Category Archives: Cleaning and Laundry

How Much Should I Keep?

By Angela | Published: April 14, 2011
This is a very personal question and only you can answer it completely, but I’d like to write down what makes me and my family most happy. Sometimes I forget and hold on to too much and it makes us miserable.  I’m so excited to have a permanent record to come back and read to [...]
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Guest Post: Decluttering Starts in Your Brain

By Angela | Published: April 13, 2011
Meet Jill Farris.  I don’t know where to begin to introduce this amazing woman to you.  She is a long time homeschooler, writer, and speaker and has spent much of her life working with Wycliffe in Bible translation.  There’s so much more to her than that though and you’ll be blessed if you click over to [...]
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Guest Post: Carolyn from A Purpose Driven Home

By Angela | Published: April 12, 2011
Hello, there! I am Carolyn from A Purpose Driven Home, where you can find simple and motivating tips on how to manage all things home and family. I am excited to be sharing with you some ideas on how to create more space to organize in your home. Finding a place for everything is the [...]
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6 Steps to take your room from How? to Wow!

By Angela | Published: April 11, 2011
Decorating is an art.  The truly gifted can see a room’s potential and how it will look in perfection like Mozart heard a symphony with all the instrumental voices in their harmonious parts before he wrote a note.  The rest of us can still decorate or even write music, if we come at it from [...]
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Help Children Help

By Angela | Published: April 9, 2011
My mom had the brilliant idea a few years back to personalize dish tubs for all of the children.  We wash all of our clothes together and as we fold, we can place each child’s clothes in his or her own tub.   It is small and lightweight so even our toddlers can carry it to [...]
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Guest Post: Michelle from Lovely By M

By Angela | Published: April 8, 2011
Hi, I’m Michelle from the blog Lovely by M and the website/shop Twig Creative. I’ve always considered myself a clean freak; I grew up never being told to make my bed or clean my room because it was already done!  Now as a stay at home mom with a one year old little girl, I’ve [...]
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Liquid Laundry Soap

By Angela | Published: April 7, 2011
Yesterday, Stacy, our guest from Stacy Makes Cents, shared with us her favorite Powdered Laundry Soap Recipe.  This is the one she uses most becuase it is so easy and mess free to store.  But I know many of you interested in liquid laundry soap since it is already dissolved completely.  Stacy is back with [...]
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Homemade Powdered Laundry Soap

By Angela | Published: April 6, 2011
One of the most popular parts of my blog are the free homemade cleaning recipes.  And the #1 asked question is for a recipe for homemade laundry soap?  I used to make my own, but after a few months, it no longer satisfied me. I now buy Arm and Hammer brand powdered detergent from Wal-mart which is [...]
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How to be Successful at Line Drying

By Angela | Published: April 4, 2011
Did you pause at the title of this post?  I mean, how can you mess up line drying?  I hope most of you have it down perfectly, but so many people quit after a bit because: 1.  Their clothes come out stiff and wrinkled 2.  They get black marks from the line 3.  Their neighborhood [...]
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Getting Stains out of Stored Clothes

By Angela | Published: April 2, 2011
Have you ever opened a tub of baby clothes that were clean when you put them away and are now covered with yellow or light brown stains?  It’s so heart breaking, but don’t even think about throwing them away.  For $1, and 24 hours you can remove all those stains and make the clothes as [...]
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