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How to Actively get your Kids Cleaning Up

Kids Cleaning Up

Trying to clean the house with kids can be exhausting, especially little ones.  Figuring out how to get your kids cleaning up the house with you can also be difficult, but once you do, actually getting the house clean becomes much easier to do.  

We’ve all been there as parents, when a room was cleaned just in time for someone to dump a bunch of blocks onto the floor to build a castle.  Or, we let the kids completely occupy themselves in the living room just so we can get the kitchen clean, which inevitable leads to the living room being a disaster zone.  

It happens. 

Why is it important to get the kids involved?

Aside from helping with your own sanity, getting the kids involved in cleaning the house helps them feel accomplished.  It’s like setting goals and achieving them.  

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5 Places you Forgot to Clean in Your Home

Anyone else feeling the spring cleaning fever start to set in? The kind that makes you wonder what the places you forgot to clean in your home are?

Just me?

I start to feel the desire to REALLY clean around springtime.  I’m in Michigan, so we’re finally starting to have the outside thaw out from the deep freeze of winter.  You start to see the sun again and a feeling of excitement starts to set it, Warmer weather is on its way!

I wasn’t always excited about cleaning.  Which I mentioned before in this post for the person who feels overwhelmed and just doesn’t know where to start.

But, this post is all about the un-obvious places to clean.  The places you forgot to clean in your home. There are plenty of obvious places to clean, you see them every day, the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom.  But, what about those places that are overlooked or forgotten, maybe without even realizing you’re overlooking them? 

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The Best Essential Oils for Cleaning Your Home

best essential oils for cleaning

Anyone who has wanted to ditch some of the harsh chemicals typically turn to the best essential oils for cleaning.  

When it comes to essential oils, I am not one of those people who swear up and down by one brand and one brand only.  There are so many great ones out there, I do personally tend to use a lot of the Young Living Brand, but that isn’t to say that it’s the best and only brand I use.  I actually use a few different ones but I do tend to gravitate towards Young Living.  

Also – I am NO EXPERT on essential oils, I’m simply sharing oils I have used and still use. Ones that I consider the best essential oils to have on hand for cleaning a home.  Do not take this post for anything more than my experience and opinion.   There are affiliate links in this post.

To be completely honest I typically use THIS cleaner for nearly everything anymore.  However, there are still oils I keep on hand for cleaning and the ones I’m listing below are what I think and the best essential oils for cleaning are.

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How to Strip Your Sheets | Laundry Stripping

Laundry stripping recipe

Today I am talking about something I only recently started doing and immediately fell in love with.  It’s called laundry stripping, or in this particular case, stripping the sheets. I have the laundry stripping recipe I use below!

Has any tried to strip their sheets before?

I recently did for the first time and I have to say, I was shocked at how dirty my freshly washed sheets ended up being.  By the time I was done with soaking them the water was visibly dirty, and I had started with freshly washed sheets!  

It is something I have added to my cleaning rotation a few times a year. 

BUUTT, If you’re like I was when I first heard about it, I’m sure you have questions! Hopefully you will find your answers here along with a super easy laundry stripping recipe that I use!

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