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Make Your Own Homemade Cleaners

Home remedy cleaners are nothing new. In fact, home owners have been crafting their own cleaners for decades, and these old recipes have been proven over and over again. At the same time, there is a call for new types of cleaners, such as dishwasher rinse aids. Making your own cleaners is much less expensive than spending money on the cleaners that you purchase at the store. Try the following home remedies and see which ones you like. Toilet Bowl Cleanser The nice thing about this toilet bowl cleanser is that not only is it cheap, but it is also … Continue reading →

Easy Ways to Clean Your Kitchen Floor

Over the years, I’ve tried a number of things to keep our kitchen floor clean. For a while there, it seemed like the best results and convenience were had by the most expensive systems. Fortunately, there are ways around the expense. Try one of the following ideas. The Cheapest An old fashioned floor scrub will be the cheapest. It only requires a bucket (or just a sink), some soap and something to apply the soap, from a brush to an old towel. You have to get down on your hands and knees and scrub and then rinse the floors with … Continue reading →

Spot Cleaning Tips

There are so many little things that can make your home feel dirty. No matter how clean it is if there are scuff marks on the linoleum and fingerprints on the door, the house feels dirty. Some of these things are easy to fix, a quick swipe with a wet cloth and the fingerprints are gone, and since it’s so quick, you can run around and grab all the doors. However, some things don’t go away so easily. Like scuff marks on the linoleum. If you have kids, you have scuff marks, sometimes you don’t even need the kids and … Continue reading →

Cleaning Supplies as a Gift Idea

Do you know someone who is moving into a new home? Perhaps it is your child’s first apartment. Or you know of a couple who is getting married and will be starting off fresh. It might not sound like the greatest gift idea but putting together a housekeeping basket might be just what they need. Think about what it’s like to start off with nothing. You have dishes to buy, linens and the list goes on. So what are some basic cleaning supplies that can be assembled into a basket? Here are some ideas. Dusting Supplies – microfiber cloths (my … Continue reading →

Basic Cleaning Checklist

In trying to help my daughter be prepared to take care of her first home one big thing we needed to do was come up with how often things need to be cleaned. Unfortunately for Hailey I’m one of those mom’s who does everything herself. Hailey has no idea how often to clean the bathroom or change her sheets, it’s always been done for her. So here is a basic list I came up with to help her keep things clean. *Bathrooms should be cleaned once a week. As the germiest place in the house they really need a good … Continue reading →

A Fresh Start

Over at the Scrapbooking blog, I post a lot about photo organization. After all, there’s no way you can create a cohesive memory book layout if you can’t find pictures to match your theme. With the advent of digital photography, snapping images has never been easier. Unfortunately, having the ability to take 183 pictures of your daughter eating her first slice of birthday cake isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be if it requires an hour of searching through computer files to locate the perfect shot. What’s more, there’s really no sense in transferring images from your camera to … Continue reading →

January Clean-Up

How often do you scrapbook in the month of January? The beginning of the month typically brings with it a mad dash to create memorable layouts from all the photos snapped over the holidays, but then there’s usually a lull until the next holiday, birthday or anniversary. During your downtime you might consider cleaning and organizing your scrapbook area. The beginning of a new year is an opportunity to start fresh, get organized, and purge, purge, purge. For example, those leftover polka dot stickers you’ve been hanging on to for more than a year can probably get recycled or passed … Continue reading →

A Fresh, Clean Start

January 1st, our opportunity to make a fresh start, in any area of our life that we choose. I’ve made some resolutions but more than resolutions I’ve tried to look at different areas of my life and decide what I want things to look like going through 2012 and beyond. I spend a lot of time stressed out about the cleanliness of my house. When I was younger I had a housecleaning business for about eight years, I know the difference between surface clean and really clean. Usually my house is surface clean, most people who come in would think … Continue reading →

A Fresh Coat Of Paint And A Clean Floor

I’m still working on my garage, sometimes I think this will be the project that never ends. Once I got some of the mess out of there I wanted to really clean everything, including the floor. My garage is completely sheetrocked so the walls needed a fresh coat of paint, I had to do quite a bit of scrubbing and dusting to get rid of the cobwebs and the stains. Once that was done I painted the walls. This was a little inconvenient as I had to move everything into the middle of the floor to get the painting done … Continue reading →

When do I clean: Practical Changes

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~A. A. Milne I love that quote. It describes my personality entirely. You would be amazed at the items I find and become distracted by while attempting a task or to clean. I once found a Verizon rebate Visa card, sadly, it was expired. Another time I found an old box filled with cards and items I intended to put in a baby book for my third child. I never started it and she is now six years old. While, these finds are good for … Continue reading →