A blog I follow talked abut doing a home inventory. How many of us know exactly what is in our house? The blog, ‘Home storage solutions’, talks about inventorying everything from cutlery and crockery, to linen, to curtains, to carpets. The blogger suggests taking photographs or videos of our inventory and recording serial numbers of […]

I took my own advice this week and Konmari’d my cupboard! I definitely owned far too many clothes, some of which date back a minimum of 11 years and some even older! The hardest part about this was that a few of the things I really liked but don’t fit into anymore. I didn’t throw […]

I recently read an interesting blog in which they suggested that you do a yearly audit of your budget, to check if you are on track. I thought I knew where my money was going. My husband has a fantastic, very detailed, spreadsheet that he designed for our income and expenses. He has used this […]

I was blessed with a husband who eats anything, as long as it isn’t raw celery and doesn’t move.  My kids, for the most part, also eat pretty much whatever you give them. So when I was asked about how to feed fussy eaters, I had to do some serious research. Here’s what I found […]

We got married in 1991 and it is 21 years since we moved into our very own new home. At the time, we had no children and, amongst our friends, we were the only married couple.  Being ‘Frum’ was relatively new to our Jewish community. First we lived in a beautiful, large 1 bedroom, 1 […]

Once again I am on assignment, to improve my blogging skills and make your reading experience better.   Assignment number 4 was to write a blog to our ideal reader and include a new element. We needed to identify who this reader was.   My ideal readers are people like me. It is for every […]

While researching the budget section of my blog, I came across the R1 family, a social experiment together with Sanlam. When I spoke to my mom and editor, she remembered that in 2014 Sanlam ran the R1 man experiment for the first time.   I watched the R1 man (name unknown) and the R1 family […]

This is a long blog post. I felt that it was necessary to reintroduce myself to everyone. I wrote and published the first Kasheringyourlife blog on the 28 June 2015 and already 5 weeks later I have over 180 followers (thank you all). I read a blog about blogging and in it they said that […]

When I was at school in the 70’s and early 80’s, we had a subject called Home Economics where they taught us to knit, sew and cook.  They also taught us kitchen hygiene and other housewifely topics.  The subject is now called Consumer Studies. The first thing you need to know is how to wash […]

This week I am tackling the cleaning of the lounge and dining room areas of the house. For most of the older South African homes, a small entrance hall leads from the front door into the lounge or dining room.  I would include this room in your cleaning schedule for the lounge and dining room. […]