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Staying organized is a life long task, but here are seven ways to stay organized at home and keep your sanity!

Not only will you feel better, but your home will look better - now you can invite that cutie from class over to study without wearing yourself out cleaning your home from top to bottom at the last minute!

1. Create a Landing Pad by your front door. Choose ONE place to put things when you first get home. Then, put everything where it belongs. My landing pad is right by the front door and includes a shelf for my cell phone, iPod, backpack, etc. Now, I don’t have to spend time looking for my phone. I know where it is!

When I moved, I decided that instead of buying a car, I’d rather commute by bike. The place I moved to isn’t that big and all the buses have bike racks so this wasn’t a difficult decision. I can rent a car when I need one. For others, the decision is based upon different reasons, such as health, the environment or saving money.

No matter your reason for choosing to commute by bike or even looking into the idea, I’m going to share what I’ve learned so far in my quest to be a biker.

There is some evidence that the more plugins you use on your WordPress installation, the slower your website will load.

So, ditch some of those plugins and use these three WordPress hacks to get the same functionality and at the same time improve your page load time!

First up is Gravatar, the globaly reconized avatar that ‘follows’ you no matter where you go online. Yes, there are WordPress plugins available that make adding Gravtars oh so simple, but be adventurous and set up Gravatars on our own!

To begin, navigate to Design > Theme Editor > comments.php

Some of us have changed apartments over the summer, others have moved to entirely new towns and some of us are heading into Dorm Life Part X. You organized your stuff to move, it’s spectacularly labeled and everything, but now you have to figure out where it’s really going to fit in your new space.

Dorm rooms and small apartments are harder to organize because their dimensions are smaller and the space must be multifunctional!

Apartments can be tricky if you have to share it with someone else because you may only have one space for just your things but you still have a common area to relax in or study. So what do you do?

At least once a year, everyone declares they are going to get in shape and many people join gyms.

If you are in college, you probably have a free or discounted gym on your campus! Also, check out gyms with discounts for going early in the morning or late at night, or for having a friend sign up with you.

People quit going to the gym for various reasons, but here are a 10 ways to keep the mojo going.

Installing a plugin reccomended by a fellow blogger sounded like a great idea until you relaized that you didn’t need or want it on your WordPress site. So, you deactivated the plugin via the Plugin panel, but now your blog is broken!

You are getting an error “Fatal error: Call to undefined function.” and part of your blog’s content is missing!

Fortunately, there’s a fix for the plugin deactivation error issue - it just takes a little detective work and some patience.