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The Etiquette of “Please Go Away”
Should I put up a No Soliciting sign or save my sanity? Ah, neighborhood etiquette.
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Lovies in the Laundry: How to Get the Stink Out of Stuffed Animals
How do you get urine smell out of beloved stuffed animals that live in the cribs of toddlers?
Your Life
When Unexpected Expenses Prompt an Existential Crisis
One of the “joys” of home ownership is all of the unplanned ways in which you get to spend extra money! And it’s making me question my life choices.
Big Kid
How to Determine if a Pool is Right for Your Family
The decision to own a pool is not one to be taken lightly, so I have a few simple questions to help you figure out if it’s right for your family.
Big Kid
Bathroom Remodel: Neurotic Parent of Teens Edition
A remodeling project is always fraught, but throw soon-to-fly-the-coop teens into the mix, and I’m even more neurotic than usual. Surprise.
Relationships
The Unhappy Housewife-to-Be
Amalah tackles a common problem: disagreements over household division of responsibilities between out-of-the-home-working and stay-at-home parents.
Relationships
Help! We’re Moving & Driving Each Other Crazy!
Next month, my husband and I are moving our small family about an hour away from where we are now. My husband and I are taking very different packing approaches in how we’re preparing for his this move and we’re driving each other crazy because of it. How can we make this go smoother for our sanity?
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Quiz: Do You Need to Simplify Your Life? (+ $300 TargetGift Card Sweepstakes)
If you have a computer, you of course know that online quizzes are everywhere these days. “Which Disney Princess Are You?” “Which 80’s Band Are You?” “Which Hot Dog Topping Are You?” Just to name a few. So in the spirit of these non-stop quizzes, here is our version. You won’t find out what Cat Breed you are, but you might learn how to keep your home more tidy and how to keep your life more fun.
Relationships
On Love & Liabilities
A new mom-to-be is not only growing her family but contemplating growing her financial responsibilities by helping her aging parents. Her husband is not on board with the latter. She needs our objective opinions and advice.
Home
On Forgotten, Funky-Smelling Laundry
Hey, it’s almost Christmas. Let’s do an easy one, okay?
Big Kid
On Being “The House” At Thanksgiving (And Beyond)
This Thanksgiving and beyond, I am grateful that we are “The House” for my teens and their friends. What does that look like?
Big Kid
End The Chore War With Your Teens
Get more chore help from your teens while nagging less? It’s a pipe dream… or is it? Maybe not!
Home
11 Tips For Living Clutter-Free With Children
Summer is the perfect time to establish some new habits and cleaning routines that will free you up to have more time for doing things you enjoy.
Activities
Effective and Safe Clean-up Tips and Tricks for the Crafty Mom
When you’re a mom and an artist you’re bound to make big beautiful artsy messes. Here are a few effective and safe clean-up tips we’ve learned.
Food & Home
Making Home in the Temporary
They say “it’s not the house that makes the home.” I am more convinced than ever that what they say is true.
Young Child
I Never Knew I’d Have So Much to Say About Toilet Paper, Then I Had Kids
I always hear people complain that their family members can’t seem to change the roll of toilet paper when it runs out. I don’t have that problem. It was solved the one time my head spun around in a full circle and pea soup spewed from my mouth, frightening my children into submission. I do have a different toilet paper problem, one for which I can’t manage to muster as much outrage. See for yourself…
Home
Tea Forte Over Ice Pitcher System
A pitcher of tranquility.
Home
Family Pack Value Assortments
Meat and potatoes. Minus the potatoes.
Your Life
Nellie’s 2-Piece Laundry Soda & Oxygen Brightener
Super concentrated.
Products & Services
LG Ultra Capacity Front Load Washer Dryer
Argue over who gets to do the laundry.