Notepad Corner

The kitchen is the heart of every home.  Being the busiest part of the house, it is essential to keep it clean and organized. Most homemakers prefer to have enough available supply of food and other cooking essentials to make the daily family meal preparation with ease. While it is necessary to maintain kitchen cleanliness, it is also a must to choose the best methods on how to keep and preserve food freshness when storing. Unsafe food stocking can give way to growth of bacteria, virus and threat of food poisoning which will harm the family’s health. Choosing the highest quality kitchen containers for food storage can help preserve pantry food supplies and help reduce kitchen waste by preserving leftovers and unused food for later use.  Storing food in specially designed containers can keep food fresh for a longer time. image via  http://flic.kr/p/675gbz Aside from the pantry or kitchen cupboards, the refrigerator plays an important role in keeping and preserving f

During winter, the whole family wants to hibernate – even energetic children who just love playing outdoors. However, once the frost has melted away and the sun is in the sky, your kids will be eager to take their activities outside. Image via shop.tacttiles.com A garden filled with rubbish, debris and general hazards is not a safe environment for playtime. That’s why you’ll need to make sure your outdoor space is the perfect place for your little ones to while away a summer’s afternoon or two. Here’s how to do it:

Filipino families and holiday seekers will have ample of time to unwind this year. With the recent declaration of Malacañang's Proclamation No. 655 there will be at least 18 specified national holidays to be observed for the year 2014. The enumerated holidays includes 4 long weekends that can make way to schedule a family getaway. The four long weekends are as follows: The first long weekend will kick off on January 31, Friday which has been declared a special non-working holiday due to the celebration of the Chinese New Year. The second long weekend is on Holy Week which will start on April 17, Maundy Thursday until April 19, Black Saturday. The third one is on August since the last Monday of the month will be the National Heroes Day, August 25 is a regular holiday. Finally the last long weekend is during the Christmas holidays. Christmas holidays will be longer this year as December 24, Wednesday, and December 26, Friday, are declared as special non-working d

Let us know if this scenario sounds familiar. The real estate called and you have just over two days to makeover your rental, transforming a cluttered, lived in ‘home’ into a photogenic property, securing another few months of suburban living. You panic a little (or a lot), hitting the local supermarket and splashing out on new sponges and harsh chemicals packaged in purple plastic; sure, a few drops burn your knees into oblivion and your eyes pearl with tears in your mission against bathroom scum, armed with bleach and spray solutions, but beauty is pain, or something like that. The reality? Everyday people just like you unknowingly place themselves in risky situations, rushing from one job to another, making amateur mistakes and exposing their bodies to harm. Cleaning is deadly, and no, we’re not just talking about the pile of underwear threatening to catalyse a new form of bacteria; corrosive, flammable, toxic, noxious, each word is a justified descriptor of the chemical yo