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#9

2008-04-10T05:39:00.001-07:00

Change the bedding (burn 2,728 calories per year). Although there may be some debate about how often you should change the sheets on your bed, most people think that once every week or two is a good standard. To get in a little more exercise, be sure to make your bed every morning. This way, you'll have a nice bed to slip into every night and you'll also burn 136 calories per hour.

Of course, none of us will take an hour to make the bed (Martha Stewart, notwithstanding), but even at 15 minutes, you've burned enough calories to make up for half a glass of wine.

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Losing Weight and Spring Cleaning

2008-04-08T04:40:00.000-07:00

It's springtime! What better way to chase away the winter blues than to get your blood pumping by doing a bit of spring cleaning. A recent British study showed that the Brits burn over 50,000 calories a year (which adds up to almost 15 pounds of fat) just by cleaning their homes.

Everyday for the next 10 days we're going to post the top 10 highest calorie-burning chores (listed from the lowest to the highest, with the average number of calories burned per year). The good news is that the more you clean, the more calories you'll burn through. And the more body weight you're carrying, the more calories you'll burn. Not only will you get your workout, you'll have a clean house to enjoy afterward. So, get out that vacuum and get cleaning!

So without further adieu here's number 10...

10. Dust and polish (burn 2,288 calories per year). This can be one of the easiest chores to overlook, but since you're doing a deep cleaning, why not get totally into it? You don't even need fancy furniture sprays—just a combination of olive oil and white vinegar. It's like salad dressing for your furniture, only better (combine 1 cup of the oil and a 1/4 cup of white vinegar in a bottle; shake well). Use a soft cloth to work it in and buff out your furniture. You'll not only expend elbow grease (getting a bit of upper-body exercise in), but you'll have naturally shiny furniture. Light dusting burns about 170 calories per hour (assuming a body weight of 150 pounds); with more heavy scrubbing and cleaning, you burn 204 calories per hour.

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2008-04-01T17:25:00.000-07:00

Well it's April 1st and it's the first day of the grand opening!! Starting tonight we're going to begin to post tips on stuff for you home for everyone to read and to learn. These will be cleaning tips or fixer-upper tips on how to better your home. We will be writing these posts every few days and will include videos and pictures if they are applicaple.

Remember with the grand opening of TheIndoorHomeStore.com we will be donating all of the proceeds to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund in San Diego, CA to help out those injured service members who need to receive additional medical treatment from their wounds from serving overseas.

We hope you stick with us and if there's any advice you have for us please let us know.

Thanks!

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Grand Opening!!

2008-03-27T19:29:00.001-07:00

Well, it's just around the corner and we are very excited about the announcement we're about to make!!

It's the Grand Opening of TheIndoorHomeStore.com. The Grand Opening will be held from April 1, 2008 until July 1, 2008. During this time 100% of the proceeds of the grand opening will be donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund which is a non-profit organization which is based out of Camp Pendleton, Ca and works hard to help those service members who have served our country overseas but has not received the proper medical care needed to help them in a difficult time of recovery. To help TheIndoorHomeStore.com in their quest to aid those service members visit...

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for more information on the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund please visit...

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Clean Your House in 19 Minutes!!!

2008-03-13T15:23:00.000-07:00

Well let’s face it, who honestly enjoys cleaning? Who really enjoys the task of transferring dirt and bacteria from your personal belongings and home to your physical body? That's essentially what you do if you've never thought about it. Think about this...after every time you clean don't you have to clean yourself? And the only way to do that right is by the full body rumble-tumble in the shower with a full wet down! Those 2-3 hour sessions on the weekend can easily ruin the weekend plans if you didn't plan to clean your place, unless you like living in a full out bacteria living cesspool! Disgusting!

So here's our advice. It's nothing new, but been taught since maybe the dawn of time. How about cleaning a little each day and even you pick up after yourself and/or your family and kids. Spend a little time each day designating a little area to clean up. Keep track of it on a calendar which can help you out with remembering what and when stuff got cleaned last. Don’t remember the last time you washed your sheets? Ewe! Keep it on a calendar! If you do this, then you'll never have to worry about those nasty 2-3 hours cleaning sessions where you sweat, scrub and transfer that bacteria onto your body.

We ran into a little article by CNN which has great tips for small cleanings throughout the day and doesn't take much time at all!! They say you can clean you house in 19 minutes! So enjoy!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/homestyle/07/27/wlb.rs.clean.plan/index.html

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Welcome!!!

2008-03-11T03:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to TheIndoorHomeStore.com blog!!! We're very excited to have this new feature on our website, and are looking forward to using it often. This blog will be used primarily to help assist you with any new updated news or activity of things that take place in the home. We will post things here on the blog that have to do with the website, such as special promotions as well as more hints and tips on what to do for home cleaning, landscaping, or even fixing up your home to make it look and feel more like a home and not just a house. Please as a patron or customer of TheIndoorHomeStore.com feel free to post your comments about articles/blogs written. Or if you have information of your own which you believe is imperative for people to know, please leave the comment to help out others. We do ask that of course that the comments not be anything obscene/absurd/or rude in language in any way otherwise they will be deleted. Please feel free to have this and use this as a blog for you, where you can get and give new information on anything about the home. Once again welcome to the new place where you can you can get new information on what you need to do to make your home look and feel better for you!!!

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