Author: Marina

Send a Delightful Advent Calendar as a Gift Now

One of my childhood delights was the annual advent calendar my mother would purchase. Made of cardboard decorated with a winter holiday picture or themes, it would have little flaps numbered from 1 through 24. Those numbers represented December 1st through 24th. Starting on December 1st, one of my siblings or I would be allowed […]

How To Save Money #13: Repurpose Old Calendars

Calendars generally are considered one-use items. But they don’t need to be. There are many things you can do with old calendars. Here are just a few ideas; after reading through them, you are sure to come up with more. Reuse in a Few Years If you really enjoyed a calendar, you can reuse it […]

Indexing Tips

I admit I am a former librarian with a Master’s in Library Science. While working on that degree, I took a course in professional indexing and have been a professional indexer ever since. I originally made this post for fellow students in my InDesign 2 class, but the class message system stripped out the indentations, […]

How To Save Money #12: Use Free Software

Software doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. There are many fine low-cost and free alternatives to even the biggest and most popular software packages. I use and can recommend a number of them. In the following table, the software on the left is perfectly fine software, but the prices may be out […]