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Posts tagged “cleaning”

Spring Scents: 12 DIY Air Fresheners

Last Fall we blogged about making your own fall air fresheners to battle the shut in feeling of impending winter. Now that it's the spring, we've updated our list to include some fresher, rather than...

Trader Joe’s Lavender Dryer Bags

We’ve been meaning to blog these for a while but we wanted to try them out for ourselves first and see if they worked and our Trader Joe’s (apparently the most popular TJ’s in LA) has been out o...

Best Natural Toilet Cleaners

Another one of our favorite Spring Cleaning posts is all about how to keep the toilet spic and span without using a ton of harsh chemicals: a lot safer for the environment and for the pet that likes t...

Sponges Around the Sink?

At the risk of sounding incredibly dumb, I discovered last night that my kitchen has one of those sink front trays (they're located directly below the sink, and they flip out so you can store sponges)...

Home Remedy: Put your pillows in the sun

We posted this tip in February when really only LA was getting lots of sun. It's one of our favorite ways to kick off spring cleaning on a sunny day. If you've got good weather this weekend, take th...

Tips for Cleaning Hardwood Floors

We've posted a lot about cleaning hardwood floors and have always been surprised how many different products and methods everyone uses. Below find some of our favorite tips as submitted by readers li...

How To: Keep Your Home Clean Without a Maid

Yesterday we asked the question, do you clean before the cleaning lady comes? We have to confess that we no longer have a cleaning lady. We gave her up when we realized that our apartment wasn't cle...

Separate Recycling Bins?

Our garbage system goes something like this: if its trash, we chuck it in the big trash can; if it's recyclable, we put it on the counter in our laundry room (it's close to the back door). This usual...

How To...Get Rid of Bleach Stains in the Bathroom

Bleach stains...sounds contradictory, doesn't it? Well, a few days ago, in an effort to unclog our drain, we followed the advice of one of our friends and poured bleach down the drain. And man, we lea...

15 Cleaning Tricks with A Few of These...

Lemon and vinegar? Those are house cleaning staples. But...Kool-Aid and Coke? Find out what these unexpected items can clean around the house after the jump!...

Organizing Tips for the Overtired and Overstressed

When our lives and minds are already overwhelmed with their own kind of clutter, decluttering and organizing our homes can seem like the ultimate impossible task. Mom of 2 Missuswayne asks how to ove...

How Many Bottles are Under The Sink?

We've been shocked in the past when we realized that we had about 12 bottles of various cleansers under the kitchen sink. Some we used all the time, some were a mistake. And let's just say not all ...

Lemon Oil for Keeping Shower Doors Clean?

While looking into ways to clean our shower door, we came across Real Simple's take. They suggest "...After a thorough cleaning, an application of lemon oil will help serve as a shield from shower gri...

Top 10 Organizing Tips From Chez Larsson

Benita Larsson (of Chez Larsson) is our hero when it comes to keeping an organized home that is still comfortable and beautiful. So we're over the moon that she was willing to share her top 10 tips f...

Clutter: The But I Might Need It Syndrome

But I might need these catalogs!So we're trying to get organized this month (or at least take a stab at it, right?). Well as Flylady says, you can't organize clutter, you can only get rid of it. One...

How Do You Kick Off Spring Cleaning?

We wait for the weekend, then throw the windows open, turn on some music and start from the top down. ...

Miele Canister Vacuum: Callisto S5280 Canister Vacuum In the Test Lab

Product: Callisto S5280 Canister Vacuum Price: $799 Rating: Simply Irresistible Miele vacuums have always been on short list of "if we had the money" appliances, garnering praise from neat freaks and...

How To: Clean Patio Furniture

It's warm enough in LA to start entertaining outside, but is the furniture up to snuff? Or covered in a haze of winter, smog and...mildew?...

Calories Burned Around the House

We've been making a concerted effort to not neglect our physical health all this year...something all too easy with a job sitting in front of computer in a home office for most of the day. That means ...

How To: Clean Stainless Steel Appliances

We just learned a trick from a friend about how to remove finger prints from stainless steel appliance doors. Even when using soap/cleaner and water, fingerprints are difficult to wash off and usually...

Does Urine-Off Work?

A friend of ours got a nasty surprise when she finally decided to chuck her shag rug after her dog Kai peed on it a few times during the housebreaking stage. Once she lifted the rug up, the hardwood ...

4 Steps to Keep Your New Furniture Looking New

So you just plunked down a small fortune for a new couch or a great upholstered chair. Some tips to keep your new couch from turning into your...well, your old couch, after the jump... ...

10 Ways to Bring Spring Into Your Living Room

With Spring creeping in with a vengeance (the temps predicted to climb into the 80s this weekend!), we thought it was time to refresh our décor to reflect the season. Even if you’re not doing the ...

Charlie's Laundry Powder

Sharilyn of Lovely Design just sent us a glowing recommendation of Charlie's Laundry Powder, an environmentally friendly detergent which she currently trusts for all her baby's cloth washing needs. ...

Men Create More Housework for Women?

Alright, we're opening a can of worms over here and reporting about a recent study that highlighted what many consider common knowledge: men create messes women end up cleaning up after. BUT, this tre...