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Love to Love it #93 October 16, 2009

Filed under: Beauty, Cleaning, Clothing, Home, Office Supplies, Organizing, shopping — gretchenannlee @ 6:49 am
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I love to love Real Simple Magazine!  What  a treat when it comes in the mail!  It never dissapoints!  It’s always full of great tips, easy recipes, fun gift ideas, and affordable fashion trends.  My favorite articles are always about organizing!  I just got my November issue and it’s huge!  Can’t wait to dive in!

 

Love to Love it #71 January 3, 2009

Filed under: Home, Office Supplies, Organizing — gretchenannlee @ 8:30 pm
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I love to love my Elfa Mesh File Cart!  I bought this a few years ago, and I love it!  It literally contains my entire mobil home office.  Working entirely from home in a one bedroom apartment, I need to be organized-so I don’t loose my mind!  This guy is the ticket.  I have a small desk that this slides right underneath.  It holds everything I need for my businesses and it’s on wheels in case I feel like working from the couch.  Plus Elfa products are very durable.  I couldn’t live without this thing.  I bought mine at the container store (right now, it’s on sale).

 

Love to Love #64 November 13, 2008

Filed under: Cleaning, Organizing, Travel — gretchenannlee @ 11:09 am
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In honor of my husband who requested more “dude” love to love its, I love to love Armor All Protectant Wipes.  I have a confession to make.  Even thought I am a professional organizer, and a clean FREAK….my car is embarrassing.  You know how some people have a drawer or a closet in their house that’s totally disorganized/cluttered, well…..I think that’s my entire car.  My husband isn’t into cleaning the house, but an afternoon cleaning the car is PURE BLISS to him.  He keeps our cars looking like new, and is so embarrassed at how my car looks most of the time.  What can I say, a girl has to let loose somewhere!  :)

Anyway, he uses these Armor All products that make our car look great!  My favorite are the wipes for the dash, they shine everything right up.  Jason really loves to love them more than me, and I love him for that.

 

Love to Love it #56 September 19, 2008

Filed under: Electronics, Organizing, Travel — gretchenannlee @ 8:41 am
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I know I’ve already loved to love my Mac (which you can read here), but I thought this was worthy of a separate post.  I really love to love IPhoto Books.  I don’t make them as much as I should, because it’s so easy and really fun.  By using the photos in IPhoto on my Mac, I can create and entire photo book, complete with captions, and a a hard cover. The photos that are printed look amazing, and (like everything Mac) the entire book is TOP quality!  The first time I mede of of these is when I got back from my trip to Haiti this past May.   The book is beautiful!  Most people look at it and can’t believe I made it.  That’s the glory of a Mac, if I can do it, truly, anyone can.  I think this is an awesome spin on scrap-booking for us non-crafty types :) .  Happy IBooking!

 

Love to Love it #45 August 15, 2008

Filed under: Luggage, Organizing, Travel, shopping — gretchenannlee @ 3:54 pm
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In the spirit of travel week……I love to love my Travelpro Luggage!  I have owned alot of luggage in my life.  This by far is the very best luggage I have ever owned!  Jason’s dad got me hooked on this line.  He used to travel all the time, domestic and international trips.  His luggage had alot of miles on it, but always looked great.  During one of his trips, his luggage got damaged.  He mailed it back to the company and it was either fixed or completely replaced free of charge.  I was like what kind of luggage company does that?  Well, Travelpro does.  The warranty is just one of the reasons that I love this luggage.  I also love all of the compartments that our suitcases have and how much the design makes sense.  You can put clothes on hangers right into our suitcases, they have a whole way for clothing on hangers to fold in without the clothes getting wrinkled.  Also, the suitcases are so sturdy.  They roll perfectly every time.  We never have problems with the adjustable handle, and the zippers never fail.  Overall, I would highly recommend this luggage.  It is a little expensive, but if you travel alot, I think well worth the investment.

 

Love to Love it #37 August 2, 2008

Filed under: Office Supplies, Organizing — gretchenannlee @ 1:16 pm
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I can’t believe this waited until #37…..because, I LOVE TO LOVE my Franklin Planner ALOT!  My little black binder holds my life….my schedule, my phone numbers and addresses, my to-do lists, important notes, it’s all in there.  I was first introduced to this revolutionary idea by my father-in-law before I headed off to college.  I have been using the same binder since I was 18 and it still looks like new!  I know many of you have upgraded to an electronic day keeper, but not me!  I love the paper and pencil method.  Something about writing something down helps me to remember. Each year, I go pick out new refills to put in my cute black leather binder.  They have lots of themes to pick from and different layouts to choose from.  It is one of my most favorite things to do every November.  I look forward to the day that I hand transfer all of the important dates from one year to the next.  I love looking back at last year and remembering major milestones, birthday, anniversaries.  And I love looking forward to all the great events coming up next year. Nothing beats a Franklin Planner, no ICal, no Palm Pilot, no IPhone, nothing; well, for me at least. :)

 

Love to Love it #28 June 20, 2008

Filed under: Food, Organizing, shopping — gretchenannlee @ 9:02 pm
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I love to love Green Bags!  These cool grocery bags are all over the place now.  Lots of companies are making versions of reusable grocery bags, I happen to own the ones made above from greenbag.info.  Here in Kokomo, I bought them for about a buck each at Marsh.  I use them all the time, for groceries and for carrying things to meetings, transporting library books, ect.  They are very durable and help to make a difference for our environment.  Plastic bags are terrible for our planet.  They take hundreds, that’s right hundreds of years to decompose, they contribute to filling up our land fills, and the factories that produce them emit toxic gases through burning.  They also harm animals; 100,000 mammals and turtles are killed by plastic debris each year.  But you can make a change.  Buy these bags for as very small investment.  Take them in when you shop.  Say no thank you to plastic.  It’s a small step, but think if we all did it?

For more info on plastic bags, click here.

 

Love to Love it #4 April 3, 2008

Filed under: Office Supplies, Organizing — gretchenannlee @ 9:06 am
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label-maker.jpgI really love to love my Dymo label maker!  This little guy is awesome!  I use it to label all of my files and storage boxes.  Being a professional organizer, I know this seems like an obvious love to love it item, but for anyone looking for a fun Saturday afternoon-this is your ticket.  Nothing brings me joy like when this little guy shoots out a perfectly printed label ready to give organization to any project!  Happy labeling!