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Spring Garden Prep – Get Ready for the Growing Season
Spring garden prep is important whether you grow veggies or flowers. The groundwork you do now for spring will absolutely determine how successful your garden is this coming year. With that in mind, there are some things you can do in your spring garden prep to help you get a jump start on your beds. Spring Garden Prep can Make or Break Your Garden If you’ve done any amount of gardening, you know that proper preparation is the key to any kind of successful garden. Whether you grow your own vegetable or fragrant blossoms, laying the groundwork now will produce strong plants later. Get the Compost If you have a…
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Keep a Clean Dishwasher with Affresh
A clean dishwasher is a better functioning dishwasher. A dishwasher is supposed to clean your dishes, but it can’t do that effectively when it’s full of gunk. Affresh dishwasher cleaning tablets ensure that your dishwasher works at its peak performance. A Clean Dishwasher is a Better Dishwasher Cleaning the inside of your appliances is one way to ensure that they perform at their very best. Did you know that only about a quarter of Canadians have cleaned the interior of their dishwashers in the last year? That means that three quarter of Canadians are washing their dishes in dishwashers filled with hard water and mineral deposits. It’s going to be…
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Breville Scraper Mixer Pro Hits The Mark #TMMGG2015
Whoever said don’t give appliances for Christmas wasn’t talking about the Breville Scraper Mixer Pro. This little beauty is as sparkly as any jewel in my books. If you have a person who loves to bake, the Breville Scraper Mixer Pro is the gift that will make them light up this holiday. I have been asking Santa for a big beautiful blender mixer for two years. It never worked out….I thought I was getting one last year potentially…I mean I was good and everything. I rarely made the naughty list…but sadly husband was completely overwhelmed by the stand mixer options when he went shopping. He literally said: “I had no…
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Getting Organized For the Holiday Season with Microsoft Office 365
Getting Organized During Holidays and afterwards during the new year can be a huge hurdle. It might seem daunting from where you sit looking out over your mound of papers on that messy dining room table or office desk, but here’s the thing you just need to break it down and make it work. Getting organized is the key to a happy, stress-free holiday. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or something else, getting organized and staying organized is the best way to enjoy the holiday season. Happily for you, I have a few thoughts and tips on how to get and stay organized this holiday season and well into the…
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Appliance Shopping Adventures
ADVENTURES in appliance shopping: We are price matching our butts off over here appliance shopping. We need a new dishwasher and a new refrigerator. We really need a new laundry set too, but we are prioritizing the refrigerator and dishwasher for now because old dishwasher will die any day and currently makes weird noises sometimes. Also our fridge is old and small and doesn’t close right. So we are appliance shopping and we have been doing that on and off, for months. I think we’ve both had just about enough actually. Flipp App helps for some of that and then there’s good old fashioned leg work. Over the last few months,…
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4 Steps to Winterize Your Garden
After the final harvest of the year, it will be time to winterize your garden. I promise not to be surprised or offended if some of you don’t know that winterizing the garden is a thing. It seems like a lot of people don’t. However, when you winterize your garden, you get a great head start on the next growing season. Winterize Your Garden for an Amazing Spring When you winterize your garden, you get a spring with less work, more planting, and healthier plants. Here’s how. Don’t Throw Out Spent Veggie Plants This is important. I see so many gardeners pulling up their vegetable plants and pitching them after the…
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5 Home Safety Tips for When You Travel
Home safety is a big deal when you’re travelling. Your home can be targeted even during the daylight, so take a few precautions to prevent thieves from breaking and entering this time of year. By and large home safety during the holidays is all about prevention. Deter thieves from ransacking your house with a few simple safety tips. These 5 home safety tips will help you keep your home and your property safe while you’re away. Home Safety Tips to Protect Your Home When you’re away, home safety is all about making your home the absolute least desirable place to break into. When burglars see your home, you want them…
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Waste Free with SC Johnson Canada Zero Waste Challenge #SCJZeroWaste
Like a lot of families, my family uses SC Johnson Canada products. And while I’ve used them because they’re effective, I now have a new reason to keep on using them. My family and I do our best to reduce our impact on the environment, and so does SC Johnson Canada. Waste Free with the SC Johnson Canada Zero Waste Challenge My family and I live by the old adage, “Reuse, Reduce Waste, Recyle”. We all remember that ad on television. Well, my family and I have stuck to it the best that we can. We upcycle. We recycle. We mostly embrace the litterless lunch (even though that is hard some days). We do…
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This is One Quirky Multi-Purpose Steamer – Hoover FloorMate® SteamScrub™ 2-IN-1 #TMMGG2015
When this arrived I had a visitor pop by the house. Actually I had a couple of visitors pop by and they spied the box for this Hoover FloorMate® SteamScrub™ 2-IN-1 and began to tell me more about it than I knew. “Is this the one that steams dirt off the stove too?” “And scrubs the shower?” “And the floors?’ Now I have to admit I hadn’t even heard of Hoover FloorMate® SteamScrub™ 2-IN-1 before it arrived but apparently in some circles it already had some buzz happening. So, I pulled it out of the box and assembled it easily this week wondering if all that could be true. How on…
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Be a Child Again with Hallmark Halloween Toys #Giveaway #LoveHallmarkCA
Every year Halloween promises to turn me back into a child again. Just as it does for many kids of all ages. Oh, I don’t get all dressed up or crazy about the holiday, but there’s something universally appealing about outfitting your house with fun toys and decorations. Hallmark has some extremely adorable offerings as gifts or decorations for your own home. This year I wanted to share some of the best new Hallmark Halloween toys. This year I have to tell you how much fun I am having with these. When a box of Hallmark Halloween toys arrives well that puts a smile on your face that ought to…