Home Management

10 Ways to Use Toothpaste (And None Involve Your Mouth)

I am delighted to be one of twenty bloggers featured in Arm & Hammer’s Switch & Save Challenge. During the next five months, I’ll be testing several Arm & Hammer products and sharing my experiences with you. I love to find oddball uses for products that I have anyway. Uh, obviously. Toothpaste isn’t just for [...]

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My New Schedule featuring Tell Your Time by Amy Lynn Andrews

A few weeks ago, I talked about my time management struggles. There’s no doubt that my time management woes were partly caused by the bipolar disorder with which I would soon be diagnosed. However. I can’t blame it all on being bipolar. I am the queen of procrastination. I’ve done a stellar job of putting [...]

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10 Ways to Use Baking Soda for Babies & Kids

I am delighted to be one of twenty bloggers featured in Arm & Hammer’s Switch & Save Challenge. During the next five months, I’ll be testing several Arm & Hammer products and sharing my experiences with you. 10 Ways to Use Arm & Hammer’s Pure Baking Soda for Baby Clean and deodorize baby bottles [...]

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10 Uses for Baking Soda in the Kitchen

I am delighted to be one of twenty bloggers featured in Arm & Hammer’s Switch & Save Challenge. During the next five months, I’ll be testing several Arm & Hammer products and sharing my experiences with you. I have, on occasion, written about my love of vinegar as a cleaning product. Vinegar is acidic; it [...]

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How to Save Money on Cat Care

I am delighted to be one of twenty bloggers featured in Arm & Hammer’s Switch & Save Challenge. During the next five months, I’ll be testing several Arm & Hammer products and sharing my experiences with you. We all know that children are expensive, but who would ever have thought that pets would cost almost [...]

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Nielsen’s National Consumer Panel

I am one of those nerdy people who likes to fill out surveys. I like to be counted. I like that someone somewhere is taking my opinion into account when they make decisions about new products. I also like to use the handheld EasyScan gun at my grocery store. I actually check myself out as [...]

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My “House” Cats Featuring a $25 Giveaway

I lived for years with three cats. It was good.
And then, a coworker’s daughter had to find a new home for her cat. I don’t recall the reason, but the poor kitty needed to move out.

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Arm & Hammer’s Double Duty Clumping Cat Litter and My Stinky Cats

I am delighted to be one of twenty bloggers featured in Arm & Hammer’s Switch & Save Challenge. During the next five months, I’ll be testing several Arm & Hammer products and sharing my experiences with you. For me, a home isn’t a home without pets. We have 4 cats, 1 turtle, 2 goldfish, and [...]

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Another Mysterious Creature

The more time I spend in my garden, the more crazy things I see. This, for instance. Looking more like something from Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends than from nature, this insect was very tiny (under an inch long), very colorful, and covered with stripes. And I suspect it eats petunias. Or else it eats [...]

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What is This Mystery Flower?

If you’ve been reading my little mom blog for a while, you probably know that I garden. A lot. I have an extensive flower garden, and Joe and I have five separate vegetable beds. I know plants well. Last week, when I was transplanting some shasta daisies that sprung up in the grass, I found [...]