A Life Lived Simply

In effort to keep everyone informed about appointments and family events, I made a bulletin board for our laundry room. Before this board, ...

Our garden/storage shed and cat house was once attached to our old mobile home and served as our laundry room. When we moved into our new h...

Yesterday, I showed you a peek at what I keep in my pocketbook. In keeping with that theme, I am going to share the inside of our frigs. We...

Are you ever curious as to what other women carry in their purses or here in the South, their pocketbooks? I have to admit I have been espe...

Who knew the colors of the rainbow could become an organizing tool? If you think about it, most clothes stores use the colors of the rainbo...

DH has a big laugh over this next tip I am going to share. He says it is proof that my OCD is out of control, but it really has helped me w...

When you live in a double wide mobile home, storage space can be an issue. So you learn how to organize the spaces in ways to maximize on t...

When you run a household, staying organized just doesn't apply to schedules, making lists, and cleaning house. It also means keeping al...

If you are like me, you like things neat and tidy, and an organized house is a must for me. However, buying containers and storage tubs to ...

Ziploc bags are simply the best, especially the slider bags. They are the easiest to close and the easiest to make sure they are close. I u...

Clipping coupons is a good way to save money and has saved us quite a bit over the years. However, I do it differently than I have seen tho...

When we set up our household over 28 years ago, one thing I had to figure out was how to come up with meals for the week and make out a gro...

Our guest bath, and the bathroom mainly used by DD, usually takes me a good day to clean. The majority of that time is spent on cleaning th...

The office/guest bedroom usually takes me a good 3 to 4 hours to clean. Thankfully, every thing in this room is easy to move by myself, so ...

DD's/Storage Closet doesn't get deep cleaned every year. It does get deep cleaned every other year, but is straightened up every mo...

DD's bedroom usually takes me one day to clean. I make DD help me, much to her chagrin. She does some light dusting & cleaning whil...

Since our Master Bath is fairly big, I take several days to clean it. I break it down into sections. I will clean the sink area, then the s...

The deep cleaning chore list for our Master Bedroom had to be tweaked too, due to the new piece of furniture we replaced our bookshelves w...

Since we put down laminate flooring , I have had to tweak the list of deep cleaning chores for our living room. For next year's deep cl...

Deep cleaning the kitchen usually takes me about a week to complete. Removing everything from the cabinets, cleaning, reorganizing, and put...