Category Archive

Cleaning

Keeping spaces nice and clean.

How doing chores makes me feel empowered

This might seem paradoxical, and it probably is, but adding more chores to my daily life has actually given me the feeling I am more in control of my life. Some might call this backwards. Isn’t evolution supposed to drive towards a simplified life, with fewer and fewer chores?

Pre-sort your silverware in the dishwasher

The sorting and putting away of silverware is the most annoying and time-consuming part of doing dishes. Why don’t I just sort them as I put the dirty ones INTO the washer?

Use colored-coded rags to cut down on paper towels

It’s not very fancy, but when we ditched paper towels I just bought one of these big packs of microfiber towels.

Use a cake-stand as a bathroom caddy

So, let’s say you were an Offbeat Bride. You procured or made an amazing cake or cupcake stand for your fabulous wedding. Now you’re an Offbeat Homie and you’re like, “Bitches, I have all this wedding decor — wtf can I do with all of it?”

Well, VOILA.

Use small hooks in your medicine cabinet for hair ties

This idea, that comes from my super organized mother, just made me have a baskets! moment.

Mind blown: cut off a bottle spout to store snack bags

I just…what is there even to say, here? Basically, the picture shows you what to do. It’s brilliant and it involves a half-full bag of snacks, a wide-mouth bottle spout, and a lid.

Beyond the chair-pile: What do you do with not-quite dirty clothes?

I wear my clothes multiple times between laundrings, but between the Sunday school t-shirt I wear one morning a week, my don’t-have-to-be-perfect-after-work-running-errands clothes, and that work dress that I can wear again, before I know it I have a semi-clean-clothes monster piled in a chair! What systems — physical or mental — have YOU come up with for managing semi-clean clothes?

Use bread to pick up broken glass

With an apartment full of furry creatures, I always freak out when glass breaks in my kitchen. Thanks to the Tasted YouTube channel, I now have a good way to make sure glass shards shall be no threat to paws and crumb-searching tongues.