The creators of small-scale shelters have touted them as a short-term solution for the homelessness crisis. We spoke to three residents of micro-shelter communities in Oregon to find out how they hold up. On a single night in January 2022, 582,462 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States. Sixty percent were staying in locations like emergency shelters or in accommodations provided by transitional housing programs, and 40 percent were living on the street or somewhere similar, according to an annual U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report. (The pandemic impacted the accuracy of homelessness data collection in 2021, however, and the number of people without a home is likely far higher.) Meanwhile, across the country, many housing advocates...
Click here to read Improve Kids Fine Motor Skills with 30 Materials & Activities on Hands On As We Grow® Make fine motor activities easier and simpler to do with easy materials and activities to boost fine motor skills! Fine motor activities have been put on a back burner in this house for a bit, about a year. Now we’re back on a big fine motor skills activity kick! Which is probably a good thing. Gross motor skills should come before fine motor skills. Those big muscles help the little muscles! But wow! What a difference a year makes! You’ve got to try these cutting activities to build fine motor skills as well as learn to use scissors! Last year, Henry wouldn’t...
When you think of your dream wedding, you probably have a very clear picture in your head about how things will turn out. You likely know what you’ll wear, what the band will be playing, what the cake will taste like, and how you’ll look into your soulmate’s eyes and say, ‘I do!’ However… not everyone gets that happily ever after they’ve been daydreaming of for years.Sometimes, things simply don’t work out and the relationship ends. Dashed to pieces. We’ve collected some of the most powerful and heartbreaking stories about why people called off their weddings from these two candid threads on r/AskReddit here and here. Scroll down to read their stories.Dating and relationship expert Dan Bacon, the founder of...
When you think of your dream wedding, you probably have a very clear picture in your head about how things will turn out. You likely know what you’ll wear, what the band will be playing, what the cake will taste like, and how you’ll look into your soulmate’s eyes and say, ‘I do!’ However… not everyone gets that happily ever after they’ve been daydreaming of for years.Sometimes, things simply don’t work out and the relationship ends. Dashed to pieces. We’ve collected some of the most powerful and heartbreaking stories about why people called off their weddings from these two candid threads on r/AskReddit here and here. Scroll down to read their stories.Dating and relationship expert Dan Bacon, the founder of...
Do you really need a junk drawer? My answer may surprise you! After years of organizing in people’s homes, I have come to the conclusion that junk drawers aren’t useful. Junk drawers end up taking up useful space in your kitchen. Which means that drawer can be used for other things…like clearing off items on your countertops! Instead of a junk drawer, try giving the drawer a purpose. Show Notes Controversial opinion: you should not have a junk drawer in your kitchen! All the junk drawer does is keeps your indecisions. Whenever I say this, I get tons of backlash. Why should you let a great area in your kitchen be taken up by junk? If you actually need some...
