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• Easy Windows

  Learn how to use a squeegee and you'll be done with window cleaning in half the time or less.

• The Lighter Side — Pumping Dirt: Cleaning Your Way to a Sleeker Physique

  Pumping dirt is the new exercise craze combining aerobics, calisthenics, weight lifting, and, yes, housecleaning.

• The Pain Principle

  You are going to have to confront an unpopular fact: organizing can be painful.

• Line-Dry Your Laundry

  A few tips smooth out this money-saving trick.

• Clean Your BBQ for Sizzling Summer Cookouts

  Here's how to prevent your grill from getting dirty unnecessarily, and clean up before and after cookouts.

• Household Hazardous Waste Products

  Look around your home for these items that tend to become household hazardous waste. Plus, try a few recipes for homemade alternatives.

• Dusting Wood Objects of Museum Quality

  Got fine wood or wooden antiques? Here's advice from the Museum Management Program of the National Park Service (NPS).

• Motivating the Hired Help

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

• Benefits of Central Vacuums

  Seven reasons to go central.

• All About Wallpaper

  If it's dirty, should you wash it, or what?

• Household Hazardous Waste

  Steps to safe management from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Prevention and Cleanup: Water Damage From Winter Storms and Cracked Pipes

  Every year the combination of winter storms and frozen pipes causes millions of dollars in water damage to homes and buildings. Here's what you can do to prevent problems or clean up.

• Clean Like a Man — Top Tips for Men

  These are housecleaning basics, retooled to be as guy-friendly as possible.

• A Simple Welcome Mat Defeats Winter Dirt

  Protecting your floors saves you both time and money.

• Consumer Reports Shows How to Avoid Design Goofs When Remodeling a Dream Kitchen

  In-depth kitchen report includes CR ratings and buying advice for flooring, countertops, ranges, microwaves and range hoods, cooktops, wall ovens, refrigerators and dishwashers.

• The Dinner Party Kitchen

  Lots of helping hands, large dinners and kitchen chats all work more smoothly with advance preparation.

• Creating a Family Disaster Kit

  Prepare for survival should the worst happen.

• Wall Washing Secrets

  You don't have to give attention to your walls often, but when you do, here are some best-practice tips from Jeff Campbell.

• For Dummies® — Getting to Know Wallpaper-Removal Techniques

  Determine your course of action by the type of wall found underneath.

• Letting Off Steam to Clean

  Clean safely, effectively with steam vapor systems.

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