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Clean the bath when you are in the shower No more leaning over the bath and easier to get access to the shower for rinsing. Similaly, clean the rest of the bathroom while the children are in the bath and need watching. Hoover the living area of your house every day High traffic areas getContinueContinue reading “Helpful tips I’ve picked up over the years of being a stay at home mum”

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Recently I have been loving using our slow cooker. The whole concept of “chuck the ingrediants in and go back to a fully cooked meal” is great during home schooling and with not a lot of time without the children. Here are a couple of meals we made this week… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGXKVVgeiKY&t=52s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgSsKjkpoUQ I also madeContinueContinue reading “Cooking Vids”

Sometimes you can look around your house and think “Wow, how did everything get so crazy and cluttered?!”. The wardrobes are bursting with clothes which are never worn, children’s toys are everywhere, the kitchen is a state with cupboards full of expired jars and packets of food and the bathroom cupboards are full of old,ContinueContinue reading “28 Day Declutter Challenge”

Since decluttering our house a few years ago I have been on an ongoing journey to better organise and store our belongings. Here are a few of the ways we try and restore some order to our crazy home! This is the toiletries box in our main bathroom for the girls and I. I haveContinueContinue reading “Storage in our Home”

Chose one room at a time Start in corner of room and work roundMake 3 piles – keep, throw, donateIn keep pile – separate into like items eg toiletries, paperwork, sentimental then sort through each group and again “keep, trow, donate”The keep items can then be transferred to correct room Take a before and afterContinueContinue reading “Decluttering Basics”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZqatDZXP2E&t=43s This is the shop which I most regularly use https://www.hivehut.uk/ Using refills for cleaning and toiletry supplies means that you can reduce the plastic, harmful chemicals and cost involved in these products Here are some of the UK refill shops https://ecothriftyliving.com/2019/10/over-100-zero-waste-shops-in-the-uk.html There are many more around so the best thing to do is toContinueContinue reading “Natural Cleaning – excuse the rubbish sound but I kept the video in for Missy!”

We’ve been living in our house for nearly two years now. As lovely as new builds can be (yay for clean white skirting boards!) the storage can be minimal to zero! Here are some of the things we have added to the house which have really improved our life… By adding these wooden shelves aboveContinueContinue reading “Useful storage ideas in our home”

Boxes of cereal can be awkward and space consuming. To save space, and to easily see how much is left in the packet, I store cereal this way. By storing cereal out of the box, secured by a clip, many types of cereal can be put inside a basket and put on the table atContinueContinue reading “Cereal”

BEFORE AFTER I will add a finished photo when contents are added. Needless to say though, I am VERY pleased! Edit: I love it! lots of storage space AND I can see the floor! Edit: WE NOW HAVE A TUMBLE DRYER IN THE LARDER!! I know that most people have a tumble dryer but I’veContinueContinue reading “Understairs Cupboard Makeover!”