June 19, 2013

Tips to Less Laundry

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In my home, it’s a challenge to get through the heaps and piles of laundry collected from the week. Sound familiar? Click here to read a few tips that have helped me to reduce my laundry load and also my family’s water usage at the same time over on the SC Johnson Home Economics blog. [...]

Make Small Changes in Your Everyday Tasks This Earth Day

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You can easily conserve resources in your everyday life just by making a few small changes in and around your home. Here are some other ways to green your day-to-day duties: Grocery Shopping- Green your trash bags:  It is so easy and inexpensive to get trash bags made from recycled or biodegradable material these days [...]

30 Minute Challenge – Set up a cleaning station

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To speed  up your daily or weekly cleaning create a cleaning station in you home.  A place to store your cleaning supplies making them easily accessible when in need. Take 30 minutes this week and create your cleaning station by using  an empty cabinet in your laundry/mud room, a shelf in the garage or an [...]

30 Minute Challenge – Make A Project Box For Kids

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Do you have  a budding artist in your home?  If your kids love to cut, glue, color and create then this weeks 30 minute challenge is for you. Corral and organize your children’s art supplies into a portable project box that they can move from room to room or even take on the go. Choose [...]

Helping Kids Learn to Verbalize and Deal with their Emotions

Written by Jodi at Meaningful Mama Kids often don’t have the words to know how they are feeling. This lack of understanding leads to great discouragement and an internal struggle that can often lead to a tantrum or angry outburst. In the book, “Brain Rules for Babies,” by John Medina, he says children’s bodies “can [...]

7 Ways to Play More and Clean Less

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Free time. Something we all want more of, but more often than not, our day-to-day responsibilities get in the way. Whether we’re stuck at work or find ourselves overwhelmed with cleaning and other chores, all of us could use an extra few minutes of “me” time throughout the day. It’s time we take back our [...]

Four Uncommon Uses for Toothpaste

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Toothpaste isn’t just for brushing those pearly whites anymore; you can also use it throughout your house! The next time you’re out shopping, pick up a few extra tubes of toothpaste to help with the uses I shared over on  the SC Johnson Home Economics blog. Click here to read Four Uncommon Uses for Toothpaste [...]

MOM Tip: No scrub stove burner cleaning.

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  Mom Tip: Its easy to clean your  stove burners without scrubbing by using  ammonia, with this tip from V Spot Cleaning, Click here for full how to clean your stove burners.

How to Create a Family Cleaning Schedule

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Click here to read my  four steps to help you get started on a cleaning schedule for your whole family to use over on the SC Johnson Home Economics blog. Be sure to leave a comment over at SC Johnson *Each week Trisha Blogs on SC Johnson Family Economics website

Grown-Up Chore Charts For Cleaning

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  Our kids have chore charts now we moms can have our own chore chart – A cleaning chore chart created by Pinch A Little Save A Lot.  To help us keep track and organize our daily, monthly and quarterly cleaning tasks. There are three versions to choose from. Click here for free Cleaning chore [...]