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Spring Cleaning Resources and Scotts Liquid Gold Give Away
Spring Cleaning at Kat’s Cafe Means Help for You!
So, I have this little confession to make … I suck at housekeeping. No, seriously! I’ve often said, laughingly, that I’m no Martha Stewart. The truth of the matter is I have little time to clean, and the bit of cleaning I can do is never enough.
I’m drowning in unwashed dishes, clothes that refuse to pick themselves up, and floors that need swept within moments of the herd of kids running through.
I’m horrible at it, but I do try. And every year I come up to spring cleaning time with the best of intentions. I remember our yearly cleaning marathons, growing up, where we washed walls from the ceiling to the floor, scrubbed baseboards, washed and then re-washed every dish and pot and pan in the cabinets (and the cabinets as well!).
So I’ve started the yearly search for great resources to make cleaning more organized and manageable. I’m opening this up to comments, though, because despite my great skills at search I seemed to find a lot of the same things.
Kat’s Spring Cleaning Search Finds:
- One-A-Day Challenge: Spring Cleaning at the Finely Ground Blog – Marisa outlines a sweet list of 23 items to help you with your spring cleaning needs. I thought this looked like a respectable list, especially for the overwhelmed among us (raises had desperately!).
- Spring-Cleaning Checklist at Martha Stewart Homekeeping Solutions – Just because I can’t be like Martha doesn’t mean I don’t know she rocks at keeping house. Here’s the best spring cleaning resource by Martha I could find (for free anyway).
- Organized Home’s Clean House section – They include several articles, including cleaning with kids!
- About.Com’s Complete Spring Cleaning Checklist – One of the most complete checklist’s I saw, with tons of additional links and ideas.
- Now it’s your turn! Leave me a link in the comments for your favorite resource and I’ll include it in a section Just for advice from the viewers.
Now, it’s time for a little help … how about a chance for you to get a little free help for your spring cleaning fun? Enter the following giveaway for your own chance to win a Scotts Liquid Gold Cpring Cleaning Kit. My grandmother still swears by Liquid Gold … and really, she’s even better than Martha!
Scotts Liquid Gold “Spring Cleaning Kit” Giveaway
The “Spring Cleaning Kit” contains :
- Original SLG Aerosol,
- Wood Wash,
- Wood Wipes and
- Clean Screen
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Katrina Moody
Graphic Designer, Wordpress Addict, Blogger at Kat's Media & More
I'm a special needs parent before just about everything else in life, but also a passionate advocate for my three boys and husband, who all have a bit of awesomeness about them. Awesomeness = Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome, Autism, Epilepsy, Dyslexia, Cerebral Palsy, and more. It all adds up to some awesome kids and an amazing family.
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Keeping the house clean with kids is a tough job, especially if you are always the person cleaning it. With my own kids (ages 13, 5, and 3), I think it’s important that they help keep the house tidy. While the youngin’s may not have the skills to wash dishes or iron clothes, they can pick their toys and clothes.
At worst, I have to constantly remind them to pick that toy off the floor or to put their dirty dishes in the sink. For me, it means one thing I (or their mom) doesn’t have to pick up.
Right now, I’ve sent the kiddies to their rooms until it is clean. That should keep them busy for a few hours, which leaves me with a few hours of quiet time.
A win/win proposition if you ask me.
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LOL — I send my kids to their room to clean and they turn to tears … I usually have to wade in and help (or Jim does). We have a Logan here, so as fast as can clean it up, he can mess it up again. (every family has a kid like that, don’t they?)