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Twitter: @JackiePettus
Jackie Pettus is the founder of Habitudes.info, a web service offering household record keepers, charts and checklists that are stored "in the cloud." Notoriously organized, Jackie created Habitudes with know-how gained from 32 years worth of "household management" experience. Jackie is the mother of three and lives in San Francisco.
When my kids were little they used to bring home all kinds of "gifts" from school and summer camp. Fingerpaintings. Ceramics. Braided key rings made from plastic string. Indescribable Christmas ornaments. I dutifully put them all away in the kids' "memory boxes" thi ... Read more...
Three years ago, after being a SAHM for 25 years, I decided to pursue a life-long dream and start my own business. Being super-organized, and taking the "When you have lemons make lemonade" philosophy to heart, I hired a developer to create software versions of the ... Read more...
Some people have bad hair days. I have bad tech days. And they're getting worse. I won't even start on the problems with the content management system on my website. There's enough tech frustration in day to day life.
I have a new car. The clock is wrong and ... Read more...
I have an online business that helps families organize their households. I send a monthly newsletter with household management tips and links to informative household resources I find on the web. I go to great lengths to make the newsletter content timely and inform ... Read more...
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Last Christmas my husband gave me a set of plastic mixing bowls I had admired in the MOMA catalog. I didn't have room in the cabinets, so l decided to store them in the bottom oven, which is rarely used. At dinner time a couple of day ago I turned on the top oven to ... Read more...
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