Small tweaks that will have a big impact on your home and your life.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed Life
An Expanding File Folder
Label each section for a different room in your home. Every time you buy something new that comes with an owner's manual, file it accordingly. This is super helpful when you're in a period where you're buying a bunch of new electronics (like the first time you move into your own place, post-wedding registry, after you buy a house, etc.) Not only does it keep the manuals from clogging up your drawers, but it's really nice to know exactly where the vacuum cleaner's manual is when you need to change the filter. (Because otherwise that filter probably isn't going to get changed.) Buy one here or grab it the next time you're at Target/Wal-mart/etc.
A Working Printer
We all know That Friend Who Has To Stop By A Kinko's Before We Can Go To Benihana With This Birthday Voucher. And That Guy Who Has To Use The Office Printer To Print Out The Tickets Because He Selected "Print At Home" Instead Of "Pick Up At Box Office" But Turns Out He Doesn't Actually Have A Home Printer. Small tasks like printing a resume or printing a W-9 to sign and send back to a client can become a huge ordeal if you don't have a good printer. So f your home printer is broken — like so many of ours are because Big Printer is out to get us all — get rid of it and buy one that works.
Things Hung upon the Walls
I recently noticed that after having parties or having people over, I'd get the same unexpected compliment: people always noticed how we have stuff (photos, prints, etc.) hanging on our walls. I didn't realize this was a big deal — I've always considered hanging stuff up an extremely annoying but necessary step when I move into a new place — but I've since learned that people will let their framed items lean against their walls for a full year in a new apartment before they get around to hanging them up.
WHAT? You guys... Hang that stuff up! If you're stuck in the "ugh but I need to find frames" phase... Go get some frames! If you're not sure what to hang up... Pick something out! And then get some frames and hang that stuff up!
Rachel. W. Miller
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