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Why Your House Smells Like Diapers

Face it: your house stinks because of diapers. Here's what you did wrong and how to fix it fast! These diaper pail solutions will help solve your current diaper pail problems.

This entry is part of 31 in the series Baby Days

I have been on an extended run of diaper duty: SEVEN YEARS (!!) with no end in sight! Four kids under 7, means A LOT of diapers and A LOT of, ahem…smells. I know I am not the only homemaking mama that has tried it all to make sure that when welcoming guests into her home, they are not immediately tipped off to the fact that my day is full of diaper duty. Because, let’s be real:

DIAPERS STINK!

It took me almost 5 full years of diaper duty to discover the real-deal solutions to the diaper stink problem in my home, and I know you are going to want to know this, too!

We currently have two little ones in diapers. Ugh… and I have been working on this problem since long before we had our second baby. We discovered some things along the way that helped; but I solved the entire diaper stink problem.

First: You are Doing it Wrong!!

I was, too! Don’t worry, you can fix it! Here are the common STINK situation problems and how to remedy them. Continue Reading

Pennies from Heaven

How NOT to Sell a Home (& the Simple Way to Get it SOLD)

This post has been sponsored by National Association of REALTORS ®. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Selling a house is HARD! It is a huge undertaking even in a “good market.” And it is, honestly, not my favorite thing to do. It has been 9 years since we sold our first home, but the lessons we learned in the process have been seared into my memory. Because we did it wrong the first time we tried to sell it. We learned the hard way that there are a number of things that one can do wrong when selling a home. And we discovered that there really is only ONE way to sell a home. Let me share with you what we learned along the way in a list entitled How NOT to sell a house (and the ONE thing to get it SOLD!)

Here’s what NOT to do when you are trying to sell your home: Continue Reading

Pennies from Heaven

Try a2 Milk FREE (& win a trip Down Under)!

This post was sponsored by a2 Milk® as part of an Ambassador Program for Influence Central. I received complimentary products to facilitate my review.

You know all those unique phrases you hear only in specific places? In the South, you hear, “Well, bless his heart.” In the Boston area, you hear, “Wicked” attached to almost anything. And in the Land Down Under, you hear, “Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie.” Which gets me thinking what other phrases you only hear in Australia. So, I looked up an Australian phrase book and had a good laugh over some of the things they say.

My absolute favorite one has to be “Technicolor yawn.”

What do you think it is?

I’ll give you some hints in this short story:

“I tend to have this problem after drinking regular cow’s milk. So I am now trying out a new all natural milk to help with the tummy troubles that accompany drinking milk (and milk-based drinks, like milkshakes), called a2 Milk®. So far, it has made it possible for me to drink milk again without feeling sick afterwards.”

Do you have a guess? Continue Reading

Nest Building

Showroom Shine for Stainless Steel

restoring showroom shine to stainless steel - the simple way

My kids are running a loop through the kitchen again, smearing whatever goop resides on their hands on my recently clean stainless steel appliances. There are three, yes three, of them at eye-level. Yes, there are three stainless steel appliances in a perfect designer’s triangle for my two little fingerprint monsters. Oh, not three KIDS…yet…that comes in a few more months. And by that time, my appliances could probably be entered in the next emerging artists show. You see, when it comes to appliance purchasing, my husband and I are not experts. In fact, it is one of the things we have done very little thinking about in the past few years. We, since having children, have purchased two stainless steel appliances with out the easy-care properties. What were we thinking?

When you add kids and stainless steel, you almost always get a mess. So, I worked on it diligently and discovered the way to restore our stainless steel appliances to their showroom glory. And it is relatively easy and completely a completely natural solution – safe for the kids, too! And I shared it a couple of years ago with Ask Anna – it has been one of my most popular posts over there. But, even that process has become something that takes too long when I am doing my weekly “deep clean” of our kitchen. So, I am back with another simple solution for keeping stainless steel appliances clean! Continue Reading

Nest Building

Simple Snack Planning on a Budget

As we get closer to the time to have our next baby, I have been in nesting mode to the MAX. I have tried to create systems that are easy to understand and follow for when we (inevitably) have help in the home after baby arrives and I recover from the (likely) c-section. And I know having these systems in place will help our girls to be able to direct whoever is helping with the procedures of our home. One of the most pressing needs in our home is food. The girls are ALWAYS hungry – always! So, I thought it would be wise to create a snack station that is easy to reach for our girls and contains LOTS of options for each week, depending on what they want for snack times.

Nest Building

Keeping Glass Shower Doors Clean (from Day One)

We are so close to being ready to reveal our remodeled downstairs bathroom…so close! (UPDATE: See our full bathroom all done and pretty here!) And the patience that has been wrought in my heart as a result of this project is indescribable – it has been over a year since we started working on it! But we have had almost everything done in that room for months now and are waiting on finishing touches. So, I thought I would share a little preview of the made over bathroom along with a quick tutorial about keeping glass shower doors clean from day one. Continue Reading

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Hi! I am Leah from Simple.Home.Blessings.
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