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• Soft Water

  Make Household Chores Easier With Softened Water

  Use soft water and you'll do less hard scrubbing.
• Spring Cleaning

  Spring into Cleaning

  The Clean Trust has a few tips to make cleaning easier.
• Stain Removal

  Stain Removal During and After the Party - A Professional's View

  Act Quickly! Ninety percent of the spots on carpet and upholstery can be removed completely if they are absorbed, blotted and flushed within two or three minutes.
• Child Safety

  Childproofing: Protect Your Family's Breathable Air

  Indoors and outdoors, here are steps you can take to protect your children.
• Waxing

  Buying the Right Car Wax

  Inexpensive products outperform some more costly brands in CR’s tests.
• Motivation

  Stuff is Stuff

  A new perspective on the inanimate things in your life.
• Laundry Detergent

  What's New in the Laundry Room

  Convenience, performance, and sustainability drive new innovations, including ultra-concentrated laundry detergents.
• Germs

  Germ Warfare - Understanding the Enemy

  What you don’t see can hurt you. Invisible to the naked eye, a world of microorganisms (living things so small you need a microscope to see them) lives in soil, on your skin, in your mouth, on the floor, doorknobs, cell phones, walls, computer keyboards, or countertops — pretty much everywhere.
• Smoke

  Home Restoration After the Smoke Clears

  The IICRC provides tips for fire victims facing clean up.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Deep Carpet Cleaning Secrets

  Do your own carpet cleaning, or let the carpet cleaning pros handle it.
• Security

  Choosing and Using a Paper Shredder to Fight Identity Fraud

  Don't let thieves use your garbage against you.
• Indoor Contaminants

  A Clean Home is a Healthy Home — Or Is It?

  We take for granted that a clean home is a healthy home. But appearances can be deceiving!
• Upholstery Cleaning

  Upholstery Cleaning and Care

  Extend the useful life of upholstered furniture and keep it looking great by caring for it properly.
• Leather

  Leather Care

  Leather cleaning methods are sometimes best left to professionals.
• Paper Records

  3 Steps to Effective Filing

  How to make sure you can find that official document when you need it!
• Organizing Strategies

  Garage Storage Tips

  For most of us, 'out of sight – out of mind' means we relegate all of our ‘stuff’ into the junk drawer of the house – the garage. Here's how to do it effectively.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Carpet Cleaning Tips - Do-It-Yourself or Professional Cleaning?

  Interim vs. deep cleaning: when to call in the pros.
• Asthma And Allergies

  Taming Indoor Allergy and Asthma Triggers

  Hidden contributors to 'sick buildings', allergies, asthma - plus how to avoid 'couch potato asthma.'
• Cleaning Tips

  All Booked Up

  A script for sorting and cleaning books.
• Consumer Reports

  ShopSmart Poll: Only 7% of Women Hate Cleaning Their Homes; Spend Five Hours Per Week Cleaning

  According to a Consumer Reports ShopSmart Poll, the bathroom is the least favorite place to clean, and people prefer vacuuming.

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