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My name is Karen and I'm a wife of 30 years and a mom of 7 kids! I believe that as women we should join hands, walking together and helping each other. I'll share all I know, hoping to help other women find joy and beauty in their all important work at home. Let's share recipes, cleaning and organizing tips, decorating strategies, and mommy encouragement. I can't wait to meet you!
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[@kimberlyrichter9504]

I prefer a chatty video over a music one. Thanks for all the hard work you put in to provide us with videos.

[@ThisMainerMom]

❤️

[@jeanettekvinlaug2772]

Me too. And either a slow one or a combination of fast speed and slow.

[@SparrowStockwell]

Karen, you are funny and fun. “Life’s little hot spot right there in front of the trash.” Pointing out the messes on the floor! And the towel scooching! Yep! You are real, and we like that.

[@ThisMainerMom]

😘

[@pandapeek55]

I still use a dishpan with a quarter sized dollop of soap in the pan. I only use my dishwasher for air drying dishes 😂

[@ThisMainerMom]

🤣

[@deannamerritt493]

I like videos without music. I prefer to listen to you chatting. I do understand the music when you want to speed the videos up. However I did enjoy the music you played today when wiping down the stove area.

[@ThisMainerMom]

🙌

[@saltandpepper9389]

Me too ❤

[@DistanceTraveled]

Your standard conversation with the body image vs "home image" is so good

[@helenelindholm656]

I like both chatty and music. Take care ❤

[@christinaruiz4183]

I put my tupperware in a small basket or bin. Then it slides in and out of the cabinet easily without the lids falling out.

[@crystalbuchmeier9421]

Why do you leave the water running? So much water wasted. You encouraged me to clean my microwave both inside and outside. Also, cleaning the dust off the kitchen vent, the light over our dining room table and some kitchen cabinets. Thanks for your words about going at your pace. So true. Love the cat jumping onto the counter, onto the microwave and then up on the refrigerator. Then shortly afterwards the cat jumping back down onto the microwave. 😅❤

[@ThisMainerMom]

One thing to understand is that my water comes from an underground spring. It doesn’t run out and it doesn’t take water from anyone else. I am glad you were encouraged! 😃

[@crystalbuchmeier9421]

We live in a city and pay for all the water we use. We try to conserve water to save money. Glad you don’t have to worry about that.

[@ThisMainerMom]

True! Our water is free and very good for drinking as well!

[@moniquefuselier7711]

I prefer the mix of music and you chatting with us. Leo the flying cat!!! The kitchen looked amazing!

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thank you!

[@jessicaquiroz7178]

I always keep stuff for breakfast type dinners when funds are low. Who doesn’t love pancakes and bacon or sausage patties and eggs. Or, eggs and biscuits with sausage gravy. Btw, I keep these items on hand. I don’t go out and buy them when I don’t have the money. I also keep fish in the freezer. We will have fish, wild rice (also kept on hand) and salad. I’ve found keeping certain items on hand helps keep my grocery budget down cuz I only have to fill in the holes.

[@notjustapw]

Ta-Da is a great motivator!

[@Joy-zp5lv]

Kitchen is looking fab! Well done. My ta da list today: I was at work, on my way home: quick run to the store, came back around 2, made myself a nice lunch, watchend a little KZbin video while having my coffee, worked in my totaly crazy garden, cleaned the kitchen and prepared my over night oats for breakfast and made dinner for myself all while watching your video, had dinner .. all is left for today: my workout and I need to wash my hair. I´m looking forward to bed time. 😅 Hugs!

[@elizabeth75000]

Leo jumping through your camera shot from the island to the microwave to the top of the fridge!

[@ThisMainerMom]

Getting his bird’s eye view!! 🤣

[@ashleydonohoe7941]

The cats are like I am not cleaning.

[@ThisMainerMom]

Haha totally…

[@KlingonPrincess]

My cat "helped" me fold my shopping bags by hiding out in the one I use to corral them. She's also been "helping" me iron today by laying on the ironing board. 😁

[@sharonwengler3225]

I power washed our fence, deck and house this week. So this weekend, in this insane NY heat I am chilling and watching your great video!

[@sharonwest1602]

Thank You Mainer Mom in 80’s imagine watching another mom in the Kitchen washing her dishes I like this topic you are talking about ( it helps you to feel like you are not the only one in the world my outlet in the 80’s was talking all morning with my friend while the kids tore up the house this friend of my could really talk and make me laugh 🤣 ) Now I enjoy watching you Karen I still can not imagine watching another mom in here home during her housework I like the topic of meal planning making do with what you have I like channel old recipes of 30’40’s 50’ 60’s

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thanks Sharon! 😃

[@FoxyOxymoron]

Looks great Karen, I need to vacuum my house and scrub my floor desparately.

[@ThisMainerMom]

I love to vacuum but have to put a video in my ears to scrub!

[@sharonstratton1987]

When I was a kid we filled the sink but after i moved to Spain everyone washed dishes individually and I’ve done it like that ever since. There was cabinet above the sink with drying racks so dishes air dry. Way better than drying them with a dish towel

[@bethstratton3391]

I love how it was a really chatty video today and I enjoyed folding my laundry whilst watching. You got a lot cleaned in your kitchen. It was nice that you had time to clean your floors too. My Ta Da list today was cleaning the bathroom, doing one load of laundry, finishing the book I was reading and cooking a chicken spinach curry for dinner. I had to rest all afternoon and evening because my CFS is bad at the moment. It has been really hot in London and we don’t have ac units, only fans to keep us cool. Anyway, it was sweet watching Leo because he always make me smile.

[@ThisMainerMom]

I am so glad you liked the chatty-ness!! I pray your CFS gets better! I am sure cleaning the bathroom was extra tough! ❤️

[@carrie3206]

Wow! What a difference! Great job Karen! 😊

[@lauravasquez169]

I have 2 sinks. I use the smaller size to plug and wash the dishes. The other side I use to rinse. I put the dishes on the top rack of the dishwasher to drip. I dry them by hand and wipe the water on the door with the drying towel. I am a list person. ❤

[@catherinetweats8050]

I enjoy chatting as I can work alongside you but still follow what you are doing. During my domestic science lessons (cooking) we were taught the order for washing the dishes - glassware, cups, cutlery, plates, serving ware and finally pans ie cleanest to grossest and this reduces the debris in the washing up bowl. In the UK we have always used a full bowl of water, not a running tap for dishes. I think it's a throwback to when you had to heat water on the stove in the days before piped hot water.

[@ThisMainerMom]

I prefer this in a video I watch too! Love that you learned the best way to keep dishwater clean! A great lesson!

[@DistanceTraveled]

I unconsciously use this order for washing dishes, and my boyfriend thinks I'm a bit crazy for doing it. Lol However, he hates doing the cups and the silverware due to the size and relation to mouths, but to each their own.

[@tammycrookshanks4112]

Chatty please!!♥️

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thanks! 😃

[@SparrowStockwell]

I like chatty, but I always like your music choices, too. So I’m fine with music, too.

[@DistanceTraveled]

Great work on the kitchen!

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thank you!

[@FoxyOxymoron]

Hey Karen, If you plant that green onion in a little bit of soil and leave it there, it will retain nutrients. The plant will regrow in water, however the root will eventually become not nutritionally dense due to water growing.

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thank you, I will! 😃

[@FoxyOxymoron]

@@ThisMainerMom honesetly, I just stick it in with another plant somewhere and at times I will have a bunch.

[@paulawhite5157]

Enjoyed...now I'm off to finish up my kitchen. Love you

[@ThisMainerMom]

Love you too! ❤️

[@chriswilhelm1374]

I like doing Ta Da! Lists!

[@SparrowStockwell]

I love the white Dove soap bars, too.

[@sarahbryant6391]

Leo woozy lol.

[@gail7932]

Lids are like socks they just disappear 😂

[@DistanceTraveled]

I like mixing instrumental music when you aren't chatty with you being chatty. If you have a conversation thought, please share all of the beans! But if it isnt much, rhen just watching you with the instrumental nusic is peaceful.

[@lakequeen64]

Hi Karen,you always do such a good job and love all your advice,So glad your always there for me.Thank you so much!❤

[@ThisMainerMom]

Big hugs!!

[@FoxyOxymoron]

Hey Karen, it does not remove the stainless, for the power paste. It just removes the oxidation that forms on it. so you are good to go.

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thank you! Super helpful!! 😃

[@FoxyOxymoron]

@@ThisMainerMom not a problem. I learned that from Aurikattarina. I think I spelled her name right. She cleans people's home for free who are dealing with mental illness, or are elderly and can't clean.

[@DeeDee-co3lx]

Cute home I also love plants the cat is so cute on the microwave

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thanks! Never a boring moment with Leo around! 😃

[@lisahumlicektaylor2682]

Did you shake the pledge? If not, the wax may be clogging the nozzle. I grew up with pledge also. As the youngest, I was the one to do all the table legs. 😢

[@ThisMainerMom]

Woops I did not! I hate cleaning chair legs!!

[@CynthiaMiller-cc3qj]

Of course the plumber says the best way to get the drains clear is for him to roto rooter everything.

[@ThisMainerMom]

Of course!! 😂

[@berniv-l6548]

Love your encouragement & hard work ps- i use microfiber cleaning cloths from costco just love them💕

[@SparrowStockwell]

Karen, are you going to just spray paint the pine cones? Like with a dusting of white and/or silver? I like that idea. It seems to me you mentioned people either bleaching or painting them.

[@ThisMainerMom]

I bleached them and I am first going to try brush painting. Soon hopefully and you will see it! 😃

[@gail7932]

I still use a dish pan and dish rack

[@jeannebowes2898]

Two daughters at home? Did a Goodwill drop off since close by. A contractor bag was from my son ‘s. More will go out next week. Gardened a bit , now taking a nap with the cat.

[@ThisMainerMom]

3, I have 4 daughters and 3 sons!

[@jeanettekvinlaug2772]

❤

[@lisaann6267]

well, I dont have a full size sink. everything is washed in bathroom sink. so i stack smallest to largest, put a squirt of dish soap, fill with scalding hot till just covers top dish. let set till it cools off. then drain, scrub each with wet sponge. rinse. in total about 20 minutes. P.S. i let air dry unless i need right now.

[@samiRobinson-x1s]

I understand how you feel about your knee because I have a bad knee & bad shoulder on the right side of my body. But, my knee & shoulder doctor thinks it's either because of my Generalized Seizures (Epilepsy) or a very good possibility of EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome). Which, is a Chronic Genetic Disorder, that makes your body detearate very rapidly or very slowly depending on the person. Also, it starts to show more towards adolescent age of life. So, I get lots of aches and pains because, ligaments, and tendons of my joints would kink up. Which, is a symptom of EDS!!!! 😭😭😭😭

[@laurawood4476]

Oh how i remember those days of teenagers and jobs and one car ! Craziness ! Haha

[@lorikmet8313]

What brand of steamer do you use?

[@carolynoquinn4573]

I could stand some inside work, am not a Gardener type!

[@angelicajones3958]

Why don't you use a wash cloth in the kitchen instead of going through so many paper towels? I wipe down our kitchen counters, stove, and kitchen table with a wash cloth that I can rinse out and put soap on it if I need to.

[@ThisMainerMom]

Cat hair…

[@carolynoquinn4573]

NO Music for me, thanks! I'm so over Epidemic Sound!

[@ThisMainerMom]

I have to admit…it gets repetitive!

[@CynthiaMiller-cc3qj]

I would prefer a chatty video over that same old music. Also, shocker, my plumber told me that Drano is terrible for your pipes. Who knew?

[@ThisMainerMom]

Thanks for the feedback! Did your plumber say what would be better?

[@carolynoquinn4573]

Is Ivon saving for a car???

[@ThisMainerMom]

Yes! She has a car but it has some big issues and isn’t worth fixing. So she is saving. She has a part time job and is job hunting for a full time job.

[@lisakay47]

More talking 😄

[@ThisMainerMom]

🙌

[@simplyfreedom171]

Our Target lost power to their freezers, some fridge items last week...its still not fixed and restocked. So much waste. Three ads in eight minutes. Sorry can't keep watching...

[@ThisMainerMom]

So sad they lost all that! I’m so sorry for the ads! Please skip them all!

[@kittybeijer7982]

❤