Tips and Tricks to organizing your home
Cleaning out the refrigerator Are you avoiding this project? Are you growing a specimen worthy of an award-winning science project in the back? Rest assured it will take less than an hour to have a sparkling clean refrigerator again. Since my little one spilled a liquid-filled bowl of fruit all over mine, it was the [...]
Plants need a good dusting When you’re cleaning, don’t forget about your plants. Dust on the leaves can reduce the plant’s ability to photosynthesize at an optimum rate. How do you dust a plant? You can mist smaller plants with a spray bottle. Take larger plants outdoors on a nice day and gently spray them. [...]
Maintaining a home is work Whether you are a homeowner or live in an apartment, there are big projects that need to be done once or twice a year. When was the last time you hand-scrubbed your floors or changed the batteries in your smoke detectors? After learning that it had been years since I [...]
Pantry cleaning It’s a DEFCOM 1 red alert in my house! Do you hear the sirens? A parental visit is on the horizon, and I have to get my house clean. Mom clean is not the same as my kid’s friend is coming over clean, you know. I guess that is what inspired the cleaning [...]
As pollen season comes to an end, it is the perfect time to clean those dirty windows. Thanks to a small child and a dog, I need to do this to my sliding glass door at least once a week. Wash the windows Fill a bucket full of warm water and add a few drops [...]
After spending a couple of days reformatting my computer, I thought it was worth mentioning that computers do require some “spring cleaning” each year. You don’t have to go so far as reformatting, but there are a few things that even a non-technical user can do to keep a computer running well. Has your computer been [...]
You see them every day, so you probably haven’t noticed all the marks on the doors and walls. If you have kids, they have probably put their dirty hands everywhere. I have three kids, and I am certain they are walking around the house dragging their hands on the wall. This month take the time [...]
