[Home-on-the-range] home management tips

[Dianne Hemphill]

Hi everyone - just listened to July 10th Matilda Z. (New Line) where a woman is requesting tips on how to manage  by herself while her sighted husband  is in a medical  rehab facility...she  is looking for ideas - would some of you like to pull some useful ideas together to provide some practical tips that she can use almost immediately? I am thinking she does not have any of the tech items that might relay info or even, perhaps ideas on how to easily identify items in her cupboards, pantry , refrigerator, freezer, etc. Not sure of her many challenges as she leaves this wide open. Perhaps, we could give her our top 10 or more ideas that allow us to do our everyday home management  tasks. I'll start:
1. Try to keep everything organized and in  its special place. This means you must put things back as soon as you have finished using them. If you tend to leave things out around the house and then can't find them, your life can be an endless frustration. 
An idea for always finding your purse, for example, hang it on your bedroom door knob: place a rubber band around items that feel the same, such as your shampoo and conditioner so you can tell one from the other by simply remembering that the rubber band is always on the conditioner: , for example, and: keep your cupboards tidy and periodically, take out items that you don't use frequently - clutter is not our friend.  Dianne