Organizing & Cleaning
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Are Your Kids Always Losing Their Goggles?
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With this tip, you’ll still have them next week – and the week after! In the beginning of the summer, you optimistically buy a pair of goggles for each child. A week into the swim season, you’re down by two pairs and the kids are fighting over the last one. Does this sound familiar? The
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Three Cleaning Tools I’m Using More Than Ever
With no cleaning help these days, these are the things that are putting in overtime hours. Stick Vacuum In the past, I mostly used my Dyson cordless stick vacuum for my carpeted stairs and occasionally for small messes, while my Miele canister vacuum got regular duty. Nowadays, my Dyson has become my best friend. I
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How to Organize Your Kids’ Puzzles
I dig educational toys! And puzzles are one of my favorites because they are known to be great for brain development in children. Storing them, though, is a challenge. Board puzzles don’t come with boxes. Once you unwrap the new puzzle, you’ve got to have a place for it, otherwise the pieces quickly disappear. Board
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Forget That File Cabinet. This is the Easiest Way to Organize Your Papers
You know how all your important papers are just laying scrambled in your top drawer? Or smushed in a cabinet? It’s haunting to approach the piles of important documents when you’re looking for something specific. Like, you know they’re supposed to be saved but those piles of papers are just getting to you. Well then,
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Yes, There’s an Easier Way to Get the House Clean!
We can’t come to clean your house for you, but we have some product suggestions to help make the job a little bit easier. Over the years I’ve found a few products that make the daily upkeep easier. Some of them aren’t the cheapest options, and not necessarily the best environmentally friendly choices, but some
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Your End-of-the-Day Kitchen Cleaning Checklist
Kids growing up? Are they old enough now to help you with kitchen cleanup? It may be time to share the responsibility! One of the easiest jobs I’ve given over to my children is cleaning up the kitchen after dinner. It may sound like a difficult and overwhelming job to give over to a child,
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Help Me BCP! How Do I Prevent Underarm Stains on White Shirts?
Say goodbye to yellow stains on those white shirts. It’s as simple as changing your deodorant/antiperspirant. It’s one of those age-old laundry problems. Unless you treat those stains vigorously every time you wash the shirt, those yellow stains will kill every white shirt worn on a regular basis. Contrary to what many people think, it’s
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The Best Ever Solution for Storing Crayons, Markers, and Crafts
Is there a mess every time your kids take out the crafts? This solution makes craft time more enjoyable, more practical, and way neater. One of my favorite parts of the day is cooking supper while Rivka sits at the table in the kitchen with me. I get to prep dinner while she gets to
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Our Tricks for a Clean Home on Motzei Shabbos
Do you also dread the Motzei Shabbos clean-up? Here is one way to get it all done. And fast. So many people complain about Motzei Shabbos. Some people have cabin fever, some are bored after relaxing all Shabbos but don’t have the energy to get moving. Others slept too much or too little…everyone seems a
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3 Ways to Store Shopping Bags
There needs to be a specific place to put those shopping bags, so they’re handy when you need one. Organizers all over the world live by the Benjamin Franklin quote, “A place for everything, everything in its place” Once you have a set place for an item, it’s easily found, maintained and the house looks
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