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Week 11 Challenge: Washer, Dryer, Laundry Room

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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”…

Response to Challenge Week 10: Deep cleaned floors

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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…

Blogging: In the beginning

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Have you started your blog yet or are you still thinking about it? Sometimes you just need a little nudge to get going.

Challenge Week 10: Deep clean your floors!

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Tile floors: Try a steam cleaner. I saw one used on a 1970s kitchen floor and it was amazing to see the dirt that came out of that floor. And the steam was gentle enough for that old floor! I researched the best floor steamers and spent quite a while on various product review sites….

Response to Week 9 Challenge: Appliances

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Grouping Appliances We grouped all appliances together on an unused shelf unit so we could see how many appliances we own. We gathered them from the counter, closet and various cabinets. Then we rated them by how often they were used.

Let’s Get “Squashy”

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Creamy Butternut Squash Soup 3 Tbs. butter 1 large onion, diced 1 cup diced celery 1 cup shredded carrots (pre-cut) 1 Tbs. minced garlic 2 pounds frozen, cubed butternut squash (2 bags) 4 cups chicken broth, vegetable broth or seasoned water (add more as needed) salt and pepper, to taste 1 Tbs. honey 1 tsp….

Three games you’ve got to play

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Who doesn’t love a fun game to play when friends come over?! If you like Scrabble but don’t have the time to play for long, try Speed Scrabble.

2nd Response to Week 8 Challenge: Stemware / glasses

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We cleaned out and organized the everyday drinking glasses and travel mugs/water bottles one day, and the stemware and fancy glasses in the glass-front cabinets another day. Just getting around to posting photos of the cleaned up fancy glasses cabinet.