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Entries Tagged as 'Cleaning'

Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Antibacterials Out

March 22nd, 2010 · 55 Comments · Cleaning, Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out

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Welcome, spring!  If you’re not from Michigan, spring may be a season that speaks of flowers, sunshine, and green leaves on trees.  Around here, it’s just confusion, [...]

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Quick Tips For Keeping A Clean Kitchen While Doing All This Cooking! (A Guest Post from Cara at Health, Home and Happiness)

January 22nd, 2010 · 13 Comments · Cleaning

I love cooking for my family, I love serving real foods three meals a day (plus endless snacks!), and I love having a shiny sink, clear counters, and rows of clean dishes in my cupboards.  Like a lot of people who love to cook, cleaning doesn’t naturally come to me. The following are what this [...]

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Monday Mission: Green Cleaners Resolutions

January 18th, 2010 · 45 Comments · Cleaning, Monday Missions, What to Buy

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make one change in your cleaning routine to be more kind to the Earth.
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Level of Commitment: Making Strides
I’ve been “green” for a few years in most of my cleaning with my triple threat cleaners, but I had a few areas that I [...]

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Results of Last Week for my Readers

January 6th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized

I must be missing my girlfriends after the holiday break stuck with enjoying my family.  I just want to chat away and tell you all a bunch of random stuff related to Kitchen Stewardship.  If you’ll indulge me (again), here I go:

I ordered and received the canned tomatoes in glass jars from Tropical Traditions that [...]

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How to Use Microfiber Cloths for Cleaning Dishes, Bathrooms, Mirrors and More

January 2nd, 2010 · 13 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Cleaning

Why I STILL Love Microfiber Cloths

Absorbency
Grippers
Absorbency
No Cleaners for Glass
Absorbency
Still look new after 3 years
Absorbency

My eco-consciousness was schooled by a savvy reader in the comments at the Skoy cloth giveaway, and I am convinced that Skoy cloths are a very good thing to have around.  However, [...]

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Monday Mission: Clean Up Without Throwing Out

January 1st, 2010 · 18 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Cleaning, Decreasing Disposables in December

Your mission, if you choose to accept it (on a Friday!), is to decrease what you throw away while attempting to keep a clean house.
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Level of Commitment: Baby Steps
Watching some people clean up is like being the unfortunate witness to another mother’s child’s screaming hissy fit: I’m embarrassed and pained to watch, and [...]

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Review and Giveaway: SKOY Cloths

December 22nd, 2009 · 87 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Cleaning, Decreasing Disposables in December

I had been seeing reviews for Skoy cloths as substitutes for paper towel here and there around the blogosphere, and my interest was definitely piqued.  As I was awaiting a sample for my very own, I guess I was expecting some sort of fancy microfiber cloth cousin.  That’s so far from the actual outcome!
I wasn’t [...]

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