We Wouldn’t Pass the Home Study

I have reached a point in my life where freedom from the bonds of motherhood is no longer an abstract concept. Everyone in the house can dress themselves. Everyone can wipe his or her own bottom. The unlucky ... . All that is left is the home study. I am at home, frantically cleaning, when the doorbell rings [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 21:14:16

Blog posts (145) | Videos (217)
 

Clearing Up Cigarette Smoke from Your Home

We all know cigarette is addictive, but for non-smokers, the smell is just unbearable ... cleaning. Smoke of ciggies is so much trouble that it might even require you to do an unplanned general house cleaning. You need your vacuum for this. Clean up furniture, especially the couch where [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 14:16:22

Using Young Living Peppermint Essential Oil

September 20, 2008 in Air Fresheners, Aromatherapy, Cooking with Essential Oils, Did You Know?, Educational, Essential Oil Application, Find therapeutic grade essential oils, Health, Home Spa Tips, How To, Natural Cosmetics, Nontoxic Household Cleaning, Peppermint, Recipes, Scented House, Why we should care, Women's Health, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 03:52:39

Everyday Ways to Get Moving

It’s a common misconception that physical activity requires going to the gym, or buying expensive exercise equipment for your home ... of doing activity and getting things done around the house. I might spend an hour cleaning ... to do a commercial-break workout. Try completing one set of 20 lunges, squats, crunches, arm circles or as many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:14:00

Can't update avatar?

Can't update avatar? by shan Today 08:12 AM 411 3,995 Announcements Have something you want to share with the world? ... 12-05-2008 10:59 PM Go to last post 132 1,476 Tips, Tricks and Cleaning! Furniture ... 65 696 Real Estate General house talk and home buying/selling/building talk Real [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 14:55:02

online schooling, for me?

I am open to actually getting another degree, this time it's online college major if you know, I'll be given this once in a lifetime chance. Being a stay at home wife and mother means hard work and staying in our home for almost 24/7 ... of them, to cooking for them, cleaning the house and yes, being with them throughout the whole day [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:00:58

10 Reasons A Home Buyer Will Never Buy Your House

by Ada Denis If you’re getting your house ready to put it on the market, keep in mind that buyers are looking for their dream home ... by cleaning down to the shine - and then avoid building odors back up. Move the cat’s litter box [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:31:02

Not all children are annoying. Some are dead.

Put that headline on mugs and magnets and sell them at the mall ... . I like cooking and cleaning and I love sex. Todd gets home three hours after me most nights, so I always have dinner on the table and a clean house waiting for him. He doesn’t ask [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 16:24:01

Never Enough Time

Since I’m a stay-at-home mom, I have all day to clean and cook and take care of small home repairs, pay bills, do laundry, and create decorative centerpieces out of pipe cleaners, pinecones and spray paint.So why is it when 10:00 PM arrives, I look around at the house, the dishes piled in the sink, the stack of paperwork awaiting my attention, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 05:05:00

My planned projects

I am hoping for the better for us all now. Since hubby last worked, I was trying to look for a part time job. I thought I could easily get back to cleaning jobs as he will be home for our daughter ... that include building a new house for us with modern facilities so that Shiela would not have a hard time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:34:56

How To Prevent Chimney Fires

How To Prevent Chimney Fires Winter time is here and anyone who has a fireplace is probably using it, but did they make sure it was clean first? ¶ Posted 07 January 2009 † Aydan Corkern § Home ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: chimney, damage, fire, fireplace, Home, house, restoration, water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:38:54

Tips for working moms

My friend Malou has been working for 10 years now. She often talked about how exhausted she is by the time she gets home. She said she has little energy to prepare dinner, clean the house, or do much of anything. She also thinks that her tiredness is causing her to miss quality time with her two kids [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 02:21:00

Simple Home Improvement Ideas

Are you tired of going home to the same house? You don’t have to move out to experience a new home ambiance! ... about re-installing new tiles. But replacements can cost a bit, so try cleaning up the bathroom first. Don’t think you need to spend big because sometimes it only needs major cleaning for it to look new [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 21:11:43

10 Ways To Maintain Or Improve Your Home Value

We are always looking for ways to increase, or at the very minimum, maintain our home value ... a few days and do some ‘deep cleaning’ or call in a maid service.  Clean out some of those closets ... the house.  Although this is not necessarily all Green, they are important none the less. For the most [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 22:00:50

Spontaneous Service

It was the day after Christmas: Dec. 26, 2008. Family had come to town. We had plans of playing games. We had plans of doing a bit of shopping ... all at my in-laws for the day. They were house sitting an elderly neighbor’s home while she was gone ... , remember the Christmas we spent cleaning up an inch [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:33:00

Ask The Audience: Advise The Newlyweds

Ivy says: Our fabulous commenter Laura wanted to know: What is C.O.R.N? ... it, Home Eccers. So, C.O.R.N. is a simple acronym that means “Clean out refrigerator night.” In my mom’s house, it was called “fend for yourself” night, but I think Heather takes this even farther [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:50:25

Get Your Glow Back With Rosy Glow Beauty

Between raising three kids, working full time from home, buying groceries, managing the bills, carting my oldest to and from school, cooking meals, cleaning house and running many errands, I barely have any time for myself. So if anyone needs ... on my nightstand, I was able to quickly and thoroughly cleanse my face. The organic Bulgarian rosewater [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 22:58:50

Do You Have the Work At Home Blues?

Powered by Max Banner Ads Image by Capture Queen ™ via Flickr Do You Have the Work At Home Blues? ... gotten little to nothing done on any single priority. The house needs cleaning. Your clients need ... when you need someone to just hear you vent. But to truly connect with those who live the same issues [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 06:35:20

Happy 2009!

I haven't done any sewing this past week. With Christmas and my hubby home, it's hard to get much done besides playing "maid" around the house cleaning up after everyone. I did get a few goodies in the mail tho which is always so very fun.I had planned to do a post on my sewing of 2008, but I need hubby's help to make [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 03:43:00

On the First Day of Christmas...

On the First Day of Christmas A Wrestling Addicted Mommy gave to me.....A way to keep my house clean!!!I fully admit... I hate to vacuum! ... with it, an extend-able cleaning wand, a squeegee and also an upholstery brush that store easily ... In fact, I hate cleaning period, but it has to be done. With 2 levels in our home that each [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 17:23:00

My New Eco-Love

I haven't shared any eco tips for a long time!  I haven't had anything new to share.  But yesterday, I got some new inspiration! ... sink and on the grout used on our tile countertops, shower walls, and floors (it's that cement ... when you are cleaning.  When the girls got home from school yesterday, they both noticed and said the house smelled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:13:26

Edition 47: Fashion Friday

Y’all. If ever a week was about to do me in, this would be that week ... to Target is a bad idea. It is evident that someone who puts off cleaning the bathrooms until ... , went to the grocery store, came home and started painting the house, went inside to make Rice Krispy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:51:39

Should I Chuck It? | Home and Personal Care Products

After reading this and similar blogs and websites, maybe you’ve decided to throw out all of your toxic cleaning products ... Family blog has a list of 25 safe, non-toxic house made cleaning supplies. ... . Contact your local homeless shelters, woman’s shelters (or safe homes), or non-profit organizations [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 05:24:44

Back to work

Hello everyone and I trust that you all have enjoyed a safe and happy holiday. I have enjoyed having these past 3 weeks to concentrate on house and garden activities ... to Woodford I have been based at home cleaning, weeding and reading in that order. Graham and I are going [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:21:34

POOPED

So much was going on this long weekend, I could use another day to recover ... . I had just come home from a shopping trip at Costco, and there were several vans parked in front of my house ... the cleaning, it looked dirty again. It looked awesome the day after the cleaning! It's like the dirt [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 23:54:58

home

i'm in the process of spring-cleaning my entire house now.mum has been anticipating my return back to JB,not because she misses me..but because she needs me to do HOUSECHORES.like, wth rite [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 09:24:00

Cats are not Clutter

My new favorite place in the house is my desk. The home office has long been the lone repository of clutter left in my entire house and it's just ... . It was exhausting to constantly clean around all my clutter! All that clutter turned even a basic cleaning job [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 18:42:00

Cleveland Home

by Won Kim Selling a home can be very stressful indeed ... . If you find that after cleaning the carpet still looks bad it would be worthwhile considering ... some time cleaning all lighting fittings in the house and replace the current bulbs with higher wattage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:03:51

JOY OF MOVING....Part 5...

This 'moving' thing is getting expensive! Things you don't think about before you move in ... of 5 slippy, unusable mats at my house. Then today, coming home, I stopped in at Lowe's to get a floor cleaning kit for stone floors. This is a different one than the one for the hardwood floors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 00:10:00

Fantasyland

There is the smallest of chances that I could be preggo and it’s got me dreaming about a fantasy life of being a stay at home mom ... & housewife.  Usually the idea of this scares the crap out of me.  I’m not really that domestic ... about doing laundry, cleaning the house.  I was thinking about how the girls would most likely share [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:16:00

Do you think magazines influence eating disorders?

I am currently at school, doing my sociology coursework. I am doing whether magazines influence young girls to develop eating disorders ... and salon quality hair at home, on the soccer field, cleaning the toilet…and you have families ... single appliance, window, and pillowcase in your house isn’t Green, you might as well throw [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:24:27

6 Steps to Prevent Mould in Your Bathroom

Despite regular cleaning mould can always occur in areas of high humidity around the home ... of the house. Mould will not grow on a dry surface so ensure you have an extractor fan fitted ... carpet when getting out of the bath or shower can lead to it getting wet, which will keep the humidity [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 08:27:13

How Did the Banks Get Agents to Shoulder the Load?

In Virginia when you sign a listing agreement with a seller it states that the “seller retains full responsibility for the ... to make it easier for the owner. Nor would we agree to take on the responsibility for cleaning their home ... they are required to call the lenders “preferred” contractor. If an emergency repair is needed [more...]

Date: 2008-07-06 10:37:43

Another Recession Cocktail

I had a busy weekend around the house washing windows, cleaning out gutters, shampooing carpets - and other stuff besides. Now all I have left is to get some bulbs in when we get a nice day.After I took the carpet shampooer back to Home Depot, I was ready for a stiff drink, so I stirred up another one of the recipes [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 22:28:00

Congress: Cleaning up the mess will take some time

On Hiatus -- The members of the Senate and house have gone home now, ... ," is a great little story out of Politico.com. To quote: Jason Chaffetz came with a cot wrapped in duct tape ... and will bundle together his “socks and undies” to take home every weekend to be washed.View my current slide show [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 20:24:00

Benita of Chez Larsson Sorts the Laundry Room

Benita of blog Chez Larsson decided in May of 2008 to start sharing her organizing mania and neatness with the masses instead of keeping them to all to herself. Her blog, www.chezlarsson.typepad.com, focuses on home life the clean, bright, white, organized and Scandinavian way. Benita lives in a small 1930’s house in a Stockholm suburb and that’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:01:13

Facebook Killed the Blogging Star

I realized the other day that lately I've been making mental notes for clever Facebook status updates rather than blog posts, ... of dust and lint. Guess I forgot to replace the filter after our epic duct cleaning. Oops.While ... blog. So, here's the latest from Southern Canada:Yesterday, Violet and I came home to a cold house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:07:00

Mmmm Coffee!

I took the girls to MIL’s after going to the grocery store. She seemed pleased and I’m home in a quiet house enjoying coffee with this stevia stuff! I can’t do the no sugar so at least this is chemical and calorie free.  Otherwise, I’m doing great ... to start off life with a free bedroom set. I know I would have appreciated it.Ok, back to cleaning!Oh [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:35:51

Rotonda Home for Sale. House FSBO in Rotonda, Florida 33947 (USD 219,900)

Rotonda home for sale, Florida, 33947. 3/2/2 Pool Home in Rotonda West Broadmoore. Home has 3 bedrooms,2 baths, 2 car garage an a familyroom ... ,with side by side refrg, ice and water in the door, self cleaning range,microwave rangehood,dishwasher,disposal, pullout faucet, granite countertops, recessed lighting and more....All tile floors carpeted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:35:55

Live-In Housekeepers: Keys To An Easier Life

by Alice Sy If given the opportunity, everybody would prefer to have live-in housekeepers in their home ... in your house most of the time. Basic interview questions should deal with the following: number ... you should be asking your potential candidates is how they feel about cleaning, cooking, taking care [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 15:21:52

Out of the mouths of Babes...

Chris and I were cleaning up around the house this weekend and Grace says to us, "Are we having people over?" I found it both humorous and sad that my child thinks that the only time we clean toilets and do laundry is because company is coming. Last night we were driving home from a fun afternoon [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:21:00

New Year, New Start & Yaro Interviewed Me :)

Well Happy New Year to you all, hopefully by now you are fully settled into 2009 ... Christmas and officially moved in on the 2nd Jan. Since then I have been busy cleaning, decorating, shopping, assembling furniture and all that stuff that goes with making a house a home so that’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:22:24

Pinny Porn?!

Thanks to Bitter Girl I now know it has a name! Pinny Porn! Or as many know it, Domestic Porn ... Stewart-like publications; they make me ill while also making me think my home isn't clean or organized ... and a weird fixation more than anything. But, it creeped into my everyday life and I try to be all house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:16:24

House and Home

No sewing to show you. Instead I spent the weekend cleaning, tidying and baking (bread and banana bread) ... plates and used tissues on the sofa on FL’s side of the room… and a constipated little knot of knitting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:47:00

In-Home Getaway

JP and I have had a few opportunities to get away since Landon has been born, ... things came together to create the perfect mini vacation: my office was closed for MLK, JP's classes ... the rest of the day running some much needed errands and cleaning the house. JP got three business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:56:00

Going Green: Artificial Lawns for Homes

Artificial lawns for homes accomplish two things other than the obvious ... . Some of these products for example include house-cleaning products made from natural ingredients, CFL lighting ... and age going green. Protecting the environment has come to the surface today and many companies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:24:07

trashout

trashout n. The disposal of the entire contents of an abandoned house. Also: trash-out; trash out ... . His job is to landfill everything, from the leather couches to the "What Color Is It?" baby book ... " — for clearing out and cleaning up foreclosed homes. —Brian Feagans, "Debris hints at foreclosures [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 16:07:32

Selling Cleveland Home

Selling Cleveland Home by Won Kim Selling your home is a very stressful period in one’s life ... . You can either hire the carpet cleaning machine yourself or arrange for a professional team ... idea then to spend some time cleaning all lighting fittings in the house and replace the current bulbs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:14:20

Keeping Banned Materials Out Of The House

My wife and I have constantly been trying to get rid of toxic materials from our house as part of Our Green Year, and over 230 days into it, ... to the fumes. Some paint thinners and dry cleaning products also contain this. It should always be avoided ... wicks, white paint dust, soil outside homes and even in drinking water. Dry cleaning is very popular [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 17:30:21

Home Sweet Home

I know I wanted one even before I got married and I am not giving up on that dream. I know someday I’ll be decorating my own house, furnishing my own bedroom, cleaning my very own ... to wish for something you want for yourself right? See the fireplace? and the high windows? Reminds [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 17:32:00

51 - 100 of 145 Posts
Page: First | < Preceding | Next >
0 | 1 | 2