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  Article: Be Green and Healthy - At Home And Away

  Finding ways to be more energy efficient and eco-positive isn’t just good for the environment — it can be good for your home, your family and your bottom line.
• Organizing Strategies

  Article: Spring into Action and Stow Away your Winter Wardrobe

  Organize your winter wardrobe to stow away for next year.
• Asthma And Allergies

  Article: Living With Allergies—And Animals

  There is good news for the estimated one in five allergy sufferers who have pets: There are ways you and your pet can live together.
• Spring Cleaning

  Article: Consumer Spring Cleaning Survey Reveals “Dirty” Little Secrets

  Consumers are eager to clean windows, blinds, curtains, clothing, closets & drawers: 72% of households spring clean every year, ACI survey shows.
• Home Improvement

  Article: 10 Consumer Trends in 2013 & Beyond

  10 Key Consumer Trends were announced at the 2013 International Home and Housewares Show.

• Green Cleaning

  Book: Cheaper, Greener, Cleaner: Ceiling to Floor Savings

  Easy-to-follow recipes for inexpensive, homemade cleaners that are better for the environment and for your health.
• Recycling

  Book: Learning to Recycle with Terry the Trashman

  A book designed to introduce kids to the importance of recycling (and their parents too).
• Organizing Strategies

  Book: Pretty Neat - The Buttoned-Up Way to Get Organized and Let Go of Perfection

  Pretty Neat insists that women need to stop holding themselves to impossibly high standards, and focus instead on defining their own, realistic, organizational goals.
• Motivation

  Book: Housework Blues

  How to cope with the mental and emotional challenge of keeping a home.
• Housekeeping

  Book: DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House

  Collection of stories which take a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our personal spaces clean and uncluttered.

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