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How to Do a Long Family Road Trip with Kids and Not Go Insane

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If you are planning a cross-country road trip with kids, you will love these tips for long road trips with kids! I polled others who have done it and asked for their best advice for even month-long road trips with toddlers and children. Every three years or so, my family packed up and headed West to visit family in the summertime for a big ...

20 Toddler Road Trip Activities and Games that Will Keep Everyone Happy

Great list of toddler road trip activities and toddler road trip games! These are the perfect road trip ideas with toddlers in order to keep them entertained and happy on a long road trip. As a family, we have taken many 4-hour road trips to Dallas to go and visit my husband's family. We have also driven to South Padre Island a time or two ...

Free Printable Road Trip Car Checklist to Prepare for a Long Road Trip

Want to know how to prepare car for a road trip with a road trip car checklist? Then be sure to read all the great car tips for road trips below and download your free printable car checklist for road trip below. We want to help you get your car ready for a road trip by sharing all the car maintenance before long road trip tips and other prep that ...

How to Clean Chrome Rims at Home & Even Remove Rust!

Want to learn how to clean chrome rims? This is possibly the best way to clean tire rims because you can do it at home and it will even clean up chrome rims with rust! This post is sponsored by Bar Keepers Friend, but all opinions are my own. My husband really like a clean car. He grew up with cars as his father bought and restored old Porsches ...

How to Get Rid of Vomit Smell in Car with Only 1 Product

This post on how to get rid of vomit smell in a car was sponsored by EnviroKlenz. All opinions are my own. I still remember the first time my husband and I went to visit my parents after we got married. We had moved to Indiana a year before and wanted to trek up to Wisconsin to visit them for Christmas with our 20-month-old twin ...

What Texas Moms Need to Know about Auto Insurance

This post is sponsored. All opinions are my own. Recently my husband and I have taken an audit of sorts of some of our recurring payments, looking for ways we can decrease our payments for various bills like phone, internet, and insurance. We managed to save $10/month on our rental unit cost after we submitted proof of our renter's insurance, ...

How to Wash Your Car in an Apartment Yourself Without a Hose!

This is a sponsored post by Armor All. All opinions are my own. Here's how to wash car in apartment without water! As a child, I loved washing my father's semi truck. It took a long time to clean, and I had to do right or I'd have to do it again, but when I was done I felt a sense of pride as my father paid me $20 for washing his truck for him. ...

25 Genius Steam Cleaner Uses

A steam cleaner uses only water to clean a variety of things inside and outside your home. I recently received a Dupray ONE Plus Steam Cleaner and enjoy how great it is at cleaning a host of different tough-to-clean areas. But, not only does a steam cleaner clean without chemicals, but it also disinfects, sanitizes, and deodorizes! Check out all ...

How to Prep Your Vehicle for a New Baby Like A Pro

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of PERK for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Oh my word. Can you believe I have less than a month now until baby number four arrives?! With another babe on the way, I'm trying my best to finish up some last minute checklists and prep for the new baby, or what many would call nesting. And one ...

Protect Your Kids (and Your Car!) by KidProofing Your Vehicle

Buying a car is usually costly, no matter if it is used or not. And most of us would like to see our cars last a long time, in every way possible. However, many of us tote around little mess makers, I mean, children, with us, who do not know how expensive the car's interior is, nor that the bottom of their muddy shoes will leave a mark on the ...

Child Car Seat BeltLock – No more undone seatbelts!

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial. Child car seats are one of those unspoken daily pains for a lot of parents. Kids don't like them, so subsequently, we, the parents, don't like them. Our twins have fought us getting buckled into them. They've taken their shoulders out of the straps, unbuckled the top clips, and protested ...