Cleaning

If your kids are messmakers, read this!

Do you know any 4-year olds who love to clean up? Neither do I. If you’re dealing with kids who don’t believe in putting things away, read on. These tips can help teach your kid to clean up, so you don’t have to! First thing’s first: Most kids aren’t born neat. Sure, there’s the

How to clean your dishwasher (hint – don’t bother with the vinegar)

Sarah Mueller

Have you ever seen an icky residue appearing on your dishes or the inside of your dishwasher? This is food particles residue building up over time. You may need to clean your dishwasher. The good news is that it’s fairly easy to do and you may be able to avoid a service call by

THREE tips to stay focused while cleaning

Sarah Mueller

It doesn’t matter if you only have 30 minutes, a full day, or the whole weekend to clean. Here are three tips for staying focused while cleaning. Keep reading to see what my “quick tidy” cleaning checklist looks like, too! 1) Make it “your time.” Yes, we all know that cleaning sucks. But if

Printable Spring Cleaning Checklist: The Kitchen

Sarah Mueller

Checklists are my way of keeping on top of things and staying motivated through less-than-exciting jobs (like spring cleaning!). Here’s a simple spring cleaning checklist you can use to cover all the important places in your kitchen. Related Read: Check out this post if you’re interested in more ways to make spring cleaning easy! How

How to easily clean your freezer without turning it off

Brooke Schoenman

It’s always a cleaning task that gets pushed down the list, but cleaning out your freezer is actually quite important. Not only does it help remove odors and food that’s too far gone, but it also helps to remove any build-up that keeps your freezer from running efficiently. Luckily, you can clean out your

18 kitchen cleaning hacks to make your life a little easier

Sarah Mueller

Do you ever feel like your kitchen is a restaurant open 24/7? My hungry family makes me feel this way, especially around the holidays. That’s why a busy mom has to work smart. Save some time in the kitchen with these 18 kitchen cleaning hacks. Affiliate links are present in this post. 18 kitchen cleaning

12 Tricks for keeping your living room from looking like a disaster area!

Brooke Schoenman

After you’ve done the hard work of decluttering and organizing your living room, you’ll want to make sure you maintain that fresh, clean and tidy feel. However, being the living room, that by definition makes it seemingly impossible to do. Without a good system in place, it can easily go from clean and organized

Clutter hotspot: Kitchen counters (before and after)

Sarah Mueller

For this week’s clutter hotspot, I decided to tackle my kitchen counters. Counters obviously are a hard-working area that collect clutter constantly. Since the kitchen is the heart of our home, it makes sense for me to have a strategy in place to clear off the clutter. Before decluttering and cleanup. Here’s what my

10 easy cleaning tips I use to save time and money

Sarah Mueller

Whether you clean a little or a lot, cleaning your home is a job that’s just never over. Kids make messes and everyone’s got to eat, right? But no one wants to clean all the time! So here are 10 simple cleaning tips I use to get the work over with faster while saving money. Affiliate links are present in

Is a Roomba right for you?

Sarah Mueller

We’ve all hoped at one point that we could just have a robot clean our house for us–and for over a decade, we’ve been able to with the help of the Roomba. But how do we know if a Roomba is the right fit for our specific home, family, and lifestyle? Check out these

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I’m the creator of Decluttering School (formerly known as Early Bird Mom), lover of organized spaces, encourager to women and mom to four boys. Click here to read more!

Cleaning

If your kids are messmakers, read this!

How to clean your dishwasher (hint – don’t bother with the vinegar)

THREE tips to stay focused while cleaning

Printable Spring Cleaning Checklist: The Kitchen

How to easily clean your freezer without turning it off

18 kitchen cleaning hacks to make your life a little easier

12 Tricks for keeping your living room from looking like a disaster area!

Clutter hotspot: Kitchen counters (before and after)

10 easy cleaning tips I use to save time and money

Is a Roomba right for you?

Welcome. I’m Sarah!

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