Are you a roll the toilet paper under or roll the toliet paper over? Cottonelle needs to know… I am definitely a roll the paper over the roll. I have been known to fix a toilet roll at a friend’s…
Category: housekeeping
Feeling the Holiday Letdown
I should prepare myself. It happens every year so why am I so shocked. Every year I get blindsided the day I start taking down decorations. For a day or two before all of us stop turning on the Xmas tree…
More Cuisinart Products!
Cuisinart Elite Collection 14-Cup Die Cast Metal Food Processor — $279 The Cuisinart Elite Collection™ 14-Cup Food Processor delivers the next big innovation for the modern kitchen. With 11- and 4½-cup work bowls nested inside the 14-cup bowl, plus the…
Review & Giveaway: Cuisinart Rice Cooker
My basement storage room is work in progress. Everything has a home…theoretically. The problem is that some items have several homes. The floor is perhaps the worst home for any item. I can lose items in a sea of boxes and…
Holiday Gift Guide: Peter Walsh’s It’s All Too Much
I participated in an online webinar over the summer with Peter Walsh. Many great back-to-school organizational tips. In this house, we could use all the organizational help we can get. In my quest to make my house a “clutter-free zone” rather…
Review & Giveaway: Where Would We Be Without Hellmann’s?
When I stepped foot in the dining hall at college for the first meals of my freshman year, I was astonished by two things: the size of the portions and the array of condiments. At home in England, we used…
Review & Giveaway: Walmart to the Rescue
Almost 15 years ago… As a new resident in this part of our county, I was immediately struck by how far away everything was. In our old house, I was 10 minutes from work, in walking distance from a grocery store,…
Christmas Can’t Happen Amid Boxes and Bags
It’s that time of year again where I unpack Christmas decorations. Sort through hooks. Decide which ornaments to put on the tree and which will go on a shelf. Assign kids a task or three. Assemble nativity sets. Decorate the…
Climbing Mount Laundry and Other Tall Tales
I think of my laundry room as my little corner of the house. Yes, it is the smallest room in the house. Yes, it is piled high with clean laundry, dirty laundry, clothes that don’t fit, clothes that need mending,…
Green Mom?
I’m not a green mom. I don’t compost. I don’t sew all our clothes. I don’t grow fruit and vegetables. But, I am striving to be a green mom… I do care about the environment. For your information, these are…
