Maintaining a household is no easy task, but utilizing technology for a smarter home is one way to ease the workload.
Technology for the home is growing at a rapid pace, with new options being introduced to the market daily. While it can seem overwhelming for many of us to understand all of the options and benefits- it’s worth examining your daily routine and finding ways this technology can complement your goal of remaining in your home.
Tech for a Smarter Home
Staying Organized
Have you found retirement to be a busier time in life than you ever imagined? Then you’ll appreciate this tool for helping you keep your to-dos under control. Remember The Milk helps you keep your tasks, social engagements and electronic files organized so you can enjoy peace of mind. You can access this app from your desktop, tablet or mobile device. The app allows you to create lists, assign to-dos to others, and set reminders.
Our Favorite Feature: Works with your smart Google Assist and Alexa enabled devices.
Automate Your Shopping
Your to-do list is overflowing. You’re feeling under the weather. It’s raining cats and dogs. Whether it’s one or all of these circumstances, the last thing you want to run out of is your multi-vitamin, laundry detergent or, heaven forbid, coffee! For these reasons and many more, automating the delivery of your most frequently used household and personal care products just makes sense. With an Amazon Prime subscription, you can easily take this shopping off your agenda.
Amazon’s Subscribe & Save feature allows you to automate home delivery of a large variety of products, set the frequency in which they’ll arrive and your door and skip deliveries when your stockpile is plentiful. So whether it’s fruit bars or furnace filters, you’ll never be without!
Our Favorite Feature: The more items you have delivered the deeper discount on your order you’ll receive!
Keep It Clean
It does not get easier with time to care for your home. Fortunately for us, there are gadgets galore to eliminate the need to spend hours, mopping, wiping and mowing!
The following devices (robots, really) tackle these tasks for us- and all they ask for in return is a charging station at the end of a long, hard day.
There are several options when it comes to keeping your floors clean. These devices can sweep and mop on a schedule of your choosing. While the initial investment may be a bit pricey, you’ll save lots of time and energy to focus on other less mundane tasks. Consumer Reports review some of the best options on the market.
With such clean floors, you’ll want sunlight to filter through your home to show them off. With the help of gadgets like the one seen below you can get your windows smudge-free.
Check out options here so you can stay off the ladder and still let the sunlight in.
If the view from your squeaky clean windows is of your overgrown lawn, there’s help for that too. If you aren’t using a lawn care company to keep your landscaping under control, you may want to check out an automatic mower that takes care of the lawn for you like this one from Husqvarna.
As you make decisions about making your home work for your changing needs, it’s never been more important to work smarter, not harder.
Find other ways to use technology in your home here.
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