Housekeeping
Articles on house keeping and home organization.
Men and Medicine Cabinets - James Thurber
A James Thurber story describing the incredible mess and things that can build up and gather in a medicine cabinet. He calls these cabinets to be "a source of constant bewilderment and exasperation to the American male."
Home Organization Tips
A home is the place where you come to relax after a hard day's work. Here are some tips which will make this place a haven for your family and you.
Laundry Tips
Tips to keep your clothes clean and wash your stains away!
Famous Homes and Housekeepers
Cooking and housekeeping web sites spawned by TV shows and magazines make attaining domestic bliss easier than popping dinner in the microwave.
Get Spaced Out!
There are endless reasons why we all want extra storage space in our house - but where to find it? You may not realize that you have one room which you can make into a super storage spot: your laundry room. Instead of having it cluttered with a line of damp washing, linen baskets of clothes and rows of washing goop - you can streamline it and create loads of storage space.
Organizing Your Home To Light a Fire In Your Love Life
Do you want to jump start your love life? These simple ways of organizing your home will heat up your romance in no time. Find out simple things that you can do today to make your bedroom into a place for romance.
Toy Solutions at Grandma and Grandpa's Home
Four helpful organizing tips on how to create a space for toys for grandchildren to play with when they visit.
Maximize Your Closet Storage with Closet Organizers!
When you move to a new house, it’s easy to just toss things into closets in order to get them out of your way. Unfortunately, these closets don’t always get cleaned out again before you start adding a lot more stuff. This is particularly true of closets in bedrooms which become catch-alls for anything and everything you want to store.
De-clutter and Simplify Your Life
De-cluttering your home can free you from stress and simply for your life.
How Do I Find a Good Electrician?
Finding a good electrician is done by word of mouth, looking in the yellow pages, or looking online. Many times when you are looking for a licensed and insured electrician one will ask friends and family for a referral.
Funny Stuff Can Still Just Be Stuff - 6 Tips That Can Help
Is stuff getting you down? Do you have too much stuff but don't want to part with it? Here are six suggestions of what to do with your stuff to free your life and your mind.
Fear Leads to Cluttering
Do you hold on to things because you are afraid you may need them some day? As you start to get rid of things that are really just clutter notice how good you feel.
6 Tips on deciding what to keep and what to let go
Do you have a hard time keeping everything and anything someone gives you? This article gives tips on how to decide what is clutter and what is a keper when organizing.
Reducing Clutter Makes Home Heaven
Do you long to get away because your home drives you crazy. Here are some ideas and tips on how to make your home your heaven.
Spring Cleaning: Don’t Forget the Lingerie Drawers
When creating your spring cleaning "to do" list, do not forget to clean out your lingerie, sleepwear and undergarment drawers. By taking steps to assess your intimate apparel products, you are not only reducing underwear clutter, but you are also identifying missing "must have" items for spring and summer fashions.
Get Rid Of Your Toilet Stains Once And For All
If you have a challenging toilet stain. Follow this procedure and you will be amazed at how easy you will be able to get rid of your tough toilet stains once and for all.
The Zen of Floor Waxing
Floor wax is a double-edged sword meaning that once a year, you’ll need to remove build up floor wax. Built up wax can especially discolor original tiles and linoleum in older homes.
Effective Fabric Deodorizer to Eliminate Odors
To rid your abode of such unpleasant smells, you’ll need to use a safe and effective fabric deodorizer. Your key objective is to eradicate the scent, not just mask it. Too many odor-elimination techniques simply replace one odor with another more perfumed and equally annoying scent.
Finding a Family - Friendly Degreaser Cleaner
Moreover, most of these brutal chemicals do not, in fact, make a product’s cleaning power much better than those containing safer substances. Degreasers filled with harmful ingredients will not necessarily clean better than its less toxic counterpart, but they will make your home less safe, especially for small children.
Easy Electrical Cord and Plug Repairs
When it comes to electricity, safety is the primary concern. Though your appliance’s plug or electrical cord looks like an easy repair project, these do-it-yourself projects are.
The Multiplane
Author, Allan Fyfe, discusses the merits and drawbacks of the multiplane.
HOUSEKEEPING CHORES LIST
HOUSEKEEPING CHORES LIST is to consider which chores only need to be done every now and then. This includes cleaning your light fixtures, washing your curtains and drapes, and dusting your ceilings.
How to Build Your Own ESD Workbench
Article on choosing the right ESD workbench
USA Embraces Aussie Laundry Lines and Clothes Lines
The backyard laundry line or clothes line is not a very common site across most of America, so the Aussies have taken up the challenge to help get the eco friendly message out, which seems to have been a well kept secret in Australia for years!
The Bowsaw
Allan Fyfe, proprietor of Lethenty Mill Furniture, talks about the merits of the bowsaw.
The Tormek Grinder
In this article, Allan Fyfe, proprietor of Lethenty Mill Furniture, gives his views on the Tormek Grinder.
Warranties for Your Makita Tools
Power tools are an indispensable component of any skilled worker's trade, but when they break, he is often left without the necessary items to accomplish his work. Many tool operators do not understand that they do not need to repair their devices themselves, but that their devices can be fixed by warranties. This article researches the different warranties of the three major power tool manufacturers: Makita, Bosch, and Dewalt.
Your Living Space can be Organized and have Decorator Style As Well
Home organization and decorator style can go together. You can have a decluttered home without it looking bare and unfriendly. Learn how!
Getting Your House Organized
Everyone comes home exhausted from work at the end of the day, needing to tend to children and pets, to produce a nourishing meal for the family, to exercise for the allotted time, and to maintain a marital relationship. The last thing you want to do is get your house organized, but it may be the clutter in your house that is slowing you down and helping to make you feel tired.
Cleaving Wood Part 2
This is the fifth installment in the story of how author, Allan Fyfe, makes a chair from a tree without the use of electricity of machine tools. This article, Allan continues his discussion about cleaving wood.
Cleaving Wood Part 1
This is the fourth installment in the story of how author, Allan Fyfe, makes a chair from a tree without the use of electricity or machine tools. In this article, Allan gets to grips with cleaving the wood.
Power Tools Need Fixing Too
What do you do with your worn out power tools? Reading this article might change your mind about buying a brand new power tool.
Caring for Your Delicate Laundry Items
Caring for your fine washables is not the same as washing your everyday laundry. Lace, silk, satin, wool, nylon, spandex, and rayon can be quite beautiful, but they require special care.
All about water damage in your home
Spotting a water leaking and potential water problems in time can be very important since might help you avoiding bigger complications.
Housekeeping Made Easy
Here are a few simple ways that will help you in keeping your house shining and sparkling clean...
Tools - You need them, but what and how many?
Tools, tools, tools. With such a large variety of general and specialized tools, how do you decide what you need? This article explains all about tools, diy, household accessories, and power tools.
Your Quick Guide to Housekeeping Cleaning
Before you start cleaning your house, identify certain tasks in each room. Make a checklist of your cleaning priorities and have a home organizing plan.
Basics of the Skid Loader: Heavy Agricultural Machinery
A skid loader is a stiff frame machine with mechanical arms that can be fitted with attachments for a wide variety of different tools, including a backhoe, hydraulic breaker, pallet forks, angle broom, sweeper, auger, mower, snow blower, stump grinder, tree spade, trencher, and a wheel saw.
Lock Picking Can Be Very Rewarding
The area of lock picking is as complex as any other profession with its own tools and terms. Learn all about them and watch your skill grow.
Preparing Your Home for Sale: Make Repairs
Are you planning to put your home on the market? Review these tips for making necessary repairs, and you will achieve a quicker sale and optimum price.
Turn a Tract Home into Your Own Personal Retreat
Transform a generic looking tract house into a personal retreat. Tips and ideas for decorating and furnishing your generic home.
Ease the burden with a hand truck!
Here are some ways that a hand truck will serve helpful for you.
Types of Table Saws
The table saw is one of the most popular tools for a tool shed. The following gives the four basic types of table saws and some more basic information to get you started.
Protecting Yourself from Miter Saw Hazards
A miter saw is a useful tool for cutting straight and angled cut. If this tool is not used correctly, it has the potential to be very dangerous. Here are some tips on how to use your miter saw safely.
Active Family Means Laundry Challenges
Remember those lazy days of summer? Well, they're gone.
There are endless reasons why we all want extra storage space in our house - but where to find it? You may not realize that you have one room which you can make into a super storage spot: your laundry room. Instead of having it cluttered with a line of damp washing, linen baskets of clothes and rows of washing goop - you can streamline it and create loads of storage space.
Organizing Your Home To Light a Fire In Your Love Life
Do you want to jump start your love life? These simple ways of organizing your home will heat up your romance in no time. Find out simple things that you can do today to make your bedroom into a place for romance.
Toy Solutions at Grandma and Grandpa's Home
Four helpful organizing tips on how to create a space for toys for grandchildren to play with when they visit.
Maximize Your Closet Storage with Closet Organizers!
When you move to a new house, it’s easy to just toss things into closets in order to get them out of your way. Unfortunately, these closets don’t always get cleaned out again before you start adding a lot more stuff. This is particularly true of closets in bedrooms which become catch-alls for anything and everything you want to store.
De-clutter and Simplify Your Life
De-cluttering your home can free you from stress and simply for your life.
How Do I Find a Good Electrician?
Finding a good electrician is done by word of mouth, looking in the yellow pages, or looking online. Many times when you are looking for a licensed and insured electrician one will ask friends and family for a referral.
Funny Stuff Can Still Just Be Stuff - 6 Tips That Can Help
Is stuff getting you down? Do you have too much stuff but don't want to part with it? Here are six suggestions of what to do with your stuff to free your life and your mind.
Fear Leads to Cluttering
Do you hold on to things because you are afraid you may need them some day? As you start to get rid of things that are really just clutter notice how good you feel.
6 Tips on deciding what to keep and what to let go
Do you have a hard time keeping everything and anything someone gives you? This article gives tips on how to decide what is clutter and what is a keper when organizing.
Reducing Clutter Makes Home Heaven
Do you long to get away because your home drives you crazy. Here are some ideas and tips on how to make your home your heaven.
Spring Cleaning: Don’t Forget the Lingerie Drawers
When creating your spring cleaning "to do" list, do not forget to clean out your lingerie, sleepwear and undergarment drawers. By taking steps to assess your intimate apparel products, you are not only reducing underwear clutter, but you are also identifying missing "must have" items for spring and summer fashions.
Get Rid Of Your Toilet Stains Once And For All
If you have a challenging toilet stain. Follow this procedure and you will be amazed at how easy you will be able to get rid of your tough toilet stains once and for all.
The Zen of Floor Waxing
Floor wax is a double-edged sword meaning that once a year, you’ll need to remove build up floor wax. Built up wax can especially discolor original tiles and linoleum in older homes.
Effective Fabric Deodorizer to Eliminate Odors
To rid your abode of such unpleasant smells, you’ll need to use a safe and effective fabric deodorizer. Your key objective is to eradicate the scent, not just mask it. Too many odor-elimination techniques simply replace one odor with another more perfumed and equally annoying scent.
Finding a Family - Friendly Degreaser Cleaner
Moreover, most of these brutal chemicals do not, in fact, make a product’s cleaning power much better than those containing safer substances. Degreasers filled with harmful ingredients will not necessarily clean better than its less toxic counterpart, but they will make your home less safe, especially for small children.
Easy Electrical Cord and Plug Repairs
When it comes to electricity, safety is the primary concern. Though your appliance’s plug or electrical cord looks like an easy repair project, these do-it-yourself projects are.
The Multiplane
Author, Allan Fyfe, discusses the merits and drawbacks of the multiplane.
HOUSEKEEPING CHORES LIST
HOUSEKEEPING CHORES LIST is to consider which chores only need to be done every now and then. This includes cleaning your light fixtures, washing your curtains and drapes, and dusting your ceilings.
How to Build Your Own ESD Workbench
Article on choosing the right ESD workbench
USA Embraces Aussie Laundry Lines and Clothes Lines
The backyard laundry line or clothes line is not a very common site across most of America, so the Aussies have taken up the challenge to help get the eco friendly message out, which seems to have been a well kept secret in Australia for years!
The Bowsaw
Allan Fyfe, proprietor of Lethenty Mill Furniture, talks about the merits of the bowsaw.
The Tormek Grinder
In this article, Allan Fyfe, proprietor of Lethenty Mill Furniture, gives his views on the Tormek Grinder.
Warranties for Your Makita Tools
Power tools are an indispensable component of any skilled worker's trade, but when they break, he is often left without the necessary items to accomplish his work. Many tool operators do not understand that they do not need to repair their devices themselves, but that their devices can be fixed by warranties. This article researches the different warranties of the three major power tool manufacturers: Makita, Bosch, and Dewalt.
Your Living Space can be Organized and have Decorator Style As Well
Home organization and decorator style can go together. You can have a decluttered home without it looking bare and unfriendly. Learn how!
Getting Your House Organized
Everyone comes home exhausted from work at the end of the day, needing to tend to children and pets, to produce a nourishing meal for the family, to exercise for the allotted time, and to maintain a marital relationship. The last thing you want to do is get your house organized, but it may be the clutter in your house that is slowing you down and helping to make you feel tired.
Cleaving Wood Part 2
This is the fifth installment in the story of how author, Allan Fyfe, makes a chair from a tree without the use of electricity of machine tools. This article, Allan continues his discussion about cleaving wood.
Cleaving Wood Part 1
This is the fourth installment in the story of how author, Allan Fyfe, makes a chair from a tree without the use of electricity or machine tools. In this article, Allan gets to grips with cleaving the wood.
Power Tools Need Fixing Too
What do you do with your worn out power tools? Reading this article might change your mind about buying a brand new power tool.
Caring for Your Delicate Laundry Items
Caring for your fine washables is not the same as washing your everyday laundry. Lace, silk, satin, wool, nylon, spandex, and rayon can be quite beautiful, but they require special care.
All about water damage in your home
Spotting a water leaking and potential water problems in time can be very important since might help you avoiding bigger complications.
Housekeeping Made Easy
Here are a few simple ways that will help you in keeping your house shining and sparkling clean...
Tools - You need them, but what and how many?
Tools, tools, tools. With such a large variety of general and specialized tools, how do you decide what you need? This article explains all about tools, diy, household accessories, and power tools.
Your Quick Guide to Housekeeping Cleaning
Before you start cleaning your house, identify certain tasks in each room. Make a checklist of your cleaning priorities and have a home organizing plan.
Basics of the Skid Loader: Heavy Agricultural Machinery
A skid loader is a stiff frame machine with mechanical arms that can be fitted with attachments for a wide variety of different tools, including a backhoe, hydraulic breaker, pallet forks, angle broom, sweeper, auger, mower, snow blower, stump grinder, tree spade, trencher, and a wheel saw.
Lock Picking Can Be Very Rewarding
The area of lock picking is as complex as any other profession with its own tools and terms. Learn all about them and watch your skill grow.
Preparing Your Home for Sale: Make Repairs
Are you planning to put your home on the market? Review these tips for making necessary repairs, and you will achieve a quicker sale and optimum price.
Turn a Tract Home into Your Own Personal Retreat
Transform a generic looking tract house into a personal retreat. Tips and ideas for decorating and furnishing your generic home.
Ease the burden with a hand truck!
Here are some ways that a hand truck will serve helpful for you.
Types of Table Saws
The table saw is one of the most popular tools for a tool shed. The following gives the four basic types of table saws and some more basic information to get you started.
Protecting Yourself from Miter Saw Hazards
A miter saw is a useful tool for cutting straight and angled cut. If this tool is not used correctly, it has the potential to be very dangerous. Here are some tips on how to use your miter saw safely.
Active Family Means Laundry Challenges
Remember those lazy days of summer? Well, they're gone.