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It’s funny how in life, when things start to get crazy, it’s the littlest things that can go the longest way. When the poop is literally hitting the fan, or the inmates have taken over the asylum, I fall back on the things that I know to get me through it all. The things that I can do on autopilot, the things that require less than no effort to get me through the day.Things in my life that multi-task or really go the distance for me are the ones that I hold onto like a drowning man onto a life preserver.

I NEED them.

• Small things, like knowing that baking soda does double duty as both a cooking ingredient and super hero cleaning agent. Seriously, this stuff handles everything and so I just buy a year’s supply of it and then have it on hand for everything… from making my fabulous breads, to getting barf out of the carpet. (Omg ew.)
• Establishing a set of 5 really good recipes that you can make by heart and that your family loves will keep you from losing your mind when people ask what’s for dinner. I can whip mine up with relatively no effort and have dinner on the table, whether or not I started that morning with the slow cooker or 20 minutes before dinner. I can DO this and my family is going to love it. (Or not, but whatever, you’ll eat what’s served kids/husband.)
• Tide Pods and new Gain Flips. When the mountain of laundry gets to be too much, the smell of boy clothes too overwhelming and the stains of mystery on toddler apparel too immense, these little power packs do the trick. The Tide pods, with the built in brighteners and stain removers take out that annoying step of adding boosters, and the Gain with Febreeze takes out the smellies! I just drag the laundry down to the laundry room, dump everything in, throw in a pod and run away. Because I hate laundry. With a passion. And anything that can make laundry even a little bit easier?

The Most Awesome Thing Ever.

Now if they folded the laundry as well as making it smell amazing and look clean? That would be even better, but I’ll take what I can get. And what I can get is a-mazing and close by, since I just run to my new, fancy, local Target and grab a bunch.

At the end of the day though, when the laundry is folded (but not put away), the dinner has been cooked and eaten and the wild hooligans are in bed I realize the most important thing about the small things in life…

They can go a long

long

long way.

And they eventually stop being quite so little.

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What are YOUR favorite life hacks?

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This post is sponsored by P&G. Save on NEW Gain Flings and Tide Pods at Target. Text CLEAN to Target (827438) for mobile coupons*.

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