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Bathroom remodels look inviting once they’re finished and as long as someone else is doing the work. But what if you don’t have the money, time or energy to replace bathroom fixtures or flooring, add a tile backsplash or even paint the walls, but you’d like to give your bath a little pick-me-up? Pick and choose from among these 10 bathroom refreshers.

1. Make your faucets sparkle like new. Get rid of hard water stains and scaling with white vinegar on a clean rag or sponge. The whole sink area will look cleaner and brighter.

2. Put something new on the countertop. Replace your toothbrush holder, soap dish and tissue box for something new and exciting or add a pretty candle in a mosaic holder. Even a handful of fresh flowers in a pretty glass vase can make your bathroom more inviting.

3. Aromatherapy is cheap and easy. Introduce a great new scent to the bathroom with potpourri, scented soaps and candles, a new air freshener, or scented oil reed diffuser. Change scents with the seasons so that there is always something new and fresh.

4. Replace ratty towels with fresh new fluffy ones. Cushy new towels in coordinated shades gives the bathroom a new look. Really go crazy and add a coordinating shower curtain for an instant update.

5. Change your wall art. If you’re tired of the same old same old, change up your wall art with new metal art, framed photographs, cottage-inspired wrought iron, candle wall sconces or anything that appeals to you. Do it on the cheap by framing up your own digital photographs or a verse of poetry or inspirational verse printed on parchment and elegantly framed.

6. Add a fashionable new rug. If you haven’t looked at bathroom rugs lately you’ll be amazed at the colors, patterns and themes available. Whether you lust for climbing cabbage roses or bold modern color blocks, a new rug in the bathroom can give you a lot of decorative bang for your buck.

7. Improve organization and beat clutter. Runaway clutter can make the most luxurious bathroom look tacky. Take a few hours to pitch old jars of expired face cream and a zillion sample bottles of shampoo. Reorganize your stuff with drawer organizers, wall shelves, bins or over-the-door organizers. Then enjoy your ‘new’ clean countertops.

8. Brighten up with mirrors. Expand the visual size and brightness of your bath by adding new mirrors. Replace the vanity mirror or balance smaller mirrors on either side of it. Decorate an entire wall with wall mirrors for a wide open look or attach unframed mirrors to your cabinet doors with adhesive. Ooh la la!

9. Replace the shower curtain liner. Vinyl liners can get smelly and moldy in just a few months. If you don’t want the hassle of cleaning it, buy a new one for just a few dollars. The difference it makes in bathroom hygiene is priceless.

10. Add automatic cleaners. Automatic toilet bowl and auto spraying bathtub/shower cleaners make it easier to keep a busy bathroom clean without having to resort to the rubber glove and scouring brush routine everyday.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Aja_Klenna

One of the highlights of the year in our family happens each November in an unlikely place: the bowling alley.

Years ago, my in-laws started a tradition of getting together Thanksgiving morning amid arcade games and greasy
fries to bowl a few games. This Thanksgiving tradition has become a defining event in our family. Each year, more
families join us and we sit back and marvel at how our web of family and friends continues to compound each year.

Celebrate families and togetherness this Thanksgiving Day with some time-honored traditions, which give us a
sense of family identity and meaningfulness that can last for generations. Here are nine ideas for starting new
family traditions – and for revering the old ones:

1. Sit down with your family and reminisce about your childhood celebrations. What do you remember most about
Thanksgiving and the days that follow? Thanksgiving traditions can be much more than just food and recipes. In
what ways did your childhood traditions symbolize particular values, such as abundance, generosity, the importance of family?
What would you like to do that’s the same? What would you do like to do differently?

2. Make a small booklet or a mini scrapbook album (which you can either make or purchase.) Write “Five Things
I Love About My Family and Friends” and keep it out on the table during your Thanksgiving celebration. Each guest
can come and record thoughts and insights. Other themes to try: “Five Things I’m Thankful For” or “Five Wishes
for my Family and Friends.” An even simpler approach would be to put one sheet of cardstock out for each year – and
combine them together over the years in a Thanksgiving Gratitude Scrapbook.

3. Keep a Family Gratitude Journal through the year. Each night, a family member can share something that they are
grateful for. Share the highlights of this family tradition at the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day.

4. Make a Gratitude Circle. Before the Thanksgiving meal, everyone stands and holds hands in a circle. Guests
each take a turn sharing what they are grateful for. Or – if your guests are on the shy side – ask everyone to
write down their blessings on a piece of paper, which you can read before or after dinner.

5. Designate a particular tablecloth for your family Thanksgiving celebrations. Provide fabric markers where
guests can record their “gratitudes” or special prayers for the year ahead. Ask your guests to sign and date
each message, as you’ll be using the same tablecloth year after year.

6. Involve the entire family in Thanksgiving decorations. Family Fun magazine posts lots of creative ideas for
the entire family here: http://familyfun.go.com

7. Make a hostess gift for the person who is cooking this year. Purchase an apron or a t-shirt or a gift album
with sentiments of thanks from each guest. Present the gift after dinner.

8. Show your gratitude to an unsung hero. Get together with your family and decide on a person or a group in your
community who could use an extra pat on the back, ie. firefighters, soldiers, police officers, volunteers. Put
together a special plate of goodies and deliver it (or pack it up for shipping) as a family.

9. Preserve your traditions. After the meal, record everyone’s favorite activities. Appoint one person to be
the scribe – or ask everyone to jot down a few thoughts. And don’t forget to take lots of photos. It’s fun to
place disposable cameras throughout the house so everyone can capture bits of the action.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Susie_Cortright

Communication with your Maid Service is very important – Here is a list of things you need to remember when discussing issues with your Maid Service.

1. Once they start coming make sure they understand those specific things that you want done – like getting in the corners of some very specific place or cleaning the dishes and putting them away. It is important they know what is good for you.

2. Make sure, you keep your appointments – if you are going to cancel – please give at a minimum 24 hours notice it hurts everyone when you cancel.

3. Honor and respect the people working, this alone can make all the difference in the world. Yes they are cleaning your home, but they are people too.

4. Communicate any issues when they happen not weeks later. This may seem like common sense, but a problem needs to be handled at the time of service.

We hope these few tips will help you – make sure you communicate with your maid service and watch the service level increase.

Happy Halloween from the Maid Service Blog! Remember, if you need to have a party, most maid services can help you with post party clean up!

Give your local maid service a call and have a happy and safe Halloween Week!

Maid Service Businesses often have a ton of referral and new business coming in all the time and yet many of these companies get a bad rap because they are believed to hire illegal aliens. In fact many do and this is why people believe that they all do. But what can a Maid Service do to promote positive community goodwill?

Well let me suggest that they join a neighborhood mobile watch patrol or a business watch program. Why you ask? Well it makes them part of the solution rather than being perceived as part of the problem. Besides if we look at the Maid Service Business Model it actually makes perfect sense;

LOCAL MAID SERVICES: These small businesses drive around and have scheduled routes for each day of the week. This program is something they will enjoy doing and they will be a very positive influence on the group. Most of these small business owners are very street smart and they know what is going on around town, who is doing what, and can easily spot out suspicious behavior down the street. They will feel very happy to added to your group and have lots of contacts around town.

Certainly you can see why this makes such a good fit for such a business type. And realize also for good public relations sometimes you simply have to think outside the box. A neighborhood mobile watch is a good way for a company like this to expand its community goodwill and over come any negative connotations. So, please consider this in 2006.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow

We continue out spotlight of South Florida cities that our cleaning company covers. Today is Beautiful Weston Florida. We have been cleaning Weston Florida for over 20 years. Some of the details of Weston:

Source: Wikepedia

Weston is a city located in Broward County, Florida, USA. Established as a city in 1996, much of the community was developed byArvida/JMB Realty and is located near the western developmental boundary of Broward County. As of 2006, the city had a total population of 65,793.^[3] Weston is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which is home to 5,463,857 people.^[6] An 800 year oldTequesta Indian burial mound is located in the city.

In 2006, Money Magazine ranked Weston 20th in America in the “Biggest Earners” category.^[7] It was also ranked as the city with largest job growth in Florida and 18th largest in the nation.^[8] BusinessWeek ranked Weston as one of the “best affordable suburbs” in the United States in November 2006.^[9][10] Due to it being a fully planned community, local realtors often state that “everything is located exactly where it should be.”

In 2008, “Money Magazine” ranked Weston as the 73rd best place to live in America, making it the best place to live in the state of Florida. ^[11]

We love Weston and if you are looking for a good Maid Service Search:

Maid Service Weston

Cleaning Company Weston

House Cleaning Weston

If you are looking for a cleaning service in Weston Florida give us a call – 954-797-8686

Every few weeks we like to spotlight an area that we here at Sun Cleaning Maid Service & House Cleaning clean. We author this blog – and also have our main site at Sun Cleaning Maid Service & House Cleaning

This week we spotlight Davie, Florida -

According to Wikepedia:

Davie is a town in Broward County, Florida, United States. In 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city’s population at 90,329.^[3] It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which is home to 5,463,857 people.^[6]

There were 28,682 households out of which 36.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.8% were married couples living together, 12.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.1% were non-families. 22.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.13.

In the city the population was spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 33.4% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 95.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $47,014, and the median income for a family was $56,290. Males had a median income of $38,756 versus $30,016 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,271. About 6.9% of families and 9.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.3% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over.

As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language made up 75.47% of the population, while Spanish speakers made up 18.74%, and French speakers made up 1.13% of residents. A few other languages spoken were Italian at 0.73%, Chinese at 0.53%, Portuguese 0.51%, and French Creole being the mother tongue of 0.38% of the population.^[9]

As of 2000, Davie had the seventy-second highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 4.33% of the town’s population,^[10] and the ninety-sixth highest percentage ofColombian residents in the US, with 1.72% of all residents (tied with Sweetwater and Maywood, New Jersey.)^[11]

Zip Codes are:

We have been cleaning Davie Florida for over 20 years. If you are looking for cleaning in Davie enter search terms such as:

Davie Maid Service

Cleaning Service Davie

Cleaning Company Davie

Along with all the information we provide on cleaning services and maid services we will continue to spotlight local cities here on the Maid Service Blog!

Come home to a clean home today and hire a maid service! It is amazing what a clean home can do for you. Look for a maid service to serve you – google one by putting the city in first like this – Fort Lauderdale Maid Service or Weston Maid Service that will help you find a local service in your area.

If you are looking in the South Florida area don’t forget us at Sun Cleaning Maid Service & House Cleaning!

It is not always easy to find the right cleaning service. What we suggest is that you first do a google search for you local area. So put in your city like this:

Wilton Manors Cleaning Service or Wilton Manors Maid Service

This will allow you to get local results for you area. Then go through the web pages and make sure the company has been in business for awhile. You will see this with the professionalism of the web page and on the about page.

Call and inquire about rates and how they work. Remember the cheapest is not always the best – you get what you pay for. Try to work with locally owned businesses, it supports the local economy and helps your are.

I hope this helps you find your cleaning service.

Sun Cleaning Maid Service & House Cleaning has reached the 20 year mark! It is really exciting to see a house cleaning service or commercial cleaner reach that threshold. Sun Cleaning has been in South Florida for over 20 years and started with 1 person cleaning homes and now has grown into South Florida’s largest privately owned cleaning company.

MaidServiceBlog.com celebrates Sun Cleaning’s 20 years of service to the house cleaning industry! Great job Sun Cleaning!