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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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How To Get Rid Of Smoke Smells and Prep Kitchen Cabinets for Paint (Reader Questions)

July 4, 2012

If you’ve “Liked” the Housewife How To’s Facebook page, you know that I regularly answer reader questions about housekeeping dilemmas. Sometimes, when the questions involve situations many of us may face, they’re best answered in a blog entry. This week’s entry involves two somewhat similar problems: getting rid of the smoke smell in a recently [...]

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Cleaning Routine: Weekly Kitchen Cleaning

June 11, 2012

So, you’ve spring cleaned your kitchen and want to keep it clean with just a few minutes each week. Or maybe you didn’t get to do spring cleaning, but you’d like to get a routine that will keep the Health Department away. Here’s how.

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Spring Cleaning: The Kitchen

April 25, 2012

Some call the kitchen “the heart of the home”… and we all know how important heart health is. If you’ve followed the daily cleaning routine, your kitchen’s probably in pretty good shape already. Now, really revive it with a thorough Spring Cleaning. Here’s how to clean your kitchen until it sparkles. You will need Two [...]

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