Organizing Your Recipe Binder

I am in the process of moving all of my recipes into a new recipe binder.  My previous binder was a bit of a mess with newspaper and magazine clippings, crappy printed pages from the interwebs, and sloppily handwritten messes with crossed out ingredients and edited directions.  Apparently, recipe binders are all the rage now, too.  How fortunate for me!  When I first started putting mine together years ago, there wasn't much custom stuff to download or purchase for it.  I started out with some hokey little printouts I did on my home printer, but I just got sick of looking at them (and I got sick of running out of printer ink!).  So, I headed on over to Zazzle to get some custom pages printed in full color for a small fee.  Friends were asking me where I got them, so I made them available to purchase on Zazzle.  Now you can get them, too.  They come in TONS of colors, you can opt to have them lined (for handwriting) or unlined (for printing via computer), and they are FULLY customizable.  Love them so much!  To see all the styles available, head on over to this store!  You can also get recipe grading stickers, which are simply awesome for sticking to a recipe page of any kind and giving the recipe a quick grade (A-F) or rating (1-5).  The stickers are the perfect size to fit into the "Notes" section on the recipe pages.

Manage Your Household Bills with Manilla

This free service allows you to manage all of your online bill paying in one place.  It eliminates the need for remembering multiple passwords and makes it hard to miss deadlines.  Manilla supports the following types of accounts: cell phone carriers, cable/satellite/telecom providers, regional and national banks, 200 utility companies, airline/hotel/auto loyalty programs, major credit card companies (such as Citibank, Capital One, and American Express), coupons from Groupon and LivingSocial, magazine and Netflix subscriptions.  And if you're worried about online security (especially of a site you've never used) - worry no more!  Manilla uses bank level security.  Head on over to Manilla to hear more.

Another Way to Organize Your Bookmarks

A few days ago, we talked about organizing your internet bookmarks with Tidy Favorites.  But maybe you don't want to install additional software on your machine, maybe you run an Apple machine, maybe you're more comfortable with website titles (instead of the new thumbnails), or maybe you just don't like Tidy Favorites.  I was actually going through some of my own favorites (have to clean them out from time to time, you know) when I found LinkaGoGo.  LinkaGoGo is the site I used long before I found Tidy Favorites.  I think two of the coolest features of LinkaGoGo is being able to (1) password protect your favorites and (2) share them with friends.  The real reason I stopped using is it simply because your favorites are stored on their central hub.  I'm a bit of  a major control freak, and I like having my favorites on my own computer and backing them up as often as I deem necessary - which sadly, is all too often...