Household Tips and Tricks

Keeping it clean one house at a time

Tip #5


With a busy life style it is hard to take a whole day for cleaning the house from top to bottom. I have found that it is easer and less stressful if I break down all the household chores into a regular weekly and monthly rotation schedule. When I do it this way it insures that nothing goes undone for more than one week or one month depending on the chore.


Make two list of your cleaning chores that you do weekly and monthly. Once you have your list break it into days that each chore will get done.


Weekly List of Chores


• Showers and Tubs
• Toilets and sinks
• Mop
• Mirrors and Glass doors
• Dust
• Vacuum and Sweep (I do this twice a week)
• Microwave


Monthly List of Chores


• Ceiling Fans
• Refrigerator
• Baseboards
• Cobwebs
• High Selves and High Tops of Furniture
• Oven


My kitchen gets cleaned daily. (After every meal)


I do not do household chores on Saturday or Sunday. Saturdays are for yard work and Sundays are for Church and family gatherings.


Here is what my week looks like at a glance


Monday Sweep/Mop/Vacuum


Tuesday Shower/Tubs/Bathroom Sinks/Toilets


Wednesday Mirrors and Glass doors


Thursday Dust and Microwave


Friday Sweep and Vacuum


Monthly chores I combine my monthly chores on the days that I have the fewest chores for the week or the ones that take me the shortest amount of time.


1st Wednesday of every month Ceiling Fans


1st Thursday of every month Baseboards


2nd Wednesday of every month Cobwebs


2nd Thursday of every month High Shelves and Tops Furniture


3rd Wednesday of every month Oven


4th Wednesday of every month Clean out refrigerator (drawers and wipe down shelves) I do this right before my first of the month grocery shopping which is my biggest shopping trip of the month.

Dresser Drawer Organization

The New Year is here and with that always comes trying to get organized.  I have been trying to organize through out our home since we moved in 1 ½ years ago.  I’m getting there and one of the last things that need to be concurred is everyone’s dressers.  Come on we all have those drawers that we just toss the items in after the wash, here is a picture of mine before.  Yes I am embarrassed to say that this is my drawer and not one of my children’s.

I found the same size boxes that fit perfect in the drawers.  I lined each box with a dryer sheet to keep things fresh.  I should of contact paper them or something to make them look more Martha Stewart style and all but did not have any and thought who is going to be looking in my drawer besides me (and then I posted it and now all of you L).

Now I won’t go to work with miss match socks. I have my tights, knee highs, socks and scarves in each box. 

I also put the same size boxes in my shirt drawer.

My husband came and look at them and said “hey nice job, but how long to do think that is going to last?” I will have to prove him wrong and keep it this way. (I can do it)

Linen Closet Freshener

Keep your linens smelling clean and fresh with linen shelf fresheners.

What you will need:

• Dryer Sheets

• Ribbon 1 inch

• Rick Rack

• Buttons

• Push Pins

• Glue Gun

Cut ribbon to fit the length of the shelf in your linen cabinet. Fold the dryer sheet in half forming two triangles.

Glue the straight edge of dryer sheets to the back side of the 1 inch ribbon.

Turn over and embellish the front side with rick rack and buttons.  Hang on the edge of linen shelf with push pins.

New Year Goals

The New Year is here and it is going to come and go as fast as the last one did. So with that in mind I have to set some goals to keep me on track of the year to come. I feel that if I write them down for all to see it will keep me on track with what I want to accomplish for myself and family.



Goals for 2011

• Believe in Gods plan for me!
• Spend as much quality time with my children before they leave the nest. With two in college that does not give me much time.
• Spend quality time with my husband (he should come before work and I have to tell myself that)
• Lose 10 Ibs. We all have the weight lose one.
• Eat for a healthier life style.
• Do charitable acts in the community. Leave a mark to make a difference.
• Run a 10K with out walking.
• Get My Two Homes children’s book published.
• Finish the illustrations to Scarecrows Standing Tall children’s book.
• Take my children to the top of Mammoth Mountain

Household Tips and Tricks

Tip #4

With dogs come stains. I don’t know how they do it but they can stain up the carpet in a hurry and I don’t mean with urine, I mean just random stain spots.


The best way that I have found to battle those random spots on the carpet is not all those fancy expensive pet carpet stain removers. The best thing for me and those spots has been peroxide yes that good old bubbly stuff for cleaning cuts. Place the peroxide into a spray bottle, spray the spot and let it set on the area for a few minutes. Take a clean damp cotton rag and rub the spot until gone. Let dry


Before using the peroxide do a test spot, just like you need to do with commercial carpet cleaners to insure that it will not bleach your style of carpet.

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