by  Jen   

It’s stories like my mom’s hoarder friend that really make me want to find a way to help people who are struggling with hoarding.  She’s an older lady who lives alone but she won’t let anyone in to fix the things that need to get fixed.  I was able to go over once to change

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by  Jen   

I wonder if there’s such a thing as  cleaning disorders.  I have one daughter who will literally argue and throw a fit for over an hour when asked to do a five minute job.  She’s been like this her entire life, since before she was two. She’s 25 now and still does it. I don’t

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by  Jen   

Even though I was stressed about the weekend, it ended up being a great one!  I was so worried about the weather all week that I was breaking out in hives.  I shouldn’t have been worrying about it since there was nothing I could do about it but we had been planning an event for

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by  Jen   

Ants drive me crazy.  They are everywhere this year!  At first I was worried that they’ve always been there and I just couldn’t see them because of all the clutter or the carpet in the living room.  However, after talking to lots of people, it seems that most people are having a problem with ants

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by  Jen   

Yesterday was my daughter’s wedding day. It was beautiful! I took off work starting on Wednesday and got some cleaning done. I wasn’t expecting to invite anyone over so I wasn’t in any rush to get everything done. I just wanted to clean up so that I wouldn’t waste any time looking for things that

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by  Jen   

  My daughter’s wedding is coming up so I have been working on lightening the load to make things easier by cleaning and decluttering as much as I can. I was pleasantly surprised today when I got home to clean up my living room. I had two hours to work on it and didn’t think I would

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by  Jen   

It’s getting near the deadline for having all of my trim repaired and painted on my house according to the dreaded letter.  I did some of the scraping already and I started painting two of the windows.  I need to get them all done this weekend even though my daughter’s wedding is on Saturday.  Thankfully,

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