The question of how to clean a mattress comes up fairly often, especially when you’re expecting out of town visitors. Remember that a mattress is a piece of upholstery – except that it catches and holds unpleasant things like dust mites, dead skin, and odors. If you’ve never had a Kirby demonstration in your…
Did your mom teach you how to clean house? I’ll bet if she did, it was probably the old weekly marathon event. Remember that? Every Saturday morning… Wasn’t that awful? But that’s what Mom knew. The ritual began with picking up, sorting laundry, throwing laundry in, scrubbing (and I mean really scrubbing) the bathrooms,…
I like to do a kitchen deep clean twice a year – once in the spring to clean out the holiday and winter gunk, and once in the fall to clean out the summer grime and get ready for the holidays. How do sand, spiders, and dog hair get in the cabinets in the…
Fall Lawn Care Checklist ____ Keep up with weeds ____ Rake leaves ____ If/when you have few leaves, mow over them to chop them into smaller pieces that will add nutrients to the soil. ____ Aerate your lawn ____ Seed or lay sod Fall Perennial Garden Checklist ____ Tackle weeds ____ Plant…
This is the time of year when we start thinking about getting our homes ready for the holidays. So I thought I would pop up with an occasional random project to help you start getting ready.
Since the kitchen is the heart of the home, and very central to the holidays, I figured we should start there.
What’s the worst cabinet in most people’s kitchen? From my experience its the plastic ware. (People still call it Tupperware, though most of what’s in there isn’t Tupperware.)
Your mission is to organize your plastic containers…
Want to keep your house cleaning under control? Do a nightly mini clean. Doing these simple tasks every day will cut your major cleaning down to hardly anything.
Print this checklist out to follow until this becomes habit.
It really only takes a few minutes, especially when you do it every day.
Here are the daily tasks – Tonight and every night hereafter – No matter how tired you are, don’t leave a sink full of dishes and overflowing garbage to great you first thing in the morning. How depressing is that? Not the way we want to start our day. Try to do the…
Here’s a list of the products you will need to keep your home spotless. Where a name brand is not listed, I have no real preference. Where I list a specific product it is because it works the best. If you’re not sure about a new product, many sites like Amazon and have product…
If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that I try to find the easiest way to do anything. Gardening is no exception. Life is busy. Even with stay-at-home orders, we still have a ton to do. We don’t have time to putz around. When it comes to gardening and yard work,…
Master Homemakers have a set of habits that keep life running smoothly, even if you work.