Last weekend, my love said he was in the mood to run to the store and asked me to go with him. So I did. No clue where we were going, by the way. He pulled up in front of Best Buy, walked in and told the first sales clerk that greeted us that his […]
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Just for Fun
For years I’ve enjoyed reading the Young House Love blog. They have a fun writing style and are great at providing practical home improvement lessons. So naturally I was thrilled to see them partner with Target for a line of decorative hooks. I stopped in and picked up this: Then, thanks to strategically placed Command […]
And Yet Another Fix
So the dryer hasn’t really been working well and I knew exactly why. Our vent needed to be cleaned out. I’m not talking about the brush-out-the-vent-hose kind of clean. We needed the pull-everything-from-the-wall-vent kind of clean. We were fairly certain it hadn’t been done in years and years and years. I called a local dryer […]
Correcting a Sad Situation (or Two or Three or…)
The Hayleys spent some time (and hard-saved home improvement money) to do some much needed repairs around the house. Our handyman/pastor friend, Travis, spent a few days at the house checking on valves (finding one that needed repair in the garage), flushing our hot water tank, re-caulking our tubs/showers/sinks and replacing all of our toilet […]
How-To: Clean Your Blinds
My new yearly commitment to cleaning meant that I had to tackle something that I hadn’t touched since we moved in nearly five years ago – our blinds: You can enlarge that photo to see just how dirty our blinds are. But do yourself a favor (or perhaps I should say do me a favor!) […]
How-To: Wash Your Kitchen Rugs
We’ve been in the Hayley House for a number of years now and I’ve decided it’s long-past time for me to unpack all of the boxes. There are a lot of boxes. I’m not going to take a photo to share with you – it’s embarrassing and makes me look like a somewhat of a […]
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Cleaning the oven is a project that will make you beg the Lord to stop punishing you from the sin of not cleaning the stove more often. You will barter with the oven – promising to clean it more frequently if it will only get less gunky. It will make you reconsider your life decisions, […]
Quick Tip Saturday
I’m slowly working my way through deep-cleaning the Hayley house. (Let’s just say it was long overdue.) Up this week before work: Clean the toaster. We have a stainless steel toaster and it had gradually built up a layer of ick. I’m not posting a photo of that because, well, it was icky. To clean […]
You Should Always Ask This Question
This is the month that I’m going through boxes. Boxes that my mom has given me that have sat in her house for years. Boxes that I had already that have sat in my home for years. Lots and lots and lots of boxes. Later this year I’ll go through our clothes, our various computer […]
The Weekend When Everything Cancelled
This weekend, everything we had scheduled was cancelled. The house guests that we thought would be in through the end of the day on Saturday were out the door by 7:30 am. The dinner party that evening was scratched due to illness. It’s a weird thing to have nothing to do – nothing other than […]