I have a confession to make: even though this is a blog that includes housekeeping advice, I have recently hired a house cleaner. I feel like Ali Landry’s character in Legally Blonde: a celebrity fitness instructor who gets liposuction. But here’s the deal with why I hired the cleaning lady:…
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Do y’all make your own cleaning products? I do and there are so many benefits! Low cost: instead of spending a few dollars on a bottle of all-purpose cleaner, I buy one giant jug of vinegar that gives me several spray bottles full of homemade cleaner Low waste: When your…
It seems that if one has a blog one is obligated to have a New Year’s post. I slacked off last year, what with forgetting how to post and all, but my very first blog post was a resolutions post so let’s pretend this is a grand tradition in the…
Maybe cleaning out your closet isn’t your favorite day of the year, but it’s definitely mine. I mean, I do it throughout the year, but I have a once-yearly Big Purge that is pretty great. And pretty strict. The key to my Big Purge is that I give myself the…
A few weeks ago I started to make some potato soup and when I sat down to wait for it to boil, I fell asleep. Not great. The pot boiled over and burned a ring of starch onto my cooktop for some time before the acrid smell woke me up. …