My Mother-in-law just got a black MacBook. I teased her a little that the white one would have been just fine for her newsletter and occasional surfing needs, but she insisted that she wanted the black one. She argued that it looked better and wouldn’t get as dirty as the white one. I argued tha…

In 2002, my husband and I moved into an apartment that had the biggest picture windows I had ever seen. Unfortunately, the windows plus came with the dirtiest, filthiest blinds I had ever seen. At one day, the blinds had been a beautiful, sparkling white. When Gary and I moved in, they were brown. T…

Several of my silver jewelry pieces have been looking less than stellar of late. So I’ve added: “Necklaces — clean them!!” to my ever-growing things-to-do list. Being a bit of a Web nerd, I got to thinking about what tips and warnings on silver care might be floating around in cyberspace. So I …

Build a latrine like the “survivors” in your back yard and “vote off ” anyone who doesn’t use it. Seriously if you have two or more bathrooms designate one as a main bathroom, which will leave one of them near perfect and easier to tidy quickly when the “In laws” arrive un-expectedly.

Convince th…

If your home has ceiling fans, then you know how absolutely disgusting and dirty they can get after running for 24 hours a day for months at a time, especially if your home has central AC or forced hot air heat. Ceiling fans naturally move the air in the room and by doing so they move around t…

How much moment do you spend cleaning your house? I tend to neglect it for a few days thereupon spend an entire afternoon scrubbing. The problem with my every few day strategy is that I never feel like the house is never really clean and I’m constantly playing catch-up. whether you’re in the s…

Q: Last June we installed a new redwood deck. After waiting two weeks, my husband treated it with Cabot Australian tree oil. We now have areas that are almost black and others as pristine as the day the deck was installed. I have wiped off the black areas and have found the rag to be covered i…

We all know that wool is warm, nice to look at and nice to wear. It is not, however, nice to wash. Wool is easy to shrink, easy to let get moldy, and just plain easy to ruin. What is the reply to the wool washing woes?

Tipnut.com has compiled a detailed tip list (imagine that) of how and ho…

Besides providing a beautiful floor finish to your home, ceramic tiled floors are one of the easiest flooring surfaces to maintain.

Ceramic tile floor maintenance begins with understanding what type of ceramic floor tile you have in your home. There are two types of ceramic floor tiles that…

An empty house denotes no meaning. It shows no distinction. It does not recognize the individuality of the homeowner. Thus, pieces of furniture have become a necessity in any house. Furniture comes in different types. Some opt for glass-made furniture while others opt for furniture with wood s…