Battling the boy cats to put sheets on our bed, in addition to normal wear-and-tear, led to more tear than we’d like in our sheets. Fortunately Macy’s had a giant sale – 700 thread count Egyptian Cotton blend sheets for just $50 (normally $130). I ordered two sets right away. But here’s my surprising discovery, very expensive […]
Cleaning
Resolving a Long Struggle Regarding Housekeeping
I swear it’s not that I’m a messy person – in fact, my work team says that I’m a neatnik (they’re overstating my tidiness, to be honest). I’m also not a lazy person – see my previous post on always having too much to do. Yet somehow I simply can’t keep our house neat and […]
Pinteresting Test: Simple Silver Cleaning
I have a necklace that I love – a silver Coptic cross that was gifted to me during my time in Kenya by an m-family in Ethiopia. It’s unique and every time I wear it I think of both my faith and my time spent in East Africa. Unfortunately, 17 years later the necklace was […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fact
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 […]
Clean That Drain – Naturally
I decided the other day to clean our long-suffering garbage disposal drain. That may or may not have been a decision made after becoming a bit stir-crazy during our ice-in. Or perhaps it was the sink’s slow draining while we had the taps running to prevent pipe freeze. Anyway. Several months ago I found a […]
Save the Berries!!
We’re in the midst of a late-summer berry bonanza in North Texas. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries are all available, sweet and juicy, and at prices too good to let pass. But berries are notoriously tough to keep fresh when they are this, well, fresh. Unless you know a little trick: Vinegar. I stumbled across this tip on […]