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What to clean if you only have 5 minutes

Our lives as moms can be SO busy. We don’t know whether we are coming or going a lot of the time. This can make it difficult to carve out time to truly clean our house. Eventually we will have to deep clean, but I wanted to share with you what you can accomplish even if you JUST have 5 minutes. While you are waiting on a kid to get ready, or the water to boil, try doing one of these below:

Five minutes isn’t a lot of time but if you’re efficient you can get a lot done. [...]

Homemaking bundle e-book sale

For 6 days only, more than 75 widely-known bloggers and authors in the homemaking sphere have joined together to offer 97 of their most popular eBooks and eCourses, valued at just over $600, for the incredibly low price of $29.97!

More than anything, our goal for this sale was for it to be, well… ultimate! We firmly believe that you will not find a more comprehensive collection of homemaking resources anywhere on the web, and particularly not in this price range. For this low price, you gain access to every single one of these resources, so that [...]

Where did the day go!?

Ever had a day when you get to the end of it and think ” Where did the day go? I didn’t get ANYTHING done!”

If you are like me, that is at LEAST every other day!

If you would like to figure out a way to keep this from happening as often, read on below.

Determine your MITs

I came across a concept that I have seen several people use, such as Tsh Oxenrider from Simple Mom and Leo Babauta from Zen Habits. The idea of determining your 3 most important tasks that need to get done that day [...]

Using chore charts to reduce Mom stress

FREE Excel Chore Chart template! -- TheStressedMom.com

I mentioned in an earlier post about creating Standard Operating Procedures for your home (SOPs). These are very commonly used in business and the concept can transfer over to running your home as well. It helps you and everyone else know what the routine and expectations are in your home, which should in turn help your house run smoother (most of the time anyway!)

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Learn to delegate

One major cause of stress for moms is the fact that we TRY to do everything ourselves. We usually would like for others to help us, but we [...]