We’ve all heard about spring cleaning, but did you know that fall cleaning is also a thing? If you think about it, it makes sense. If you only deep clean once a year, the things you don’t clean on a regular basis are likely to get pretty dirty and grimy. This makes your cleaning jobs […]
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Did you know you can make cleaning fun with a little advance planning? Many of us love a clean house, but don’t actually enjoy cleaning. I normally complain a lot about how much I hate cleaning. I suggest ways to make cleaning easier because it’s just such a thankless, repetitive, never ending, boring series of
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My dishwasher isn’t cleaning my dishes and I don’t know why. It really sucks because I have a pile of dirty dishes in the sink and hate washing dishes! I’ve followed all the DIY steps to find out why my dishwasher isn’t cleaning, but everything seems to work as it should. But it isn’t. And
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Is your house a disgusting mess? Have you been so busy juggling everything else – or just avoiding it – that you haven’t cleaned in ages? Are you having trouble figuring out how to get motivated to clean when you’re so overwhelmed by all the mess? I’ve been there. And I know how hopeless, exhausting
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Do you ever walk into a room to clean it, get overwhelmed and think ‘this room is so messy, I don’t know where to start,’ then walk right back out? I’ve had that feeling (too many times) when I was in a rush and needed to clean a really messy room fast. I don’t get
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Am I the only one who hates Christmas? I have many reasons to hate Christmas, but the main reason is the blatant consumerism that drives the whole thing. The endless Holiday Season marketing extravaganza begins months before the actual holiday and ramps up everyone’s expectations. And those expectations are practically impossible to meet. It’s not
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Stop letting your emotions control your life Are you a rational thinker who considers all the facts before making decisions? Do you think about consequences before taking action? Or are you an emotional thinker who lets emotion cloud their judgement, impulsively bases their decisions on gut feelings and doesn’t worry about the fallout? Maybe you’re
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Today is my son’s 21st birthday. Instead of celebrating the wonderful day of his birth, I am feeling very sad about life during this pandemic. We had a big day of celebration planned, but it has all been cancelled. We were supposed to be seeing the Broadway show, Hamilton, tonight. We were supposed to be
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According to Wikipedia, Mother’s Day is “a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society”. While a noble idea in theory, it leaves many people dreading Mother’s Day for a variety of reasons: Perhaps your mother died and you feel lonely and bereft
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Most of us have so many choices that we take them for granted. This freedom of choice allows us to make everyday decisions like where we are going to get our morning coffee or what we will have for breakfast. Are we going to hit the gym and do some weight lifting, or take an
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