Just the other day someone asked me the most efficient way to clean a house. And lo and behold a few days later this brilliant piece appeared in The New York Times. So even if you have one of my incredible teams cleaning your house every week, it’s super smart and well written and worth a read. …
I subscribe to a great site called, Women’s Voices for the Earth, and last week they released a new report about companies that produce cleaning products. You can access it here: Deep Clean: What the cleaning industry should be doing to protect your health. And guess what? The four companies that we think we should …
Yup, it’s nearly spring. And in Colorado that means our days can swing wildly from 70 to 30 degrees within even just a few hours. So take advantage of those warmer days to open your windows and let the fresh air fill your home. And while you can’t consistently be outside gardening, hiking, golfing, mountain …
A client recently asked how often she should clean her oven. Rule to live by: if something spilled or there are lots of grease splatters – clean the damn thing. Why? Ta dah: Next up: And if that doesn’t motivate you, food that falls off in your oven and just sits there could eventually start …
Next week I am sending my only child off to college on the east coast. You would think I would be deluged with emotions of loss and panic over the impending adjustments we both have to make now that our lives are heading in their own directions, but I have not felt anything of the …
We’ve talked about this before, but now Elephant Journal has a say: Take off your shoes. And they even quote God. So, for the last time people, take off your shoes in your house!
I know, I know…organic this, organic that. But I’m here today to tell you that we should all care a little more about organic cotton. Why? Because 25% of ALL insecticides and 10% of all pesticides used in the US are sprayed on cotton alone. Think about all those nasty, toxic chemicals not only in …
There is a lot, and I mean A LOT of greenwashing going on out there. Companies who say they are “green” or “non-toxic” but when you scratch a little beneath the surface or hell, just even just actually read their ingredient list (!!) you find nasty chemicals everywhere. Which is why I was so stoked …
Cleaning an oven is never really fun. But a client of mine, John R., recently told me that he learned how to clean his oven racks by soaking them in a bathtub overnight. He read about the trick at Life Hacker. However, instead of dishwasher powder, he just popped two dishwasher detergent gel packs in the …
Most of think that food-borne illness comes from some skanky contaminated meat bought at a low-rent grocery store or your crazy aunt Hazel’s potato salad that sat out on the picnic table too long. Wrong. Most food-borne illnesses actually sprout from our own, sparkly clean kitchens and poor own poor cleaning techniques. If you don’t …
