Plus you will find:

• A recipe database featuring nutritious and tasty recipes that take just ten minutes to make for under $10 or less to prepare for a family of four.
• Downloadable tools for managing grocery budgets and planning out the week’s meals.
• Expert advice from Hannah Keeley, mother of seven and author or The Total Mom Makeover: The Six Week Plan to Completely Transform Your Home, Health, Family and Life.

Visit the site to learn new tips and be prompted to use the ideas you already know in an encouraging and helpful way.

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Swiffer and Warner Music have teamed up and created a contest called the “Swiffer Break-up Music Video Contest.”

Here’s the best part : The Grand Prize for the contest is $15,000.

Here’s how it works:

Swiffer-lovers can submit a short video to YouTube that demonstrates how they “broke up” with their old cleaning products and now use Swiffer for all their cleaning needs.
If you enter, you receive 10 downloads of “break-up” songs to use in the video (that’s one of the requirements).

The top 10 videos will be posted to YouTube for the general public to cast a vote for their favorite and the video with the most votes wins $15,000.

You can find a complete list of rules, prizes and approved “break-up” songs at the Swiffer brand channel.

Please keep in mind that this contest ends tomorrow, 1/30 so have some fun making your video and you might be a winner!

Last week I was enjoying the Food & Wine Festival at EPCOT and I was struck by something I never noticed in the bathrooms there. Little placards above each sink with the title, “Hand Washing Tips.” Three simple bullets telling you to wet, wash and rinse. I was dumbfounded by both the fact that now my bathroom sinks are advertising spots and that some people lack the basic hygiene to know how to wash their hands!

Cleanliness is an important part of life that we often overlook. How many times do you wash your hands during the day? When was the last time you really deep cleaned the surfaces in your house? Probably not as much as you should, (unless you are lucky and have a maid).

When it comes to the government schools, the majority of children that attend them every day probably are not thinking about the disgusting germs everywhere as much as the cute girl that just started or how to cram for the latest pop quiz the teacher is going to give today. However, due to some diligence by Clorox this should be a bit easier of a job with their “Clean Up The Classroom” campaign.

The campaign focuses on three main areas: Teacher education and interaction, student awareness and parental involvement.

With the kit that comes with it is a bunch of newsletters to send home to parents encouraging them to encourage behaviors like the “Elbow Cough” and the “Sign & Scrub.” It also lists common places people forget to clean around the house, an encouragement to help buy supplies for the classroom (which is sad because the schools should supply all of that but I will keep that can of worms closed for now). It also gives them a web address for more tips and activities for their children.

For the teacher and students there are more activities to do in the form of a very large poster that helps identify the areas of a classroom that are in most need of cleaning. You can put stickers on the posters that have cartoonish drawings of germs and bacteria and say things like “Gross,” “Ick,” and so on. Also there are worksheets, and other things to do that a teach can download from the website for the campaign.

There is also a trio of cartoon characters that have the obligatory naming like “Ella the Elbow Cougher” and “Harry the Handwasher.” While these are not likely to have a multi-billion dollar film trilogy built around them, they do put a face on the campaign albeit a rather generic one.

In the end, the Clean Up The Classroom is a great idea and the kit includes some good activities and resources for all involved including the expected coupons for Clorox cleaning product (although the free stuff for the teacher is a nice touch). While the marketing does not beat you over the head it does make one wonder why an outside company is willing to spend money on a campaign like this. Then again, looking at Mahwah High School making students eat on the floor, it doesn’t seem such a bad move after all.