Let's face it, we all wish we could keep a cleaner house. No one likes coming home to laundry mountain and a dust bunny brigade. Here you can learn how to keep the chaos at bay.
Bored with literally every meal you know how to cook? Do a quick search on the Spoonacular recipe database and save the yummiest ones to your personal recipe box.
Input birthdays, anniversaries, and more. Never forget an important date again.
Plan all your major holidays with our automated gift planner.
Your kitchen is the hub of family activity. Here's literally everything you need to keep it spotless.
It's hard to get your house clean for a special event (guests coming over, the queen coming to visit, etc.). Especially with kids, it's dang near impossible to keep your house clean on a long term basis. Here's how to do it.
What does criminology have to do with your kitchen counter? It turns out a heck of a lot! Here's how the Broken Windows Theory (borne from 1980s policing strategies) can help you keep your house clean!
This should really be called "household products without which my house would have long since fallen into a smoldering wreck of dog drool, dust bunnies, and stale bags of Dorito shrapnel".
Even if you're just reorganizing, here are some important rules that you should try to stick to when you're trying to create a more open-feeling house.
Having a few zones in your house that actually relax you, even if you only get to spend 10 or 15 minutes of time there a day, will make you feel so much better just to know that they're there.
Car guzzling up too much of your budget? Here's how to keep your auto expenses to a minimum.
For those of us who have “plant murderer” on the top of our resume, it can be nerve-wracking to bring yet another living thing into what is most likely an already-full household.
A lot of repairs can be avoided if you carry out routine maintenance on the house and prevent issues before they happen. Follow this home maintenance checklist to avoid any big problems.
Whether you recently downsized, your family recently expanded, or you’ve just started accumulating more stuff, sometimes houses can start to feel a bit cramped. Here's how to get your house feeling roomy and spacious again, without too large of a bill.
All houses do start feeling dated after a while. Here are the best tips I’ve run across to keep your house from starting to feel old.
If you’re low on funds (or simply hate sawdust), try these cheap alternatives to expensive renovations.
It is possible to have kids without living in what looks like a perpetual war zone. Here are a few simple steps you can take to make sure your house is company-ready every day.
Cold weather isn't just a pain in the neck for you, it's also a huge danger for your house. Here's how to make sure winter doesn't take your house by surprise.
Reclaiming your house amidst all the clutter can seem daunting, but by taking things step by step you can take control of the situation and avoid being swamped in stuff.
Contents: 3 top mistakes that prevent you from hitting your budget, including my actual savings account plan for our family budgeting.
As the mom of the family, the “financial head honcho” often falls to us. Develop these 10 habits and you'll be in a great position to set your family up for financial security.
If you want to figure out how your family can save money and create a more positive financial situation, then read on to discover my top tips to help you get started saving money as a family.
As bad as inclement weather is on your mood, bad weather is even harder on your home.This one is all about how to keep your house snuggly warm and dry as this thing called “weather” begins to rear its ugly head.
A smart home is one that utilizes “smart” technology which saves you work on a daily basis.
Here are my top tips for smart-ing up your house without breaking the bank.
There's a lot of talk about modernizing, minimalism, and cleaning...here's how to bring your home into the future. Flying cars and hoverboards sold separately, of course.
Home maintenance may not be fun, but it can make life so much easier in the long run, even if it doesn’t feel like it at the time.
Although the last thing we want to contemplate is all of the problems that come with winter, it is important to think ahead of time a little bit because there are many winter fixes that are much cheaper in the summer months.
Whether you have an old or new house, there are certain tasks that tend to get left behind when it comes to home maintenance.
There are times when we think we have it all in hand, then life hits us, and the chores can mount up. Before we know it, the house is a mess (again). It can be pretty overwhelming to get on top of it...and stay there.
Here are 8 easy-to-implement home improvements that can make your house feel fresh (and cool) over the summer.
Most people shudder at the thought of the construction, cost, and hassle that comes with building a home extension. However, there are instances in which it's actually a smart and fiscally sound idea to do so.
This list gives you my top 10 ways to upgrade or update your houses outside areas without breaking the bank. Most of these are incredibly inexpensive and can be done by hand.
Here are some helpful hints to make your change of location run a lot more smoothly, and to help ease the stress involved.
It's usually a good idea to budget before you do home improvements, but these guys will only get more expensive the longer you leave them.
These cheap and easy tips on sprucing up your house so you can get rid of that feeling your house is starting to get run down without breaking your budget or devoting days to the project.
Here's the guide to the top five expenses that you don't expect when you buy a house.
This post will take you through and almost fail-proof budget creation strategy that will help you prioritize your expenses to make sure what's coming in is actually paying the important stuff first.
There are actually lots of little ways you can keep your house in manageable temperature, even in the high heat of summer, without taking out a second mortgage for your air conditioning bills.
After buying a house, your financial responsibilities change. Get a handle on your money with these 12 ways to manage your finances after buying a house.
Want that "I just want to roll around on the pretty bed" feeling without the price tag? It's actually not that hard (or expensive).
It can be quite easy for mold or mildew to appear on your outdoor furniture, but it's actually quite easy to get rid of if you have the right tools (and know how).
Here are ten things that you can do to make the renovation process a little more bearable.
Even in a mostly clean and largely well-organized room, I am going to get sick of my own house after a few months. Here are three easy, quick, and relatively inexpensive methods for transforming a room or area of your house to look like new.
Getting your home ready for a newborn is an involved task. Make sure the largest area of your home, your floors, are not a haven for dirt and germs that can get your baby sick.
For those of you out there who are dreading what could exist in the back of your decoration infested garage cabinets, here's how to change your garage from a clutter-filled nightmare to almost a real room in your house.
How do you prevent the build-up of things you don’t really need, without missing out on the “next big thing”? Try asking yourself these three questions before you buy a new appliance.
These five tips are ways to get your house out of pigsty status as fast as possible. If you need help how to give your house that emergency jolt to get it from messy to livable, look no further.
When you have kids, it's a constant struggle to keep your car from looking like it just took a bath in granola and cracker crumbs. Here's how to keep your car from looking like a french fry graveyard, without getting rid of your kids.
If you take the right steps and know where to look, you can make a major difference in your home even on a really tight budget.
We've all gone househunting and wanted to move into a well-staged home. Here's how to recreate the magic in your own house...minus all the realtors.
Sometimes houses can start feeling a bit...yuck. Here are the top 6 reasons your house doesn't feel as clean, spacious, and beautiful as when you first bought it and how to fix it.
No one likes a dark, dingy, or enclosed space. Here are 9 easy to implement strategies to make your home feel bright, spacious, and airy.
Your kitchen is the hub of family activity. Here's literally everything you need to keep it spotless.
You think you're done with the hard part after you buy a house, but taking care of it is equally difficult. Here's how to maintain your house without breaking the bank.
Buying a house can be an emotional, stressful process. Here's a list of things I wish we had known going into the negotiation process so you can learn from our experiences.
When you're a mom, a storm is so much more than just a reason to drive slower. Here's the ultimate guide to keeping your house, kids, pets, spouse, and everything else clean(ish) and safe when inclement weather hits.
Not all of us can live in mansions. The rest of us need to design and organize our rooms carefully to maximize the space we have and make rooms feel bigger.
If you have the renovation bug, here's a guide to renovations which will end up paying for themselves when it comes time to sell your house (eventually).
Being an adult, keeping a household running, and all the lovely tasks that come with it are not something they teach in school. Here's what they should be teaching us in senior year instead of advanced calculus.
The "mama bear" instinct is incredibly powerful. Here's how to take measures to keep your home, kids, and identity safe.
It's very hard to have nice things when there are tiny humans running amok and strewing their toys everywhere. Here's how to have a yard that's both fun for your kids to play in and respectable in front of the neighbors.
It's hard to get your house clean for a special event (guests coming over, the queen coming to visit, etc.). Especially with kids, it's dang near impossible to keep your house clean on a long term basis. Here's how to do it.
What does criminology have to do with your kitchen counter? It turns out a heck of a lot! Here's how the Broken Windows Theory (borne from 1980s policing strategies) can help you keep your house clean!
There are more 'make money online' adds on the internet than there are toddler tantrums in Target. (Read: a whole effing lot.) These are the only ones that have ever actually yielded real, cold, hard cash.
For those of us about to do battle with Thanksgiving, you might have noticed that the "how to cook" thing isn't nearly as hard as the "how to get all the dang food to come out of the oven at the right time" part. Here's how to make sure nothing gets cold.
This should really be called "household products without which my house would have long since fallen into a smoldering wreck of dog drool, dust bunnies, and stale bags of Dorito shrapnel".
There are so many different personal finance apps to choose from. Here's a list of the best ways to keep track of your household finances and their pros and cons.
This one change instantly made us hit our budget every month without changing our spending habits.
I can't tell you how much easier my life would have been if I'd discovered this trick years earlier. That being said, I can largely credit this one, silly-sounding rule for being the reason my house doesn't look like a tornado just hit.
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