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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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A Stainless Steel Cleaner That Works
We had purchased and used every stainless steel cleaner on the market and we completely failed at every attempt. We were certain that we weren’t rubbing correctly. “Wipe on – Wipe off.”
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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 Dishwasher
Cleaning a dishwasher is not usually at the very top of our cleaning list. Most of us believe that dishwashers clean themselves.
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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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Gettin out lipstick stains
Lipstick stains aren’t so tough to get out anymore, especially on white cotton.
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Cleaning Your Clothes Washer
Cleaning a clothes washer is about as simple as it gets. All you really have to know is ‘where’ to clean. Bottled- or packaged-cleaners are available from just about all of the companies that manufacturer clothes washers. However, these cleaners are not intended to clean every nook and cranny. After cleaning a washer may continue to remain “stinky.”
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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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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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Rake handle upgrade
In the world of wood-handled tools there are two golden rules.
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Red Wine on Light Carpet
What to do when someone spills red wine.
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Red, White and No Blue (Ink)
How to fight back...when ink turns stuff blue and black!
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Remove Armor All
One of the most popular cleaners for car care is Armor All. It is used to brighten and protect vinyl, rubber and plastic on both the interior and exterior of a vehicle. The company says it works on leather as well, but we disagree.
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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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