Cleaning & Organizing

Purge: Get rid of items because your style changed or the item is broken. It goes in the donation OR garbage pile. Use clear plastic bins and labels.

Share your tips to get rid of ants in the house

Guest Writer I went downstairs to the storage area of the basement to section off an area for garage sale items.

Having a successful garage sale takes a lot of preparation. I’ve co-hosted at many garage sales and have experience in what works and what doesn’t.

Guest Writer Since I do surface cleaning in the bathroom every day, you’d think that there would be nothing to a deep clean. That is so wrong.

We do a lot of important stuff in the bathroom! That’s why it needs to be cleaned every day.

Guest Writer We have laundry to do every day in our house. Our “laundry room” is in the unfinished part of our cellar. It’s not a place I like to hang out. It’s been a while I’ve always washed the exterior of my appliances and have done some wiping of the inside of the washing…

Check out the organizing / cleaning / decluttering challenges. Take a week, take a month, but get started! Some challenges will be simple while other challenges will be more difficult.

If you’re lucky enough to have a laundry room on the main floor of your home, I envy you! In my ranch-style home, the washer and dryer are in the basement on the opposite end of the house from the stairs. Why do I mention that? Our old washing machine used to go “off kilter”…

Guest Writer If you don’t have a steam cleaner yet, you need to get one! I recommend this one, which was recommended to me by my sister. It’s the Shark Professional Steam Pocket Mop Model S3601. I did some research in addition to my sister’s recommendation. Look at these two floor tiles: one was cleaned…