Housework rarely ranks highly on the top ten list of things folks like to do. Spring cleaning, however, is often greeted -- at least in theory -- with some enthusiasm, if only because it means the end of another long, dark winter.

Even if the state of your home is nowhere near "Hoarders"-cluttered, we often have a tendency to hold onto things longer than we need to. Perhaps we t...

One of the big reasons we have too much stuff is the availability of lots of inexpensive (or expensive!) consumer products. Where our mothers or grandmothers may have used a bar of soap in the bathroom, and a few pots, pans and wooden spoons in the kitchen, we now have dozens of cleansers and gadgets.

Quick Study [kwik stuhd-ee]: The Huffington Post Canada's tips to make your life a little sweeter, five minutes at a time. Think of it as a cheatsheet...