11 outdoorsy chores

Have you ever noticed that housekeeping can be a lot like surfing the internet. One thing leads to another, and before you know it 4 hours have passed. Here's what happened to me. On New Year's Day I decided I might as well take down the Christmas tree. It was really starting to drop its...

With five kids who can't even eat a peanut butter sandwich without smearing it all over their clothes, my laundry baskets are seldom empty. But that doesn't mean I can't strive for blissful emptiness! Every day I declare war on Mount Washmore, and these are my strategies: I have three laundry baskets in the bathroom:...

This post was not sponsored. I'm just really happy to see this mop! Sometimes when I'm cleaning our house I wonder: 'Is this how the real housewives do it? Am I doing it right?' Because after 20 years I still feel like an amateur. When my kids were at the crawling stage, and they combined...

Whenever I read Marie Kondo's bookThe Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up I get this itch to uhm, do some tidying up. This has cost me a lot of stuff. Stuff which I sometimes regret throwing away later on.  But it has also helped me get my house a lot more organized and less cluttered....

Have you ever had this problem? You need a bit of aluminum foil, so you start pulling on the roll. And it tears?! And then it gets stuck, and for the life of you, you can't get a decent peace of aluminum foil? And it looks a bit like this: Here's some good news: there...

At the start of a new year, after getting rid of the Christmas tree, I always get the urge to do some serious cleaning. You know, to start the new year fresh and with a clean slate. Literally. So I decided to tackle the top of my kitchen cupboards. Top of the kitchen cupboards The...