Please Remove Your Shoes

There are many advantages to requiring that everyone that enters your home remove their shoes.  It isn’t just about keeping your carpets and floors looking nice and lasting longer, but also about your health.  Removing your shoes at the door can help eliminate dirt, dust, pollen as well as other allergy triggers.

Use Peppermint Oil to Rid Your Home of Mice

Getting rid of mice can be a challenge especially if you live near an open space.   Here are a few tips to rid your home of these little pests whether you prefer to trap them or take a more humane approach:

Cute Spoons

Here’s a quick tip for every oatmeal, soup, or cereal lover.  Have you ever looked down at your bowl, and see your spoon quietly slip to the bottom.  Now you have to fish it out, clean it off, only to have it sink to the bottom again. Arggg!

Here’s a great tip! Just put your spoon curve side down in your bowl and voila! Problem solved.  No more fishing for spoons.

Caress

Caress bar soap claims to leave your skin soft and silky, but did you know it’s also great at removing the sticky adhesive residue left behind from tape?  Use Caress bar soap with warm water on a rag, and gently rub.  It leaves no residue and removes even stubborn adhesive.

Save Electricity

Did you know that your home electronics and non-essential appliances may be costing you money by continuing to pull electricity even when they have been turned off?  As much as 20% of your monthly electric bill could be blamed on your computers, gaming consoles, TV’s, blenders, hair dryers and curling irons when turned off.  You can save money by simply unplugging these non-essential appliances.

Buy the Correct Amount of Paint

With the price of paint costing more and more every year, you don’t want to waste money buying too much paint. But nobody likes to run out with only a half a wall to go, either.  So it’s important to save time and money by buying the right amount. 

Here’s a simple way to calculate how many gallons of paint to buy.

Always Use a Clean Sponge

The kitchen is where we spend so much of our family time together, with meals, homework, etc. Would you believe that the kitchen is the dirtiest room in our home?  This is true according to Phillip Tierno, PhD, director of clinical microbiology and diagnostic immunology at the New York University Langone Medical Center and author of The Secret Life of Germs. “That’s because we deal with dead animal carcasses on our countertops and in the sink.” He goes on to say that the kitchen sponge is “the single dirtiest thing in your kitchen, along with a dishrag.”