More Clever Cleanup Tools

It’s hard to think of cleaning the house as something that could ever actually be a product of your imagination, but sometimes it can be. Like any dysfunction worth its salt, an effective delusion depends on colorful characters and new and different surroundings and situations. Ponder the following heretofore unexpected and never in a million years considered cleanup tools. The Button Scraper: Upgrade your washcloths by sewing a large plastic or wooden button onto one corner of the cloth. Make sure you tell the coat or sweater you have taken it from that it will be right back. Buttons make … Continue reading

How To Make Your House Look Clean for Company

Keeping up appearances is a little like keeping up with the Jones’s. It never ends, although once it starts, it permeates every aspect of one’s being, living expenses and household. One thing to bear in mind as the holidays approach and company is sure to arrive is to furnish your home for living rather than for ornamental purposes. Un-decorate. Too many knick-knacks are not only a source for more dust, but cleaning them can also give you a migraine and a pain even lower than that. Understatement is best, as Liberace use to say. Consider camouflage as a solution to … Continue reading