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How to Get Your Oven Sparkling Clean {Project Green Clean Your Entire House}

June 6 by Kaley

How to Green Clean Your Oven - so easy and my oven is sparkling like new!

Our resident lover of all things green and non-toxic, Kaley, is here today with another installment of our new series: Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House. Like Kaley, cleaning my oven is one of those things I avoid at all costs, but her method actually seems pretty easy and you can't argue with those results! Here's here step-by-step instructions... After a long winter of casseroles, roasted veggies, roasts, and other baked meals, our oven was looking pretty neglected. I like to … [Read more...]

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Good Idea: Start a Family Spring Cleaning Tradition

March 29 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Spring is in the air! Or at least right around the corner for most of us. With the arrival of warmer temperatures, blooming foliage, and Little League Baseball, your house might still be crowded with the remnants of winter. Are there still cardboard boxes from Christmas in the garage? Are the blinds heavy with dust after months of the windows being closed? Have the kids’ toys begun to take over the house? It’s time to kick spring cleaning into gear. Sure, Mom and Dad may be motivated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: family traditions, parenting styles, spring cleaning, spring cleaning with kids, starting a family spring cleaning tradition

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: 9 Ways to Spend Less Time Doing Laundry

November 29 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Doing laundry can seem like an endless chore, especially in large households with multiple kids. According to the most recent American Time Use Study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women spend two hours a week doing laundry. Here are 9 ways to get the chore done faster so you can spend more time with your family.   #1 - Delegate Make laundry a shared responsibility. Teach teens how to use the washer and dryer.   Get the free laundry cheat sheet here! Create a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Printables, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: How to get organized, kids and laundry, laundry symbol, POYEL

Free Printables: Kids’ Cleaning Kits for Every Room

June 27 by Kristin

free printables, kids cleaning kits, kids chores, chores for kids, kid chore printables, kid chore lists

This summer I'm starting out organized! We're planning all the fun things on our summer budget bucket list and we're also getting some money jobs and family jobs done!  After all, with all the extra hours at home, kids need to stay busy.   So, I've put together baskets like these (these are also really fun if you like color and smiley faces!) and added some simple checklists which we've made available for you guys to use too. Either print the paper and laminate it or print off … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kristin, Printables Tagged With: activities for kids during summer, chores for kids, diy cleaning kit, free printables, kid chore lists, kid chore printables, kid cleaning kit, kids chores, kids cleaning kits

Stop Cleaning While Your Kids Sleep – ASAP!!

March 27 by Kaley

How to make a DIY Kids' cleaning kit to help teach kids responsibility and create a kids chores routine in your home.

Today Kaley is sharing with us a very clever (and cute) way to get the kids involved in the cleaning. The take home message here is clearly "start getting them involved early!" and I think it would be a great thing to share with your mom friends. How cool would this be as a gift?  Kaley's even sourced a few pretty picks to help you get started... How many of you do the cleaning while your kids are asleep?  If you do, stop! Kids should not only see what it takes to keep a home, they should … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Learning & Engaging, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: cleaning kit for kids, cleaning with kids, how to organize your life, kids chores, kids cleaning kit, organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

Mom Hack: 17 Ways Kids Can Use Wipes to Help You Clean the House

November 21 by Kaley

Chores for Young Kids - 17 Ways kid can help clean the house using simple baby wipes. #spon

This post is sponsored by Huggies. Both of my girls are long out of diapers. But I still buy Huggies Natural Care Wipes by the caseload. Did you know that Huggies worked in partnership with NICU nurses to develop the first baby wipe specifically designed for fragile premature baby skin to be used in NICUs? They're called Huggies Natural Care Extra Sensitive Wipes and they're only found in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, not sold in stores. However, many of the features found in the Extra … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Parenting Tagged With: baby wipes, cleaning floors, cleaning with kids, Huggies, uses for baby wipes

Spring Cleaning: Free 4-Week Printable Action Plan

March 2 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Lots of handy free checklists to finally get your spring cleaning done - love the look of #6, actually makes me feel happy about cleaning!

Now that it's March, we're definitely due a Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life spring cleaning post... have you gotten started yet?  Yeah, me neither. But I'm giving myself some grace and saying there's still time! In that spirit, Kristin has rounded up for us some of the best FREE spring cleaning checklists around to help get you started.   And, as a special bonus, there's a free 4-week spring cleaning calendar at the end of this post. If there's anyone that can inspire us to Spring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Printables, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: cleaning calendar, free printable cleaning calendar, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life, spring cleaning checklist, spring cleaning printable

Green Clean Your Entire House – The Bathroom

August 26 by Kaley

How to Green Clean Your Bathroom - excellent green cleaning recipes here but what I REALLY love is the step-by-step action plan to get the bathroom clean FAST!

Just in time for the back-to-school season and the crazy mad urge to clean and organize EVERYTHING that goes with it (or is that just me), we've got another green cleaning post. This time our contributor, Kaley, is tackling the bathroom with green cleaner recipes for the floors, toilets, drains, counters, mirrors and more plus a detailed order-of-operations about how to go about it all most efficiently. Whoo hoo! The bathroom is one of the hardest working rooms in the house. And also the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House Tagged With: all natural cleaning solution, bathroom, DIY cleaning solution, eco friendly bathroom cleaning, floors, going green, green cleaning, Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House, shower, sinks, spring cleaning, toilet

Green Clean Your Entire House – The Windows

April 26 by Kaley

The easiest (and greenest) way to clean your windows! - Part of a whole series on how and when to green clean your whole house.

 I'm pretty excited to introduce a new feature we're staring on MPMK today. As a busy mom of three little ones, I find anything that can help me keep our home clean and healthy in an easy and efficient way is pretty much invaluable. So how bunch a whole collections of somethings that do just that? "Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House" is a series that is not only going to show you how to clean everything in your home using non-toxic, green methods - it's also going to tell you how often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House Tagged With: all natural cleaning solution, DIY cleaning solution, eco-friendly window cleaning, going green, green cleaning, green window wash, outside kid activities, Project Green Clean Your ENTIRE House, spring cleaning, windows

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