Home & Organizing

Recently, when discussing the woes of being a first-time homebuyer, a friend scoffed and said to me, “You are not a first-time homebuyer. This is your second home,” when I discussed all the repairs our new home needed. I was a little taken aback, but then I reminded her that I am. This might be […] More

As a borderline obsessive compulsive neat freak, it’s my firm belief that my house should never be messy. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t care if your house is messy, and I won’t judge you at all. I just cannot for the life of me rationalize being in a house that’s messy. And that’s a […] More

$404.96 – that’s how much our utility bill is this month. Perhaps to some that does not seem high, and to others it might seem excessive. Please consider my husband and I as part of the latter. Yes, we are Floridians, and yes, we get hot. Yes, we run our air nonstop during the summer. […] More

I have a love/hate relationship with the fact that almost everyone that comes into our home assumes that I spend hours cleaning up before their arrival. I love that they’ve noticed my clean and lovely home, but I hate that they assume that because I have four kids I must live in a pigsty unless […] More

What’s more fun than vacation? Easy; coming home to a house that’s still standing and still filled with your belongings in their rightful locations. In a world filled with criminals and those with ulterior motives, it’s often difficult to understand that anything you say and do and post online can alert the wrong people that […] More

Gardening is such a great idea, but there are so many pitfalls to it. For one, what if you are not and experienced gardener? Will you kill everything you try to grow? Add to that the fact that gardening supplies are so expensive, you might as well just give it up. I mean, it’s not […] More

The first impression a person gets of your home is your curb appeal. If you haven’t any, you will leave others with a less than perfect impression of your home and your lifestyle, which is not any fun at all. You might say you don’t care what others think of your home, but what happens […] More

It’s something some people do and others do not. For me, making the bed every single day is just a way of life. It’s something I’ve done for as long as I can remember, and I don’t remember ever being asked or told to do it growing up. I do it every day – or […] More

Space is always at a premium in your home. No matter how big or small the home, you will find that you are looking for spaces in which to store your linens and your other items. Even in a big house, you will find that you are constantly looking for places to store linens since […] More

Being a new homeowner is so exciting. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first home or your 10th home; a new home is so exciting and so promising and so wonderful. It’s a change in the right direction, possibly the start of something new and amazing in your life. But it’s also the start of […] More

We’ve all seen the gorgeous master bedrooms in the magazines, and we all wish we could make ours look like that. Believe it or not, it’s actually pretty simple to take an average master bedroom and turn it into something that looks as though it does belong the pages of magazine. All you need is […] More

If I told you that you could make cleaning more fun, would you do it? Stop laughing and just listen; no, cleaning is not fun. There’s nothing fun about cleaning up messes that other people make around the house, but there is something fun about seeing the final result and the finished product and understanding […] More