
Get out your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, hone your note-passing skills: Laundry School is in session! We're devoting the entire month of May to the subject of laundry. And what fun would Laundry School be if you couldn't backtalk the teacher, right? So! The Twitter hashtag for this is #LAUNDRYSCHOOL. If you follow me on Twitter (@joliekerr) you can holler at me when you do your laundry! Or lemme see those beautiful piles of folded clothes! Or ask questions! Or tweet at me in emergency situations! Or maybe you just really, really, really need to talk to me about how folding a fitted sheet sends you into fits of rage. [...]

What's the fastest and best way to clean my juicer? Love juice, hate how long it takes to clean up afterward, especially when it's so easy to just toss a plastic cup. And is it okay to kind of leave that little green residue in there for another day? I mean really it can't hurt me right? Right? Am I gross / is that gross? I love my juicer but it's bringing me down.
It's not that gross! Okay twist my arm, it's maybe a little gross.
The reason it's a little gross is twofold: one, all that lurking pulp makes a tremendously attractive home for bacteria, and while [...]

Hey hey hey and welcome to March Madness, Clean Person-style: today kicks off a month-long project we're calling Let's All Make… Our Beds. It's just what it sounds like: we're going to make our beds for the entire month of March and see what happens! To get everyone excited (and I mean, who wouldn't be excited about this?), I'll tweet regularly about all things bed-related — follow me @joliekerr and use the hashtag #LAMOB to join in the fun — several of this month's AaCP columns will be devoted to the topic of beds and bedmaking and bedcleaning (got questions? Ask away), and my [...]