I love cleaning and organization when I feel like doing it!
This category is all about cleaning your home, cleaning your garage, cleaning your kitchen, and cleaning your car.
Do you experience the phenomenon around your home where you clean, scrub and shine all day and nobody even notices? Or worse yet, you spend all that time cleaning and your child undoes it in less than 30 seconds? I think we have all been there at one time or another. I used to spend…
Sometimes when I look at those fancy kitchens in the magazines, I get a wee bit jealous. You know, the ones that have the advanced organization systems where all the dried goods are sorted into matching stainless steel containers…in drawers…with perfect labels? My kitchen doesn’t have a pantry and I’ve got one of those awkward…
There are people in the world who are totally legit organizers. Then there are the rest of us (hand raised) who think we are organized people, but when we take a step back we realize that we just make our hoarding look pretty. Let’s get to the root of your de-cluttering habits and answer the…
Do you ever run across those books that literally give you so many AH HA moments that it looks like a highlighter exploded all over the book? As a mom who used to struggle with chronic disorganization, clutter and time management issues, I found that there were books with tons of real life application. Books…
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock…..Have you ever been sitting in a room so quiet that you can hear the minutes ticking away on a walk clock? It’s seconds and minutes of your life constantly lost by a small movement on a plastic, battery-operated device. Maybe you’re listening to one of those creepy, eye moving, tail…
Update: 3/24/2017- Ready to conquer your ever growing To-Do list? For a limited time you can get FREE access to the Conquer Your To-Do list Mini-Course! Laundry is #2 on my most hated chores list. #1 is dishes. It takes days to get laundry done and then when you think your done you realize that baskets…
Starting a new school year seems like a domino effect. That first day of school begins the fast forward sprint into the holiday season. There are meetings, parties, sports practices, meets, games, tournaments, recitals and everything else a family has to remember. Finding a way to keep up with everything and keep it all together…
Summer offers many unique opportunities to do fun activities with your child. You could simply load the kids up each day and go about your summer activities. If you have the time and energy you could also challenge your child to learn how rewarding hard work & discipline can be. That’s why I created these…
I think everyone feels like they could be a little more efficient and little more organized. Even those extreme cleaners or perfectionists. What I didn’t realize when I stopped working a job outside the home over 4 years ago was that cleaning and organization didn’t get any easier. It wasn’t the magic solution that revolutionized my…
I got the idea for this project while walking around my local thrift store. As I strolled down the home goods aisle and I glanced over at a decorative tissue box cover I thought it strange that I couldn’t think of a place I’d seen tissues decoratively hidden in a while. I pondered what else…
Back in March I went on this crazy quest for 30 days to use up the contents of my freezer and cabinets since I was running out of storage. My challenge went pretty well with the exception that I ran to the grocery store more times per week for small random purchases and dinner time…
By now you may be truly feeling the effects of the holidays. The bloating, the “I never want to see another piece of chocolate” feeling and then there’s ALL the new stuff. Great new stuff everywhere! Getting your eating habits back to normal may be easier for you than tackling the new stuff organization. So…
My first little bundle of joy was due at the beginning of December. By the time Thanksgiving arrived, I wasn’t supposed be traveling anymore. Carrying a pumpkin around on my torso made me feel even less like cooking and hosting a holiday visit. We had one side of the family that was really intent upon…
When you think about the stash of pictures you have around, how does it make you feel? One of the most overwhelming projects I can think of is sorting through decades of memories and trying to organize old photographs. Unfortunately, there is no face recognition software to speed it all up and sort it…
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Feel free to view our disclosure policy here. Cleaning is about like going to the dentist. Some small percentage of people love it while most really hate it. With that being said, I am in the group that believes that you can’t live with it but you certainly can’t…
Are you about ready to throw in the towel on your dishwasher? Well, check out this simple tip for how to get your dishwasher cleaning again. Before you go shopping for a replacement try this out. I have never lived in a home or apartment with a new dishwasher. I have always been aggravated by how unclean…
Chore reward charts aren’t just limited to kids. Check out how we developed our own chore charts for husbands & wives or chore charts for adults and get your free printable. Why We Set Up Adult Chore Charts: You go to work, you work hard, and you come home and instead of relaxing, you have…