Clean Living

By Trula • October 12th, 2007

If you have any children over age 4 give them chores to do. My kids have to keep their rooms clean and each of them has 2 additional chores. My daughter, who is 18, has to clean out the fridge once a month and keep the shelves and inner door wiped down once a week. [...]

I am all about my kids. I have been a mother since before I was an adult. I got pregnant with my daughter when I was 16 right before my senior year of high school started (I skipped a grade in elementary), and I was 17 when she was born a month before I graduated [...]

Oh my word, little boys can be so stinky!Don’t get me started on middle school age!Someone please, make it stop! LOL!
*disclaimer*Yes, I know there are little girls who have hygiene issues. Yes, I know there are little girls who have pungent pee. There are even little girls who exude that dense, skunk-like boy sweat musk. [...]

What I do about cleaning is I schedule something every day. I do not do my daily chores all at once but interspersed throughout my day. What motivates me is that I do not do well in a dirty and/or chaotic environment…when my house is dirty it really affects how I feel; it creeps me [...]

Today the boys and I cleared out the back porch closets. I had no idea just how much junk was up there! Just to give you an idea of the clutter: newspapers from 2003, several old broken toys like an Easy Bake Oven, a busted humidifier, a small broken hand vaccum, and lots of empty [...]

There. I said it. I have publicly declared my husband a slob. It gets on my nerves. For many years our bedroom looked like a high school boy’s bedroom. Slowly over time he got rid of or boxed his teenage stuff. When we moved where we live now, our bedroom has a big walk-in closet [...]

Someone asked a question about gum disease over at Afro Punk and I thought hey I should put that on my blog too. Oooooooooooh man, I could write a book on this. Maybe I should, LOL.
This disease SUCKS. Be very glad if they catch it in the early stages. I have lost 3 teeth because [...]

This goal was worth doing for me because it has made my home life smoother. I don’t have to apologize or make excuses to my children for using vulgar language. I never cursed at my children but frequently cursed around them about various things. They always looked so disappointed with me when I cursed and [...]

I am still trying to de-clutter, I had no idea when I started seriously de-cluttering my house 3 months ago how much junk and unused stuff and just plain old garbage we had in the house…yuck. It was/is overwhelming. We have designated Saturday as the get-it-out-of-the-house day, which is very helpful. All throughout the week [...]

I have started doing this, in part because I am in the process of de-cluttering my house and in part because we are planning to build a small one-story straw bale house…we won’t have enough room for all the stuff we have now in the smaller house. Over the holidays my kids and I cleaned [...]

I have been doing so great about keeping my house clean but I still have a few 5 areas of clutter. They are:
1) The front porch. WAY TOO MANY TOYS. Many of them are broken or the missing pieces or whatever, or just plain outgrown. See the baby stroller? Um, my youngest is almost 8 [...]

My house is a mess. I’ve been so busy getting my biz together, I have neglected my housecleaning. I have piles of papers and books and zines all over my dining room/office, and piles of cut up clothes for the quilts I’m working on. I can deal with that, it’s the dirtiness that creeps me [...]

I’ve heard about The FlyLady for awhile on the net on various women and mama-oriented message boards. Just checked the site out today, and it tripped me out. The whole concept and all the books are probably a big help and it’s a really great idea. I just can’t see having a planner devoted solely [...]