Laundry: When You’re Almost Done
September 4, 2008 in Homekeeping
photo by Multiple fragments of tissueDo you procrastinate folding and putting clean clothes away?
It usually comes down to two reasons:
1. It’s a pain.
2. You don’t feel like it.
By the time you have gathered, sorted, pretreated, washed, and dried your laundry, you really just want to quit.
The down side is if you don’t put your [...]
Avoiding the Laundry Pileup
September 2, 2008 in Homekeeping
Oh, laundry. It’s a job that never ends. How can we keep the laundry from piling up so that we can have the satisfaction of clean clothes all put away?
In my college days I used to do laundry only once a month. I would wear every single thing I owned before I finally made time to [...]
Poll: Last-Minute Guests!
August 15, 2008 in Homekeeping
You just found out guests are coming over in 5 minutes. Are you prepared?
Do you:
A. Feel confident that your home is presentable. Know that you can open the door with a smile, and even offer your guests a snack.
B. Look around, hmm, it looks pretty good. Rearrange your piles to be a little neater, maybe [...]
How to Make Natural Cleaners Work Better
August 7, 2008 in Homekeeping
As much as I like using natural cleaners in my home, sometimes they need a little oomph.
Surface Cleaning
Vinegar mixed with water is my favorite glass and surface cleaner, but it’s not always enough. I’ve found that adding a small squirt of liquid dish soap makes it much more effective. It cleans spots off glass and [...]
Best Stain Remover Ever
July 17, 2008 in Homekeeping
You’d never know that a toddler ate played with blueberries in this shirt.
When our white t-shirts start to look a little grungy by midsummer, it’s time to freshen them up. For stains that don’t go away after trying other stain removers, here is what works for practically anything:
Heat up some water in a big pot [...]
Read more...Scenes From My Day
May 10, 2008 in Homekeeping
The outdoors can be so dirty. Dusting ensued.
This lucky spider survived the dusting.
Its web hangs perilously on the oleander, which is no longer dusty.
Read more...The Clothesline
April 23, 2008 in Homekeeping
Today was the first day of the new clothesline. Lane thought it was absolutely hilarious, and she laughed and played underneath the sheets.
Then she ran inside to get her clothes that she wanted to hang on the clothesline too.
Read more...Honeyman
April 22, 2008 in Homekeeping
I was really happy for Doug to get out his drill and put up a new clothesline on the patio today. The one I used last summer was a fold-up drying rack. I still use it all the time for hand-washables, but it was too small for drying a full load of laundry.
We decided [...]
Read more...Spring Cleaning – Little Clothes
April 12, 2008 in Homekeeping
More beautiful springtime weather today, so I braved the nostalgia and cleaned out Lane’s closet. I put away winter clothes, sorted out a few to donate, and rearranged things a bit to make room in her closet. There were new Spring clothes to hang up.
These are the clothes that Doug and I bought [...]
Read more...Spring Cleaning
April 10, 2008 in Homekeeping
It rained hard last night, so this afternoon when the sun came out and the air was clean, it was the perfect chance to throw open the windows and do some spring cleaning. We spent most of the time outside on the patio, me and my helper. We cleaned the teak patio furniture [...]
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