October 7, 2015 5:19 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Whether you are a polisher or a procrastinator, this fun online quiz helps you sort out your car-care personality and gives you customized car cleaning tips to bring out the best in your vehicle and the time you spend in it. No matter what your results are, we can all
September 16, 2015 5:46 am•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
The appeal of the kitchen junk drawer is undeniable. It’s one of the few places in your home where you can safely stash all of those small items that might otherwise get lost. From frequently used things like scissors, magnets and bag clips, to money-saving
September 30, 2015 4:20 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
When you put a home on the market, especially in today’s climate, the pressure is on to make every showing count. And while it’s hard to believe that someone could reject a home’s potential
September 16, 2015 5:46 am•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Whether you live in a comfy cottage or a grand estate, your home is your personal domain. It’s that private place where you can escape from the demands of the outside world. Keeping it clean and fresh makes your home all the more welcoming at the end of a hectic
September 23, 2015 5:51 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Our homes often tell our stories before we do, and so does how we clean them. In fact, your cleaning methods and mess-tolerance can actually give some good insight on what is important to
January 11, 2022 12:33 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
The sage advice of “sleep while your baby sleeps” often goes unheeded by new parents, especially parents of new babies and older children. We all know that nap times prove to be some of the
August 10, 2015 8:43 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Your bedroom might not seem like the soul of your home anymore—that’s probably the kitchen these days—but it’s still a very important place. It’s the area of the house that’s exclusively yours, where you and your sweetheart can unwind after a long day. But if your
January 12, 2022 2:30 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Before I get started, I want you to know that I’m a dog person. I love the look they get on their faces when you come home, the energy they inject into a room, and the way they just seem to
January 12, 2022 2:54 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
That feeling. You know the one. The one when you first walk into your home after your cleaning team is done, and all is right with the world. The one with gleaming floors and vacuum lines and
August 5, 2015 4:59 am•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Summer means sunny days, gorgeous nights and the occasional humid or dry heat. Depending on where you are in the country, it might be your favorite (or most hated) season. One thing we can all agree on is that committing yourself to a deep cleaning when it’s over 100
October 19, 2020 5:20 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Grilling and eating outside has so many great benefits: Vitamin D, fresh air, a change of scenery and, most importantly, it allows us to take advantage of our recently cleaned home—by keeping it that way. Without those long and lovely days luring our families outside,
August 5, 2015 4:59 am•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
The summer heat is here, and for many, that means hanging out in the air conditioning and pretending you can’t fry an egg on the pavement outside. But what about those of us who don’t have the luxury of AC? Don’t worry, all hope is not lost—you can still enjoy the hot
August 19, 2015 9:44 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
With the first day of school right around the corner, we thought we’d reflect back (in some cases way, way back) about our first days in kindergarten and the lessons we learned there. It’s
August 5, 2015 4:59 am•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Despite what you see in magazines and on Pinterest, not every bathroom is a sprawling ode to marble and gilded fittings. In fact, some are downright small. This doesn’t mean you need to give up all hope of having a nice space for a quiet sit-down—far from it. To help
August 13, 2015 4:45 am•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Whether you’re in a short term rental for work, vacation or a major relocation with your whole family, it’s important you make the space feel like home. We partnered with HomeSuite, experts at finding luxurious and homey short term spaces, to show you some great ideas
January 31, 2020 2:29 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
I was in your shoes once. I waited until my family was asleep, snuck down the toy-strewn stairs, around piles of laundry with ninja-like agility, and snuck onto the computer to ask the
August 5, 2015 10:13 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
“Simplify Your Life Week” is the first week of August, and just in time for the new school year. We’re taking the first step and giving you all of our home organization blogs in one
July 9, 2015 7:56 am•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Kids are messy. That’s something all parents learn at one point or another. Wherever your child is, at some point the order you’ve surrounded them with will become chaos. That’s especially true, and even amplified, for kids in sports. Just about every athletic pursuit
July 29, 2015 9:12 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
If you find yourself retiring from the conventional workforce, you aren’t alone. In fact, this year could see as many as 4 million people retiring, to the tune of 11,000 a day. The
January 18, 2021 4:55 pm•Cleaning Tips, Tricks, and Tools
The American Pet Product Association (APPA) found in a survey that American pet lovers share their homes with 78.2 million dogs and 86.4 million cats. (Need a reference point? In that same