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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: 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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How To Make Windows More Energy Efficient

October 28, 2024 / The Organized Home with Kids / 2 Comments

From insulation and DIY window treatments ideas to replacement windows, there are lots of ways to make your windows more energy efficient.

From Replacement Windows to Window Coverings: Make Windows More Energy Efficient Just as spring is a great time to spruce up your home’s curb appeal, the arrival of cooler fall temperatures is a great time to think about your home’s windows. There’s nothing worse on cold winter nights than drafty, naked windows. Shorter days mean

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What Happens if Homeowners Insurance Lapses?

August 3, 2024 / The Organized Home with Kids

You don't want to let your homeowners insurance lapse. Here's why homeowners insurance matters, and how to get it back after a lapse.

Benefits of Home Insurance: How to Get Homeowners Insurance After a Lapse in Coverage OK, let’s start with the obvious: in an ideal world, you NEVER want to be without homeowners insurance. Because insurance is there for all the things in life that you DON’T think will happen. This is why if you have a

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Resources for Building and Decorating Your Dream Home

July 13, 2024 / The Organized Home with Kids

Whether building your dream home from scratch, or creating it one renovation at a time, this post covers the bases you need to consider.

Do you currently live in your dream home? If not, what’s stopping you? In my experience, there are two ways to get to your dream house: Either the planets align so that you’re in a position to build the house of your dreams, or you buy a home with potential and create your dream house one

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Why and How To Choose A Contractor

September 5, 2019 / The Organized Home with Kids / 20 Comments

Considering a major home project? Wondering if you need a contractor? This step-by-step guide on how to choose a contractor will get you started.

We all know that adulting is hard. And parenting is hard, too. But you reach a new level of grownup-dom the first time you find yourself wondering if you need to hire a contractor. Not to mention wondering how to choose a contractor. If you’re a homeowner and also a parent of young children, you

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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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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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