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Spring cleaning is a time not only to straighten up your home, but also to get rid of unwanted or out-of-date items. It’s easy enough to clean up your home simply by rearranging things, sorting things into drawers and cupboards, and maybe buying a few new decorations or pieces of furniture.

However, to achieve a more lasting effect with your straightening up, it is a good idea to really sort through your possessions and pick out a few things to get rid of. You may be surprised at how many items you find that you can throw out, or even recycle. For example, one sort of item that many people forget about, that can be very useful when recycled, is old mobile phones. O2 has been emphasising recycling benefits recently, and it is actually surprising how much the environment can benefit from careful disposal of old electronics.

It’s Monday – and for many of us, the sound of that angry alarm clock means the start of a hectic week, trying to cram in a days work in a few hours, while juggling childcare, school clubs, meetings, and actually getting some real work done!

If you would like to take some of the stress and anxiety out of your busy day, and learn how to really manage your time so you can achieve more, and still keep on top of what the rest of your family is doing, this video tutorial is for you! This tutorial is perfect fir business mums and mumpreneurs…so if that’s you, grab a cuppa, notebook and pen and get ready for change!

Every mum who had commuted on public transport during pregnancy will have experienced the frustration and confusion at being left to stand while pregnant because people either:

1. Don’t realise they are pregnant
2. Don’t offer their seats because they are not 100% sure it’s a baby bump and don’t want to cause offence

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Running a successful home business, or an online business would be a dream come true for many mums. But without getting the basics right,MIT can often turn into a nightmare.

If you want to kick the new year off with a new business venture and want to know how to plan for your success and make sure you’ve got everything covered, you really need to take this videos tutorial.

Learn all the basics you need to know about running an online business, and prepare for every eventuality, so you can hit the ground running right from the start.

Sheena Woods, 31, is mum to Siobhan, 3, and 18-month old Brannon. She is also the owner of award-winning MaByLand (www.mabyland.com), an online baby store selling handmade baby products.

Like many mums, when Sheena started her family, she knew she would not go back to working for her employer, and she set about starting her own business so that she could also make money while watching her children grow.

Sheena tells Motherswhowork.co.uk how she has managed to combine the two – and how she has managed to grow her business with the children coming to the office with her!

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Are you fed up with being dumped on all the time – everyone else seems to think you were put on this earth to pick up their pieces and make them feel better (children excluded, of course…)!

The start of the new year often means that we look at our lives and make a decision to change those things that niggle, irritate or trouble us. The feeling of being dumped on, yet always feeling guilty for refusing to help someone do something that is a huge inconvenient to us (and makes us feel resentful while we do it) can often be on the lust of things to change.

It may be that at work, your colleagues always expect you to pick up the pieces – projects that are or in your remit, making teas and coffees, organising mundane things…or it could in your personal life where friends and family always take the biscuit.

If you’ve had enough, you need to make a stand – learn to say no and not feel guilty about it. It really is possible to do, and you can do it in a way that even he most sensitive of recipients won’t make you feel like you’ve just turned their entire life upside down.

• Do you feel like even 24 hours working during the day wouldn’t be enough?



• Are you struggling to run your business and keep up with your social media?
• Do you wish you could get some help with managing your website content?

Outsourcing your work can help you reduce stress and enable you to achieve more in your business. And, it doesn’t mean that you have to employ someone on a permanent basis if you’re business isn’t ready for it. Watch the video tutorial to find out how you can outsource your business projects and start to achieve more in the business.

The internet is so competitive these days, that to you need to either have a big budget for online advertising, Google Adwords, or a huge following on social media of genuine people who are interested in the products or services you are selling to really start seeing the money coming in.

But don’t hang your boots up just yet! There are strategies you can use to get customers – even on a shoestring budget. The key is to spend you efforts getting ‘buying customers’ and let the browsers come organically.

Why waste an hour on someone who is only interested in looking at what’s out there, when you could spend an hour getting customers who are looking for your product or service and are ready to buy?

To find out how to get targeted customer and clients using lead generation, you need to watch today’s video tutorial.

Thinking of things to do with the children during the term? Taking the children out to London doesn’t have to cost a small mortgage – not if you shop around for discounts – try Smartsave, a website that’s packed with great discounts for family days out in London.

Here are a few ideas on places the whole family can enjoy visiting in London:

Going back to work this week after having a long Christmas break can be a stark reminder for many of us that we really don’t like the job we are doing, are not earning enough money or just can’t stand the sight of our boss.

If that sounds like you, this time of the year is a great time to actually do something about it.

Don’t sit and fester and lose hope – simple steps will help you get closer to achieving your ultimate goal – doing nothing brings you no closer to changing your circumstances, so you really don’t have anything to lose.

With the 31st January deadline for online self assessment tax returns looming, many of us…

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To all our valuable readers and members ...Merry Christmas!!!!! Here's wishing you a fabulous Christmas…

Christmas is a time when many families go away to visit friends and family or, for those who can afford it, get away for some winter sun.

Unfortunately, burglars love Christmas just as much as we do, but for more reason that the Christmas dinner – its prime time for them to break into family homes undisturbed.

If you leave your home empty at Christmas, it means you could be at greater risk of being burgled and leaving presents visible under the Christmas Tree makes your home a shop window for any opportunist thief who is on the lookout for rich pickings.

Here is a checklist of things you can do to keep your home safe from burglars – or at least minimise the impact if they still break in: