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I’m very thankful to be working with Shark on this video review.
Hi, guys! In this video, I’m sharing a fun Shark Rocket Powerhead Vacuum review. This vacuum is fantastic and it’s the best lightweight vacuum that we’ve ever owned. I love it!
I hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching! 🙂
You can find the Shark Rocket Powerhead on Amazon using the affiliate link here.
I’m excited to be working in collaboration with Viva® Towels on this sponsored blog post. I truly love the way
the Viva® Vantage® paper towel stretches to scrub everyday messes. 🙂
Paper towels are one of those must-have items in our home.
Why? Well, because my husband, kids, and I use them every single day to cleanup in so many different ways. I know that there are some families out there who can live without paper towels, and to them I’d say the same thing I’d say to families who keep their houses free of absolutely all clutter: more power to you. 🙂
That is not me. I’ve accepted this fact, and I’ve embraced my laid-back, paper-towel-loving, Type B personality in recent years. It’s who I am.
Plus, we’re a homeschooling family of seven, which means we spend a lot of time at home, and we need a good, reliable paper towel to take care of our everyday messes.
Now we’d been using a brand of paper towels that I thought worked just fine, but after attending a fun Viva® Vantage® live event last week, I decided to switch up our normal routine by trying Viva® Vantage® paper towels for seven days to see what I may have been missing with my regular brand of paper towels.
By the way, the event was amazing! I learned about Viva® Vantage®, tried them for myself, ate delicious food, and enjoyed a great time with blogging friends.
I vlogged my experience, and you can check out that video here:
One of the ways I found you can use Viva® Vantage® is as a fruit and vegetable scrubber. It does a fantastic job! At the event, I scrubbed my apple clean so that I could make a homemade caramel apple. 🙂
At home, we’re going to use Viva® Vantage® to scrub our carrots and other veggies. We’ve started juicing again and like to leave the skins on our veggies for added nutrition, so the stretchy-strength of Viva® Vantage® is going to come in handy on juicing days.
Overall, I think Viva® Vantage® paper towels get the job done and beyond. They get a big ‘thumbs up’ from this mom. 🙂
You can experience the stretchy-strength and great scrubbing power of Viva® Vantage®, recently named a 2015 Product of the Year, by printing off a coupon and taking your own 7-Day Switch Up challenge with Viva® Vantage® here.
Then after experiencing Viva® Vantage®, you can revisit the website to talk about your switch and enter for a chance to instantly win a $100 gift card.
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias® and their client. #powerupursmile
I’m the mother of a Type A firstborn son, and the Philips Sonicare PowerUp naturally fits his personality.
Nathan’s Routine
My conscientious firstborn literally brushes his teeth and showers every day around the same time — like clockwork. And if we’re not home during his normal routine time, I can almost guarantee you that the minute we walk through the door of our house, he’s going to jump right back into his routine. My husband and I will turn around and ask each other, “Where’s Nathan?” and then we’ll know because that’s usually followed by the familiar sound of him brushing his teeth in our upstairs bathroom.
Philips Sonicare PowerUp Toothbrush
Nathan has been brushing twice a day with the Sonicare PowerUp toothbrush, and as a result, his teeth are naturally more sparkling than before. I actually noticed that his teeth looked cleaner and shiner from the very first use.
The Sonicare PowerUp is a battery operated toothbrush that does all the work. You guide it over your teeth, and it vibrates and moves to get your teeth cleaner and brighter.
Like Your Dentist’s Office
One of the things I like best about the Sonicare PowerUp is that it deep cleans. It made my teeth look and feel like I’d had them professionally cleaned and the only way I can describe it is that it’s like going to get your teeth cleaned at your dentist’s office. Seriously.
Imagine being able to have that awesome clean feeling all the time and not just twice a year.
Repurposing Nathan’s Old Toothbrush
Since Nathan has made the switch to the PowerUp, he no longer needs his old toothbrush. And instead of tossing it right into the trash, I decided to repurpose it by using it to clean our white kitchen sink, which (as you can tell from the picture) was in desperate need of a cleaning.
Some baking soda, water, elbow grease, and Nathan’s old toothbrush, and we were able to get our brilliant white sink back.
We’ve come a long way when it comes to Toothbrushes
The Sonicare PowerUp is pretty amazing, and it happens to be the right toothbrush for my routine-driven, conscientious, Type A, firstborn son.
Trust me. He would tell me if it wasn’t. 😉
P.S. The Sonicare PowerUp is available at Walmart stores and on Walmart.com. It’s a totally brand new, battery operated toothbrush for under $20.
Want to stay current with Philips Sonicare? Then be sure to follow them on Twitter and Facebook for their latest updates. Oh, and there’s a cool video on their Facebook page showing the evolution of toothbrushes. It might be fun to watch that video with your kids. 🙂
A special thanks to ALL YOU magazine for the fabulous Arm & Hammer Gift Pack & issue of ALL YOU that I received for review purposes and to facilitate a giveaway for my readers.
Today hasn’t been the best day, but it’s slowly starting to get better.
The least of my problems was accidentally leaving a $7.50 package of bacon in the car for 3 hours. The whole wheat BLTs are going to have to wait for another day…and new bacon. The biggest problem of my day, well, I’m not going to mention it here, but it just brought my mood way down. This day started with my plans going out the window, worked up to an unexpected incident coming out of nowhere, and then the bacon thing just sent me over the edge. 😉
I went to grab the bacon to prepare it, so that I could create sandwiches that I was going to share in a later blog post. But the bacon wasn’t in the refrigerator. It was still in the trunk of our car.
Finding My Way Back to Happiness
Anyway, in spite of all of this, I’m starting to feel better, because I’m getting to talk about one of my favorite products today — baking soda!
Specifically, I get to talk about Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and the many ways you can use it in your home. Baking soda is wonderful because of the plethora of ways you can make use of it. You can use it to make homemade air freshener and then you can use it to clean your bathroom.
Just this past weekend, I used it to clean my bathroom counter, and you can see for yourself the terrific result of using Arm & Hammer:
*I’m sparing you the “before” picture. Trust me. It wasn’t pretty.
I used the designer Arm & Hammer shaker for sprinkling baking soda and a damp sponge (or rag) to clean the counter and surprise my husband with shiny bathroom sinks when he got home.
There’s no shortage of ways to use baking soda, and if you’re wondering how else you might use it, there’s even a book with simple recipes and tips for how you can use baking soda more often in your home.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Baking Soda is the most versatile product in your home, and ARM & HAMMER™ is the most recognized brand.
- ARM & HAMMER ™ is the original, enduring household staple, trusted for more than 165 years.
- Baking Soda offers effective cleaning, freshening and deodorizing that’s also natural and gentle.
- Baking Soda is inexpensive and offers environmentally sensible household solutions.
More about Arm & Hammer:
The “magic” power of ARM & HAMMER ™ Baking Soda is that it’s gentle and non-abrasive, but still substantial enough to lift away dirt. And when it comes to odors, think of ARM & HAMMER™ baking Soda as being on the perpetual “search and destroy” mission: it travels to the very source of odors to completely neutralize and eliminate them.
You know that Baking Soda is great for cooking and baking. Now discover more than 100 ways to save time and money with Baking Soda, from cleaning your carpets to getting rid of pet odors, making laundry sparkle, and even enjoying a spa-worthy pedicure.
ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda is a naturally occurring mineral that comes… …from the earth. It’s real scientific name is bicarbonate of soda natural buffer for maintaining PH balance. It naturally deodorizes, cleans & whitens. It’s so safe that you can even bake with it!”
ARM & HAMMER baking soda is probably the one cleaner that really does do it all!
And now for the GIVEAWAY!
ONE very excited reader will win their very own Arm & Hammer Gift Pack! It includes a 5 lb. bag of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, a 101 uses for Baking Soda book, and a designer shaker! How great is that? 🙂
How to enter
Simply enter this giveaway using the Rafflecopter below. I’ve included options for extra entries, too!
This giveaway will run from June 11th – June 18th at 12:00am. The giveaway is open to US Residents only, ages 18 years old and above. The winner will be randomly chosen. I will promptly send the winner an email notifying them that they’ve won, and the winner must respond within 48hrs. of the giveaway’s end, otherwise I will have to draw a new winner.
Enter below!
What’s your favorite way to use baking soda?
