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You don’t have to haul out that cumbersome ironing board anymore!

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If you read this site regularly you know that I don’t have a very big house or a very big garden, but I make the most of the space that I have. In fact I think I’ve become quite skilled at adapting small spaces to suit our needs. Even the apartment we lived in before we purchased our house was a junior one bedroom. I think it was only about 450 square feet!

wallmountironingboard.jpg Considering that I’m always looking for ways to make my small space more efficient I’m sure you can imagine how thrilled I was when I happened to visit http://www.betterlifestyleproducts.com/ and saw the smallest, most efficient ironing board that I’ve ever seen.

The ironing board is called the Lifestyle Fold-Away Wall Mounted Ironing Board.What a big name for such a compact ironing board.

This ironing board folds away into a small box or cupboard that’s mounted on the wall.

In fact, when folded away, the fold-away wall mounted iron has a profile of only 4 1/2 inches. You can deploy or fold away the ironing board in mere seconds. Oh did I mention that it’s also easy to install?

I’ve been managing to use a standard sized ironing board in our house. We store it in the basement and I tend to do our ironing down there (in the dungeon) while standing between the washer, dryer and furnace. Talk about tight spaces!

Think that’s bad? It was worse in our tiny apartment!

I kept our regular sized ironing board in the bedroom closet and when I wanted to iron something I’d either set up the ironing board in the hallway between the bedroom, bathroom and living room or I’d bring it into our tiny kitchen and iron between the fridge and a small table.

What I wouldn’t have given to have had one of these small fold-away ironing boards when I lived in the apartment!  unfoldingironingboard.jpg

Just look at the photos I’ve liberated from the Lifestyle Fold-Away Wall Mounted Ironing Board description page. You can see for yourself how small it is when it folds away and how easily it folds out when you want to use it.

Just think of what else you could store in the space that you’re using for your standard sized ironing board now if you got one of these instead! Certainly if you live in a small space, like I do, a fold away ironing board would make a lot of sense.

The ironing board, when fully deployed, is a full sized board with a ventilated steel surface. It doesn’t require any extra supports when extended. It’s very durable. Also, the wall cover is detachable and paintable so you can make sure it matches your wall coloring if you’d like to.

I must confess that I don’t really enjoy ironing, but I do think part of my dislike of ironing has been struggling with the ironing board. I think if I had one of these Fold Away wall mounted Ironing Boards I’d find the task much easier, less time consuming and dare I say perhaps even more enjoyable?

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This lady certainly looks like she doesn’t mind ironing!

If you live in a small space visit the betterlifestyleproducts.com website and read all the information about this fantastic little ironing board. Actually, even if you don’t live in a small space this might make a great Christmas gift for someone that does. Oh and if you visit the site take a look at their product catalog. They have some very handy items.






Create lists of plants you’ve grown or garden to do lists on Meosphere

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I just joined an interesting site called Meosphere. The site is a collection of lists, and links that site members have created. Each member can create their own Meosphere.

As the sites about page says we all have our Meosphere. You could even say this blog has it’s own meosphere, a gardening meosphere perhaps.

The best way to explain this site to you is to show you.

I went looking for gardening related items and I found a Meosphere list had had already been started. It’s called “Flowers You’ve grown”. I went through the list and ticked off all the flowers on the list that I’ve grown at some point in my life or that are currently growing in my garden. Then I saved a list of the flowers I’ve grown as my own list. I can’t find an embed list link for my own list though so I’ll just paste the first list here to show you:

Now we all know that even more flowers could be added to that list but that’s the beauty of the meosphere lists. You can place a check mark beside all the flowers on this list that you grow and save your own copy of the list. Then you can add even more flowers to it if you’d like. You can even edit your saved list to add descriptions and photos of each item.

Can you see the possibilities?

I think I may spend a bit of time on Meosphere later today. I might create some gardening to do lists. You know, specific spring, summer, and autumn gardening tasks for Zone 5b gardeners. Others on the site can find my lists and make their own copies adding tasks specific to their own gardening zones. You could also make lists of your gardening books, favorite garden tools, and so on. I love it.

You could make lists of just about anything in this manner and since we’re bloggers it could be yet another way to interact with our readers.

Please do feel free to check off the flowers that you grow on this list and make your own list out of it. I’d love to visit your meospheres to see what you’ve created and see lists of what you’ve been growing.

The Deal Locker has coupons and coupon codes for garden related items

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Everyone has to shop whether they enjoy shopping or not. I’ll bet that most of us shop several times each week whether it’s a short trip to the corner store, buying a coffee at work, going grocery shopping, visiting department stores to shop for clothes or appliances or perhaps purchasing items online.

We all shop.

So why not save some money?

I had no trouble discussing this site as I love saving money and the Deal Locker is most definitely a great site in which to find free online coupons that you can use when you are shopping in retail stores or while shopping online.

There are literally tens of thousands of deals, and coupon codes for thousands of products and stores.

Besides the wide range of coupons and the potential to save money, I like the fact that members of the site can add coupons and coupon codes that they’ve found on their own to the site and in this way share some fantastic deals with other users of the Deal Locker website.

Another thing that I like about Deal Locker is the fact that they only show coupons that are working. They do not list expired coupons and there’s no switching from one coupon to another with a poor deal when you click on a coupon like some coupon sites tend to do. Each coupon on the site has also been user rated, so as you browse through the site and you find a product or store that you’d like to see coupons for you’ll be shown the recommended coupons first which have been rated by site members and which are coupons that are most likely to work for you when you try to use them.

There’s another tab at the top of your search list and it’s marked “All Coupons”. Some of the coupons in the All Coupons section have been found to not work well for everyone who’s tried them. At least Deal Locker has this rating system. You can save time by checking the user ratings and by picking coupons that are guaranteed to work or that have worked for most people.

On the main page you’ll see that there are tabs at the top that allow you to browse through the store listings and categories. You could also just use the search box and type in the name of the item you are hoping to find coupons for, or the store for which you’d like to find coupon codes.

So you’re probably saying to yourself that’s great that I can find coupons and save some money by visiting this site before I go shopping, but do they have any gardening coupons? You bet they do!

I actually found three different areas with coupons related to gardening. There are garden coupons, gardening coupons, and gardens coupons. The garden coupons section has the most coupon listings at the moment with 18 different coupons and coupon codes. I found Henry Field’s Seed and Nursery Coupons and Lillian Vernon Coupons as well as coupon codes for Spring Hill Nurseries, Home Depot and many other well known garden related stores and nurseries.

I’m sure if I really browsed through all the categories I’d find many other sections that could be related directly to gardening as well.

Visit the Deal Locker yourself and see if you also think that this is a great site to find all kinds of coupons and deals. I don’t know about you, but I’m bookmarking this site.

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