Have you ever questioned how often you should be cleaning your bedsheets? If so, this cleaning guide outlines a few tips, tricks, and facts on the typical cleaning frequency required for everyday items.

Reduce watering, stop fertilizing, move them into the light and more

Winter can be one of the easiest times to accidentally kill your houseplants. Lower light levels, dry air and temperature fluctuations with indoor heat can all create challenging growing conditions. Without switching up your care routine, your best intentions — such as keeping the soil moist — can cause houseplants to decline or give up altogether. These eight tips can help you change up your care routine over winter and set up your houseplants to thrive until spring.

After organizing your everyday items, plan specialized stations to make kitchen work easier

In Part 1 of this series on organizing your kitchen, I offered 10 steps to organizing your kitchen cabinets, putting the focus on everyday dishes and glassware, barware, and vases and pitchers. If you followed at least the first seven of those steps, your cabinets are now so organized, it makes you happy every time you open their doors.

Those same steps can be applied to organizing your more specialized kitchen storage areas. Read on for tips on organizing your pots and pans; your coffee, tea and baking supplies; your spices and oils; your cleaning supplies and your gadget-charging stations.