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Carpet Cleaning
Keep Carpet Like New - Take the Right Steps
These tips can help you keep your carpet looking newer, longer - saving time and money.
Money Saving
Financial Housekeeping - Recession Survival Tips
Financial advice from personal finance guru Suze Orman, and the IEHA.
Spring Cleaning
Redefining Spring Cleaning
Is spring cleaning obsolete? Here's a new definition.
Organizing Strategies
13 Ideas to Control Household Clutter
A baker's dozen ideas for getting control of clutter.
Healthcare
RID's 15 Steps You Can Take to Reduce Your Risk of a Hospital Infection
Most of us will have to go into the hospital some day. Here are specific steps you can follow to protect yourself from hospital infections.
Plants
Six Houseplants You Can't Kill
So you want houseplants - but you don't have a green thumb? No problem!
Organizing Strategies
Organizing Your Kid’s Room
Your child can organize. Here is how.
Laundry
Airing Dirty Laundry Issues
A 1999 University of Arizona study found 25% of home washing machines were contaminated with fecal bacteria. Several factors were implicated in contributing to the contamination of the washers.
Vacuum Cleaners
Key to a Clean Carpet: Use a CRI-Certified Vacuum
There is one simple step to improving the cleanliness of your carpet and the indoor air quality in your home: regular vacuuming with a CRI-certified machine.
Motivation
Wondering What Your Cleaning Style Is? Take the Quiz
Find out about your cleaning style, and take steps to improve your housekeeping.
IICRC
Pets & People: Protecting Your Carpet
The United States is home to some 68 million dog owners and 73 million cat owners, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association. That’s a lot of love—and a lot of carpet stains. Accidents on carpet require quick cleanup to remove bacteria and odor.
Carpet Cleaning
Q and A - Exploring Myths About Carpet
Few flooring materials have generated more vigorous discussion than carpet. Why? Many people misunderstand its maintenance requirements or assume that carpet is just an unhealthy product. This Q&A dispels common myths about carpet.
Organizing Strategies
Organize Your Cleaning Supplies 1-2-3
The only tools and products you need are the ones you use, and organizing your cleaning supplies will make it easier to find what you need.
Spring Cleaning
Jump Start Your Spring Cleaning
Zero in on one project at a time and schedule cleaning in 15- to 30-minute increments
Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning: No Longer a Necessary Evil
While spring cleaning is not the necessary evil it once was, now is still a good time to do those annual or semi-annual chores.
Organizing Strategies
Six Ways it Pays to Get Organized!
Save hundreds of dollars a year by getting organized.
Cleaning Tips
10 Tips to Keep Housework from Ruling Your Life
Tara Aronson provides 10 easy steps to simplify housekeeping.
Motivation
Getting the Kids to Help Clean
Three successful strategies.
Professional Carpet Cleaning
CRI Makes Cleaning Service Seal of Approval More Consumer Friendly
Expanded program requires carpet cleaning companies to uphold principles of customer service and satisfaction, and to comply with a professional code of conduct.
Organizing Strategies
Simplify Summer in Five Easy Rules
Ground rules for kids and summer.