We all want a cleaner home but often do not have a lot of time to clean. The following are a few simple ways to get a cleaner home in just seven minutes. These are tips for cleaning, not picking up. This means that you may need to spend those seven minutes doing your dishes or putting away laundry. But next time you have a quick phone call you need to make, or a few minutes before you need to run out the door, try implementing the following strategies for how to get a cleaner home in just … [Read more...]
10 Important Tips for Organizing and Cleaning with Kids in the House
Children, as the saying often goes, are a blessing. However, they are also closely akin to a natural disaster when it comes to keeping a home clean and organized. To keep your home from looking like something that should be condemned, follow these tips for cleaning and organization in a home with small children underfoot. Tip #1: Limit the number of toys. It’s wonderful that we live in a place and a time in history when our children are so abundantly blessed. Never before have … [Read more...]
Declutter Your Home in 5 Easy Steps
It is a common phenomena that affects everyone who has a home or workspace. Clutter build up occurs over time and can become quite a mess. To declutter your home may eventually require you a lot of time and effort if good habits are not instilled right at the start of either moving into the new home or for that matter, your new room. There are some very needful house rules that must be set in place to ensure that clutter build up is left to a minimum. Firstly, you have to decide for … [Read more...]
Basic Home Organizing Tips and DeCluttering Ideas
In our home, my husband and I both start feeling stressed when things get cluttered. Thankfully, we both appreciate a clean and organized home. But, real life with two young kids means that our home gets unorganized and cluttered quite easily. How about you? A home full of clutter and unnecessary items can lead to a lot of confusion in everyday life. It is important, therefore, that some basic home organizing steps be followed by everyone which will ensure that the house remains organized … [Read more...]
Multi-Functional Writing Desks that Get the Job Done
Without the right tools, it can be difficult to do our jobs well. An uncomfortable chair or wonky writing desks makes doing anything at the computer for longer than 20 minutes a huge pain. You’ll come up with a hundred different reasons to be away from your desk, and this makes your work suffer. And let’s be real: it’s no help if our office furniture is ugly. Working at a huge faux oak writing desk is almost as depressing as working in a cubicle. If you’re nodding your head in agreement with all … [Read more...]
How Cheap is too Cheap When it Comes to Homeowners Insurance?
Buying your first home can put a tight restriction on your budget, especially during that first year when you’re still getting used to shuffling the added expenses of owning a home. It is therefore understandable that many people will be looking for ways to cut down their expenses in order to afford their homes and recover from the purchase. With bills, the mortgage and the unexpected house repair, we start looking for ways to cut down on the expenses. It’s tempting for homeowners to … [Read more...]
We Travel. I Need Quality Silk Plants Only.
We travel quite a bit in the summer. Which is fun, but having a back yard garden and having indoor live plants doesn't work well with our lifestyle. I'd love to have both at my home, but instead, I visit our local organic farm for fresh produce, and I decorate with silk plants. Do you decorate with silk flowers? Here in Washington state, we have great lavender fields. We've also planted some lavender plants in our front yard (those are more hearty and don't need as much care as a garden). … [Read more...]