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Creating a home chapter 1

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For a long time I’ve wondered what it meant to create a home. At first it felt like a dream that never was going to be accomplished. But then I met my husband. He showed me that feeling at home meant finding peace where you feel most comfortable. For me that meant being together with him and my son. I know I will always feel at home wherever they are. That doesn’t mean the process of creating a home is easy. For many it’s a journey of finding the perfect place and making it your own to share with your family. But along the way you’ll find many obstacles. At the Summer of 2018 me and my husband decided to find ourselves a home. When our first son passed away in April that year, we found it hard to call the apartment that we lived in, a home anymore. Not that it was bad living there, we just couldn’t bear our lost memories there, the memories that could never be, the ones taken away from us. We were ready to create a new home. We started looking for apartments in the neighborhood w...

Digital clean-up part 2: Cleaning up the files from your pc

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Even though in these futuristic times we’ve got a lot of data hanging in the clouds of the internet, there’s probably still lots of files on your pc.                       Probably my best Paint skills 😂   I share my pc with my husband, so it can get messy. We don’t really see the need to create separate users, as it's easier and we trust each other not to mess anything up…most of the time. I work on a Windows pc so anything that follows will be around that. I don’t really feel qualified to give advice for a Mac computer as I don’t use it. I’ll probably receive too many complaints then.  1.      First I separated the files from my hubby  with 2 maps in my documents. There were a few remaining files that needed to say there, as they'e from programs on my pc. I also kept the finance map separately as my husband also looks into it. You can create a new map by clicking the yellow map on the sc...

Digital clean-up part 1 : Cleaning up your inbox

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One of my to do’s this month was to clean up the inbox of my e-mail. Oh boy…it was necessary. If that was my real inbox, I would have drowned already. Blubblub😱 I have an e-mail in G-mail and one in Outlook, so both a bit different. But I started with the first step:   1.       Unsubscribing from unwanted newsletters   This took some time, but it was worth it. I often sign up unintentionally as lots of websites do this automatically when you sign up to buy something. After a while it builds up. So I looked through the spam and looked which ones I didn’t want to have anymore. The process is the same for G-mail as well as for Outlook. In Europe these companies are obligated to place an unsubscribe button in there e-mail. In other countries you might need to log in to the website itself. The link is almost always placed somewhere at the bottom of the e-mail, often placed really small. The companies try to make it a bit harder to unsubscribe as they of ...