I’m Rachel Bennett, a 51-year-old mom who has spent more than two decades figuring out how to keep a home clean without giving every free hour to housework. Now that my children are older, I have more time to share the shortcuts, mistakes, routines, and little tricks that actually helped me over the years. I am especially interested in anything that makes housework faster or easier.
When we moved from Denver to New York, one of the first things I found unusual was how rarely people here open their windows. In Denver, I used to open the windows wide every morning, even when snow had fallen outside. Now I have windows that only open partially, so I’ve spent the past few […]