Moving day is around the corner - are you ready? Here are some suggestions for making the transition to your new home as easy as possible.
You've got three half-full bottles of vinegar in your cupboard and your utensil drawer is a minefield of knife tips and mangled wire whisks. Time to get organized!
Getting organized is basically a matter of developing good habits. Organize your time, home and work space for more productive living.
If your china makes it out only for special occasions, keep it safe and clean in the off-season with these easy steps.
Invest just a little time planning your day, and accomplish more things smoothly.
Here are some regular, simple steps you can take that can help keep repair costs down and your home in good condition.
Children's closets can easily become cluttered and disorganized, but there are many ways to make the most of even a very small closet in your child's room.
So you're a pack rat? Set aside a couple of hours to clean out your closet. All it takes is a little organization to bring order to the chaos.
Plastic grocery bags Type 2 (high-density polyethylene film - HDPE) and Type 4 (low density or linear-low density polyethylene film - LDPE/LLDPE) can be recycled at your local supermarket and...
Magazines are expensive and add to the waste stream, a.k.a. trash, in your community. For both reasons, it pays to check out the following tips for reusing and recycling magazines.
Superglue (cyanoacrylate) has many uses. Besides the typical household function of sticking things together, it's used in surgical procedures and even in crime labs to develop unseen fingerprints....
If you have mice or rats, get rid of them fast. Peanut butter, grains and cereals or cooked bacon make appetizing bait for traps. Some animals will outsmart any trap. The best approach is to...
Personal organizers can help you tackle organizational nightmares like overstuffed closets or garages. They also can help set up an efficient home office or create time management systems specific...
Your home phone number and address are a hotly traded commodity for retailers, telemarketers, credit card companies and direct-mail companies. Guard your private information carefully to help...
Need a bigger house? You probably just need to corral the contents inside the home you have. Start by getting rid of what you can-- anything broken beyond repair, items no longer used, clothes...
More and more people are taking care of their ill loved ones at home.
One reason is that many prescription drugs can be safely administered
there. If you find yourself in charge of a complicated...
Your old letters, diaries, Bibles and photographs are your family's history,
and time is their enemy. Paper is biodegradable--a process you
want to impede if your grandchildren are going to enjoy...
You've got recipe boxes full of family favorites, folders of torn out
pages from food magazines, newspaper clippings and a computer of
downloaded recipes from your go-to cooking site. How can you...
Do you dart around the grocery store like a chicken with its head cut
off? Invest the time to organize your shopping list, and every trip to
come will be a breeze. The most effective lists are...
You've smugly patted yourself on the back for how much cash your
recent shopping spree saved you. But unless you have a restaurantsize
walk-in refrigerator, those flats of yogurt and vats of...