Search Results for: label/cleaning/2011/04/making-it

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Clean Your Home Without Toxic Chemicals

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Cleaning, Domesticus, Events
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Kelly and I will be leading a green cleaning for your home class at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral on May 19th, after the 11 o’clock service (roughly 12:15 p.m. give or take a few minutes). All are welcome and the class will be held in the historic Lady Chapel, a room entirely covered in gold mosaic tile. Come for the tile alone which we promise not to make you clean! We’ll talk about non-toxic cleaning products that really work and bust some Int...

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My Marie Kondo Obsession

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...ou’ll need to clean. To that end, the video features a segment on Japanese cleaning expert Keiko Takahashi. Sadly there’s some audio problems in that bit and the interwebs don’t yield any other information on Takahashi (too common a name to Google). If Root Simple had the budget you can bet we’d be flying a crew over to Japan to shoot a web series with Takahashi. At least you get to see her DIY, foaming stove cleaner tip. Last night, in our nightl...

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The Luddite’s Moonshot

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Thoughtstylings
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...it for those Musk tunnels. Reuniting art and craft. Clutter. Ugh. Clutter. Cleaning for the cleaning challenged. Bringing back shop class. Philosophical/theological literacy in our schools. How to gather people. Kelly cringes when people talk about “community” because it’s one of those words overused to the point of meaninglessness. Nevertheless, we seem to be really bad at getting together and there’s a real plague of loneliness in this country....

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

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Gardening
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...ossible to estimate the far-reaching beneficent effects of this civic housecleaning and garden-making campaign. The general conclusions arrived at by the committee are: that the chief lesson of the garden-paying for things through work-is within the understanding of even young children. A contestant, a girl of thirteen who had had three years of instruction in a school garden, when asked what she was going to put in her home garden replied: “Well,...

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