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4 DIY Gutter Renovations For a Quick Weekend Project

Are you searching for DIY renovations to improve your home? Fall is the best time for all your DIY home projects since the weather is perfect. You could upgrade or overhaul your gutters and give your home a new look. There are professionals who do gutter cleaning, repairs, and installment, but you can do it yourself. Clean your gutters, test them for leaks, and reinstall … [Read more...]

Keep Your Home in Balance When Hosting House Guests

Hosting house guests can feel daunting but 4 tips can help you stay in balance when you are hosting friends or family at your home.

As a busy parent, hosting house guests can be quite a juggling act. Being a mom is hard enough. Especially when we try to balance homeschooling, career growth, and on top of that: time with friends and family. Give yourself some grace. Your life doesn’t have to be thrown off-balance because of visitors or overnight guests. While you want to be an exceptional host, there … [Read more...]

Benefits of Using a Diffuser in the Home

This post is sponsored by Homasy. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure page for more info. The benefits of using a diffuser at home are important. Good deals on diffusers are great too! Let’s discuss the reasons why we all can benefit from diffusing essential oils in our homes. I have a great cost-effective diffuser to share with you too. Benefits of … [Read more...]

15 Ways to Use Custom Vinyl Stickers

This is a sponsored post by StickerYou. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure for more info. Whether you have a home-based business or are looking for ways to get organized at home, these 15 ways to use vinyl stickers for home organization or home-based business use will make things look more put together. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​There are so many ways to use … [Read more...]

Favorite Time Saving Home Tools

No doubt when you have kids, you need to maximize your time. These favorite time saving home tools are saving me cleaning time and giving me more time to relax and keep life in balance. We need to help the kids with homework, have fun with them, and they eat a lot! It feels like I am either cleaning or getting my kids something to eat for the majority of my day. These … [Read more...]

Everyone Can Help at Home: Kids, Dads + Tips for Balance

Our household felt out of balance during my first year homeschooling. Dishes, cleaning, floors, bathrooms, the clutter piled up and stressed me out. I had to shift my thinking to realize just how everyone can help at home-this includes chores for the kids, ideas for dads to spend time with the kids and a focus on the tasks that were most important to complete. I did not … [Read more...]

Simple and Effective Homemaker Morning Routine

{Guest Post by Heather Hice-McCray} Homemaker Morning Routine As any mom can attest to, when you have little ones at home every morning despite your best intentions everything can go awry swiftly and quickly. I still remember how every morning when I had an infant and preschooler there seemed to be some sort of curveball that caught me off guard. Now that my children are in … [Read more...]

5 Tips to Stay Organized with Kids

5 tips to stay organized with kids. Kick the clutter solutions for an organized home. These are smart tips!

{Post by Heather} I grew up in a house that was super organized and always tidy. To say my mom was a clean-freak would be an understatement. We religiously organized, sorted and cleaned. At the time it was pretty annoying, but as I became an adult I grew thankful that we lived in such a clean way. And I learned a lot about how to stay organized with kids. When I became an … [Read more...]

Room-by-Room Home Organization Plan

Aroom-by room home organization plan! This is so helpful. Follow these tips for an organized house.

{Post by Jessica} Cold winter temps mean spending more of your down time stuck in doors. Cabin fever can easily set in, but instead of curling under a blanket eating the last of the Christmas cookies, take this time to review and organize your home. Let’s focus on a room-by-room home organization plan. To keep this task from feeling daunting or from becoming so … [Read more...]

DIY Dusting Spray

DIY dusting spray. Natural is cheaper and better for you.

Do you enjoy dusting? Would you enjoy it more if you knew you were helping to eliminate toxins from your home? A DIY dusting spray can add a tad more enjoyment to your dusting, or if you are like me at least help you dust regularly! According to the Environmental Working Group, many chemicals end up in household dust. In 2013 the Environmental Working Group (EWG) nominated … [Read more...]

Must-Have Gadgets for Homemakers

Do you have these 8 gadgets for streamlining your cleaning and homemaking routines? What others gadgets would you add to this list of 8 must-have gadgets for homemakers?

If you have been married or had a baby, then chances are you created a gift registry.  Since then, how many of you have looked back and thought, “I wish I would have asked for this instead of that?” Here are some of my favorite items I use around the house that should make it onto everyone’s gift or wish list. They just make homemaking easier. … [Read more...]

Speed Cleaning Tips to Keep a Clean House

Speed clean like those YouTubers do! Speed Cleaning tips to keep a clean home.

Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week post by Jaimi} Are you into speed cleaning? A friend of mine told me about her speed cleaning videos on YouTube, and I had to check them out for some motivation and ideas. Speed cleaning is basically … [Read more...]

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