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A place for tips and tricks learn from our "trek" through family life. Learn from our experience, research, trials, and failures.

Be Prepared - Backup your Wallet

by Joe October 9, 2008

typhoon_lagoon While spending the day with my family at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park a few years ago, my bag which contained my wallet was stolen. 

I learned a few lessons that day:  first, spend the few dollars on the locker, and second, Disney is THE PLACE to have your wallet stolen (I'll explain the later in another post).

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Organizing Your Photos - Simplicity Works

by joe September 24, 2008

photostack Those of you close to me, know that I have a camera and photo fetish. In fact, I'm now on like my 10th digital camera. This coupled with my "scan everything I have" project from a few years ago, has amassed into a image library of over 55,000 files.

Early in my digital photo days, I tried every conceivable way to organize the images. I tried folders for people, naming the photos, folders for events, and various software programs. Every method had one or more of following faults.

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Dirt Cheap Underdesk Cable Management

by Joe August 28, 2008

P7060350Do you need a cheap and really effective method of cable management?  Here is how I did it using simple vinyl rain gutters from the home improvement stores.

I have three Ikea desktops in my home office, under each I put little eyelets about 6" apart and every 2-2 1/2'.  I then hung the rain gutter, cut to desk length, using 6" mini bungee cords.

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