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Ultimate Holiday Prep Tips Every Mom Should Know

11/29/2018 By Jenn Leave a Comment

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Ahh, the holiday season is upon us. This year went by so fast, didn’t it?

I love having holiday get togethers, family and friends over for dinner and out of town guests. It just makes my home feel more cozy when it is filled with extra people we love.

Getting my home guest ready is another story.

I dread the extra cleaning to be honest.

So today I am going to share with you the best holiday prep tips to make this job as simple a possible. The holidays are supposed to a time of relaxing, not stressing.

Ultimate Holiday Prep Tips Every Mom Should Know

Focus On Main Areas Of Your Home

There is no need to clean every part of your home for the holidays. By focusing on the area’s only your guests will see this will free up so much time and energy you can spend elsewhere.

Close the doors to the bedrooms and those extra rooms in your home. No one will ever know!

If you have guests staying with you, focus on the main bathroom and your guest room. I like to free up counter space and cleaning out a drawer or two here as well.

I hide those items in a small tote in my closet labeled preperly to make it easy to put back when they leave.

It will make your guests feel right at home.

Use A Mulipurpose Cleaner

How many cleaners do you use. Maybe three or even eight? During the holidays ditch the cleaners and stick with one product that will do the job.

For this I use BIZ powder. Not only is it great with my laundry but it can be used in so many other ways around your home.

BIZ has become my go to product and perfect for my holiday prep tips.

In The Bathroom:

I use BIZ to clean and deodorize tubs, showers, soap scum, tile & grout, floors, sinks, diaper pails and more. Sprinkle Biz on wet sponge, cloth, or brush. Scrub on surface to clean (for sensitive skin wear gloves). Do not allow to dry. Rinse thoroughly.

Tile & Grout: Just wet your surface, make a paste with water and Biz. Apply to area to be cleaned and let sit 10 min. Scrub with sponge or brush to clean surface. Do not allow to dry. Rinse thoroughly.

Toilet Bowls: Just add one scoop to bowl, mix with brush to dissolve powder and clean bowl. Just let stand for 15 minutes, then flush to rinse thoroughly.

In The Kitchen:

I use BIZ to clean and deodorize counter tops, waste cans, refrigerators, floors and more. Mix 1 scoop (1 cup) Biz in 1 gallon of warm water. Apply solution to dirty surface with sponge, cloth, or mop (for sensitive skin wear gloves). Or, sprinkle Biz on wet sponge, cloth or brush. Scrub on surface to clean. Do not let dry. Rinse thoroughly.

Garbage disposal: All you have to do is pour 3/8 cup (lowest line on scoop) of Biz into disposal. Let stand for 15 minutes. Then flush with hot water while running the disposal.

My biggest holiday prep tips are:

Schedule, Schedule and Schedule

With the extra hustle and bustle I always make sure my whole family knows what the schedule is.

I keep a calander on my fridge for all the important happenings. That way my whole family knows who flys in when and where, when we are baking cookies. All those extra’s get written down.

Now, I take this a step further. Y’all know I love my lists. Each night my husband and I sit down for a few minutes to go over the details of the net day.

From there we look at what his schedule looks like and what mine looks like and divide the extra holiday must do’s to stay on track.

The holidays do not need to be stressful with these holiday prep tips. If you plan ahead you can enjoy the extra time with your friends and family this holiday season.

Time Saving Laundry Tips For Busy Moms

09/20/2018 By Jenn Leave a Comment

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Let’s talk time saving laundry tips today!

With a family of five, I feel like I am constantly doing laundry! I swear my kids just throw things in their hampers that are clean when they “clean their room”.

Laundry is not a chore I like, ok let me rephrase that. I do not mind throwing a load of laundry into the washing machine and dryer but the folding, never-ending folding became a lot especially when you have little kids.

It took me a few years to get a good laundry routine down and it did change when the kids became a little older that they can help.

But looking back I wish I would have implemented thises time saving laundry tips so many years ago.

It would have saved me so much time in the long run.

Time Saving Laundry Tips For Busy Moms

Laundry Schedule

My first tip is to create a laundry schedule for your home.

There are a few ways to do this.

You can:

Pick a couple days a week just dedicated to doing laundry all day.
Or for me I do one load or more a day to keep up with it.

My laundry routine looks like this:

Sunday – Kids sheets and bedding
Monday – Husband and my bedding
Tuesday – Saturday one load of towels or someone’s clothes each day.

Whatever schedule that works for you try to stick with it and it will eventually become a routine. You can have your laundry done like clockwork.

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Use An All In One Stain Fighting Detergent

I love when I find a good all in one product to use around my house, it makes my job so much easier when one product can be used in different ways.

For laundry, I love using BIZ. Since working with them this year I have no need to keep any other laundry product in my home.

Making it a win-win in the saving time department.

BIZ has replaced my regular laundry detergent and has more stain fighting power than other brands I have tried. They have more active ingredients to remove blood, grass stains, grape juice, chocolate, and even those tough deodorant stains.

It truly is an all in one product that I could not live without now.

BIZ is sold at many retailers to be sure to check out where you can find BIZ in your area.

Laundry Sorting

I do not have a central location for laundry except for our bath towels.

Each of us has our own hampers for our daily dirty clothing. Since my kids rarely ever wear white I do not separate the colors, I just keep them all together.

My husband is really the only one that has a ton of white so those are separated by him in our three basket hamper. Same with my delicates.

If you sort your laundry I highly recommend getting one of these three basket hampers. I have had mine for years and I love it!

You will not have to sort before you do laundry making it all that much easier.

When I am ready to start a load of laundry I check each hamper in the house and start one load from someones hamper. This way my kids or husband can know whos is whos when they help put them away.

This makes it so much easier for me to keep track of, especially since my boys are so close in size.

Now my towels go into one big laundry basket into my washroom. I just do those as needed.

Wash On Cold Water

I mostly use the cold water setting when I was clothing. This keeps our clothes lasting a little longer and it helps with bleeding of colors when I wash together.

The only thing I use hot for is towels and bedding I feel it does a better job on those items.

If I buy something new I will wash in on warm on its own and then it becomes part of the load on cold the next time.

I Do Not Fold A lot Of Clothing Items

Gasp! I could kick myself for this for not doing it sooner!

Have you ever tried to fold a onesie, I spent many years making sure my babies nursery rooms looked like a picture out of a magazine even down to their clothing.

Why?

My favorite time saving laundry tips are do not fold everything.

This goes for my whole family.

Shirts get hung up for the most part. Pajamas get tossed into a drawer, same with underwear and my workout clothes. I use these sorters for little items like underwear and socks to keep drawers cleaner and more organized.

Really the only things I fold are shorts and pants.

This is especially a time saver for my kids.

I try to have them put their clothes away the same day they are washed so this makes it easier for them and less of a struggle for me to get them to do it.

So there you go, mommas, my time saving laundry tips. I feel less of a slave to my laundry room and even without anyone pitching in laundry has become less of a dreaded chore for me.

Do you have any time saving laundry tips you would like to add that you do? I’d love to hear them in the comments.

The Best Uses For Vinegar You Might Not Know

08/16/2018 By Jenn Leave a Comment

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I am always looking for more natural products to use in my home. Vinegar is one of those! Not only can you clean with it but you can do so much more.

Not to mention it is available every way and you can get a big jug almost anywhere to dirt cheap.

Today I have a massive list of the Best Uses For Vinegar in and outside of your home that you may not have heard of before.

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Simple Monthly Cleaning Schedule + Printable

08/14/2018 By Jenn Leave a Comment

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Creating daily and weekly cleaning schedules are important for keeping a clean and organized home.

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For my daily cleaning, I basically tidy up my home, clean the kitchen, sweep the kitchen floor after dinner and do a load of laundry daily.

Since we are so busy a weekly cleaning schedule is all I need to keep my home clean at all times.

My weekly cleaning schedule is a deeper cleaning but still very simple tasks like cleaning the bathroom and dusting. I can get these chores done within an hour or less each day.

5 Time Saving Morning Hacks For Moms

08/13/2018 By Jenn Leave a Comment

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I’ll be the first to admit I am not a morning person! I dread the thought of waking up early but when you have kids you realize life changes.

Over the years I have made a morning routine so I could get up early, get the kids out to school on time and manage to look presentable before I leave the house. Ok, I still rock the messy mom bun but at least I am no longer rolling up to school looking like I just woke up for the most part.

However, these 5 Time Saving Morning Hacks I am going to share with you have been my saving grace!

How To Create A Stress Free School Morning Routine

08/10/2018 By Jenn 1 Comment

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Yesterday I shared how to create a School Night Routine that works and today is all about the mornings.

School mornings used to be so hectic in my house. Trying to get all three kids dressed, fed and out the door for school was a nightmare.

You guys know how important routines are for me. I really do swear by them. Now they have become a habit.

Many years ago when I first became a mom I set up my own morning and night routines. I made me feel more productive and I got way more done without extra stress.

For some reason, I never thought to give my kids a School Morning Routine of their own.

It was basically ready set go and out the door.