Tools: Window cleaner (store bought or homemade from water, vinegar, and isopropyl alcohol) in a spray bottle bucket Murphy’s oil soap or other wood cleaner sponge cleaning cloths (I use diapers) old toothbrush squeegee (optional) These are the instructions for cleaning the insides of windows. If you have the kind of windows that let you [...]

So many of us feel like we’re buried under piles of laundry. We have them in the bathroom, the bedroom, the laundry room, piled on the couch waiting to be folded… there’s laundry everywhere! There are many reasons laundry piles up like that: too many clothes, too little time, simple procrastination. You can solve your [...]

These are also known as Hot Spots, and all messies have them. If you are new to messie recovery, you might think your whole house is a hot spot, but you can break the mess down and take it one Trouble Spot at a time. A Trouble Spot is a place where things just seem [...]

A lot of forces conspire to create messies. Sometimes we’re messie because we lack good habits. Sometimes we feel like we’re too creative to “waste” any time with mundane tasks like cleaning. Sometimes we just don’t like to clean, and sometimes, we don’t know how to clean, or we don’t know how to do it [...]

One technique that helped me get my mess under control is the “one room a day technique.”  I target one room per day of the week, and I break that down to a manageable hour or so. For instance:  Monday: Kitchen & Dining Room Tuesday: Bathrooms Wednesday: Rec Room Thursday: Bedrooms Friday: Living Room Saturday: [...]