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Four Clever Bathroom Storage Solutions

May 17, 2013
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I have been on the hunt for clever bathroom storage solutions. You see, Last month as I was Spring Cleaning our bathroom, I realized what was once an over-abundance of storage has become inadequate and cramped. Okay, so I have a makeup and haircare product addiction, as well as an aversion to throwing away such [...]

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How To Clean A Shower Head And Why You Should

February 27, 2013
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We’ve already gone over how to remove mold and mildew from the shower curtain and stall, but did you realize that shower heads accumulate mold and mildew, too? It’s true! In fact, a third of shower heads tested by researchers were found to contain a bacteria associated with pulmonary disease. Dirty shower heads are also [...]

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How To Get Rid Of And Prevent Shower Mold And Mildew

January 11, 2013

Fewer places in the home are as mold and mildew-friendly as the bathroom. Combine a small, usually windowless, space with moisture and warmth and you’ve got the perfect breeding ground for that nasty stuff. If you’ve got allergy sufferers or people with compromised immune systems in your home, you already know the dangers of that [...]

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How To Clean Stinky Drains

November 14, 2012

Living with two males and two (male) cats, I wind up playing “What’s That Smell?” far more often than I like. Most of the time, I can trace the source of the stench back to one of the males. Most of the time… but sometimes the source is a nasty sink drain. Fortunately, smelly drains [...]

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Ten Germy, Filthy Places In Your House (and how to clean them)

September 10, 2012

With my husband starting radiation and chemotherapy for brain cancer soon, his immune system will be virtually nonexistent the entire time. I was given a stack of pamphlets, booklets and instruction manuals about how to clean house for someone so susceptible to infections. “Yeah, got it,” I figured, “I’m kind of a clean freak already, [...]

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