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Clutter-Free Homes – Take the Clutter Out, Bring the Coziness In!

Most homeowners don’t realise how much of a negative impact a cluttered home has on the entire family. When you walk into your house, you want to be welcomed with a homely sense of coziness; but instead, you feel stressed and saddened by the mess you see in the form of clutter.

Though it’s hard to find the time to keep a household spick and span nowadays, you can’t neglect your home to the extent that you find more clutter lying around than useful things. If this is what it’s come down to, we suggest you take some time off and pay close attention to these decluttering tips below. Your …

For Cleaner Dishes, Clean Your Dishwasher! A Deep Cleansing Guide

Apart from the times that you load and unload it, your dishwasher is probably the most overlooked appliance in your kitchen when it comes to cleaning. It’s easy to think that this time and energy saving device is a self-cleaning machine with all the washing and rinsing going on in there, but take a close look inside; are you disgusted by what you see? Now just think about the plates you’re eating off that have been washed in this unsanitary environment. Now that we’ve got your attention, let’s talk cleaning!

If you’ve waited long enough for food bits and deposits (or even worse, mildew) to build up, you’re going to …

Removing Pet Hair at Home – Go From Furry to Fur-Free!

If you have a pet (or more than one), you surely have pet hair everywhere! Your floors and furniture are covered in it; the sofas are furry and so are you! But this is no reason to start leaving your furry member of the family out in the doghouse all day. Yes, they shed and then some more; but they deserve to live in a loving home and you, as a loving pet parent, deserve to know a couple of tricks on how to clean and remove pet fur. So, we’ve put together some of the best and most effective ways to pick up pet hair and get your home …

Easy, Effective and Everlasting – Cleaning Habits for the Whole Family!

The bigger the family, the greater the house cleaning! It’s true; with more people comes more mess’, perhaps?! Don’t get us wrong; big families are awesome! The hearty laughs, the big family gatherings and birthday parties are a blast! But with so many people living under one roof, things can get a little chaotic and disorderly.

The case is relatively similar with small families as well; when there are kids in the picture, the amount of cleaning to be done is always more. With that said, it’s important that everyone pitch in to keep the household clean and organised. But how do you do this when no one is …

Microwave Cleaning Guide – 2 Methods, 1 Fantastic Result!

Your trusty old microwave; the day you got it was the day you realized what the luxury of convenience truly means. Perhaps it made life so convenient that you forgot it needs cleaning too! Like any other kitchen appliance that is surrounded by food, your microwave is bound to get dirty, greasy and grimy overtime.

If you open your microwave door to reveal a plate of caked on food particles, gravy stains splattered on the sides, and food gunk under the turntable, you know you’ve waited too long to give your micro a much needed cleaning. Having said that, it’s never too late to clean your microwave and get it …

On Your Mark, Get Set, Get Organised! – Tips for Organising Kids Toys

Kids know as much about organising as they do about tax reductions and rocket science! If you want your kids to keep their toys and belongings clean and organised, you’re going to have to simplify things. This means doing a little organising on your part before teaching the kids to do the same.

What you need is a clear idea of how to make cleaning and organising toys a little easier for your kids, and maybe a little fun too! To create an organise-friendly environment for kids, keep a few key points in mind; this includes your child’s age, height and types and quantity of toys. We’ve put together …

Order in the Kitchen! – Organisation Tips That You Can’t Miss

Do you ever feel like cooking in your kitchen is one big stress-fest? Well, cooking is not meant to be a tense or chaotic activity; in fact, a lot of foodies turn to cooking as a way to de-stress.

Look around; maybe all the stressing out in your kitchen has something to do with it being disorganised. Due to excessive daily activity in the kitchen (generally from multiple people), it’s common for this particular area of your home to get a little disorderly. If you really want get your kitchen organised so that it remains a stress-free environment to work in, it’s best you take some time out to put …

Your Average Bathroom Cleaning Tips Taken to the Next Level!

We’d all love our bathrooms to stay spotless and not have to clean them ever so often, but the fact remains the same; bathrooms get dirty. Even worse, they get so soiled sometimes that even the homeowners are disgusted to use them! Regardless of where your bathroom rests on the dirt-o-meter, anything less than clean is not usable for guests, and is quite unhygienic for you and your family members, too.

Like most homeowners, you’ve probably been cleaning your bathrooms as and when needed, using the same cleaning techniques and solutions that result in a clean, decent looking bathroom. But what if you had a couple of tricks up your …

7 Surefire Ways to Get Your Kids to Clean Their Rooms

The last thing on any kid’s mind is the thought of doing chores or cleaning their room. All they want to do at a young age is play games, watch T.V., and laze around; basically, anything that is fun or keeps them from doing something they don’t like. Cleaning is nowhere in the picture until you, the parent, present it to them in a nice, shiny frame! In other words, the trick is to make them WANT to clean their room, but the question is HOW?

One of the reasons why chores are not appealing to kids is because they are considered boring activities. Moreover, to a kid, a dirty

The Easy-Peasy Fridge Cleaning Guide!

Have you ever wondered how many times your refrigerator is opened and closed in a single day? And not just by one person, but by pretty much every household member. Food items are pulled out and put in several times over the course of the day; and in all of this fridge activity, one thing is inevitable; food spills. Whether it’s a little juice, some gravy or cake crumbs; all kinds of food spills lead to a dirty, unhygienic fridge.

What’s worse is when these spills are allowed to sit, they harden over time and create rotting food gunk that’s sitting comfortably amongst your healthy, fresh foods. Yes, it’s gross …