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Welcome to the Holiday Grand Plan

You’ve decided: this is the year you’ll celebrate the holiday season from a home that is clean, organized and ready for Christmas. You dream of holiday parties, overnight house guests, Christmas cookies, a decorated home and a calm and stress-free holiday season.There’s only one problem: right now, you’re living in domestic chaos. How to create a clean home for the holidays?

What’s the answer? You need a plan: the Holiday Grand Plan.

Get ready for the holiday season with the Web’s olde...

Clean Green: Recipes for Homemade Cleaning Products

Clean Green: Recipes for Homemade Cleaning Products Cynthia EwerApril 6, 2024

Taken a trip down the cleaning aisle at the supermarket lately? If you believe the ad hype, you can't keep a clean house without loading your shopping cart with a different cleaner for each surface, floor a...

Seven Tips for Sparkling Christmas Letters

Seven Tips for Sparkling Christmas Letters Cynthia EwerDecember 6, 2023

Christmas is coming, holiday cards and letters fill the mailbox--and it's time to write your family's annual Christmas letter. 

Want your letter to stand out from the crowd? Looking for ways to spice up the same-old, s...

Holiday Grand Plan Week 9: Pantry / Closets

Week Nine at the Holiday Grand Plan, Pantry Week, finds us still in the kitchen. We’re cleaning, organizing and preparing for holiday cooking.

Prepare the pantry for holiday meals this week, in the Holiday Grand Plan.

This week, we focus on food storage, the pantry and any additional closets. Taking time to declutter, deep-clean and organize these storage areas will pay off when holiday baking begins.

Holiday prep chores this week see us begin to address Christmas cards, continue to wo...

Holiday Grand Plan Week 8: Kitchen

Week Eight sees us down and dirty in the heart of the home: the kitchen. It’s Kitchen Week at the Holiday Grand Plan!

Clean, organize and prepare the kitchen for holiday cooking, this week in the Holiday Grand Plan

This week, we’ll clear the decks for the holiday cooking to come with a kitchen clean-up and declutter. Routing out the year’s dirt and disorder gives us a fresh, clean start for holiday cooking to come.

In holiday prep, it’s Checkpoint Week and time to make plans for Hallowe...

Holiday Grand Plan Week 7: Guest Room

Guest rooms ready for holiday guests? They will be, after we tackle them during Week Seven of the Holiday Grand Plan: Guest Room Week!

Prepare for houseguests and holiday visitors this week in the Holiday Grand Plan

This week, we deep-clean, organize and prepare for overnight guests.

In holiday prep, we keep plugging away on gifts, whether to-make or to-buy. Decor alert: Halloween is coming!

Ready? Let’s get organized with Guest Room Week in the Holiday Grand Plan!

Holiday P...

Chill Out! Cut Energy Use in Refrigerator and Freezer

Chill Out! Cut Energy Use in Refrigerator and Freezer Cynthia EwerJanuary 30, 2022

With power bills on the rise--and hot weather just around the corner--it's time for an energy-saving tune up for your refrigerator and freezer.

Keeping food fresh while conserving energy can bring a h...

Clean House! Speed Cleaning Tips from Pro Cleaners

Clean House! Speed Cleaning Tips from Pro Cleaners Cynthia EwerJanuary 17, 2022

Paid cleaning help can be a wonderful short-cut to a clean and organized home--if the household budget can stand the cost. But what do you do if the Prize Patrol bypassed your door this year?

Take a speed...

Online Subscription Not What You Ordered? You May Be A Victim Of Dark Patterns

Online Subscription Not What You Ordered? You May Be A Victim Of Dark Patterns

Is a company--for me, it's iStockphoto--...

Online Subscription Not What You Ordered? It May Be Dark Patterns

Online Subscription Not What You Ordered? It May Be Dark Patterns

Recently, I experienced a troubling customer service ...