LIFE: Housekeeping: SPRING CLEANING

DECLUTTERING - THE 4 BOX METHOD
Label 4 boxes as follows:

1. TRASH
2. GIVE AWAY/SELL
3. STORAGE
4. PUT AWAY

Every item amongst your clutter will go into one of these boxes
Tips before you start:

• Be generous with your GIVE AWAY/SELL items. Think about the use someone else might get out of the item and be happy it will no longer be taking up valuable space
• STORAGE things you don't need on a regular basis
• PUT AWAY box - Remember the robot maid on The Jetson's? "A place for everything and everything in it's place." Great motto!

Get started:

1. Work room-by-room, sorting items in your 4 boxes. Work with one item at a time and don't set it back down without assigning it to a box.
2. Work on one room at a time, emptying your trash box every time you stop. Go ahead and put up storage. More importantly get the GIVE AWAY/SELL items out of sight before you second-guess your decision to get rid of them. The idea is to free up as much space as possible and this can be very liberating!
3. Continue until you've completed every room.

More tips:

• For items you can't seem to make a decision about, consider putting them away for a while. Once you realize how long you can go without using the item it should be much easier to part with it.
• Get rid of clothes that don't fit you. (Are you really ever going to be that size again? If you think "yes" then just decide to get rid of these clothes now and reward yourself with new clothes when you do reach that size.)
• Don't be a packrat. Don't focus on the idea that you might use these items "some day." Instead, focus on the image of your newly organized and clutter-free space.

MONEY: Business Review: THIRTY-ONE GIFTS

Product: Monogram Bags/Purses/Totes
Age: 9 years
Pay: 25% of sales
Commission: 2-23% (requirements must be met)
Cost to get started: $99
Extra costs: ?
What you get: over $315 worth of product, business supplies, training materials
Highest cost if you go all out: ?
New product comes out: 3-4 times per year

Pros: tax deductions, paid commission on personalization

Cons: don't get paid night of show, purchasing products for yourself is only 25% off, market saturation is rising (at one point the growth was so rapid they put a freeze on people being able to sign up and put them on a mailing list)


Do you know more about this company? Do you see any mistakes here? Please feel free to add to my info.

Website: http://www.thirtyonegifts.com/

FOOD: Layered Ice Cream Cake

Thank you, Duggar Family!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Makes a 9”x 13” Pan
24 Ice cream sandwiches
8 oz. Cool Whip™
1 Hershey’s™ chocolate syrup bottle
1 Smuckers™ caramel syrup bottle
2 king size Butterfinger™ candy bars chopped up

1st layer -12 ice cream sandwiches
2nd – half of whipped cream
3rd - half of Butterfinger™ bars, Squeeze 1/2 of caramel &
chocolate over that.
4th - rest of ice cream sandwiches
5th – Cool Whip™
6th - rest of Butterfinger™, caramel & chocolate
You can freeze this and eat as desired! Yummy! Yummy!

 

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BEAUTY: Shades to compliment your eye color

Blue eyes radiate with warm browns, bronze, copper and other shades with similar orange undertones.
Green eyes look great in purples, plums and taupes.
Hazel eyes stand out in shades of deep greens and lavenders and shades with soft yellow undertones.
Brown eyes look gorgeous in any color, especially purples, pinks, grays or blues.

You want to use the opposite color on the color wheel to give the most dramatic effect. For example, orange is opposite blue on the color wheel and that's why bronze and gold look best with blue eyes.

BEAUTY: Nail Color Trends for Spring

According to Harper's Bazaar, trendy nails for Spring 2012 include creamy neutrals and pale colors. But if that bores you, you can get excited about Sequined Tips, Chrome Hologram, and Geometric checkered designs!

Get creative with rose pink, deep burgundy, cherry red, orange-coral, and chartreuse. Don't forget the fifties-style reds! Have fun with reflective pearly finishes, jockey stripes, and half-moons.

MONEY: Business Review: MARY KAY

Product: Cosmetics
Age: 49 (founded 1963)
Pay: 50% of sales
Commission: 4-13% based on recruits inventory orders
Cost to get started: $100
Extra costs: Product Inventory packages running from $600 - $3,000+, cost of samples
What you get: Business supplies, Product to resell (if you buy inventory)
Highest cost if you go all out: about $4,300
New product comes out: 4-7 times per year

Pros: keep 50% of sales, get paid the night of your party, consumable product (customers will reorder same products over and over as used up), high quality product, customer can exchange product for any reason, tax deductions, as much training as you want/need, no yearly renewal fee (stay active by purchasing $200 worth of product every 3 months)

Cons: must create your own hostess plan and the cost of free product given comes from your profit, highly saturated market, must carry inventory to stay competitve, product refunds come from your own profit, cannot use and resell product - product must be sold new, "demo" product cost comes from your own profit, no compensation for training downline

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Website: http://www.marykay.com/default.aspx?tab=home

MONEY: Business Review: PREMIER DESIGNS JEWELRY

Most of us know there are dozens of choices when it comes to home-based businesses. This is for you stay-at-home moms out there, and the "wanna be's" of the same category. I'm beginning with Premier Designs because it is the one I am most familiar with.

Product: High Fashion Jewelry
Age: 27 years (founded 1985)
Pay: 50% of sales
Commission: 10% of downline's sales, 3 levels deep
Cost to get started: $395
Extra costs: choice of jewelry sample packages (optional) big package $700, small package $450
What you get: Business supplies, handbook with training material, sample jewelry to wear and show (big package $2,000 worth of jewelry, small package $1,200 worth of jewelry)
Highest cost if you go all out: about $1200
New product comes out: 2-3 times per year

Pros: keep 50% of sales, generous hostess plan to keep you in business, get to wear your product and then resell it, lots of ways to earn free jewelry for yourself or your display table, get paid the night you work (home parties), tax deductions, average jewelry consultant pays off investment in first 6 shows of business, as much training as you want/need, not a highly saturated market, get paid $200 for training your downline (training show), product backed by Golden Guarantee

Cons: yearly renewal fee of $350, not a consumable product (meaning customers won't reorder the same exact product over and over like with cosmetics, etc)

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Website: http://www.premierdesigns.com/