I write Simply At Home from one house in Baton Rouge. Every routine here gets tested on my own shelves first, and I keep only the part that still works a month later.
Do this first: stop tightening the knob from the front. If a cabinet knob keeps working itself loose, turning it clockwise with your fingers buys you about four...
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For a long time I made our bed the same way in August and in January and then wondered why one of…
Wash the table linens before you put them away, not before you use them. I learned that one the hard way with…
Deal with the doorway first, because in a wet season everything else in the house is downstream of it. Water arrives on…
Start with one shelf you can actually reach without a stool. That is the whole trick to the twice yearly closet swap,…
Pull every cleaning product you own into one place before you buy or throw out anything. I did this on a Saturday…
Empty the drawer before you diagnose it. Half the drawers that stick in this country are not broken, they are overloaded, and…
Do this first: clear one shelf and make it the shelf where food that needs eating goes. Nothing else has cut my…
Buy the rug pad before you buy the rug. In a hallway or an entry path, the pad determines whether the rug…
Find the original paint before you buy new paint. That is the whole difference between a touch up that disappears and a…