Judy Blanco
I am a lifestyle blogger. My topics include homelife, organizing, self-care, time management, entertainment, beauty, and all the task and chores, including working from home. I discuss how to organized and manage your time to create an intentional lifestyle that promotes being Productive, not Busy so that we have time to enjoy who and what we love.
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The Top 20 Most-Wanted Holiday Gifts for 2020
Now is the time to make your holiday gift-giving plans. This collection of 20 of this year’s most popular and most-requested gifts includes something for everyone on your list. For the camping enthusiast: The Hot Seat heated portable chair features adjustable heat levels, three reclining positions, and more. For the home cook: The Always Pan is a cult favorite for 2020 that replaces eight traditional pieces of cookware in a beautiful, modern design. For the fitness enthusiast: The Sonic Handheld Percussion Massage Gun delivers powerful waves of customizable pressure to relax and relieve sore, tired muscles. For your best friend: This personalized, custom friendship mug features a sweet verse about…
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Celebrate Halloween 2020 with 5 Alternatives to Trick-or-Treating
The spookiest time of the year will look different during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many traditional Halloween activities are considered high-risk for spreading or being exposed to the virus. Public health institutes and local governments across the world have advised against attending indoor costume parties and door-to-door trick-or-treating. As a result, many people plan to celebrate the spooky holiday by watching a scary movie and carving pumpkins with their family or participating in a virtual costume contest. As many countries across the globe are issuing tighter restrictions to slow the second wave of coronavirus infections, this year real life seems more sinister than any horror movie. Fear of contagion and widespread…
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How To Create an Authentic Spa Experience at Home
These days, it can feel like there’s no time to slow down, but a little self-care goes a long way to boost your overall well-being. Even with limited time or a tight budget, it’s easy to create a spa-like experience at home. Set the Scene A spa day is as much for the health of your mind and spirit as it is for your body and skin. It’s nearly impossible to clear and recharge your mind when you’re surrounded by clutter. For the best experience, take the time to clean and de-clutter your bathroom. You’ll feel great about yourself before your spa day even starts! If that’s not an option…
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How to do Laundry
Laundry for most homes is the biggest never-ending chore. Just as you finish the load of whites, some family member comes in with a white t-shirt that was left behind at the bottom of a backpack, the trunk of the car, the back of a closet, or who knows where. So even before you’re finished putting away the clean laundry, the cycle beggings again. Here are some tips for organizing the laundry and how I fit the laundry into my cleaning schedule so that it doesn’t become a complete day of mountains of clothes and household items to wash, dry, fold, and put away. In my opinion, clean laundry that is left on a…
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How to Declutter Your Wallet
It is incredible how much we can accumulate in our wallets and our purses in one week. Five items play a part in and are the significant contributors to the clutter in our wallets, Credit card and debit cards, business cards, notes, and appointment cards, and the two worst offenders, Purchase receipts and loyalty cards. Eliminating and organizing these five items each week will help keep your wallet light and slim; it will also help you be more organized. Five Items to Declutter from Your Wallet Credit cards and debit cards Business cards Purchase receipts and atm bank receipts Loyalty cards Notes and appointment cards Steps to Clear the Clutter…
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How to organize your Skincare Samples.
Are your drawers, cabinets, and makeup bags full of skincare samples? Do you find them at the bottom of your purse or bag? Or maybe you have them in shoeboxes? If you are overwhelmed with large amounts of skincare samples, keep reading. I am sharing my method of organizing sample size products. Do you love to get skincare samples? I’ll be honest. I love them; it is a fantastic way to try a new product or discover if a product is to your liking before you invest your money on it. Haven’t you bought a product and tried it only to figure out that you just don’t like it, or…
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Classic Mojito
A classic cocktail from Cuba (pronounce mow-hee-tow), whose history dates back to the 1500s when Sir Francis Drake landed in Havana Cuba, to sack the city of its gold. The story goes that Sir Drake’s crew were suffering from dysentery and scurvy. The Local South American Indians were known to have remedies for many diseases, so a small party went ashore and came back with ingredients for a medicine. They used aguardiente de caña (rum), mint leaves (yerba Buena), the juices from sugar cane (Guarapo), and limes to put together a tonic, which turned out to be effective. A cocktail named “El Draque” using similar ingredients was known to be…
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How to Plan and Organize Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It’s a day for the family to enjoy time together cooking a great meal, watching the parade, watching football, or just sharing time. But hosting the dinner can get a bit overwhelming regardless if it is a small or a large number of guests that you will be hosting, and it can be especially overwhelming if it is your first time hosting Thanksgiving dinner. I am aware of this fact since I have been hosting Thanksgiving since the first year I got married (1994) and for a few of those years I had 20 plus guests for dinner and half of those guests even…
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10 Items to Declutter in your Bathroom
When was the last time you decluttered and organized your bathroom? How often do you declutter your bathroom? I just finished my September declutter, and I was amazed at how much I ended up getting rid of, Although it should not be surprising since the bathroom is one of the rooms in the house that receives new products on a weekly bases. Don’t you buy something that is stored or that is used in the bathroom every week when you are doing your groceries? I find it best to declutter and reorganize my bathroom twice a year. In March just before Spring, this allows me to take stock at what…
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9 Step Evening Skincare Routine
Have you figured out in what order to use all the lotions, serums, oils, and potions you buy for your skin and when is the best time for your skincare routine? The fact is you need a morning and an evening skincare routine. In the morning you need a routine that will prepare and protect your skin for the day. In the evening you need a routine that will clear your skin of all that it has been exposed to during the day. The routine does not have to be complicated, elaborate, or time-consuming. With skincare, you just need to be consistent in order to see the result. Begin with…
