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Cleaning Checklist for Home Sellers: Smart Cleaning Tips

May 19, 2026 / The Organized Home with Kids

Smart Cleaning Shortcuts when Preparing a Home for Buyers: So it’s spring, and you’re putting your home on the market – congrats! No doubt you’ve already learned about staging tips for home sellers, and improving your home’s curb appeal. But what about the small day-to-day prep of getting ready for showings, sometimes on super-short notice? That’s where this cleaning checklist […]

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Stress-Free Moving Tips You Need

March 19, 2026 / Favorite Mom Hacks / 16 Comments

Moving is often stressful - but it doesn't have to be. These tips for stress-free moving will help your family's next move go as smoothly as possible.

Out of all of life’s experiences, moving is often ranked as one of the most stressful. Even though it should be an exciting step towards the future, it’s an awfully demanding activity that can leave you both physically exhausted and emotionally drained. However, if you want to take the stress out of it, the single

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Stress Free Moving Tips: Top Tips for Stress Free Moving

March 16, 2026 / Favorite Mom Hacks

Stress free moving may sound like an oxymoron, but these tips for stress free moving will help make your next move calmer and less costly.

Moving House Without the Chaos: How to Protect Your Time, Money, and Sanity Moving to a new home is often considered one of the most stressful life milestones. Not only is it physically demanding and mentally taxing, but it can also be incredibly time-consuming—especially if you don’t plan it right. (Not to mention expensive!) While

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Your Getting-Ready-To-Move Checklist

January 30, 2019 / Favorite Mom Hacks / 10 Comments

Getting ready to move soon? This checklist will get you started on all the things you need to remember, with tips on easy ways to cross them off fast.

Getting ready to move is both exciting and stressful. This is especially true when you’re moving not just one or two adults, but a whole family. Hence this post – it’s full of tips and resources to help guide you through the process, one step at a time. With this getting-ready-to-move checklist, you’ll be in

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Protecting Your Home As An Investment

January 10, 2019 / The Organized Home with Kids / 2 Comments

Are you doing all you can to protect your home as an investment? With so many competing issues to watch out for, here are the big five you can't ignore.

For many families, buying a home is the biggest investment they will ever make. And if you’re going to make an investment in something, you’d be nuts to then throw your money out the window by not properly maintaining that investment. That’s why protecting the investment you’ve made in your home should be a top

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My Top Packing-To-Move Hacks

January 9, 2019 / Favorite Mom Hacks / 20 Comments

Packing to move is never fun or easy. But these packing-to-move hacks should help make the process as painless as possible. (Really!)

Moving is one of the most stressful experiences people can undergo. There’s just something unnatural about packing up everything we own, and locking the door to our former home for good. But the actual packing process has got to be my least favorite part. My recent post about streamlining this process through advance planning really

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How To Get Your House Ready To Sell

January 1, 2019 / The Organized Home with Kids / 11 Comments

Selling a home is a complicated and often stressful process. But do you know how to get your house ready to sell? If this is the first house you’ve sold, there are many aspects of the process that probably aren’t even on your radar screen. And selling a home when you have children who still

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Improving Your Home’s Curb Appeal, Made Easy

December 31, 2018 / The Organized Home with Kids / 1 Comment

Improving your home's curb appeal is always a top priority, but especially if you'll be selling your house soon. These tips will get you started.

Are you considering selling your home soon? Before you place it on the market, or even meet with a real-estate agent, it’s never too early to start thinking about how potential buyers will see your home. There’s no way to make up for a bad first impression. How your home looks from the outside will

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Getting Your First Mortgage in the New Year

December 29, 2018 / Favorite Mom Hacks, The Organized Home with Kids / 13 Comments

Getting your first mortgage is easier if you know what to expect, and how the process works. These tips will help you save money over the long haul.

The new year is almost upon us; what are your goals for 2019? Is becoming a first-time homeowner on your list? If so, you need to know what to expect from the financial journey ahead of you when getting your first mortgage. Having purchased two homes now (first as a single gal, and later with my

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