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A Cure for the Common Cold MITE Be
While dust mites can't really hurt you, they can make your life miserable if you have allergies or respiratory ailments.
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A Dent in Your Furniture?
Whereas gouges must be filled with wood or putty, dents can be repaired by "steaming out."
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Alka Seltzer: Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz
To clean a toilet, drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets, wait 20 minutes, brush and flush.
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Alka Seltzer: Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz
To clean a toilet, drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets, wait 20 minutes, brush and flush.
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Annual Holiday Toast
It's a week before Christmas, and soon, "you know who" will be up "On the House!"
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Baking Soda Bonanza
The deodorizing ability of baking soda in powder form for cars is legendary!
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Ball-point Disasters
With ink stains time works against you; have solutions handy before accidents happen.
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Ball-point Disasters
With ink stains time works against you; have solutions handy before accidents happen.
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Better Vacuuming
Hate noise? Allergic to dust? Get a built-in vacuum.
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Bulk Glass Cleaner
Have oodles of window cleaner for a lot less that you're paying now.
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Bumper Sticker Removal
Try heating an old bumper sticker with a hair dryer for a minute or two. It should peel right off.
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Burning Candles at Both Ends
Candle wax is a pain to get out when it drips onto your carpet.
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Candle Wax Clean-ups
Candle glow is warm, festive and romantic, but candle wax is a pain to get out when it drips onto your carpet.
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Candle Wax Drips and Tips
Has melted candle wax dripped onto your carpet? How to fix those drips?
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Carbonate Heaven
One-hundred-percent-pure sodium carbonate can be purchased in a pool-supply store under the name of soda ash.
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Carpet-stain Removal Guide
Tips that will keep your carpeting looking new!
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Carpets Need Sprucing Up for the Holidays?
Follow these steps for more professional carpet-cleaning results.
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Chewing Gum on Carpets
How to undo a really tough "sticky" situation.
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Clean Good Wood to a "T"
The tannic acid found in tea can clean wood.
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Clean Window Secrets & Tips
A Winter Window Cleaner...
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Cleaning - Better Safe Than Sorry
Sometimes kinder, gentler cleaners are in order.
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Cleaning a Hardwood Floor
Wood and water do not mix!
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Cleaning a Pan Bottom
Black cruddy buildup bites the dust!
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Cleaning Bathroom Mildew
Our solution will be your solution to bathroom mildew!
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Cleaning Cotton Stains
Lipstick stains aren’t so tough to get out anymore, especially on white cotton.
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Cleaning Fiberglass Tubs and Showers
To whip up a special batch of our famous salt-and-turpentine cleaner, take 1-quarter cup turpentine and add 2 to 3 tablespoons of table salt.
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Cleaning Grease Off Suede
How to get grease off suede the inexpensive and easy way!
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Cleaning Grease Stains Off of Concrete
Another function for cat litter.
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Cleaning Grout -- Peroxide vs. Bleach
There's no need for costly specialty cleaners for grout sprucing-up.
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Cleaning Hardwood Floors
Mopping hardwood floors with water is a mistake.
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Cleaning high-heat glass
How to clean a fireplace door (and windows in ovens, barbecues and more)?
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Cleaning Marble Made Easy and Cheap!
Our fruit-juicy cleaner really works.
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Cleaning Marble Stains
Stained marble? Don't distress: here's the way to clean the mess!
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Cleaning Mildew
Anywhere you have moisture without sunlight and/or ventilation you, sooner or later, will have mildew. Here's our secret formula to rid yourself of it!
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Cleaning Soap Scum
Cleaning nasty soap scum easily can be done by applying hot white vinegar.
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Cleaning Stained Baby Bottles
Make your baby bottle bright and shiny -- in short order!
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Cleaning Stained White Cotton
A tip for cleaning stained white cotton that you really are going to love.
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Cleaning Tips for a Fiberglass Tub or Shower
Salt and turpentine will do the trick!
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Cleaning Tips for Copper and Rust
Copper pots can be a homemaker's worst enemy.
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Cleaning Tips for Spring
Carpets smell a little musty? Sprinkle them with baking soda.
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Cleaning-Up Pet Stains
Un-dooing doggie doo.
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Clogged Shower Head
Bag it with vinegar!
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Cola Cleaning ? "It's the Real Thing"
What to do with a cold one before drinking it.
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Cold-weather Window Cleaner
When it's warm outside, a little white vinegar or 2 tablespoons of alcohol in 16 ounces of warm water will get windows clean.
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Common Household Items Safer for Cleaning
The perfect solution: Play it safe.
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Copper, the Great Conductor
Cover your copper cookware with a thin layer of vinegar and a layer of good old-fashioned table salt.
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Cow Milk and Lipstick?
How to save white cotton on which lipstick you've gotten!
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Degreasing for Father's Day
Cat litter and cola in combination are great grease-cutters!
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Down and Dirty Carpet Blues?
What to do when your new carpet looks like a military drop zone.
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Drag(A-Mag)net
Got an old stereo speaker just lying around?
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Dust-buster Catch Bag
How to make a disposable dust-buster catch bag that will fine dust from messing up your home.
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Erasing Mistakes of All Kinds
The countless uses of rubber erasers.
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Fabric Care Symbols
New shapes and symbols make it easy to clean, if you know what they mean.
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Fighting Black and Blue
What to do when ink is everywhere!
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Fixing Furniture Scratches
Furniture scratches can drive you nuts.
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Floor Cleaning Update
Cleaning for Father's Day? With floors, there's something you shouldn't do any more.
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Formula For Mildew Cleaning Solution
Although our mildew-elimination formula is relatively safe, take all safety precautions.
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Formula To Clean Tubs and Showers
What to do when your tub or shower needs a cleaning more than you do.
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Garage Beautification Month
It’s time to spruce up the most abused room of the house.
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Gooey/Slippery Floor Mess
Raw eggs? Cooking oil? Clean-up a gooey, slippery mess in one easy step.
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Got a Dirty Coffee Maker?
Avoid apprehension by dirty-dishes police!
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Graffiti removal
How to remove it all when unwanted handwriting is on the wall?
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Handy Metal Cleaners
Tarnished brass? Copper all orange, blue and green? Bring back the sheen!
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Happy (Tree) Trails To You
Don't let Christmas-tree cleanup needle you!
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Happy (Tree) Trails To You
Don't let Christmas-tree cleanup needle you!
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Holy Shop Vacs!
Wet-dry shop vacuums are handy and nice to have.
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Homegrown Fine-Furniture Polish
A formula you can create with ingredients that will clean, moisturize and shine fine wood furniture.
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House Pressure Wash
Does your house need repainting? Perhaps a pressure wash will do instead.
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How To Clean Vinyl Siding
A soft cloth or a long-handled, soft-bristle brush might come in handy for cleaning vinyl siding.
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How to Remove Candle Wax From Your Carpeting
One sure way we have found to remove wax from carpeting is with a brown paper sack and hot clothes iron.
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Ink Stain Day?
Do you have an ink-ling on how to get out certain stains?
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Ink Stain Removal
How bar soap and hairspray... makes messy boo-boos just go away!
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Ink Stains
Since ink is made of oil and dye, quick action and special solutions are needed to remove stains.
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Iron Not Steaming? How to Clean
Got a steam iron that fizzles and sputters, spits water instead of blasting out wrinkles? Today we’ll tell you how to unclog your iron when it’s getting you steamed!
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Kiddie Hieroglyphics Eraser
"Who ya gonna call?" when the handwriting is on the wall!
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Kitchen and Bath Cleaning Tips
Rid your home of unwanted visitors such as tarnish and rust.
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Kitchen and Bath Cleaning Tips
Copper tarnishes and isn't easy to clean --unless you know this secret.
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Kitchen Splatter Solution
New tools for time-crunched cooks on the go.
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Lemon-aid for Rust Stains
A lemon will cut rust on concrete!
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Many Ways to Use Baking Soda
Flushing 1 cup of baking soda down the toilet once a week will keep the septic tank clear.
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Melted-On Plastic Wrappers
Got a plastic wrapper melt-down? Don't frown... here's clean-up know-how!
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Mildew Cleaning Solution
When tile grout and moisture get together, a science experiment begins as your pretty white grout starts getting small black patches.
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Mildew Cleaning Tips
How to clean mildew from any washable or painted surface.
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Mini-Blinds I: Maintenance
Mini-blind cleaning and maintenance tips.
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Mission: Hard-water Stains
Grime fighter!
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Neutroleum Alpha Eats Odors
Calling Uncle Sam.
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Non-toxic Cleanups
Clean everything from bath to kitchen with natural "simple fixin's."
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Nuts to Furniture Scratches
The meat of a pecan can rub out a furniture scratch!
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On the Flip Side, Rubber Erasers
There are countless uses for rubber erasers.
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On the Flip Side, Rubber Erasers
There are countless uses for rubber erasers.
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Oven and Grill Cleanup
To clean oven racks and barbecue grills, put them in a plastic trash bag with ammonia, seal it with a twist-tie and let then soak overnight.
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Ovens that self-clean
Why you shouldn't help when an oven is designed to clean itself.
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Parties, Football and Carpets
Having a big party at your place this weekend? The gang’ll be watching football, too? Friends, family, kids, dogs, popcorn, beer, wine, touchdown! Soon your carpet will look like a stadium parking lot.
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Pick-up tips for small metal items
Picking up small washers, nuts or bolts? Or cleaning up metal filings off the floor? Today you’ll learn how a magnetic personality makes picking up easy!
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Plastic Bag Clutter
Learn how to keep plastic bags of all types and size under control.
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Plastic Bag Clutter
If a growing pile of plastic bags is turning your place into another Chez Sanford, here’s what you do.
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Pressure Washers
If you frequently rent a pressure washer you might find it more economical to buy one.
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Red Wine on Light Carpet
What to do when someone spills red wine.
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Removing and Preventing Rust
Making rusty items look bright and shiny again -- and keeping them looking that way -- is easier than you think.
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Removing Hard-Water Stains
Our formulas for combatting hard-water marks.
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Removing Hard-water Stains
Sodium carbonate is the base for many cleaners and is the main ingredient in washing soda.
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Removing Lipstick Stains from Cotton
Don't use this formula on anything but white cotton.
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Removing White Rings on Furniture
Don't put that mayo back in the refrigerator just yet!
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Removing White Rings On Furniture
Mayonnaise is not for sandwiches alone!
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Removing White Rings on Furniture
Sooner or later, somebody is going to set a wet glass on your fine furniture and leave it there long enough to create a nasty white ring.
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Rub That Rust Right Out of Your Pan
You'll need a lemon, salt and a bit of olive oil.
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Rust-busters
To clean rusty nuts, bolts and screws, soak them overnight in a cola soft drink.
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Rust-busters
To clean rusty nuts, bolts and screws, soak them overnight in a cola soft drink.
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Scrubbin' (Cola) Bubbles
Things get cleaner with Coke!
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Shadows ? Good and Bad
Our formula for fighting mildew is simple but effective.
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Shoe-cleaner Tips
Cement plus shovel plus scrub brush equals clean shoes!
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Shoe-cleaner Tips
Astronauts and homeowners have the same problem, whether strolling around tranquility base or just coming in from the backyard. To solve it, make a boot scraper by digging a foot square hole near your door.
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Shower Door "Show" Time
Simple cleaning tricks to make your shower doors more "see"worthy!
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Showerhead Maintenance
Unclogging showerheads is a snap!
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Slick Ideas for Polishing Furniture
Wrap waxing cloths around a brick and let gravity help ease the burden of beautifying fine furniture.
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Slick Ideas for Polishing Furniture
Wrap waxing cloths around a brick and let gravity help ease the burden of beautifying fine furniture.
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Smart Shoe Cleaners
Cement, a shovel and a scrub brush, to boot, will get your muddy shoes clean!
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Soap Scum Remedies
Scrub bath and shower scum with hot white vinegar. Salt and turpentine or kerosene works well, too.
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Soap Scum Undone
Here's how to make soap scum all gone with a spritz that works like a magic wand!
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Spring Cleaning
A clean home is a happy home!
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Spring Cleaning Credo
Ask not what your home can do for you, ask what you can do to make it better.
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Spring Cleaning Garage Sale
Sell as the pros do!
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Spring Cleaning Overhead
When was the last time you cleaned your ceilings?
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Spring Cleaning Overhead
When was the last time you cleaned your ceilings?
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Sprucing Up Your Bathtub
A long-lasting answer to chipped bathtubs has emerged: the one-piece acrylic tub liner bonded with special adhesive.
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Stains on Marble
Marble's tough, right? Wrong! It's easily stained, but CAN be cleaned... sometimes.
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Super Ceiling Stain Solution
For ceiling stains, mix 1-half cup of household bleach in 1 quart of warm water and pour some into a spray bottle. Then spritz your stain away!
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Super-Clean Carpet Bowl
Practice the dab-and-blot play!
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Super-clean Shoes
The old shovel-and-scrub brush trick will keep your boots (and floors) clean!
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Super-stain Monday
Got a Super Bowl party mess? Here are clean-up tricks that passed our test!
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Tang the Dang Dishwasher
Try putting Tang in your dishwasher to clean it.
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Tang the Dang Dishwasher!
Citric acid is good for cleaning a dishwasher.
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The Universal Solvent
Water, water -- everywhere!
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Things Go Better with Salt
While too much salt isn't good for you, there are lots of things around the house it is very good for.
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Tin Can-Do Recycling Ideas
Recycling your tin cans.
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Tips From the Salt Mines
One of the many uses of salt: Table salt sprinkled on a cutting board and rubbed with lemon removes stains.
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Up, Up and Throw Away
Hate to clean high-up things? Here's how to accomplish this chore with ease.
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Water Damage Mold
How to clean up and check to prevent mold from getting a hold.
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Water Marks on Furniture
Mayonnaise and pecans are not just for eating!
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Window Washing Follow-Up
Streaks inside or out? You'll know if you 'cross 'em' when you wash 'em!
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Window washing tips
How to get the job done with a 'sparkling clean' second to none.
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Wood-handled Tools
In the world of wood-handled tools there are two golden rules.
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Wood-handled Tools
In the world of wood-handled tools there are two golden rules.
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