With these clever uses for your phone's camera, you've got a powerful personal assistant right in the palm of your hand. Let's be honest for a minute: your phone is probably either in your hand right now or not far from it. We're so addicted to our smartphones that, in any given instant, we can find it more easily than we can our car keys. It's that accessibility which makes your phone a … [Read more...]
How To Reduce Dust In Your Home
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If you have allergy sufferers in your family, you've probably wondered how to reduce dust in your home. According to the makers of one furniture spray, the average home collects 40 lbs. of dust in one year. Forty pounds! Where does dust come from? We often hear that dust is mostly dead skin, but that's not true. Dead skin cells may wind up in your mattress if it's not properly covered -- … [Read more...]
8 Quick Tips For Post-Holiday Cleanup
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Now that your houseguests are gone, and the kids have come down from their gift-opening high (which only took 5 minutes or so, right?), here are some tips for post-holiday cleanup to get your place looking spiffy for New Year's Eve. Keep in mind, superstition says you shouldn't throw anything away or even wash dishes on New Year's Day, or you'll face a year of loss and toil. Do this … [Read more...]
6 Old Time Cleaning Myths BUSTED!
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If you fall for these cleaning myths, they'll leave you with a dirtier home and, in some cases, can cause permanent damage to your belongings. Most of these cleaning myths started with a grain of truth, like the one about using newspapers to clean windows. That's the case for a lot of household tips handed down by our grandmothers. But times have changed since Grandma's day, and so have … [Read more...]
How To Clean Messes In The Dryer
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Around the time my teenage son started Driver's Ed classes, I decided that if he's old enough to drive a car, he is also old enough to wash his clothes. Yes, I probably should have expected him to do his own laundry a few years earlier but he's my youngest and, as anyone who was the oldest or middle kid knows, the youngest gets spoiled while Mom struggles to let go. I was so certain this … [Read more...]
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