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How To Store Winter Clothing

March 29, 2013
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When the weather finally starts warming up, it’s tempting to simply toss bulky sweaters into bins in favor of lighter-weight clothes, but taking time to think about how to store winter clothing can save you frustration next year when the temperatures plunge. Personally, I make winter clothing storage part of my closet Spring Cleaning routine [...]

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How To Steam Clean Carpeting

March 20, 2013
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With Spring Cleaning well underway in many homes (but not mine, yet), now’s the time many homemakers wonder how to steam clean carpeting to reduce household dust and odors, remove carpet stains, and get their floor deep-down clean. Obviously, you can go the more-expensive route and hire professional carpet cleaners, but once you know how [...]

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My Five Best Spring Cleaning Tools

March 6, 2013
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For many of us, the slowly warming weather signals the launch of our annual Spring Cleaning routines. If you ask me, sunnier days are a mixed blessing: sure, I love the thought of Spring coming, but all that cleaning? Ugh! That’s why I look to my five best Spring Cleaning tools to make an otherwise [...]

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Bathroom Spring Cleaning Checklist

March 1, 2013
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Using a bathroom spring cleaning checklist can make an otherwise miserable, yucky chore just a little less miserable. Ideally you have a daily cleaning routine that keeps the bathrooms tidy, or at the very least you’re doing weekly bathroom cleanings, right? No? Don’t worry, I fall behind, too. Even though the bathroom is the smallest [...]

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Cleaning Your Closet: A Printable Routine

February 22, 2013

Not long ago, I asked readers on my Facebook page to tell me what household cleaning chores overwhelmed them the most. Many of the answers involved tasks already I’ve already covered on blog entries and with printable cleaning checklists; things like cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms and the kitchen. But Jackie asked if I had a printable [...]

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Spring Cleaning: The Garage

May 10, 2012

I tend to leave cleaning the garage to my husband, and he tends to spend about 2 minutes sweeping then calls it clean. Considering how often we walk through the garage, and how much we store in there, it deserves more attention, like an annual Spring Cleaning.

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Spring Cleaning: The Living Or Family Room

April 30, 2012

Whether you call it the living room or the family room, or have one of each like we do, something about sofas and lounging attract clutter, dust and dirt. Although a daily cleaning routine can keep these areas looking nice, it’s good to give them a thorough going-over once a year. 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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Spring Cleaning: Refrigerator

April 23, 2012

Sure, we all try to clean out our refrigerator regularly, mopping up spills as they happen and discarding obviously outdated food. But Spring Cleaning your fridge isn’t just about getting rid of the nasty stuff (though there is that) — it will also save you money. Here’s how.

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