I name places in our house to help my family find things when I say “in the cleaning closet.” You probably do it too, right? This is actually my first cleaning closet in any of my houses. Technically the cleaning closet has more than cleaning supplies, but that’s okay, the name still mostly fits. It […]
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All About Dusting …
Growing up, when I’d offer to help clean the house, the chore my mom gave me was dusting. It was the chore she hated and so I learned to love it. I have things that I kind of hate and tend to delegate, like sweeping and taking out the trash, and so certain kids of […]
Why I Sold My Steam Mop …
While I was decluttering this year, I had to face the facts: it had been months since I used my steam mop. This is kind of shocking to admit. I mean, my arrival into using a steam mop was so weird. About 12 years ago when I had baby twins, I had seen lots of […]
Room Cleaning Checklist (for tweens, teens, and young adults)
I was lying in bed last night trying to go to sleep, but instead I was thinking about the week ahead. My kids are home for another week of break (yay!) and I was thinking about what I want to do with them. They got frozen yogurt gift cards in their stockings and I want […]
All About Kids Chores
If you’ve been reading my blog very long, you know I’m very passionate about teaching my children life skills – like how to clean a toilet. A home is enjoyed by all who live there, I think it should be kept up by all who live there. My children feel a sense of pride in […]
Clean Routine – FREE Editable Printable
I developed a consistent cleaning schedule more than 12 years ago when I had infant twins and needed to figure out how to clean enough. Without a schedule, whenever there was a calm moment, I thought “should I be vacuuming or something?!” After I created a schedule, I could do my daily task, and then […]
Reader Voted FAVORITE Vacuums
I think one of the most important cleaning tools you own is your vacuum. If you’re in the market for a vacuum, these are the top 10 vacuums members of our Facebook Group voted on when I did a quick poll. I asked group members to vote for their FAVORITE vacuum they loved (so not […]
Mini-Cleaning Buckets
With the two floods in my house last year, and the following months of renovation and construction going on at my house, I’m still getting to all the places in my house that need to be organized. One of the annoying places were the few cabinets in my laundry room, so I finally crossed this […]
The Jar of Job Opportunities {Money Jar}
My kids were complaining recently that they want chances to earn money. We’ve never done allowance before and they’re just below the baby-sitting age, so money-making opportunities have been pretty sparse. I mean, even though they’ve got mad lemonade-stand skills, they’re still not rollin’ in dough. My brain started hatching a plot when I got […]
How I Torture My Kids to Keep My House Clean {e.g. Kids Chores}
I hear a lot: I can’t keep my house clean because I have kids. While I totally get how kids are inevitably messy (mine STILL leave their socks everywhere no matter what I do about it), for me, my kids help our house stay clean. Weird, right? Let me explain. How My Kids Help Keep My Our Home […]