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What causes hoarding?

cluttered room, hoarding, hoarding problems, collecting stuff

CF / January 14th, 2013 / 21 Comments

While on Christmas vacation, I indulged in some of my more less-productive pursuits, including… watching TV. *gasp – shock – awe* One of the things I watched was A&E’s television show, Hoarders. Basically, the show is a stylized documentary series which depicts the stories of real-life hoarders. From what I understand, each episode features two different families and...

Posted in: Home, Minimalism and Frugality Tagged with: hoarding clean up, hoarding help, hoarding symptoms, ocd help, OCD symptoms, psychology of hoarding, treatment for hoarding, what causes hoarding

My favourite Christmas memories

Christmas memories, turkey, turkey for Christmas, holidays, holidays with the family

CF / December 3rd, 2012 / 17 Comments

Thanks to Sicorra @Tackling Our Debt for organizing today’s blogging party post! You can check out the entries from all the participants back at Tackling Our Debt. As a child of immigrant parents, we did not celebrate Christmas as part of our ethnic culture. However, my parents were always proud to say that we were Canadian first and everything else second. They jumped wholeheartedly into...

Posted in: Family, Home Tagged with: childhood memories, Christmas memories, easy turkey recipe, get a golden brown turkey, Tackling our debt, turkey recipe

Selling items effectively on Craigslist

Selling items effectively, selling, craigslist, seller

CF / November 26th, 2012 / 33 Comments

Brian and I got rid of a lot of items prior to our move to the new condo. One of the reasons was practical – we simply didn’t have the room in the new place to keep everything! A lesser but equally important reason – we wanted to pare down on the number of items that we had. But what to do with all our crap? There was furniture, books, clothes… even a electric blue...

Posted in: Home Tagged with: craigslist, craigslist app, find stuff on craigslist, how to sell better on craigslist, making more money, selling things on craigslist

Contest: ID this plant!

CF / August 24th, 2012 / 16 Comments

This contest is now closed – thanks for entering! Congratulations to Ying for correctly guessing “Collard Greens” via Twitter! Here’s another Friday quickie for you guys: Help us ID this plant! We have a community garden plot which occasionally gets seedling donations. We received this mysterious plant recently in an unlabelled pot! I have a pretty good idea of what it is,...

Posted in: Home Tagged with: community garden, contest, gardening, winter plant identification