JolieKerr
Jolie Kerr
JolieKerr
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and the host of the podcast Ask a Clean Person

See, I feel like this neatly divides people who can dance and people who can't. People who can't dance have to choose a slow song because you're not going to awkwardly dance with everyone watching you and even the most left-footed among us can fake a slow dance. Read more

We're dancing to Harvest Moon, on a wedding during the harvest moon. He loves Neil Young and I think the song is terribly romantic. Read more

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Not for the bride/groom dance, but for the father/daughter dance, my dad and I did a swing dance to this:

That's an entire wheel of cheese.

My husband and I rented out a Karaoke bar for our reception, and the first duet we did together was "Another One Bites the Dust". Read more

For ultimate cheese, we're dancing to a song I wrote for him/us. Read more

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If you saw the old folks I'm referring to, I doubt "pretentious" is in the first 100 words you'd use to describe them! Read more

Can you write a column some day on how to make my husband help me clean the house in preparation for my whole family coming over? I've dusted and cleaned the bathrooms and I really need some vacuuming. My pointed, longing stares at the closet where the vacuum lives have done nothing. Are there Jedi mind tricks Read more

The second I hit publish, I knew it was wrong. Anyone that knows how to get get blood out of turnip deserves more respect from me when dealing with Aunt Sandy. Please, indulge and enjoy. Read more

Drinking is the only appropriate way to deal with drunk family. Unless you want to bicker with drunk people all day (you don't) the only way to put up with drunks is to join them. Then you're an annoying drunk to the sober ones, so you can't win, but if you lose either way you might as well get drunk. Read more

As a Canadian (who got Thanksgiving out of the way six weeks ago), the best part of US Thanksgiving is easily the promise of a new crop of youtube clips of deep fried turkeys gone horribly wrong... Read more