Category: Cleaning & Organizing

Create cleaning and organizing habits and maintain them as best you can. A long-held belief is that it takes 21 days to create a habit. More recently, the University College London has conducted research that reveals it “takes an average of 66 days to create a habit.”

Office must-have items found on Amazon. Some of us share our workspace with co-workers. Some of us work from home. These items are found useful in most offices. You can have a color scheme or go with all black or all white. Some items can be recycled from discarded household items such as coffee mugs…

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.