Owning a home is expensive, in more ways than one, and often the home improvement projects that we want to do aren't the same ones that pay off in equity. I was a licensed real estate agent in the metropolitan D.C. area in the early 2000s, and we had to break the news to a…
My parents have lived in the same house for 14 years. It's the house where I lived as a teenager, where I first fell in love with the boy across the street (that boy is now my husband), and where we brought our second daughter home just hours after her birth. Over the past few…
The following post is from Becky of Clean Mama: Clean Your Bathrooms in 15 Minutes (or Less) I enjoy the process of cleaning and keeping a home, but bathrooms are my least favorite rooms to tackle. To keep the process a little bit easier, I clean them every Monday and tidy up the counters and…