The books is based on the research and experience of The Clean Team, a San Fransisco area cleaning company. They studied the movements their employees made while cleaning thousands of houses and apartments. After years of analyzing this information and testing various products, they arrived at the system described in the book.

Have you seen those news stories where the firemen rescue some nut job from their own home? Not because of an actual fire, flood or disaster. Because the crap they’ve accumulated has finally become self aware, joined forces with the 73 cats and taken over the house. The exits were barred and the homeowner had [...]

Christmas was a little rushed this year because we were on the road to Oregon by 1 pm. I wish we could have spent more time just enjoying the day but we had to get moving in order to squeeze in a quick visit with my family.

The kids (Robbie and his cousin) being old enough [...]

Continuing the series of one dollar gifts, this post is about food gifts.
For neighbor, coworker and acquaintance gifts, food is always a favorite choice. It’s neither to personal nor too expensive. I used to make a lot of candy for gifts but, considering the glut of treats floating around during the holidays, I think foods [...]

At our house, we decided almost a year ago this was going to be a light Christmas – the economy has little to do with it. Last year we got very excited and went completely overboard – spending far too much on one little boy. He was overwhelmed and we realized ten minutes into the [...]