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"I hang out at www.organizedhome.com
and www.organizedchristmas.com.
Both of these sites belong to the same lady. I
figure between the two I have it all covered.
Another great place to hang is www.apartmenttherapy.com.
The site contains lots ideas for the small space,
which I have, and it's fun to see the latest 'must
have' in the design world. Of course I spend way to
much time surfing and not enough organizing, but
that's OK too." ~ J.L.R.
"I
subscribe to the Freecycle list for my area, and
also flylady.com.
"I love to hang out at the forums on www.crosswalk.com
and www.prairiehomemaker.com.
I enjoy both of these so much. Crosswalk is much
larger but I've found a space I like to hang out.
PH is much smaller, but still big enough to really
enjoy.
I also like the help I get from the forum at www.frugalvillage.com. I've learned many great things from them. From someone there I found www.hillbillyhousewife.com which led me to PH. Miss Maggie (the hillbilly housewife) has great recipes and tips. I found them very useful because living overseas makes it difficult to get things I'm used to finding cheap in the States. If I find them, they tend to be much more expensive. But 'real' food is much easier to find and generally cheaper, which is healthier anyway." ~ Anonymous
"My
favorite web site that I got from our newspaper
is www.stumbleon.com
. You can set the peramiters so that you
only get pages that you want. Each time
you click it brings up a 'surprise' page because
you never know what you'll get. Everything from
cooking, education, crafts, Christian news,
childrearing, gardening. It can be
addictive!" ~ Sassy in Gainesville, GA
"The websites I visit each morning start with www.thehungersite.com. You can click to help provide food. The acknowledgement page then lists other sites that I go to: www.thechildhealthsite.com, www.therainforestsite.com, www.thebreastcancersite.com. Other than prayer, I don't know of a better way to start your day than with helping others and this is a very simple way to do it." ~ Chris
"One of
the best sites that I have discovered
is Parent Hacks: daily parenting tips from
the real experts--actual parents ( found
at http://www.parenthacks.com/
). According to the description on the
site, 'Parent Hacks is a collaborative
weblog that collects parents' tips,
recommendations, workarounds, and bits of
wisdom – their hacks – in a
single pot so we can all partake. Here's the
stuff that would have been left out of the
instruction manual...if there were one.
We're not experts in the pediatrician-,
psychologist-, or teacher- sense. We're just
out there, raising our kids, finding the
little tweaks that make this crazy adventure
go a little more smoothly.'
I originally found this site a little over a year ago when searching the web for ideas to keep my little ones busy during a 2-day car ride to visit my husband's family out east. The website didn't disappoint and I found not only enough things to keep the kids busy during the car ride, but I also found enough good things to keep me coming back for over a year! Now I am a (free) subscriber to the site, so I receive a daily e-mail digest that will show me all of the new hacks that have been posted! In a flash, I can scan the e-mail to see if there are any new 'hacks' that catch my interest. If so, I can click an embedded link to read more. If not, I can simply hit delete (although it rarely happens that I don't find anything worth checking into). Alternatively, if I am looking for something specific (such as potty training or vacation tips) I can go to the website and go through the list of categories or do a quick search to find hacks. Recently, Parent Hacks was nominated for 'Best Parenting Blog' at Blogger's Choice Awards -- a well deserved nomination! Check it out!" ~ Mary
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suggested by Brenda "One of my favorite online hangouts is Paperback Swap (PBS): http://www.paperbackswap.com/
PBS was
created to facilitate the exchange of
used paperback books (through postal
mail) among members. It
certainly does that, but it is also an
uncommonly kind community of different
types of people. Joining is free,
and once you are in you can decide the
depth of participation you desire --
from simply exchanging books to making
new online friends to engaging in
thoughtful discussions in the forums.
Another
place I like is Swap-bot: http://www.swap-bot.com/
Joining
is free here, too, and the 'action'
takes place through the postal mail.
Members can organize swaps of many
different things -- from used magazines
to hand knit socks to artwork to
postcards -- and other members sign up
to participate. Once the sign up
deadline has been reached for a
particular swap, each person involved is
assigned one or more people to mail
items to. This site (and others
similar to it) prove that 'snail mail'
is far from dead; the Internet makes it
easier than ever to organize postal mail
exchanges with like-minded individuals."
~ Robin in Chicagoland
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