by Cool Mom Staff | Jun 3, 2022 | Tips + Tricks
Summer has arrived and I’m ready for a week at the beach, or in the mountains, or anywhere but here! In an ideal world, every vacation home renter would stock the kitchen with everything you need, but many of us have arrived for a week of vacation to find dull...
by Caroline Siegrist | May 18, 2022 | Shopping Finds, Tips + Tricks
With inflation and supply chain-related shortages upon us, I know a lot of us are considering CSAs for practical reasons as well as ethical ones. Plus, that fresh chard and those vine-ripened strawberries. Yum! When I first wrote about community supported agriculture...
by Christina Refford | Mar 8, 2022 | Tips + Tricks
A few years ago, I read Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing and could not wait to apply it to my house. Using her mantra of only keeping things that “bring me joy,” I first tackled...
by Lisa Barnes | Feb 28, 2022 | Shopping Finds
The space under my kitchen sink has always been so incredibly messy and cluttered. It just seemed like a large catch-all space for miscellaneous cleaning supplies, dish soap, garbage bags, and whatever else got shoved under there. It’s an odd space because you...
by Christina Refford | Feb 22, 2022 | Tips + Tricks
Feeding a family of five during the worst of the COVID pandemic lockdown definitely made a dent in our budget, but now that things have gotten a little more normal, our spending on food is still so much higher than in pre-COVID days. Whether it’s supply-chain...
