3 Tips for Sharing Wardrobe Space with Family or Significant Other

As a child, you were taught to share with others, a good life skill that is needed into adulthood. As an adult, there should be nobody easier to share with than our significant other, child or family member. Yet when it comes to something like wardrobe space, which for most of our lives has been ours and ours alone, suddenly having to share it can come as a shock. I live in a very small home, space is limited, so at the moment I'm sharing my larger wardrobe with one of my children and yes we make it work but it did take time to adjust, in the same way it would if your sharing yours with a partner for the first time.  It also brings challenges with it. It is almost certain that one of you will have more things than the other. Then, there will likely be disagreements over how things should be stored. You might also have different needs, for example, if one of you just wants to find what you need quickly, sling it on and get out the door, while the other likes to take time getting dre......

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Travelling the UK this summer? Need Laundry done? No problem with Laundryheap

*Collaborative Post  Are you hitting the road and heading to some of the best cities in the UK this summer? Excited to be exploring all the cultural sites of London ? The art and fashion scene of Manchester or the fantastic street food in Birmingham? The UK is so diverse and has some incredible cities that offer great staycation and city breaks or even longer holiday, in fact, I'm hoping to take the kids to London for a week over the summer as I personally find 1 or 2 days simply isn't long enough to explore this vibrant city.  The thing is whenever I travel with my kids I like to travel as light as possible, it's no fun navigating train stations, public transport, airports etc with loads of luggage especially when I am often travelling on my own with both kids & I usually have to carry not only my luggage but also theirs. So we pack light! I make sure we only enough clothes for each day and perhaps one spare t-shirt or trousers but that's it, so when we go away for......

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Be Green when it comes to Energy

For a lot of people, normal energy bills will account for a quite significant portion of the budget for the household and it's also one of the biggest drains on the planet. In fact, this one bill is typically only surpassed in amount by the mortgage or rent. For this reason, it is typically in the best interest of your budget and the environment if you can keep this bill as low as you possibly can. This will not only save you in terms of money, it will also conserve energy and make your home a little bit greener which is something we really all do need to start addressing sooner rather than later.  Let’s take a closer peek at some of the ways that you can save money on your energy bills. Unplug It If you are not using something that is plugged in, either turn it off or unplug it. This can be made easy even for those items that are plugged in places where the outlet is hard to reach by using a power strip. Then, you can simply turn the power strip off when you are......

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Guest Post - A Lazy Persons Laundry Hacks

What do cleaning, tidying, washing up and laundry all have in common? They’re all household chores which never seem to be finished. It doesn’t matter how much time and energy you put into them, there’s still a basket full of laundry, a couple of bits of washing up left to do. And all the while there are just about a million more interesting things to do! Laundry is a job which seemingly never ends and can really stress you out. So what are us lazy people to do? We want our laundry done and out of our mind as not thinking about it isn’t an effective solution. After all we all need clothes to wear! You just don’t want to go crazy as you try to keep up with it. I put together tips and hints for speedy laundry and how to dry your clothes faster. How to do laundry faster Let’s dive into our laundry basket of hints and tips for getting your laundry done quicker 1. How often you do laundry matters Is it better to do a little laundry or a lot of laundry at once? If you find y......

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Family Laundry Hacks with Siemens iSensoric

I have to admit before having kids things like washing machines and laundry did not feature on my list of important things in my life but as soon as you have children your outlook on cleaning takes on a whole different perspective. Suddenly it seems like all you are doing is washing, simply to keep on top of the constant mountain that forms in the laundry basket on a daily basis.  If you don't have some kind of routine or plan in place things can go wrong and get on top of you very quickly. We have had a few "red socks in with the whites" and shrinking shirts situations due to rushing through the laundry pile trying to juggle two small children, sleep deprivation and basically keeping on top of the basic running of the home and attempt to look like a normal "stain-free" individual. The thing is with young children around, stains take on a new life of their own and throw in crafting, cooking, painting and eating this all means sticking fingers are a......

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Laundry Love - Samsung WW9000 First Impressions

Okay so I have to admit I am not the most organised or on top of the laundry kind of person. I mean everything gets clean and thats the main objective, I think it may be because I have never been very exciting or enthralled by the idea of laundry - it's always seemed rather tedious, time-consuming as well as energy and finically draining, especially when you have a toddler or newborn clothes to wash basically every day. But I always try and keep an open mind so anything that may change that I am up for hearing about so when the lovely people over at Samsung asked me to review their new, sleek, stylish and eco-friendly Samsung WW9000 EcoBubble machine I was very excited to see if this would change the way I felt about doing the laundry and I have to say honestly it has....for the following reasons. First of all aesthetically the machine is very pleasing to the eye and looks rather space aged - I love it's smooth lines, blue tinted door and gone are any unnecessary knobs or ......

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