About Me

I am a “domestic engineer” as they called it in the late ’70s when my mom stayed at home with me. Call me housewife, call me stay-at-home mom, call me tired.

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Archive for 'Housekeeping' Category

The New Sock Hangout

Jan 14th, 2008 by CEO | 1

Socks looking for their mates now hang out above the washer, so I can at least see what’s missing. This is a sad state of affairs. It represents how slack I have been regrading laundry lately. I know that socks often never make it to the dryer, but I’m so far behind that pairs aren’t [...]

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Shine on Sink!

Jan 11th, 2008 by CEO | 0

I checked out Marla Cilley’s Sink Reflections on a recent visit to the library. Marla Cilley is also known as the FlyLady. She has a free email-based program to help members (flybabies) break free from their CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome). The first thing she instructs her flybabies to do is shine the [...]

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The Law of the Laundry

Sep 21st, 2007 by CEO | 0

My new rule as it relates to laundry: One load a day. It sounds simple enough, but it must be completed from start to finish… as in washed and moved to the dryer before it gets smelly, dried and removed from the dryer before it gets wrinkly, and just as important, completely put away before [...]

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Housework is Thankless

Aug 21st, 2007 by CEO | 0

My first step toward home-havenness is the office/playroom where my family spends most of our evenings together after dinner. Actually, I shouldn’t say that the office is the first step, since the kitchen is a continual and simultaneous step toward clutter-free living. Then there’s that ever-growing mountain of dirty clothes. In so many ways, housework [...]

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