Your carpet takes a beating daily. Think about it. Every time you take a step in your home you are smashing down your carpet fibers, dragging in whatever dirt and oil is still on your shoes, and sometimes you spill stuff too. Carpet is just one of those modern...

Credit: https://coffeegeek.tv/ The other day I was at my Aunt’s house and I grabbed a coffee mug out of her cupboard. I could see a clear difference in where coffee and tea had sat in the mug. I knew it wasn’t a big deal. I knew it wasn’t unsanitary. But something...

Oh man, a flood. That’s never fun for anybody. Floods are messy business that can put a real damper on anyone’s mood (pun intended). Initially, a flood can cause all sorts of damage to your home, your possessions, and personal belongings. And even weeks later you can...

For the longest time growing up, I avoided touching the fabric softener on my mother’s laundry machine. I actually didn’t understand the bottles purpose. I knew from the label it was designed to make fabrics softer, but still I felt like if I poured it in the wrong...

Summer time is a great time for having a barbeque with friends and family. Warm weather, good times, good food, right? Well, for that matter, Fall and Spring are great times too. And in some climates, Winter isn’t such a bad a time for a BBQ either. After being used a...

Dealing with mildew in your home is fun...said no one ever. You have seen mildew building up at some point in your life. It’s black, slimy, and gross. You don’t have to know exactly what mildew is to know you don’t want it in your home! But... Let’s take a moment to...

Red wine. Is there any substance more spillable on this earth? Seriously, right behind spaghetti sauce and wing sauce, red wine is one of the most dangerous stain producing things ever to exist. It’s bad enough to spill anything on your clothes, especially when out...

Cleaning out your dishwasher. It almost seems counter intuitive, doesn’t it? Cleaning a cleaning machine? Shouldn’t it be cleaning itself as it cleans your dishes? Well, yes and no. But mostly no. There are parts of a dishwasher that need your tender love and care to...

I don’t like when grease pops and lands right in my eyeball. Who does, right? But I still love cooking up some greasy foods. Even when I’m being “healthy” and frying up some pan seared salmon, popping oil in my pan just can’t be avoided! After you fry basically...

Every home has a smell to it. Most of us can become nose-blind to smells we live with. Maybe you didn’t discover yours did until a visitor pointed it out to you. That would be embarrassing. There are plenty of products on the market designed to help you mask household...