Sentences with phrase «of tidying your house»

(If you've been using the KonMari method of tidying your house, this could be a good way to turn your items that don't «spark joy» into some much needed cloth diapers for your baby!)

Not exact matches

And though she can both tidy the house and do the dishes more quickly than he can, they're able to achieve a more efficient division of labour overall by applying the notion of comparative advantage to their chore list.

I live in a tidy little neighbourhood of identical houses, sure, and I don't have a yard, I get it.

Determined to enjoy (but not too much) the fruits of their labors, the growing middle class of Dutch burghers, merchants, traders and manufacturers filled their tidy town - houses with art that celebrated their personal dignity and accomplishments, the humid sweep of their lowland countryside, and the miraculous bounty of Indonesian spices, Chinese porcelains, tropical fruits, Persian carpets, Venetian glass and other luxuries made available through the expertise of their merchant fleets.

I've gotten into the habit of setting the timer on my phone for 15 minutes each morning to focus on tidying a specific area of the house with no expectation of what the end result will be (other than, I hope, a tidier space).

Mama Lin was definitely proud of the dinner and how I've kept the house (relatively) tidy!

The 100 block of Pepper Street is lined with small, tidy houses, most of them owned by working - class black families.

Reef House, by contrast, is unobtrusive and simple — three tidy clapboard cottages open to the trade winds, a natural swimming hole back of the coral reef and, thanks to Kepler's two cooks, Juanita and Olive, the best cuisine south of Joe's Stone Crab in Miami.»

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

My Dh is always complaining about how cluttered our house is, like it's sooooo easy to keep the house clean with a four - year - old running around and undoing any of our futile efforts to tidy up.

I need 5 projects on the go at once, I need to be buzzing with ideas, jumping from one to the next, although a couple of hours to tidy up my house would be nice.

They worked for three hours (during which time I obliterated a huge pile of client work), tidied and scrubbed the house to a shine, and even left chocolate in their wake.

When you are sleep - deprived sleep must be your priority — your visitors, partner and your children will appreciate a well - rested you far more than a tidy house or a conversation with a wrung out version of yourself.

They are asked to help with various things around the house — some of them are things they need to do to take care of themselves (like put their clean clothes away and keep their rooms somewhat tidy) and some of them are things they are asked to do to help take care of our home and our family because they are part of our family and they contribute just like the adults do (like empty the dishwasher, help cook dinner, or help a younger sibling).

Sometimes I have to remind him that it's a bath night, but other than that, I get 30 minutes of peace and quite to tidy up the house or check my email.

And the more it hurts me, both by wasting so much time and energy looking for things or just navigating around the crap in my house or feeling bad about my apartment, or by making me feel like a failure because I can't seem to maintain a system of keeping things tidy and organized.

Instead of trying to have a chat about it while you're trying to make dinner, tidy the house and entertain a baby, give yourself time to discuss it properly after baby's bedtime.

Of course, with 19 kids there will be occasional messes and clutter, but for the most part, the Duggar house has always been kept tidy.

Get your husband involved if necessary because two crying newborns can be stressful without the thought of keeping the house tidy.

Do you wonder where you're going wrong, when you look at photographs of beautifully dressed children sitting, smiling, at the table, with a perfectly tidy house in the background?

Often new moms feel ambivalent about this — despite tiredness and lack of energy, they try to keep the house tidy, make dinner nightly and fold laundry.

This weekend, we've had shopping, a kids party, family stuff and various other things to do, all on top of trying to catch up with a week's worth of washing, tidying a house that looks like several small bombs have gone off in it and keeping a dog and a 4 - year - old stimulated enough that we don't end up with a riot on our hands.

Duties include newborn care, light house work (dishes, sweeping, counters, folding clean laundry and keeping things tidy) and care of two kind dogs (let them in and out, take them on walks with baby and feed if needed) $ 17 per hour

Let's face it — at the end of the day, coming home to a tidy house as opposed to a disastrous mess is an added incentive in anyone's book.

The House's website provides a tidy summary of the State of the Union.

At Palaikastro, in the island's far northeastern corner, MacGillivray and his colleague Hugh Sackett have excavated seven blocks of a Minoan town of perhaps 5,000 inhabitants, their plastered and painted houses arranged in a network of tidy paved and drained streets.

It was such a great feeling that it sparked me to tidy up other areas of the house even after Ariel had left.

But then that got me to thinking about how life is kind of messy, but it's a beautiful mess, so I guess in the end, whether it is a jigsaw puzzle, or my inbox, or my house, or my writing projects, or my little classroom here for my online classes, or life in general... we should try to keep things tidy, but that doesn't always happen.

Our house is fairly tidy (with the exception of the occasional pile of clothes — Ah - hem... me — or daily gear), but we save the deep cleaning for once we notice it's time.

I just did the Life - Changing Magic of Tidying up method on my house and probably got rid of half my clothes but could get rid of more.

Most of the time, I find myself to be pretty productive and make the most of my weekends in terms of relax / chill time, freelance work and house tidying, but there are just a few things I'm hoping to do every weekend to maximize time during the week.

I take a pause around 4 pm every day to do a full sweep of the house and tidy up; it's momentarily tedious, but it makes a big difference in both of our moods (and to the house in general).

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It also double as toy storage at the end of a play - day, keeping our house tidy and in tune with its minimal decorating.

I still have to squeeze in time to make dinner (sometimes my boyfriend does it, thank goodness), tidy up the house, unpack the rest of the boxes (yep, still not completely done), shower, and spend time with my boyfriend and kitties.

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Her parents had tidied out their loft that weekend, only to find several boxes of things from my parents» house.

84 % of Canadians would prefer to date someone too tidy rather than too messy — making them well suited to the 85 % who always clean the house pre-date!

Marrying a real Russian woman be sure you will always look tidy, be perfectly fed, have a clean house and children taken care of.

The houses of Russian women are usually clean and tidy.

There is no need mentioning that the houses of Russian ladies are always clean and tidy.

I regard myself as humble, a good servant, a companion, a sweetheart a good ear, a hopeless cook tidy in the house though, a gardener and most of all, a good friend

At one point the sentimentality of «Finding Nemo» is grazed by a satirical harpoon, and the story begins in an expansive London house whose clean spaces and tidy right angles recall «Toy Story.»

That means tidying up the cluttered studio that is the workplace of Alex, an artist, while Ruth boils up cinnamon sticks on the stove so that their house will feel like a home.

With the departure of Kevin Williamson, who authored the previous Screams as well as a tidy outline for Scream 3 (that, for reasons incomprehensible to me, was ignored, save the notion of «Stab 3» and, apparently, a pomo sequence — perhaps not coincidentally, this film's best — that takes place on the «set» of Sidney's house from the first Scream), Kruger needed to be reined in tighter, and by Wes Craven, who knows from Krugers.

Carol's midcentury modern house is tidy, tasteful and otherwise empty; a few old pictures afford a glimpse of her former life as a singer in a band and her husband, dead these 20 years.

While views of the sun - kissed Oklahoma plains intermittently open out the play's insular setting, the key action still unfolds in a two - story house just tidy enough to make all of the plot's batshit reversals and betrayals that much more unsettling.

For Marlo, life is a loop of taking care of the kids, making dinner, keeping the house tidy and repeating the cycle the next day.

For now, Weddle raises dozens of goats, chickens, rabbits, and dogs behind her mother's tidy brick house.