Year of Living Hogmanay – Page 2

THE YEAR OF LIVING HOGMANAY

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Kitchen Clutter

January 13, 2026
Tackle Kitchen Organizing: Simplify Your Space This January

January is a long, cold, grey month where I live, so I choose to tackle my most difficult project in January. That would be the kitchen/dining room area. The dining area is easy. Remembering to clean the light fixtures and the picture frames and baseboards are the main tasks there. I plan to finish…

January 8, 2026
The end of Christmas

Before we get down to business, first we have to to do away with the remnants of Christmas past. This is something that I usually do in the week between Christmas and New Years, but I was out of town for Christmas and seriously delayed on my return home due to weather. That actually didn’t…

January 5, 2026
Planning the Journey

January In the northern hemisphere January is a long, bitter, cold month. It has thirty one days and for the most part we northerners are all hunkered down shovelling snow and trying to avoid frostbite. And, of course, we’re watching the days get longer with the optimism that this year we will have a better…

January 3, 2026
A Clean Slate

“Have youse all the reddin up done for Hogmanay? If ye haven, there’s aye time yet!” Hogmanay is an old Scottish tradition based on the belief that it is bad luck to enter a new year with a messy home. The tradition involves a thorough clean of your whole life namely your home and your…

January 1, 2026