5 Bad Excuses for Doing Everything Yourself

5 Bad Excuses for Doing Everything Yourself

There are not enough hours in a day. And there never will be. You’re coming home from work, a million thoughts bouncing around in your head. That meeting with your boss in the morning, the emails you need to reply to, and that phone call you’ve been...
Love Spring Cleaning At Last

Love Spring Cleaning At Last

Every post-holiday brings with it a desire to clear the decks and start fresh. They generate so much clutter. The front hall is piled in bags of old wrapping paper and suitcases, the living room is half consumed by decorations and the dust is piling up, and the...
Dig Yourself Out of That Pile

Dig Yourself Out of That Pile

Laundry is daunting and overwhelming, and it never ends! As soon as you get the basket empty, someone comes along to fill it again. If you want to control it, first you need to make it manageable. Figure out your laundry style. Don’t know your style? Find out...
Get That Load Off Your Back

Get That Load Off Your Back

Of all the chores in my house; laundry has always been my weakness. Only when I couldn’t do it, did I finally master it. Nothing to Wear When I was young, I had to call in sick to work twice because I had no clean clothes. More than once I woke up in the morning...
From Chaos to Organized in One Day

From Chaos to Organized in One Day

Home Organization has always been like a myth, something I hope is true, but can’t quite believe in, until recently. I just organized my whole house in half a day! You probably think I am making this up or exaggerating, but I’m not; even I am surprised. If...
Firing Your House Cleaner

Firing Your House Cleaner

You’ve read Improving Your House Cleaning and you’re sure It’s Not You, It’s Them. It happens; like everything else in life, there are good matches and bad matches.  Let me tell you a few stories about bad matches: The cleaner who was always in...