Managing Your Household Checklists

Managing Your Household Checklists

Household checklists are they single best tool for keeping control of a busy home. Household management binders, folders, or something similar will save your sanity especially when life is changing fastest. If you are considering outsourcing any of your house work,...
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...
Expanding Your House Cleaning

Expanding Your House Cleaning

If your routine house cleaning is going well, it won’t be long before you want to expand it. In my experience this can be met with mixed reviews by your house cleaner. If you are working with a service, they may not provide custom services AKA “we...
Improving Your Relationship With Your House Cleaner

Improving Your Relationship With Your House Cleaner

You tried a cleaner, but it is not working out?  Before you do anything, lets review some possible problems: Have you communicated your needs and wants sufficiently? Are your expectations are too high? Have you given them enough time to adjust? Do they have enough...
Do Not Clean Your House – Starting Your Cleaner

Do Not Clean Your House – Starting Your Cleaner

Now that you have selected a house cleaner (see: Find Your Ideal House Cleaner), it is time to prepare. No, you shall not clean your house before they come. Unless you really need to. My house got so bad once that I had to call a service to arrange a spring cleaning...