Articles by Lynn

About Lynn

Lynn is the managing editor / owner of Home Management Tips. A combination of web skills and household management skills allow her to share her knowledge with others.

5 Ways to Use Disorder and Disorganization to Keep Your Home Running Smoothly

Organizing and decluttering isn’t all there is to a well-run home. Accept a little disorder into your life and see what it can do for you.

6 Quick Kitchen Organizing Tips

Organizing your kitchen doesn’t have to be hard or time consuming. Follow these 6 quick tips and you’ll breeze through it.

Manage your sanity (and your children’s time) during summer break by teaching them something useful

Bored children get into trouble more often than busy children do, so save your sanity by keeping them busy learning this summer.

Getting Started with a Budget

A collection of links to help you get started with a budget. Articles answer the questions: Why do you need a budget? How do you use a budget?

Budgeting for gifts

Don’t forget to budget for gifts. Included is my spreadsheet for maintaining your gifts budget.

Resolve to be healthy this year

New Year’s Resolutions are here. I plan to be healthier in 2009. What about you?

Win an Epson Printer in the Happy Epsonovemberama kirtsy Contest

A kirtsy contest gives you a chance to win a new printer for all your holiday crafting!

How to use a calendar to keep your household organized

Your household calendar can be your one-stop-shop for all your household tasks and events.

Want to organize your home? Make space

It’s nearly impossible not to be organized, if you have the space!

Keeping your household’s financial records can be as easy as writing a check

Personal finance software makes budgeting, planning, and spending as easy as writing a few checks.

Don’t Forget to Manage Your Household Finances!

Quicken Deluxe 2012 is an easy to use, reliable software solution for managing your household finances. If you're ready to save time and money by taking better care of your home finance issues, you might want to try Quicken.

Quicken is from Intuit, the company behind Mint.com. If you prefer an online only solution to managing money and don't need the detail that desktop money management software can give you, you should try Mint. I recently revisited Mint because of the useful Mint Android app. It's the easy way to keep up with your account balances on the go. I do still use the discontinued Microsoft Money but am in the process of switching to YNAB (for budgeting), which I'll write about soon.

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