Considering how well the drawer organization stickers we found have been working for my kids, I thought it might be cool to try some new storage organization around our house thanks to a little inspiration from this tutorial at See Jane …
Even though my fellow Cool Mom Picks Editors have tried and loved the eco-friendly Honest products , I'd yet to give them a whirl myself. So recently, I had the chance to test out a couple of their newest natural cleaning products for ho…
When the first Poketo for Target collection hit stores, I snatched up a few awesome pieces before it was too late. And so you can bet I'm ready to track down their newest Target collection, ready for the picking starting now. Poketo's 20…
It only took my husband a good three months to install our large wall calendar system in the kitchen. And I won't even tell you how much it cost. Ouch. Too bad I didn't know about Wall Pops, whose awesome wall decals we featured in our b…
A few years ago we fell in love with the MomAgenda School Year Journals, so much so that I raved about them everywhere, from my own kids' classes to the TODAY show (where I also confessed my inability to maintain even a baby book). So I …
You know how sometimes, when you're walking down the sidewalk, you can smell someone's laundry in the dryer? I'll admit it--I love that smell. And I've missed having it at my own home , since I gave up the high-chemical detergents and st…
On most days, I don't even know why I bother folding and putting the kids' clothes away because the drawers just end up in complete shambles. Forget even trying to maintain any level of organization within a drawer, I'm lucky if the unde…
I had never given much thought about the old canister vacuum I used for years and years: It was a fair little vacuum with a dust-belching bag that I never remembered to replace, and a "retracting cord" feature had stopped retracting year…
I know I am not the only one who has looked at those photos of professionally reorganized closets and wept with envy. I am pathetic in the organization department, and my closets are the worst example of it all. In fact, they're less clo…
Why yes I still am in full-fledged January organization mode, thank you so much for asking! I am spending wayyy too much of my free time (when I'm not organizing, of course) searching for beautiful and functional storage solutions . Aren…
When you're a parent, a new year doesn't necessarily mean mimosas at brunch as much as it does finding a place to put all the new games, toys, dress-up clothes and various other things that the kids received over the holidays. Thankfully…
I have a confession to make. I have a hard time finding my stuff, and I am always losing something. It's usually my cell phone (do you even know HOW many times I end up calling it just to locate it?), my keys (darn buggers are always mis…
I've been staring down the task of tagging a bunch of different items for my daughter's foray back to school. I don't know if it's because she's now a pre-K-er--a.k.a., one of the "big kids," (sniff)--or if that eau de Sharpie isn't my f…
Every year at about this time, I start digging out my kids' closets, then the other closets, and before I know it, I'm on a veritable sort-and-chuck rampage. When the dust settles, I usually have an entire carload of garbage bags ready t…
I consider myself to be a pretty organized person, save for the junk drawer and my backpack graveyard of a hall closet (shhhhh). But since adding another kiddo into our mix, I can use all the organizational help I can get. That's why I w…
Once upon a time, there was a girl who wasn't a very good housekeeper. Then she flew to Minnesota--which is cooler than she could have imagined--and met a fairy grandmother who taught her that cleanliness is next to just-plain-goodness, …
If I could think of the perfect merger, two companies I love so much that I want them to get together, do things behind closed doors, and then make product babies together, it would probably be Method and Cleanwell. Well guess what? We a…
I'm in a bit of a storage kick these days, trying to get all of the toys and games and stuffed animals and books that are out in our apartment, into something. Anything. Aaaaanything at all. Okay, maybe something pretty. Is that too much…
I've never been good at labeling my kids' stuff which means I've paid the price in misplaced water bottles, forgotten jackets and other random missing objects. But with three kids going to camp this summer, I'd better get on my game to m…
With three kids and one exercise-loving husband, I do a lot of laundry. Quaint concepts like separating whites, de-tangling socks and pre-treating stains have long flown out the window in the interest of saving time and just-finishing-th…
With three kids running circles around me, I've made some concessions when it comes to cleaning up. And one of them is that I'm not going to be doing all of it. My philosophy has always been that if my kids can make a mess, then they can…
One of the first things I did when I started working again was hire a house cleaner, so when I needed to test Better Life's natural cleaning products , I called in the pros to try them out. Of course my request was initially met with ske…
Now that my youngest is mobile-- and, thanks to the open-plan design of our house, cannot easily be confined with baby gates-- I've had to buckle down and get serious about keeping the floor clean. A few stray Cheerios can bolster his im…
The siren song of convenience is strong, even for a greenie like me, and at times I've been compelled to some of those one-use cleaning wipes. I never feel right about it though, so I switched back to a bright purple sponge to use with o…