The awesome Shark steam mop!

Our new house has oodles of tile. Pretty much the entire first floor is tile. So to clean the floor I bought a Shark. (With a nudge from Gracie.) I am so happy with it. With Squeak about to crawl having the floor be sanitized was important and add the shine benefit and it is a win win and well worth the $75 I paid at our local Lowe's store. It is so easy to use too and I was able to get all the bottom floor done in about an hour!! I totally recommend it!

The beauty of front loaders!!

So we are in our new house! YAY!!! We had to buy appliances, blinds, and fans in order to get through life and the heat!! I have to admit my favorite purchase is my new washing machine / dryer set. They are front loaders by samsung and soooo awesome. Quiet, fast, easy to use, and great on power usage!! I got my washer yesterday so immediatly put the set to use with all the laundry that has piled up. I breezed through 5 loads in just a couple hours. So much nicer than using the community laundry room at our old apartment!!

10 Unusual Uses for Salt

1. Do you love the smell of roses? Now you can have that scent

year round without using artificial air fresheners. To make a rose air freshener try layering rose petals and salt in a glass jar with a tightly fitting lid. Then just remove the lid to freshen the air.

2. Keep ants out of your home, just sprinkle salt across their path and the ants will be discouraged from going any further and you didn't have to resort to using harmful pesticides.

3. Shell hard boiled eggs easily, just add a teaspoon of salt to the water before boiling and you'll have perfect eggs every time.

4. Test an eggs freshness, add 1 teaspoon of salt to one cup of water and then float the egg in the water. A fresh egg will sink but an old one will float.

5. Keep your salad crisp. After preparing your salad lightly salt it, and your salad will remain crisp for several hours afterwards.

6. Keep your milk fresh, just add a pinch of salt to your jug of milk or cream for it to keep longer.

7. Set the color in new towels, just add a cup of salt to the wash water the first couple of times that you wash them. This keep your towels bright much longer.

8. Weed killer, boil one cup of salt to two cups of water and pour over the weeds to kill them.

9. Revive wrinkled apples, add the apples to mildly salted water and watch the wrinkles disappear. It's to bad that doesn't work for people!

10. Restore a sponge, just soak overnight in a solution of 1/4 cup of salt to one qt. of water to restore them to like new condition.