If you’ve ever opened the fridge on a Tuesday afternoon and genuinely had no idea how you were already out of half of everything you bought on Saturday — welcome to summer. Kids home all day changes your kitchen in ways that are easy to underestimate until...
I want to talk to you about something before summer really gets going — because I see the same thing happen in homes every single year, and I genuinely don’t want it to happen to yours. It hits in the first week of September. The alarm goes off, the morning...
Everyone talks about spring-cleaning. It has its own section in the home goods store. Its own Pinterest boards. Its own cultural moment where we’re all supposed to throw open the windows, pull everything out of the closets, and emerge three days later with a...
Move-out day is coming. And if you’re a parent of a college student, here’s how it usually goes. Your kid shoves everything into bags and boxes with no system. Drives home or ships it. And it all ends up in one of two places: their old bedroom, which...
I recently covered the five zones that break down when school ends. Now I want to go deeper on the one that takes the biggest hit: the kitchen. During the school year, your kitchen probably usually just handles breakfast and dinner. Summer, it handles everything — and...
Last post I talked about what happens to your home’s systems when the school-year schedule disappears. This one gets specific. These are the five zones that take the hit first — and what the early warning signs look like so you can catch them before they spiral....
