5 Essential Chores Prevent Chaos at Home
Homeschoolers, tackle chaos with these daily cleaning routines! These simple chores prevent mess & can even be delegated to kids.
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What is simple? Why is it a good thing?
Finding many small changes you can make to simplify average days at home will add up to significantly more calmness and drastically less stress. I think you’ll be surprised
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My Unglamorous Kitchen Command Center
It’s easy to go browsing Pinterest for inspiration on putting a command center together and feel like it will take a lot of time, creativity, and money to make
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5 Ways to Keep a Clean House
I don’t know how many lists I’ve made over the years about cleaning routines. I think I’ve tried all the plans out there. Trying them all (and
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5 Tips on How to Stay Organized
Now is the time when we all start organizing our stuff, buying new supplies, and preparing for another fresh start: a new school year. I always get ambitious about how
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Handy Household Help: Cleaning Tips & Tools
So, if the work must be done and we are responsible for it (whether we do it or delegate it), then there are still cleaning tips and tricks we can
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Teach your kids to do chores!
In this series on cleaning the house, we are seeking the elusive goal of finding satisfaction in housework. I’ve written already about motivation, attitude, and purpose, and now we
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How to get motivated to clean house
Many of us are task-driven. We want to see things done, accomplished, finished. This is what the world tells us is productivity. In this view, homemaking 101 would simply be
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Managing Chaos: When Routines Meet Real Life
I always feel tongue-tied when someone asks what a typical day looks like at our house. Our days follow a general pattern, but no two ever look quite alike. Seven
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Education Is for Life, a series
Christopher Perrin has begun a great free video series developing eight principles of classical education – none of which require rote parroting of bare facts. He is talking about the core
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Make a Digital Home Management Binder
It’s a simple fact: We need to track the details of running our households in order to maintain sanity and reliability. Our job isn’t to impress others, but
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Summer Side Dish: Flatbread Cooked on the Grill Easy Recipe
Winter has its soups served with bread and salad, and summer has its grilled meat and salad and…what? Who wants to heat up the oven for potatoes or bread?
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