*This post contains Amazon affiliate links. My whole family has allergies, so it's important to keep our home as clean and as free of allergens like dust, pollen and pet dander as possible. We use techniques like not wearing shoes in the house and keeping our windows closed during the allergy season to help alleviate my family's allergy symptoms. To keep a home allergen free, it's necessary to do a lot of cleaning! I'm not the best at cleaning, but these techniques are known to help keep allergens in a home to a minimum, so I am going to be using these steps during the allergy Continue reading...
Celebrating National Clean Up Your Room Day #FreeUsFromDust
Thanks to Febreze for providing me with a Febreze Air Purifier for this post. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% my own. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Did you know that today is National Clean Up Your Room Day? How do you plan to celebrate? I hope to put in some time cleaning and organizing my home's kitchen! I've been hard at work cleaning and organizing my home this year so far! I've created and organized a new pantry for my kitchen, and I've started organizing one of the closets in my home's master bedroom. The pantry has helped to make my kitchen more Continue reading...
May Goals
Today I am joining my friend, Carrie of Curly Crafty Mom, in sharing my personal goals for May. I think setting monthly goals is a great exercise for getting things done! 1. Clean and Beautify Backyard. I have been all about cleaning and organizing my home lately. So, one of my May goals is to clean up and improve the backyard, so my family and I can enjoy our yard this coming spring and summer! I got a start on that goal last week -- I filled five trash bins with twigs and branches from our backyard and scheduled a yard waste pickup with my town. I don't think my husband and I have Continue reading...
Spring Entry Way Reveal
“This review was made possible by iConnect and Mr. Clean. I was provided compensation to facilitate this post, but all opinions stated are my 100% mine." Spring is finally here, so my family has swapped out our boots and winter coats for lighter and brighter clothing. I took the opportunity to trade our winter coats and shoes in my home's entry way for more spring appropriate apparel. I also decided to give our front door entry way / mud room area a spring clean and a new look! This is what my home's mud room / entry way area looked before I spring cleaned it. It Continue reading...
Organizing a Nightstand & Drawer #SpringClean16
* This post is sponsored by Kimberly-Clark and The Motherhood. #SpringClean16 With spring around the corner, I've been cleaning and decorating my home to get my home spring ready! I re-decorated my home's living room for spring, and this week, I decided to do some much-needed cleaning and organizing in the master bedroom, particularly the nightstand by my side of the bed! Declutter Nightstand My nightstand tends to be a junk drawer -- I toss things in there that I don't want to lose track of, or things that I need to tackle at some point. But eventually, things tend to get Continue reading...
Perfect Laundry with Snuggle® – Plus No More Lost Socks!
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SnuggleUpMoments #CollectiveBias It's not quite spring yet, but I have been in spring cleaning mode already! I've been cleaning my home and doing what I can to make everything fresher and cleaner for my family! So I am excited to have discovered Snuggle® Ultra Blue Sparkle fabric conditioner and Blue Iris Bliss® Snuggle Scent Boosters®. With these great-smelling Snuggle® products, I can make my family's clothing feel so much softer and smell wonderfully fresh, too! I've also Continue reading...
No Stress Holiday Tips Plus Giveaway!
“This review was made possible by iConnect and Febreze. I was provided compensation to facilitate this post, but all opinions are 100% mine." It's easy to get stressed out over the holidays -- there is so much to do, and there's the pressure to make everything perfect! Something I tend to stress over when I have people over for the holidays is making sure that my home is clean and presentable! I've been known to be too wiped out from cleaning to actually enjoy being with my guests! One thing I worry about is whether my home smells fresh and clean -- my family and I love Continue reading...
15 Ways to Go Green /#SunrunSolar Sweepstakes
Want to be cool this summer? Look to go green! By going "green" or striving to be more eco-friendly this summer, you can save money on everyday home costs and be kinder to our Earth. Being kinder to the Earth is very important because being it impacts what kind of world our kids will inherit from us! I've found that these 15 ways to go green are both cost effective and easy! 15 Easy Ways to Go Green Go solar - Many homeowners who go solar save money in the summer when the sun is out the longest and air conditioning costs are high. E.g., with Sunrun, a solar service company, you can get Continue reading...
Summer Care for Sensitive Skin #SecondSkincare
“I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for P&G. I received product samples to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation. All opinions and reviews are my own.” Summer can be an itchy season -- especially for my family. There are the bug bites, plus the usual skin sensitivities. Skin sensitivities run in my family, and everyone -- my kids, my husband and myself -- are all prone to them. Our sensitive skin means that I have to carefully consider the products I use in my home -- if I choose the wrong soap, Continue reading...
How to Clean Tile and Grout Genie Giveaway
All of my home's bathrooms have ceramic tile floors. I like to clean the tile floors with my new Swiffer WetJet, which makes mopping a tile floor quick and easy, with no mess! But while the Wet Jet does a great job in getting dirt up off the tiles, it skims over the grout lines, missing the grime that can accumulate there. In the past, I've had to get on my hands and knees with a sponge to scrub out the dirt. Not anymore -- I've discovered a product for the Swiffer Wet Jet mops that is designed to clean grout lines -- Grout Genie Grout and Tile Pads. The Grout Genie scrubbing pad has a Continue reading...