household management

Bed skirts are wonderful for finishing a bed and hiding what’s underneath it. We had this eyelet bed skirt in our 5 year old son’s room. It was starting to take a beating from jumping on the bed (no, we don’t allow it!) and little kid rough housing. It’s ripped and it constantly shifted and looked, well, like this most of the time no matter how much I straightened or mended it. I finally got smart and used a fitted sheet on the box spring. I was hanging on to this sheet because it had a tear on the top

The Back StoryMy laptop is giving us trouble. We can’t log on. Hubby is trying to fix it but we need the Windows key number that would have come with the laptop when we bought it. Problem: we can’t find the information for the laptop. It’s somewhere in the house but we can’t find it. The Original SystemWe generally keep manuals in a clear bag over the oven in that high small cupboard that is cut into a small usable area by the fan exhaust vent. Usually it works great but you have to dig through the entire contents to

While I was on my hands and knees to clean the grout on my floors using the amazing grout cleaner recipe I found on Pinterest, I got really up close and personal to the baseboards. They had really taken a beating from our own little people and the daycare children I care for. The scuffs started bothering me more and more as the month progressed so I decided to clean them. I scrubbed at the baseboards and they still had that scuffed look to them. Today I got out the trim paint and touched up the baseboards and the trim

I’m still fighting this cough and cold and barely have energy. Today I do have a little so I’m cleaning the kids rooms. I don’t have a before for my 6 year old daughter’s but it is now thoroughly cleaned and decluttered. It’s a haven again. Just picture no cleared surfaces. Her drawers have also been organized plus the windows have been thrown open to air out the bedrooms. I didn’t realise it at the time but it only took me 30 minutes to get through it. The dread of tackling it took days and then for only 30 minutes?