New Rug!

We’ve been looking for just the perfect area rug for our living room for probably two years ... and looks like something Bird would have made. We have a lot of traffic on our living room carpet ... , and it bothers me to no end.  (Apartments….I tell you what.  This carpet was brand new when we moved [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:53:45

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Weekend Roundup - Cleaning The Carpet Edition

Every year we get our carpets and living room furniture steam cleaned. It’s amazing how much dirt can accumulate! ... . We’ve been using the same service for years - so this week I’m scheduling a cleaning ... , New Look For LinensWeekend Roundup - New Sewing Machine EditionWeekend Roundup - Thrift Shop Edition [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 11:02:23

Get that puppy into class!

Not much in life is quite as wonderful as a puppy. The sheer joy they bring to everything they do, like running in a field, fetching a ball, sniffing the morning air… right before they pee on the living room carpet, eat the sofa, and bring ... ” (Wiley, $20), iguanas keep themselves sort of clean by rubbing against rough bark or dousing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 12:00:00

My Doctor Says to Buy a Miele Vacuum Cleaner, Why?

by Kristina Brown Do you own a house that never feels clean because your vacuum cleaner does not seem to be able to pick up the pet hair on the ... floor in the kitchen and then the mess on the living room carpet? In many cases it is the vacuum ... than any other vacuum cleaner. How could this machine be beneficial to me if I have bare floors [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 16:43:30

Emily’s Tips

Now, I’m certainly no expert on just what it takes to make it as a SAHM. However, I’m a firm believer in the School of Hard Knocks ( ... Clorox’s new Green Works cleaners.  They power through grease, dried-on egg, marinara sauce, and smell ... flooring, and its clean scent was just what the living room carpet was lacking. One bottle of bubble [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 16:51:20

Tips For Labrador Potty Training

There are few things cuter than a new Labrador retriever puppy, ... with you and promptly makes a mess on your beautiful living room carpet. Unless you want to spend the rest of your dog’s life cleaning up these not so pleasant messes, you will want to get savvy to the finer points [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 12:35:21

Tips For Labrador Potty Training

There are few things cuter than a new Labrador retriever puppy, ... with you and promptly makes a mess on your beautiful living room carpet. Unless you want to spend the rest of your dog’s life cleaning up these not so pleasant messes, you will want to get savvy to the finer points [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:39:03

Missing Mom - Lessons Learned While Renae is Away

Wow I miss Renae… with my wife of 19 years out of town with a bus full of woman (at the Joyce Meyer's Conference) ... food or drinks in the living room. Anyone seen the carpet cleaning spray? Matching outfits. Black ... washing machine and dryer (now more than a year old) for the first time – good thing "wrinkled [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 03:03:52

All About Labrador Potty Training

There are few things cuter than a new Labrador retriever puppy, ... potty on your carpet, offer a firm no and immediately take your pup outside to finish his business ... with you and promptly makes a mess on your beautiful living room carpet. Unless you want to spend the rest of your dog’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 09:36:32

The Christmas Gripes

Welcome to 2009! Is it still a thrill to turn the page on a new year? ... a carpet shampooer, I did the living room before Sarah returned from a short trip to California. She was thrilled—the carpet dazzled.Within a week one particular stain decided to return. By the way [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 15:15:00

27. I had Christmas down in Africaaaaa

~Still knitting: making some good progress on the Town and Country. I have not strayed ... to self: Rent a steam cleaner ~OR: Finally get rid of that carpet which has been my plan for way too ... weaker. But he's not throwing up as much today. Too bad because the carpet in the living room [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 01:50:08

Home update

I spent days cleaning up our rental unit. My whole body is very sore right now ... up on the carpet cleaning in the living room! My kids really messed up a lot on that part ... . I didn’t get the chance to use safety equipment like gloves because I felt that it slows me down [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 06:00:57

Never Underestimate A Money Grubbing Woman With Two Kids Who Have Been Taught To Clean.

Final out on the old house was today. It went fine- interesting, but fine. Turns out. . .the “new” carpet was actually the old carpet ... for the people cleaning were kept. So. . .ummm. . .we have our year’s supply of cleaning stuff ... that ruined certain rooms and I’ve been living with serious carpet mildew for over a year now- the only [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 00:06:15

Lucky Me

The latest on Mr-Too-Good-To-Be-True: This morning my car wouldn't start ... for the car to charge up, he vacuumed my living room and fired up the carpet shampooer! He told ... was different. "This guy I'm seeing came over today and shampooed my carpet." "Really?" "Yes, really [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 03:49:39

It's About That Time...

#fullpost{display:inline;}...to bring forth the rhythm and the rhyme ... yesterday. The living room has been rearranged. The carpets steam cleaned (and let me note, we are clean people and I was still disgusted by the amount of dirt!). The infant seat is in. The bags [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 00:03:00

Learning German The Easiest Way

Learning a second language can’t be that bad, even with heavy accent German language ... , you can do so while mowing your lawn or vacuum cleaning your living room’s carpet, while jogging, even [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 10:10:21

Christmas presents and more plagiarism

This morning I see that another one of my press releases has been published online by the same sneaky journo who took credit for the last one ... , I do not mean the new carpet I'd love to buy for the floor in the living room or the gorgeous scatter cushions I spotted at Boardmans - I mean stuff like cleaning equipment and other such joy-inspiring [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 06:54:00

~Condo Living Room Before~

The view from the kitchen.Looking across the living room, from the bar ... rug is Dash & Albert Cabin Stripe. This will stay, also. We hope to replace the carpet with hard [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:25:00

Bathroom Monologue: Obsessive Compulsive Order, OR, Love You, Deirdre

Husna Selznick suffers from many conflicts. She is a second-generation Pakistani immigrant that married a Russian Jew, ... says in her living room, minutes after vacuuming over the steps my socks made in her carpet. “ ... She has a series of hooks for brooms, moops, vacuums and steam devices on the back one of closet door [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:00:00

Mariah’s Gift

Byron flicks on the lights in the living room, and Mariah squeals and runs to the carpet and says, “Daddydaddydaddy I LOVE IT ... up the tassled edge and bounces on the spot. “When can I learn?”Byron’s about to answer when the rug flies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:00:05

Change it Up with FLOR!!!

FLOR is an online modular flooring tile company that gives you the ability to design your own stylish rug, carpet, and runners quickly and easily ... a rug suitable for any room in your home or office. Flor is committed to caring for our planet ... particular on how I decorate my home and my living room area has desperately needed an area rug for some time [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 07:31:15

Living Room is Finished!

Hard to get one picture of the whole room. Still need to get area rug and some artwork for the walls, but other than that its finished!!!! ... that the walls were green and the carpet was also green. We had black leather furniture. All those ... on the first day of my vacation. Feeling pretty darn good! I'm going to spend today cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 18:12:00

Happy 2009!

After a quiet New Year's Eve, I got back to steam-cleaning the carpets again along with re-arranging furniture between the living room and my office (aka the spare bedroom for guests).It was cold [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 23:19:00

Inside and Outside

The carpet cleaner came yesterday, and I asked him to clean the living room, the hall, a bedroom and a bathroom ... , to capture some of their beauty. It's supposed to rain, and if that happens, it will be too late [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 14:25:00

Nikolas Kristoff on Sweatshops

This was in the NYTimes in 2002. He favors them. They should start an international campaign to promote imports from sweatshops, ... center for carpet weaving. Ahmed, who dropped out of school in the second grade, earns $2 a day hunched over the loom, laboring over a rug that will adorn some American’s living room. It is a pittance [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 18:42:42

Friday Linkfest: Moving Edition

Living Room In Progress We’re making progress on the house. At this point the carpets are ripped up and the walls are primed ... called Spring Cleaning for Normal People.  I skimmed through it quickly last night, and it’s really [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 11:00:39

‘My favourite room in my house’ (a ‘meme’)

This is my first ever ‘meme‘. Thanks Ellen at ‘To The Max’ for introducing me to the concept.The topic is ‘your favourite room in your house’ ... that has threadbare carpets, a broken griller, a shower door that doesn’t close properly and a living area that is an oven in summer and a refrigerator in winter.It’s not all that bad. It’s clean and it’s [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:01:48

Ease Allergy Suffering By Greening Your Room

It is estimated that we spend at least a third of our lives in our bedrooms ... on the carpet. Studies are also showing the vacuum cleaners do not pick out as much as we thought they did [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 11:00:41

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