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• Essential Oils: A Cleaning Essential?

  Decide whether cleaning with essential oils is a good fit for your home.

• Motivating the Hired Help

  Getting the most from your outside cleaning service may boil down to your own managing and motivational skills.

• Poisonous Intruders

  An Environmental Protection Agency list of indoor pollutants and solutions that could affect your health.

• Smoke Alarm Savvy

  Choices, choices. With more than one variety ... which will get you and your family out of the house fastest?

• Overcoming a Disorderly Childhood

  Is the past keeping you disorganized?

• Upswing in Spring Cleaning, Says SDA

  More people are Spring Cleaning. Find out how and why.

• For Dummies® — Tips for Cleaning Your Houseplants

  Even the most intricate leaves collect dust.

• The Finer Points of Bed Making

  How to make a bed with upscale hotel flair.

• Consumer Reports Tests Lawn Mowers and Tractors

  Find out Consumer Reports' picks, plus tips for keeping (or making) your lawn beautiful.

• Laundry Help: Pizza In The Maytag

  For frosh, here's a crash course in doing laundry and negotiating with messy roommates.

• Pregnant Women: Beware the Litter Box — and the Garden

  You may not notice should you contract toxoplasmosis, sometimes found in kitty litter and other sources in or around the home. But the parasite is dangerous for your baby.

• Creating a Family Disaster Kit

  Prepare for survival should the worst happen.

• How to Find a Clean and Healthy Hospital

  It’s easy to assume hospitals continuously sanitize or disinfect almost every square inch of space, but this isn’t necessarily so.

• Go for the Deep Carpet Dirt

  Your carpet's fibers, whether natural or man-made, dictate the method you should use for regular deep cleanings.

• Houseplants 101

  Grow a green thumb!

• What You Need to Know about Mold

  U.S. environmental officials discuss the problem and outline steps to clean up and prevent mold from returning.

• Asbestos in the Home

  Your health deserves a basic understanding of where asbestos can be found and what you should do if your home has it.

• Vacuum Cleaner Testing at Consumer Reports

  When Consumer Reports talks, people listen.

• For Dummies® — Maintaining Your Home's Windows

  Whether they slide or swing out, your windows need more cleaning than just the glass in order to function at their best.

• Carpet Terms

  Basic terminology to help you become more educated when it comes to your carpet purchase and installation.

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