Ultimately, the best cleaning routine isn’t what I do or your best friend does, it is whatever will work for you. What days you do what task don’t matter as much as getting them done. And mostly, that is what I want to help you with – knowing how to get them done and avoiding […]
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Super Tidy!
The Super Tidy! I’ve been mentioning the Super Tidy all over the place, but I’ve never formally introduced the powerful, clutter and mess fighting Super Tidy. The idea started a while ago when I started writing “tidy up for 10 minutes – put things away” on my daily planning sheet. I would write it at […]
Wood Floors: Care & Cleaning
I love the look of wood floors, but you do have to be a little picky with how you take care of them. Most wood floors don’t allow you to take a wet mop to them, but they still get dirty … and scratched. Years ago, in our first home with wood floors, I was […]
The Cleaning Supply Closet
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 […]
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 […]