Tim Matheson Blog - Productive Tips and More

Curbly blog has a great article on how to clean like a maid. The article walks you through the methods used by former housekeeper Ivy. Great read if your like me and love a clean house but hate to clean. Ivy mentions cleaning a 1200 square foot home in 45 mins. Now that my friend’s is cleaning GTD style.

The mantra of the company I worked for was top to bottom, left to right. This way you could easily walk into any room and know exactly where to get started.

Clean like a maid!

If you own a car you should also own an auto accident kit. An auto accident kit can mean the difference between getting you much deserved settlement and getting screwed by an insurance company. For the most part accident kits are easy to put together and you may already have some of the items around your home or office. I have put together a list of items you should have on hand in the invent of an accident.

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Water conservation is alway a good practice. Here is a tip on how to use less water on your next stop to the shitter.

Items needed

• 1/2 gallon or 1 gallon milk jug or other container
• 1 gallon of h20 (actually sand or anything to fill the jug works.)

Start by filling up the jug with sand, water or whatever you want just make sure its heavy enough to stay submerged with the toilet back removed. Flush the toilet to allow the water to drain from the basin and place the jug down into the basin. The water will rise but will have less volume to fill this time resulting in less water used for each flush.

So you have a huge collection of bottle caps and your significant other is pressuring you to use em or loose em. The solution is obvious, make cool retro bottle cap magnets and display your bottle cap collection with pride.

To complete this project you will need the following supplies. I did not include any photos for this project as they are not needed due to the simplicity of the project.

1. 1 or more bottle caps any brand will do.
2. A “hot” glue gun (Be Careful). Super glue or any other adhesive can alternatively be used.
3. Some craft magnets pick em up online or Hobby Lobby or anywhere you like.

To begin place a bottle cap face down on a level surface and begin filling the cap with hot glue or equivalent. Allow the glue to fill the cap creating a flat surface of “dry” hot glue. This will ensure your caps do not damage your fridge, car, bike or whatever metal surface you are applying the magnets. Once the glue is hard or dry apply another small amount onto the newly formed surface and place the magnet on the glue. Allow the glue to once again dry 4 - 5 minutes and that’s all there is to it.