey: Learn Coupon Strategies to Save $1000s at the Grocery Store
Joanie Demer - 2012
This is not you grandma's coupon book! Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey teaches you step-by-step how to:o Find coupons and "stack" them with a sale for huge savings.o Build a stockpile of food at rock-bottom prices to last you and your family up to a year.o Make passers-by gape at your cart full of groceries you purchased for 75% off retail price.o Get your cashiers to gasp and applaud as you purchase everyday items for pennies on the dollar.o Gain the confidence to strut down the aisles, flaunt your coupons, and maybe even wear high heels to the grocery store!Authors Joanie Demer and Heather Wheeler, founders of TheKrazyCouponLady.com, share their expertise along with hundreds of tried and true coupon tips in a fun, user-friendly format that will have shoppers high-fiving the grocery store cashier in no time.