Organize Your Home and Save the Planet!
This week my guest was Candita Clayton the most organized person I know. Candita’s company, Your Life Organized, can be an incredible help when you are selling your home. An organized home can reduce stress, minimize cleaning time, and help make everyday a little smoother.
Selling your home doesn’t have to overwhelm you and can actually be a great time to get rid of all those things you no longer need. Candita can offer a trained eye and a fresh perspective as well as an understanding as why change is good.
If you Google Candita, you will find her on her website, her blog, HGTV.com, and countless newspaper and magazine articals, and has just published a fabulous new book, “Clean Your Home Healthy: Green Cleaning Made Easy“, . This beautiful full-color book shows you how easy it is to transition into non-toxic cleaning, one room at a time. As Candita said, “ The eco-organized home can give you peace of mind on two levels; first, that you have created the most healthful enviornment for your family, and second that your surroundings are peaceful and pleasing to you.”
Candita recommends these five alternative cleaning products:
- Use hydrogen peroxide diluted with water to replace chlorine bleach, or use hydrogen peroxide straight for tough mold and mildew. ( try it on a test area first, as it can discolor like bleach)
- Replace spray cleaners with white vinegar diluted with water in a spray bottle to clean nearly any surface.
- Use a paste of lemon and baking soda instead of abrasive cleansers.
- Replace oven cleaners with a citrus-based cleaner or degreaser, or use baking soda, hot water and steel wool to clean ovens.
- Use castile soap diluted with water instead of petroleum-based cleaners.
This Week’s Real Estate Insight:
American consumers want green products and services. In addition to being healthier to live in, homes that feature green elements will become increasingly more attractive and help to distinguish their position in the market.