Microwave Cooking for One by Marie T Smith

Simplify Your Life

One of the premises of Microwave Cooking for One is that it helps to make your life easier. Cooking healthy, appetizing meals fast is only one aspect of a simplified lifestyle. In our busy society of work, deadlines, and meetings, it is often difficult to balance our lives. There always seems to be so much to do, and not enough time to do it. In an effort to help you find answers to the problem of getting it all done, we offer some sites, books and magazines. We've also included sites offering financial tips as well.

Featured Site!

Get Organized Now — Self-help author Maria Gracia offers articles, tips, inspiration and a book to help people organize their home, their office and take control of their life. Sign up for a free newsletter.

Sites for Simplifying Your Life

All Things Frugal — Lot of great tips for making and saving money at home, as well as conservative homemaking advice.

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Caravan Fashions — Corporate Suiting for One or One Hundred. Learn how to combine a few basic core wardrobe pieces into dozens of different outfits.

Clutterbug — Has the clutterbug got you? Peace of mind is only a click away. Links, tools, professional organizers directory, subscribe to the clutterbug news.

Contests & Sweepstakes — Tom Stamatson wants to help you win! Sweepstaking has been part of his life for fifteen years. About two years ago he began entering online, and has had a much greater percentage of wins than with snail-mail-sweeps. Tom guides you through the maze of online sweepstakes, contests, games, and lotteries.

Couponing & Refunding — Don't know a POP from a CRT? Then get in here and learn the language of refunding from A to Z. Lots of great links and resources for saving money.

Credit/Debt Management — Mike Killian explores the full spectrum of credit: where to find it; how to use it wisely; how to eliminate it; how to live without it; and even how to improve your credit rating. He examines other pieces of the credit puzzle here, as well. Lowering costs on budgeted items to reduce the amount of credit needed is beneficial to some. Knowing how to eliminate all debt in the shortest possible time with the money you already earn helps others.

Freebies — Lee Seats has been hooked on Internet freebies and contests since the first day he started surfing the Net. As an avid freeloader, he shares his excitement and rare finds with you as he explores the world of free stuff on the Internet.

Frugal Living — Twenty years ago, Pat Veretto and her daughter lived at times on less than $100 a month, and learned how to live frugally by necessity. She now live in rural Colorado, where frugal living allows her to do more than most people at her income level. She shows you how you can live better for less. Buying and gathering food, transportation, home decorating, and clothing, entertaining, education...the list is endless.

Memory Foam — Originally developed for NASA in the 1970s, memory foam has since become a very popular consumer product. It has also become an icon in the mattress industry. This site will help you make an informed choice about the right foam product for you, and find the best price.

OrganizedHome.com — Ezine includes a chore checklist, home improvements, and related book reviews. Check out the message boards, back issues, and editor's notes.

Simplify Life — Coach Linda Manassee Buell helps you live a simpler, more satisfying and fulfilling life. Check out the back issues of the newsletter! There is some great information here. You'll want to subscribe to future issues!

Stacks & Stacks — Thousands of items to simplify your life! The good news is that Americans are living longer and healthier lives. The bad news is that we are accumulating more "stuff" and have less time to enjoy it. Many of us are stressed out and finding little time to accomplish everything we want and need to do. Being organized with things in place when and where you need them can greatly reduce search time and simply, simplify life. They offer stylish yet practical products and sometimes hard to find useful items.

3FatChicks.com — Suzanne, Jennifer, and Amy are sisters that share a common weight problem that has affected the quality of their lives. Private attempts to lose the weight have been unsuccessful. No longer a private battle, they are taking their war public with this website. No diet schemes here, just the plain truth and lots of help for those struggling with weight loss issues.

Tipz Time has 1180 household tips and holiday (including Christmas) craft ideas for your home. Tips for home improvement, gardening, babies, kids, pets, bugs, indoors, outdoors, food, love, chat, teaching, time saving, frugal money saving, and more. If you can't find a tip you are looking for, you must check out the "Tip Board!"

Tupperware — You're invited to a Tupperware party — right here, right now! Just you in the comfort of your own home in front of your computer. How cool is that? Now you can shop online for those great Tupperware products that last a lifetime — in your pajamas if you want!

Suggested Reading

Be Nice! Discovering the Pearls in Life's Little Lessons by Saga Stevin — In the treasure hunt of life, it is essential to search for and embrace the pearls given to us through life's lessons that enrich and enlighten our lives and those individuals whom we love, appreciate and come into contact with throughout our lifetime. Life presents us with a variety of challenges that we must learn how to deal with effectively, or risk suffering the consequences which ultimately lead us to be unhappy, unfulfilled and just plain difficult to be around. In Be Nice! Discovering the Pearls In Life's Little Lessons, inspiring author Saga Stevin brings us wisdom for day-to-day living that deals with ten valuable, yet simple life principles: be fair, be nice, be responsible, be forgiving, be giving, be helpful, be honest, be patient, be polite and be thankful.

Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter by Elaine St. James — The more complex life becomes, the more people crave simplicity. Whether it's in your work, relationships, health, finances, or leisure time, simplicity expert Elaine St. James can help you learn to unwind and improve the quality of your life. If you're overpowered, overextended, and overwhelmed by the go-go lifestyle of the past decade, Simplify Your Life is your antidote, providing one hundred proven, practical steps for creating a simple and satisfying way of life.

The Spirit of Getting Organized: 12 Skills to Find Meaning and Power in Your Stuff by Pamela Kristan — The papers on our desk are connected to the universe, and in fact are the universe in part. When we work with them we are working with the cosmos. On one level, The Spirit of Getting Organized is about sorting papers and using file folders. But, there's more to life than a neat office. After years in the field of professional organizing, Pamela Kristan realized that organizing was a doorway, an opportunity to find personal power and meaning. Organizing is an intimate encounter with life's everyday details that has the power to engage us profoundly — with our soul, with our world, and with the farthest reaching, grandest patterns of Nature. Rather than pulling us away from spiritual work with mundane chores, organizing can draw us into the cosmos. The heart of The Spirit of Getting Organized offers twelve skills that will help you take care of the external clutter in your life including sorting, shredding, observing, and storing. To build these seemingly simple skills, Kristan has developed exercises and reflective tools that reveal hidden feelings and attachments and allow us to get organized and get on with our real purpose in life. Including pages for recording observations and exercise results, as well as a vast section of resources for developing order both internally and externally, The Spirit of Getting Organized can transform a dreadful chore like cleaning out your closet into an opportunity for an intimate encounter with your true self.

Microwave Egg Boiler — Hard or Soft boiled eggs in minutes from your microwave!