Cynthia Ewer's Blog, page 71
January 10, 2013
Pantry Recipes for Homemade Cleaning Products
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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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 and sink in the house.
Hogwash! Simple recipes using products from your pantry make effective household cleaning solutions. An added plus: these natural products are more environmentally friendly than commercial alternatives.
Stock your cleaning tool t...
January 8, 2013
Resolutions Rescue: Clean Out The Refrigerator
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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Standing in line at the supermarket check stand, nobody can deny that we're on the dreary downside of a new year. Tabloid headlines scream the weight-loss secrets of the stars, while traditional women's magazines sing siren songs of money-saving, belly-busting, speed-cleaning tips and techniques.
We ourselves? All those resolutions that looked so basic, so easy, so noble through the champagne haze of New Year's Eve have lost their rosy glow viewed in...
January 4, 2013
2013 New Year's Cleaning Grand Plan Challenge
Christmas has come and gone ... and left a mess behind. Looking around, you wonder how you'll ever dig out in time for Spring!
Solution? Take the Challenge!
Roar into the New Year and clean house fast with the 2013 Cleaning Grand Plan Challenge from OrganizedHome.Com.
Based on Katie Leckey's Cleaning Grand Plan, Cleaning Grand Plan Challenge kicks off the new year with a 14-week plan to clean and organize a spring-clean house for the New Year.
Working in small weekly bites makes a big job easy,...
January 3, 2013
Jumpstart January For An Organized Year
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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Face it: it's January. Dreary weather is matched only by the dreariness of a house stripped of holiday decorations. Children slog through the great dull stretch between New Year's Day and Spring Break, no longer distracted from their schoolwork by the excitements of the holiday season.
December's crowded calendar gives way to January's social slump. Video rentals soar as comfy sweats replace dress clothes on Saturday nights.
Take heart! There's another...
December 27, 2012
Power Tools For An Organized Home
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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Who among us hasn't squandered a happy afternoon in a store specializing in organizing products? Drifting from aisle to aisle, we make a mental list: this for the bathroom clutter, that for the computer desk.
All is bliss until we consider the bottom line. Specialty organizers can be costly! Someday, we vow, we'll get organized at home, but for now, budget realities step firmly on organizer dreams.
Stop the presses! Over the years, these top tools have...
December 26, 2012
Post-Christmas Clean Up: Clutter Cutting Ideas for Year's End
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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Christmas Week is here, and New Year's Eve is on the horizon!
Even in the midst of holiday cheer, it's time to look ahead to a clean and organized New Year.
Ready to swing into the coming year from a clutter-free and organized home?
Try these year-end tips to cut clutter and start the New Year on an organized note:
December 6, 2012
Winter Preparedness Checklist
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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When wintry weather blows, will your family be prepared?
Winter brings special seasonal challenges to an organized home. Winter storms can make navigating roads and walkways hazardous; power outages and snow days highlight any family's readiness for cold weather.
Take time now to review your family's emergency preparedness with this Winter Preparedness Checklist. It'll help you prepare your home and automobile for cold-weather hazards.
November 1, 2012
Fall Back: Home Preparedness Checklist for Time Change Sunday
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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Autumn's here and it's time to Fall Back: Time Change Sunday is on the way!
On Sunday, November 6, we come to the end of Daylight Saving Time in most of the United States. With an extra hour in the day--and winter on the way--it's time for a seasonal home preparedness checklist!
As you circle the house, resetting clocks to Standard Time, make time for this short safety checklist. It'll see you into the winter from a safe--and organized--home:
September 20, 2012
Fall Cleaning Chore Checklist
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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It's Autumn.
Pumpkins glow in golden fields. Shorter days, crisp mornings signal winter's approach.
Can the holidays be far behind?
Use Autumn's brisk and breezy days to conquer deep-cleaning chores for a clean and comfortable winter home, and wrap up summer's outdoor areas.
Our Fall Cleaning Chore Checklist will help you prepare home and hearth for the coming of winter:
August 16, 2012
Do It Now! Tips To Get Ready For Back-To-School
By Cynthia Ewer
Editor, Organized Home
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Move over, summer--a new school year is coming!
With the start of school, families face new organization challenges. School bells ring--and so do early-morning alarm clocks. Paper piles swell as hand-outs and homework stream into the house.
Shorter autumn days bring a hectic round of sports, activities and events, and calendars fill with cryptic notes. Can the holidays be far behind?
Get organized now for the best school year ever! Use these ideas to pr...
