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Clean For Green

How clean is your home? So many of us whine and complain that cleaning our living space is a never-ending chore. We wake up from deep slumbers with a smile on our face remembering the dream we just had:  The one where our entire house was clean for more than a couple of hours. Household chores are part of a vicious cycle that will follow us to our graves.  But, would your take on washing dishes, dusting and scrubbing toilets change if you were given cold hard cash to complete them? One of the most popular home businesses out there … Continue reading →

Fire Your Maid Service and Get Your Family Cleaning

Admittedly, I wouldn’t say no to maid service, if it was free that is. Since it isn’t I have to rely on myself and my family to do the cleaning. Getting three kids to clean is a chore in itself, even when just has to do with cleaning up after themselves. Still, I’d rather have train the family to clean than pay for a maid. Plus, this way, my kids get some valuable real-life lessons, thrown in. Routine is Everything Establish some cleaning routines, and cleaning won’t take up so much time. It is easier to do a quick wipe … Continue reading →

Turn Up The Music

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Do you like housecleaning? I don’t think it’s at the top of most people’s favorite things to do list, but there are times when I really enjoy it. Housecleaning is a totally mindless chore. If I just need to burn off some energy doing something I don’t have to think about, housework is perfect. After all, it takes very little brain power to scrub a toilet. It’s also perfect for those times I have a lot on my mind and just need some thinking space. I can scrub and shine while working through a problem in my head. The great … Continue reading →

Spring Cleaning: What To Do After You Purge Your Closets

Currently, it is –5 degrees Fahrenheit in my neck of the woods (-26 degrees with the windchill). Nowhere near spring-like temperatures, but that’s not stopping me from continuing my “spring cleaning” project. Last week, I told you that I was purging my home in an effort to find space for all the goodies we received over the holidays. Today I worked on the front closet and my daughter’s closet. The latter was a lot more challenging than the former. My daughter had a major growth spurt during our recent trip to Hawaii (she went from fitting into 2T’s to now … Continue reading →

The Allergy Patrol

Do you or someone you love suffer from allergies? A monthly allergy patrol can help get rid of allergy triggers and help you live a little more comfortably. Use air filters on the heat vents in the rooms you use the most. You can use disposable cheesecloth — replace the cloth monthly — or pick reusable filters. Just don’t cover every vent in the house, because that can strain your heating system. Wipe down walls and ceilings once a month with a wet or magnetically charged cloth. You’ll be amazed at how much dust, dirt, and cobwebs you clear away. … Continue reading →

Deflecting Dust Even If Doesn’t Want to Go

Is there anything we can do to keep dust away from us or is it a hopeless cause? Dust is a fact of life but like most facts and figures it can be happily distorted to suit our own dark and clandestine purposes. Consider the following options: Keep your windows closed on windy days. My original thought was that keeping them open would be a better idea, as it would get rid of existing dust, but alas, I was wrong. If you live in a city, desert or agricultural area (in fact, anywhere except maybe a rain forest), it is … Continue reading →

How To Make Your House Look Clean for Company

Keeping up appearances is a little like keeping up with the Jones’s. It never ends, although once it starts, it permeates every aspect of one’s being, living expenses and household. One thing to bear in mind as the holidays approach and company is sure to arrive is to furnish your home for living rather than for ornamental purposes. Un-decorate. Too many knick-knacks are not only a source for more dust, but cleaning them can also give you a migraine and a pain even lower than that. Understatement is best, as Liberace use to say. Consider camouflage as a solution to … Continue reading →

The Automatic Dust Pan: Dust Troubles Away

The SweepEZE Vacuuming Dust Pan is truly what they won’t think of next but before it happened. This appliance has a powerful 600-watt motor and is capable of picking up all forms of trash and debris, except for “white trash” and being that this is America, trailer trash, in all different hues, shades and religious denominations. The SweepEZE never needs to be turned on as it is perpetually aroused by the task before it via an internal microprocessor, which activates the “electric dust pan” for a specific time period. The presence of debris is indicated by its infrared beam, which … Continue reading →

Cleaning The House: A Study in Procrastination

Samuel Butler once referred to cleanliness as being next to godliness. I wouldn’t dare to argue the point, but if you are anything like me, the very last thing you would choose to do out of a list of a hundred possibilities, is clean the house. Don’t get me wrong. I am not a dirty person; I have to clean and I know it. It’s just that I have more excuses than anyone I ever met for putting it off to the last possible moment. Let’s start with vacuuming. (I would say, better that you start, but it is my … Continue reading →

Compare & Contrast Fitness

Yesterday, we talked about the do it yourself activities that can improve your level of daily exercise without the grind of the gym – compare what you can do versus the time you spend in the gym. Moderate Activity List You should perform one or more of these activities for up to 60 minutes a day five days a week. You can combine them – for example walking the dog and washing the car for thirty minutes each can equal sixty minutes in a day. Walking the dog on a level surface. Playing an instrument while moving. Singing while moving. … Continue reading →