Your pillows can often take a beating. (Sometimes literally if you, like us, love to give them a good fluffing before bed!) Pillowcases especially show the signs of wear and tear quicker than any other type of bedding due to our proximity to the fabric as well as the fact that we spend an average…
Tricks and Tips
3 Things to Check Before Calling For Air Conditioning Service
So your air conditioner won’t turn on, and the temperature outside, and in your home, is rising fast. What to do? Your first instinct should be to call for Immediate appliance repair (and yes, you should!) but before you pick up the phone, be sure to check these three potential causes for air conditioning failure.…
Sleep Like a Baby: 5 Tips to Beat the Nightly Summer Heat With No Air Conditioning
When summer comes to mind, we almost always focus on picnics, days lounging on the beach, and tasty iced drinks. But hot weather has a gnarly side too. We’re talking about the real dog days of summer, when intense heat and humidity make it impossible to sit comfortably, let alone sleep through the night. Pool…
How To Clean a Greasy Stove-Top With Only Soap and Water
When it comes to cleaning a grimy, greasy stove-top that’s covered in caked-on stains and burnt-on mess, you’d be forgiven for assuming it will take 10 products, 2 hours and a whole lot of elbow grease to get the thing shining again. Thankfully, we’re here to tell you that that’s not the case. You may…
3 Hacks to Keep Cool in the Summer Heat
Do you find yourself begging for winter as July approaches? After all, it’s not like you can take your air conditioning outside of your car and home, so when you’re out there having all that summer fun, you’re stuck feeling the summer heat, too. Luckily, we’ve got a handful of cool summer hacks up our…
Pesky Stain Removal 101: Grass, Ketchup, and Wine
Is there anything more tragic than getting a big ol’ green grass stain on your favorite pair of jeans? It’s the worst! To help save you from a laundry headache, below we’ll lay out simple ways to remove three of the worst, most annoying types of stains in our lives: grass stains, wine stains, and…
5 Ways You’re Probably Doing Your Laundry Wrong
Drop in the dirty clothes. Pour in the detergent. Fill ‘er up and hit the start button. Doing laundry is that simple, right? Wrong—as in, you’re doing it wrong! Or at least, you’re probably doing a few things the wrong way when it comes to your laundry. 1. Dark Clothing Sure, you know to wash your…
Quit Losing Your Socks During Laundry Time
There’s nothing worse than doing laundry only to find that about 50% of your socks are missing afterwards. I mean, where do those MIA socks even go, anyway? It’s definitely one of the world’s greatest mysteries. Despite what history may have told us, we don’t have to lose our socks constantly in the wash. How,…
Halloween Safety: 7 Tips For Cautious Trick Or Treating
It’s October, which means Halloween weekend is nearly upon us. In just a few weeks, the streets will be littered with costumed kiddies running amok as part of a wild goose chase for candy, candy, candy! Unfortunately, there are some harrowing statistics about this particular children’s holiday. According to data by SafeKids.org, on average “children…
5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Put In Your Washing Machine
T-shirts. Bedding. And yes, those sure-to-go-missing pairs of socks, too. These are all things that you put in the wash. But did you know you can also pop baseball caps in your washing machine? What about yoga mats? In fact, there are dozens of surprising things you can wash in the washing machine! That said,…