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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.
Like the last 29 years, our neighborhood will be teeming with scarecrows, goblins, ghosts and fairy princesses on October 31. But this year there will be no pumpkin to carve, no friends and family over to share dinner and door answering duties, and no children climb ... Read more...
To bring more people to my new website, I've been looking for a "search engine optimization" (SEO) consultant. The site, Habitudes.info, offers home management software - a collection of household checklists and ... Read more...
I'm a type A. So much so that last week, when it was time to spend a week at our country house in the Napa Valley, I didn't want to go. I wasn't finished updating the links page on my family organizing website. But off we went.
I couldn't wait to unpa ... Read more...
Years ago, at twenty-something, I was a writer at a major ad agency. I was excited to be assigned to their biggest account. When introduced to the client as the newest member of his creative team, he grabbed me, planted an alcohol infused kiss on my cheek, and ... Read more...
In early spring we hired a contractor to update a small room and bath on the first floor of our home. The job was to start on May 1 and be done in a month and a half, when my son would finish business school and move home for a few weeks before being deployed to Ira ... Read more...
You already hold down a job and run a household. It's hard to find time or energy to do art, yoga, read a novel or do anything "just for fun." But you enable your family's activities. You deserve yours, too.
I love to sing. Besides lullabies, I didn ... Read more...
You'd think I could handle organizing my own closet. I'm notoriously organized. (I founded Habitudes.info, a family organizing website.)
But there was stuff in my closet that hadn't been worn since Reagan was in the Oval Office. Just the tho ... Read more...
Every summer, my husband takes off with the "guys," while I have a couple of friends up to our summer place for a long weekend with the "girls." Last Friday, minutes before my friends arrived, I checked my email.
This one was from Alice: & ... Read more...
My first two were boys. I was SO happy there wasn't a draft anymore, and I was determined not to let them play with toy guns. No matter how imaginary, I considered that to be a form of violence.
But boys will be boys. Before long they were using their fingers ... Read more...
