Feel like you’re drowning in stuff? Here’s the BEST strategy for decluttering your home. Eyeballing a tottering stack of storage containers, I braced myself for impact. The first question that came to mind was, “If this falls and everything breaks, will I miss any of it?” It’s totally normal to store some belongings like holiday…
Stop spinning your wheels and get your home in order with these four simple steps. Ever wonder how long it would take to get your home in order? A few years ago, I joked that if I sent my kids away for an entire summer, maybe I’d finally be able to get my home in…
Need some productivity or peace in your day? It’s time to create a routine! Ever wonder what a difference a daily routine can make? I happen to have a strange love and hate relationship with routines. I love the idea of freedom – having unplanned days where I can sleep in, eat when I please,…
Wonder why you need to disinfect your home? Learn why you should, along with how to do it, and 12 things you need to disinfect in your home. Ever wonder what the difference is between decluttering, deep cleaning, and disinfecting? For years, I thought that cleaning was cleaning. But the longer that I focus on…
Stuck at home? Here are 10 things you can do! I can’t even guess how many times I’ve wondered how long it would take me to catch up on everything around my home. I’ve tried to guess how much time I’d need to finish my wish list of projects if I was stuck at home…
Wish you knew how to be a prepared homemaker? Start by stocking up on these 20 things! Over the past few weeks, a growing panic over the global pandemic has set in across America. The stock market keeps dropping, schools and businesses are closing, and toilet paper has vanished from store shelves. People who need…
Feeling like your home is out of control? Here’s what you can do when your home’s a mess. It’s happened again. You look around your house and … whoa. You feel tense just at the sight of the mess. If surfaces happen to be cleaned, you know what’s hiding behind closet doors and in drawers….
Feeling stressed out when you’re home? You might be surprised that a clean home adds peace and reduces stress! Finding peace in your home is a funny thing – you either have it or you don’t. If you do have it, you feel comfortable, content and can breathe a sigh of relief when you walk…
Moving into a new home? Here are lots of tips and tricks that will help make your move smoother. Moving stinks. While it’s quite possible you’re very excited about your new home, the actual moving process is pretty awful. Who really wants to pack up everything, move it, and then unpack? Time and time again…
Why wait for a deep cleaned home each spring? Make your deep cleaning easier with seasonal cleaning! Spring cleaning was such an essential part of home life as I grew up. The smells and feelings it filled my family’s home with made me long for spring every year as everything seemed as fresh and new…
Is your home messy … again? Never fear. Try a Homemaking Reset Day and enjoy the tidy results! It happened again. My once-clean house was messy. And not just in the “spend a couple hours tidying up” sense, but in the “I can’t get a handle on this” kind of messy. The trouble was, this…
Wish your home was a place that helped you feel peaceful and refreshed? It’s time to think about making a haven. Havens are important … and possible to create! After a long day of running from appointments to errands to meetings, not only was I tired, but I also just wanted to get home. Home….
Feeling like your home is out of control? Using a big picture perspective – and these 4 handy steps – will help you finally take control of your home! Isn’t it so easy to get trapped in the daily cycle of seeing a mess, feeling overwhelmed, and maintaining a semi-clean place through basic chores? That’s…
If you have a home, don’t be afraid to use it as a haven to welcome others. Sadness. That’s what I noticed when I met Billy for the first time. Recently widowed, Billy couldn’t bear to live without the love of his life. I had absolutely no idea how to befriend a widower twice my age…
Ready for a home of your own? Here are 4 steps to make an easier transition to a home of your own. Finally living in a home of your own can be a really exciting transition. If you’re not sharing your home with anyone else, things can be just like you like them. You have…
Need a clean house but have no time? By using a manageable cleaning approach, you can find freedom by ditching the “right” way to clean … and have a cleaner home! How many times a day do you stop yourself from doing something because you know you don’t have time to do it the “right”…
Feeling frustrated with a messy home? Here are a few ways you can bring peace – and order! – to your home every day. (It really is possible to get your messy home under control!) I don’t know if there are many things more frustrating that waking up to a messy home day after day…
Know you need to clean your house … but feel like you have no time? Try these handy tips to help create a cleaning plan that will work even on your busiest days! If you Google “How to Clean Your Home When You Don’t Have Time,” you’ll find lots of articles that help you manage…
Ever wonder what to clean first? Or where to start cleaning in your home? These quick and simple housekeeping strategies will help! Reader question: What I struggle with the most is trying to find where to start in my day. More than anything, what do I clean first? What do I do first so that…
Tackle big homemaking jobs by breaking them into smaller ones. (This handy step-by-step guide will help!) Reader question: Can you please help me? I’ll start a big job in my home, then have to stop part way, then have a bigger mess, then I don’t have time to get back to it, so the mess…