Your home is your castle, so keeping it in tip-top shape is important. But with your busy life, it’s easy to let some home maintenance tasks fall by the wayside.

Clare Macnaughton is a modern military mother; a feminist, British military spouse, and lifestyle journalist, writing about real life adventures.
Your home is your castle, so keeping it in tip-top shape is important. But with your busy life, it’s easy to let some home maintenance tasks fall by the wayside.
Looking after a home when you have your partner there is challenging enough. Even with two of you on the job, you need to do a lot of work. But trying to manage a property by yourself when the other person is away is even more difficult. There’s just so much that could go wrong, and so much work that you have to do.