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Medicine cabinet necessities for parents

All right, folks. In my nearly 6 years of parenting, with experience with 3 kids, here’s my list of absolute must-haves in the medicine cabinet.

Bactine: The spray stuff that disinfects without hurting. I use it at least once a week for scraped knees.
Sting-eeze: It’s a goop you put on bee stings or fire ant bites [...]

Closet make-over

What to do when you have a wasted space in your closet filled with clutter? Wait – scratch that. It isn’t filled with clutter, it’s filled with highly important and useful items – if only you could find them. Now, if we all had thousands of dollars to pay a closet design specialist to do [...]

How clean is clean?

I can’t get my kids to keep their rooms clean.
I wish I could entertain at home, but my house is just too messy.
If only my house was cleaner, I’d be able to … (fill in the blank)!
I hear things like that all the time. But what I wonder is, how clean is clean? I don’t [...]

What’s in your medicine cabinet?

The medicine cabinet is not part of day-to-day cleaning, but it’s no less important. It’s where you turn when you wake up with a fever, when the baby’s teething, when allergies assault your eyes and sinuses, and this season – cold season – you may be turning to it for help all too often. So [...]

Kids in the kitchen?! Oh My!

Our good friend Jeana posted at her blog last week about having her 2 year old help her in the kitchen with tasks as mundane as unloading the dishwasher (though how can it be mundane when a toddler is handling your dinner plates?) to actually making salad, complete with cutting vegetables (again, toddlers and knives [...]

Cleaning caddy – do you have one?

If not, you’ve gotta get one. Wait, scratch that. You’ve got to get one for each floor of your home. Downstairs, upstairs, loft, basement. Stock it well and it’ll be your best speed cleaning friend.

Ridding your kitchen of plastics?

With the worries about the potential danger of plastics on the rise I’ve decided to eliminate a lot of my plastic containers from my kitchen. You know, the ones you use for EVERYTHING! That left me with a big empty cabinet and nothing to put our left overs in. I needed an idea [...]

Organized Organization

In one way or another I believe there is a small amount of perfectionism in all of us. For me it’s more like a HUGE amount of perfectionism and I think it’s time for me to Get Buttoned Up!
I’m pretty sure this company has been a fly on my wall! They [...]

WFMW: Home decorating

I’m afraid I can’t take credit for this one. It’s my aunt’s idea, related to me by my mother. As it turns out, they’re some pretty smart ladies. The dilemma? Coordinating everything in the room when you’re redecorating, and making it accessible – to take with you to the fabric store, the paint store, etc…

Cleaning tip for the whole household

One of the things that irks most of us is that cleaning the house takes so much time. And time is precious, right? So, here are a few tips to make the most of your house cleaning – do it easier, faster, and with less frustration.

Gather supplies. You’ll need