Do you ever come across businesses that you think are simply brilliant? The past couple of months, I’ve been introduced to 3 businesses that have simplified my life, and have made things around home a bit more fun! Kudos to the founders of Stitch Fix (something for me), Kiwi Crate (something for my kids) and Bark Box (something for our dog)… I think these businesses are so cool and I wanted to tell you about them! (more…)

Simplify Saturday is a series where I share products, apps, websites, etc. that are currently simplifying my life. I’m proud to partner with SimpleHuman on this post to share with you the joys of Sensor Technology. Click here for past Simplify Saturday posts.

Welcome to Simplify Saturday, on a Sunday. I know, I know… I’m a day off but I have a great excuse. We got back from our Spring Break vacation on Friday night and after 16 hours of driving, I just didn’t have it in me to write a post up yesterday. I figured you wouldn’t mind if this once, I shared something I love with you on Sunday instead? Are we ok? Good!

So, you all know from past posts that I’m a big fan of the SimpleHuman brand and that I am focusing on simplifying my life in 2013. Although I have been a SimpleHuman customer for years, it wasn’t until this year that I encountered products with their sensor technology. After visiting the SimpleHuman headquarters in California, and now having the opportunity to experience their sensor technology in my own home, I can tell you that SimpleHuman is definitely leading the way to simplify our lives with sensor technology.   (more…)

Today’s Simplify Saturday post is for all of you knee deep in getting your expense and income stuff together for dreaded tax day. It’s not a task I love at all, but thanks to FreshBooks, I finally have found a simple cloud based system that works for me.

Small business owners, freelancers, bloggers, photographers… those of you who need a professional, affordable system for invoicing, expense tracking, reporting and project management, I’m happy to introduce you to Freshbooks. (more…)

Each Simplify Saturday, I feature a product, app, website, book, etc. that has helped me to live my 2013 focus word of Simplify. This week I am sharing a product that helps me simplify one of my least favorite tasks… mopping the floor.

Our house is mostly hardwood floors. As much as I love hardwood floors, I absolutely hate cleaning them. I’m not going to pretend that the tool I’m going to share with you today makes me love cleaning our floors because it doesn’t. The only thing that could possibly make me love cleaning is hiring someone else to do it. That would be love at first sight right there… (more…)

If you follow Dine & Dish at all, you know I love to read. For today’s Simplify Saturday I’m telling you about the Kindle Paperwhite… a wonderful little e-reader that has simplified the way I read books.

Let me preface this post by saying I have tried and owned numerous e-readers before. We have one of the original Kindles, a second Kindle (my husbands), a Kindle Fire (my sons), a Nook and the Kindle app on the iPad. Until getting the Kindle Paperwhite, I really wasn’t a fan of e-books. I enjoyed the convenience of being able to download an e-book whenever I needed one but reading on the devices I listed just didn’t feel natural to me. I didn’t like the flow, layout, functionality of the other devices. Plus, I found with the devices that were more than just e-readers (Kindle Fire and iPad apps) I would get too distracted by the other apps and things on the devices, which would cut into the time I would spend reading.  Even with all of those devices on hand, I found myself turning back to “real” books instead of my e-reader. (more…)

Today on Simplify Saturday, I’m sharing a time management tool that has helped me to simplify my work schedule.

With my job and work schedule, I have the fortunate / unfortunate pleasure of getting to spend parts of my day on some serious time sucking websites. Blog reading, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and even Instagram can be considered part of the work I do for Dine & Dish and my other freelance jobs. As much as I enjoy browsing sites and interacting with others through social media, it is a challenge for me to not get sucked in. Sometimes, before I know it, an hour has passed by when I initially intended to just “check Twitter real quick”.

Can you relate? If so, I have a great time management tool to share with you today!

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Today I’d like to introduce you to a new feature on Dine & Dish…Simplify Saturday! On Simplify Saturday, I will feature something that is simplifying my life… it could be a product, an app, a book, a website…anything that I come across that is helping me to live my 2013 focus word of “Simplify”.

Today, I’d like to introduce you to the SimpleHuman brand. If there is a brand out there that is focused on simplifying life at home, SimpleHuman is that brand.

When I was approached by SimpleHuman to partner with them on some of the work they are doing as a brand, I jumped on the chance. We’ve had SimpleHuman products in our house for several years now, so this relationship fit in seamlessly with our family.

SimpleHuman is a company who believes that everyday life has room for improvement. Tools like their sensor and step trashcans, their senor soap pumps, and other various products for the kitchen and bath, were all created out of a need for a more efficient product.

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