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Time | Five ideas for trimming housework: Women’s Day magazine suggests these tips for simplifying household cleanup: Stash countertop appliances. Less out means less to clean up or clean around.
Store dishes in cupboards closest to the dishwasher.
Set timer each day for a five-minute family clutter cleanup.
Stock each bathroom with cleaning supplies and gloves.
Store stepladders and vacuums (or minivacs) on each floor to avoid carting around equipment. |Knight Ridder Newspapers
Space & money| Storage store boosts Web traffic: The organizing outpost Hold Everything recently closed its brick-and-mortar stores, but the retailer has loads of sale stock online at holdeverything.com, some as much as 75 percent off. Room’s picks include these funky gusseted throw pillows for $25 (were $48), the kids’ circle-in-square rug for $55 (was $140), and the linear Dexter chair for $350 (was $695).|Elana Ashanti Jefferson
Energy| Seven ways to cut lighting bills: Warmer weather may not translate into lower energy bills. Leviton, the 100-year-old electrical manufacturer, tells people to keep tabs on energy costs by:
Using lower-consuming compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent bulbs.
Installing dimmers to help conserve lighting expenses.
Cutting energy use with outdoor light motion detectors, timers and occupancy sensors – especially helpful for seniors and disabled people.
Turning off the lights in empty rooms. |Leviton Manufacturing Co.
