Housekeeping
Getting Started: How To Keep Track Of What’s In The Freezer
It is fairly easy for me to lose track of what food is in the house. I buy ingredients, but perhaps the meal never got made, or I forgot to include an ingredient.
Managing food in the pantry is fairly easy, because I can see what is in there. However, the freezer is another matter. Food [...]
Saving Time: Waxing the Shower
One of my least favorite tasks is cleaning showers and tubs. The amount of effort it takes to get even a few days of soap scum off seems disproportionate to the removed material. Even with my secret tool (Gadgets We Love: Mr. Clean Erasers), I still want to minimize this time-consuming task.
My choice? I [...]
Getting Started: Household Rotation Part Deux
In a previous article (Getting Started: The Basic Housework Rotation), I talked about they Why of household rotation, as well as how to set up the framework of the rotation. Once you decide on which rooms get attention, though, you need to decide what will happen in each room. Here is a framework of questions [...]
My Weekly Cleaning
In my scheme to keep things clean, I work daily on my rotation (Getting Started: The Basic Housework Rotation), but there are things that need to be kept up with more often.
How disgusting would it be if the bathrooms were left completely alone and only cleaned once a month? I don’t know about your home, [...]
Getting Started: The Basic Housework Rotation
Housework is something that is never done. Even if we do a massive cleaning twice a year, as our mothers and grandmothers did, we still need to keep up with the work in between.
Back in the days of coal or wood heat, and before the days of automatic washing machines, it was necessary to do [...]
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