Archive Category: 'Homemaking'

• Fragrant Home: 13 Simmering Pot Recipes: This is a lovely way to make your home smell warm and inviting. Just fill a pot with water, add your favorite ingredients and simmer all day. This also helps humidify the home a bit. The recipes below are just guidelines, you can use different amounts and mix up ingredients as you like. Experiment to [...]
• ABC’s Of Decorating: Tip Sheet: The best way to begin home planning is to forget all the talk about changes in architecture, equipment, materials, and design. No matter what improvements come about in structure, design, or utility, a lounge chair will still be a lounge chair, and good chintz will remain a good chintz. The fundamental rules never change, they are [...]
• Budget Decorating Tip: Frame Decorative Pictures From Books: With a sharp razor blade or exacto knife, you can fill piles of picture frames cheaply and easily with just one picture book! Because the collection of illustrations are from one book, they’re easy to mix and match as you wish–each are the same size and of the same subject. Use a sharp razor and a careful [...]
• How To Get Your Spouse To Do Housework: Today’s feature is from CanadianParents.com with How to Get a Man to do Housework: Here’s the key: we men want to feel that we are doing housework either because we want to do a task (usually because we are good at), or because we simply want to please our women. Men are much less likely to take [...]
• 10 Secrets To Rewarding Homemaking: Know: You are a Home Manager, not a slave, martyr or responder to chaos. Each day is a fresh start with new things to accomplish and feel pride for. Realize: Actively managing your home is one way to nurture your family and their environment. There will be positive reflections: a more harmonious household, a little more [...]
• Puttery Treats For A Lovely New Day: Today’s feature is from Brocante Home with Puttery Treats For A Lovely New Day, you’ll find a glorious list of creative (and beautiful) ideas that are simple to implement yet guaranteed to make the ordinary a little more special. Here’s a sampling: Steep finely chopped sage leaves in distilled boiling water for one hour. Filter, decant into [...]
• Not The Step-By-Step Guide To Simple Living: Today’s feature is a new-to-me blog: Down—To—Earth: Simple Living. I discovered this blog when it recently linked to Tipnut and I had some time to browse around the site (sometimes that happens!)…I have become a big fan . It’s a terrific blog that shares all kinds of things (including fun project swaps), but the overall [...]
• 10 Easy Household Time Savers: Keep the dishwasher open and fill with dirty dishes as you cook. Have a sink full of hot soapy water to hold the hand wash items so they can soak and be easily cleaned. If you don’t have a dishwasher, wash the dishes by hand while you’re waiting for the meal to cook. No more [...]
• 40 Household Jobs In 5 Minutes or Less: Today’s feature is from Woman’s Day Magazine with 40 Household Jobs In 5 Minutes or Less, I’ve also included another 12 ideas below: You’ve done it, you know you have: looked at a messy room, sighed and walked away. Just thinking about cleaning the house is enough to exhaust, and deter, most of us. Then one [...]
• 10 ReaLemon Juice Household Hacks Plus Bonus Recipe: Garden Grit Hand Cleaner: Splash some ReaLemon in your hands and scrub in hot soap and water. Gets the grime off lickety-split. Laundry Booster: Toss in a half cup of ReaLemon (plus laundry detergent) when washing whites. Also a good stain pretreater (for whites), just spritz on some ReaLemon and soak before washing. You could also [...]
• The Homemaker’s Fitness Plan: Hate the treadmill? Pilates not for you? Give yourself a daily workout by choosing one chore over and above what you already do daily–one that will improve your home and make you sweat at the same time. Aim for a task that will last a solid 30 to 60 minutes. You’ll want to do these at [...]
• 10 Productive Things You Can Do While Watching TV: Mending & small household item repairs Knit / crochet / needlework / crafts Organize mail, filing and clip coupons Clean, organize and dust the TV room including knick knacks & trinkets Sort and clean junk drawers and drawers from other rooms Organize collections (CDs, DVDs, Craft Supplies, Photos, etc.) Stretching & exercises Brush/Groom pets Balance checkbook, review bills, bank & credit card statements [...]
• Inspiration For A Clean & Organized Home: Today’s feature tip includes two great sites, first a blog post from Homeliving Helper with Reasons We Need Orderly, Clean Houses: I realize that most people do not have these elegant rooms, but I chose the pictures because they depict orderly and clean rooms. It is always good to hold before us a picture to aspire [...]