Answers to your cleaning, organizing questions & more!
Over at The Nester she is hosting a great link party to share the goals for our homes this year. I thought it sounded like a fun idea and couldn’t wait to join the party! Before I get started with telling you what my home goals are for this next year I want to take a look back to show you what I have accomplished this year. I was actually really surprised when I was putting all of this together, I had no idea that I had completed so many projects! No wonder I felt so busy all… Read More
I can’t believe that’s it’s been a full year since I started Ask Anna! I want to share a little bit about how I got started {because it honestly wasn’t my idea} but first I want to share with you some stats. {I am borrowing this idea from a post I saw on Young House Love earlier this year.} Here is Ask Anna by numbers 448 — The number of published posts to date on Ask Anna {including this one}. 30 — My average number of posts per month 4,954 — The total number of followers {Google & Feedburner}… Read More
Wouldn’t it be nice if all of us had closets that looked like this? If you do this post is not for you. If you don’t, then you are probably like the rest of us that have small, unorganized closets. I actually live in an older home {build in ’65} so I don’t even have a walk in closet! I’m going to talk about two different types of closets today: the Master Bedroom closet and the kids closets. I get asked all the time about how to organize closets so today we are tackling all of them. {Notice this is… Read More
Yep, you read that right. I know you all hate cleaning the bathroom so today I’m going to give you a few quick cleaning tips for how to {fake} a clean bathroom. I’m also going to give you a few tips for how to make {actually} cleaning your bathroom easier. Let’s start with {faking} it. Rule #1: when you invite guests over always make sure the bathrooms are clean. Most people will not notice if other parts of your house are dirty but when they are in the bathroom, all alone & looking around, I guarantee they will notice if your… Read More
Today we are going to work on refrigerator organization, as well as the freezers! This is a project that I tackled this time last year and it has changed my life for the better! It has made finding things in the fridge/freezer easier, it makes unloading the groceries easier and it makes it easier to clean out the fridge every week! All around it has just made my life easier and everyday {I’m not kidding} I think to myself, “I’m so glad I organized this fridge. Why didn’t I do it years ago?” So are you ready to organize your… Read More
Today we will be talking about getting rid of dust! We all hate dusting right? Can I get an “amen”?! In fact, here is a recent email from one of my readers, “I was wondering if there’s a way to prevent dusting? What I mean is I HATE – truly hate – dusting and if there were a way to prevent dust from collecting I would do it. Is there something that “repels” dust? Or have you heard of some magic dust force field? That would rock.” My response back to her was that every piece of furniture should be… Read More