The Latest: Feb 3, 2020

We’re already stress sweating in the best way possible.

Every well-run home is teeming with tricks and shortcuts to keep it humming along. We’re sharing our best quick tips — for cleaning, organizing and repairing stuff at home — to save you time and money. Click through for today’s helpful hint, and links to tons more… Use OLIVE OIL! Before buff and polish, take a few minutes and clean your sinks, fixtures or furniture with whatever dish soap you have laying around.

This didn’t start as a post. It started yesterday because we spilled coffee all over our keys as we were trying to get into the office (bad coffee lid) and the resulting mess was so unpleasant we took the whole key bundle to the bathroom for a cleaning.As we considered putting all the keys under the water, our first thought was that we shouldn’t do it. Somehow, keys in our mind were associated with all sorts of things that shouldn’t get wet, like batteries, a wallet or a watch.

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You'd think with all the nesting you'd be sleeping like a baby during the winter season. Not so.

The other night, an overloaded drawer pulled right off the tracks as I was opening it. I told my husband, John, that we had to finally declutter and clean the whole thing before putting it back into place. It was almost midnight, but I knew that if I put it off I wouldn’t get back around to this particular project for months at least. This is our “electronics” drawer, which means it’s half full of old orphan cords.

Pink noise is making literal waves.