all things cleaning
My house has hard water and unfortunately the hard water stains on our fiberglass shower insert was a whole new experience for me. Soon after we moved into our first house we had a water softener installed because we were worried about hard water running through all of the small parts of the high efficiency on-demand hot water system we…
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information see disclosures. Who doesn’t want their weeks to be easier!?!? My journey to simplify my life has led me to set up daily and weekly routines that make everything run more smoothly on a day-to-day basis. I now don’t waste my time worrying about the little things I can plan for…
Today I address the “tough stuff.” You may be awesome at purging and organizing your home in general, recognizing what you don’t use or don’t need, but do you know how to handle and sort through sentimental items? Most of us don’t, and it’s perfectly ok. It can be overwhelming and most definitely emotional. It’s definitely something that should take…
Good routines can help you live a more intentional life. They introduce stability and predictability to your day and can therefore decrease the stress in your life. While routines are certainly beneficial to establish, bad routines can negatively impact your day and can hinder your ability to live an intentional life. Bad routines can be very hard to break. …
This post may seem a little late, but in the Northeast it hasn’t been warm enough for me to want to throw open the windows and start spring cleaning. Thankfully summer doesn’t officially start until June 21st, so I’m still within the realm of spring! Anyway, here are 8 spring cleaning musts that often get abandoned during our usual cleaning…
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information see disclosures. If you have read “Simplifying Your Wardrobe” or “Why It’s Hard to Let Go” on capsule wardrobes you may be familiar with Courtney Carver and her Project 333 Challenge. Well her book, along with many others, has been on my reading list for some time. Finally I have gotten…
This post contains affiliate links. If you’d like to learn more see disclosures. So you’ve committed to creating a capsule wardrobe and simplifying your closet… You’ve made it through “Simplifying Your Wardrobe” and “Why is it Hard to Let Go?” You may feel liberated, being able to see everything in your closet. Your morning routine may be simplified with how…
Last week I posted some tips on creating a capsule wardrobe. If you missed that post you can read more about it here. If you’ve already decided to take the plunge and create one, good for you! Did you already start cleaning out with great enthusiasm, just to find yourself now at a stand still because it became too overwhelming?!?! Hey,…
When I first heard the term “capsule wardrobe” on a design podcast a few years ago my initial thought was that it was a modern, mobile piece of furniture to house clothes. I imagined it to looked like a pill capsule that was meant for individuals living in small spaces that had no closets to store them. It didn’t take…
When we think about simplifying our lives, oftentimes we do the exact opposite and overcomplicate them. We think that we have to dedicate full weekends to simplify everything in our homes all at once and only then will we be able to maintain it. Usually we start off ambitious, but after hours and days of digging through clutter we become…
