I purchased my first landbank home in Memphis, Tennessee The house is in terrible shape. You’re not allowed to see the inside of landbank homes before you purchase them. The house cost me $6,000. I love a great makeover and I love a great challenge. This is both! I was able to see the inside for the first time in July 2024. However, my family went in to see it in June after I purchased it and received the deed. {Read More}
DIY Kitchen Drawer Dividers Using Chair Rail Molding
March 17, 2015 by 5 Comments
Tried my hand at organizing my utensil drawer in the kitchen. I decided to go with using some chair rail molding. If you have some leftover chair rail molding in your house, then it is definitely an inexpensive venture to try. If not, you can purchase enough for drawer dividers from Home Depot for about $5 or $6. Home Depot will also cut the chair rail molding for you as long as it measures at least 12 inches. I love {Read More}
Removing the Water from My Flooded Basement (Ugh!)
May 4, 2014 by 37 Comments
Imagine this. You wake up in the morning and realize that the water is not getting hot for some reason. You go down in the basement to check the water heater. And….Crap! This is what you find in the basement. Water everywhere! (Storming for 2 or more days in our area) You know it’s not a good sign if your empty clothes basket floats by you. (insert laughter) On top of that, your husband’s out of town. So
Homemade Sock Drawer Divider
March 2, 2014 by 53 Comments
(Video tutorial included at end of post.) How many of you are tired of your junkie (unorganized) sock drawer? I was folding clothes and was about to put away the socks and I realized that I was totally tired of having a junkie sock drawer. It was so hard to find a pair of socks to put on each day. Not to mention, the socks were never paired up to its match. (I must admit that I throw them in {Read More}
Storing Plastic Grocery Bags
February 17, 2014 by 33 Comments
When it comes to storing those plastic grocery bags in our house, I normally just stuff them in the side part of our closet or pantry. (Do people really say pantry these days?) I don’t have a large kitchen closet for storing my groceries. I know that some people like using the reusable bags and not using the plastic store bags when they’re shopping, but I like the store bags because I used them as liners for my garbage cans {Read More}
Cleaning Between the Mesh Screen and Glass Door on Your Microwave
January 25, 2014 by 59 Comments
This is how my microwave door looks. It’s not that I don’t occasionally wipe the front of the microwave when I’m cleaning. The problem is that it won’t come off. This yucky look is trapped on the inside of the door, between the glass door and mesh screen. You can’t reach it by the usual opening of the door. I found out that in order to ever have a door that I can actually see through, I would need to {Read More}
Cleaning Your Basesboards
January 19, 2014 by 29 Comments
Okay. I’m finally getting around to attempting to clean my baseboards. It is one of those “don’t-really need-to-get-to chores.” If you’re like me, you look at them throughout the year and silently say in your head, “I need to clean those one day.” Which outside of my head means “never.” Well, I actually cleaned them today. I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter what kind of baseboards or what
How We Stay Warm and Lower Our Winter Electric Bill
September 8, 2013 by 66 Comments
I’m so happy that cooler weather is coming! I love the fall and winter! Of course, I don’t like the onset of a potential higher electric bill. So, it’s best to get a head start on holding that bill at bay. These are some of the tips that I use during the colder
Medicine Cabinet Makeover!
May 11, 2013 by 25 Comments
If you’re like me, then you rarely go in your medicine cabinet. The only time I open this cabinet is when I would like to put on perfume some days, throw on a little makeup or use the scissors to trim my hair. The very reason I hate to open the cabinet is because stuff is always falling out when I’m reaching in for something. So, of course I try
Use Toothpaste to Whiten Your White Clothes!
April 26, 2013 by 61 Comments
(I can’t believe it worked! This looks great! I think I will wear it tomorrow!) I know what you’re thinking. What is the world coming to now! Did she say use toothpaste to help whiten her clothes? I did. I was tooling around the house trying to come up with different stuff that I could try to whiten my white clothes. I
