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Inside Motherhood

Archive for the ‘Keeping House’ Category

August 16th, 2008

Dorky moments - loving household purchases

Yesterday I went to the hardware store and bought myself this Shark Deluxe Steam Mop. I hate using regular mops with buckets of cleaning solution but all those fancy little mops like the Swiffer Wet Jet or Mr. Clean mop all required special solution and special cleaning pads.
I often found myself cleaning […]

By Sherry -- 2 comments

August 6th, 2008

Teaching chores

Today, due to a certain level of messiness that has become a running theme in our household, I found myself looking up chore charts - I found some cute ones here with lots of themes to fit plenty of interests.
Now I have to decide whether to use them or not. (I also have to […]

By Sherry -- 2 comments

July 17th, 2008

Mom’s Meal Planning

How do you plan your dinner menus?
My method seems so complicated when I write it out but it’s what’s worked best for me over the years! I usually start to write down dinner ideas a couple of days before payday, which is every two weeks, and I write down enough dinners for two weeks’ […]

By Heather -- 4 comments

July 12th, 2008

Children’s Toy Storage

I love this series of videos! We’ll be moving within the next two months and I’d like to get a jump start on the kids’ toys before we even move in to make sure we get a handle on it without having to resort to just shoving stuff into closets and into drawers.
Though my […]

By Heather -- 0 comments

July 11th, 2008

The Grocery Shrink Ray

One of my favorite websites, The Consumerist, has a section of the site dedicated solely to what they call the Grocery Shrink Ray. Basically manufacturers are shrinking product amounts while keeping the packaging and pricing the same.
I first ran into this several months ago when I needed to get some yogurt for a recipe […]

By Heather -- 0 comments

July 4th, 2008

Earning her keep

Tonight, my husband and I had one of those moments of sharing brain waves, I love when that happens. Just the other night I had read (and I wish I could remember where, it was one of the MANY blogs I read) that a good rule of thumb for allowances for younger kids […]

By Sherry -- 0 comments