Clean house fast and furious! Learn the secrets of professional cleaners, make your own cleaning products, and get the family onboard in your clean and organized home.
Speed Cleaning Tips From Professional Cleaners
Paid cleaning help can be a wonderful short-cut to a clean and organized home--if the household budget can stand the cost.
But what do you do if the Prize Patrol bypassed your door this year?
Take a speed-cleaning lesson from the pros! Paid cleaning services are masters of the art of speedy, efficient cleaning. They don't waste time, cut corners or dawdle over the job--and they know how to clean fast, clean right.
Take a tip from their copybook. To clean your house in record time, try these tips from professional cleaners: More »
New Year In The Kitchen? Clean Out The Refrigerator!
Think about it! The refrigerator holds it all: food and finance, weight and well-being, organization and chaos, all rolled into one big cold box. Dive into that baby with a detached eye, a hardened heart and one small hour of time and you're on the road to weight loss, better household management, and a healthier budget.
The timing couldn't be better, because I know what your refrigerator looks like! Plastic food storage containers pile in unsteady ziggurats in every corner--and why is it that the largest bowls and boxes hold the smallest amounts of food? More »
Winter Preparedness Checklist
When wintry weather blows, will your family be prepared?
Winter brings special seasonal challenges to an organized home. Winter storms can make navigating roads and walkways hazardous; power outages and snow days highlight any family's readiness for cold weather.
Take time now to review your family's emergency preparedness with this Winter Preparedness Checklist. It'll help you prepare your home and automobile for cold-weather hazards. More »
Fall Cleaning Chore Checklist
It's Autumn.
Pumpkins glow in golden fields. Shorter days, crisp mornings signal winter's approach. Can the holidays be far behind?
Use Autumn's brisk and breezy days to conquer deep-cleaning chores for a clean and comfortable winter home, and wrap up summer's outdoor areas.
Our Fall Cleaning Chore Checklist will help you prepare home and hearth for the coming of winter: More »
Kids and Chores: Chilling The Chore Wars
When it comes to kids and housework, the blasted terrain is familiar: a dirty house, balky children, and frazzled, frustrated parents.
Tired parents try it all, from chore charts to screaming fits. Canny children engage in housework sabotage, selective hearing or childish irresponsibility to duck assignments. The noise levels--and stress levels--rise along with the stacks of dishes.
How to negotiate a peace on the issue of children and chores? Try these family-tested strategies to calm the conflict and gain the goal: More »
Summer Cleaning Chore Checklist
Summer's here, hot, high and sweaty. Vacations beckon. The garden takes on a life of its own.
Busy families don't have much time for home chores these months. School's out, travel's in and it's easy to let life slide on the home front.
Still, summer will run more smoothly if you keep tabs on these important areas in the Summer Cleaning Chore Checklist.
Our checklist list tackles hot-weather issues, summer health and safety: More »
