Archive for the 'Home Maintenance' Category

Home Improvement & Pesky Tenants

My husband got a call from the husband tenant of our rental property. This guy drives me insane! Just last month the wife emailed me saying they were divorcing and had us sign all these papers getting him off the lease but now he’s calling so I guess they aren’t getting divorced. The flakey-ness is […]

Diva Fabrics

In my search for fabric for new curtains for my house I came across a very clever site that sells fabric but it gets even better. They have something called a Vote Up Count Down Sale. This is a very clever idea - you vote on your favorite fabric and the fabric with the most […]

Zone of The Week: Kitchen

Ugh I don’t like this zone! Our new house has a sucky kitchen that I won’t be able to remodel for quite sometime! Our old house had a our newly remodeled kitchen that I sure am missing. I find that when I clean our new kitchen I just get depressed. I have like 2" of […]

Zone of the Week: Living Room

Well since we have finally moved and are somewhat settled in I thought now is a good time to really commit to a cleaning schedule. We were in escrow for over 2 months when buying this house so I sort of let my old house get pretty dirty. I just wasn’t motivated to keep up […]

That New House Smell

Did you ever go to someone’s house and it has their "smell" - not necessarily a bad smell but just a certain distinct smell of the house and person or family. Well since we’ve been at our new house it doesn’t yet feel ‘ours’. I think it has something to do with the smell of […]

I Will Get Organized … Someday

I have tried so many times throughout the years to get organized. It works temporarily then I fall back into my normal unorganized ways. Doing our taxes reminds me how utterly unorganized I am with our paperwork. My desk is a huge mess! My house is a mess today. Monday is usually my cleaning day […]