Housekeeping

How To Keep A Bathroom Clean

The bathroom is one room that has the potential to get the most grubby because of its usage. Between things that are left behind, and things that grow, the bathroom can quickly get out of hand. And when it is out of hand, it means hours of hard cleaning.
But it is possible to have a [...]

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, [...]