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Pets
Living With Pets And Plants
Adding plants is a great way to spruce up your home, but if you share your home with a dog or cat, you’ll want to choose your plants carefully.
Laundry
Back to Black: Keep Darks from Fading
Learn how to keep blacks black, protect bright colors in the laundry, and get rid of melted chocolate on your clothes.
Mold
Mold Can Cause Serious Health Problems
It's dark, it's dangerous, and it's alive....
Pets
Keep Your Pets Safe While Maintaining Your Lawn And Garden
The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center answers the most common questions asked when it comes to gardening and yard care.
Tobacco Smoke
Smoking in the House - How Bad is It, Really?
You may be surprised to learn what it brings into the home environment.

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Houseplants
Thumbs-up to Indoor Plants
Get your “grow” on with houseplants.
Spring Cleaning
What do you intend to clean this spring?
What modern homes need in a good spring cleaning.
Gardening
Good gardening!
How to keep up the summer garden by getting rid of common pests.
Automatic Litter Box
Litter-Robot II Review
The Litter-Robot is an automatic, self-cleaning litter box. It features a large globe top with entry for the cats and a base for collecting and emptying waste.
Motivation
BOOK REVIEW: Dirt - The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House, Edited by Mindy Lewis
The strong connection between lifestyle and housekeeping is presented in this touching, reflective collection of essays.

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Houseplants
Dusting and rinsing are the answers.
Silk houseplants
Plastics clean easily. Check for colorfastness before cleaning fabric plants with water.
Builders
Chelating agent
A "builder" that gets dissolved minerals out of the way of laundry detergent.
Mirror
A clean mirror is a nice reflection on you!
Gutters
Gutter, rain
Dirt streaks on gutter facings are hints that this job is overdue.

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Houseplants For Dummies
Cultivate your green thumb.
House Cleaning Tips
Is There Life After Housework?
There is life after housework! Reduce housework by 75%
Clutter's Last Stand
Learn how to declutter from a master.
How to Cheat at Cleaning
Gives time-slashing techniques to save time on cleaning.
Dust
The Secret Life of Dust
Details the often overlooked subject of dust and its impact on humans and the planet.

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DIY
Green Cleaning All-Purpose Spray
HC Producer series winner Leslie Reichert demonstrates how to make your own DIY green cleaning all purpose spray.
Baking Soda
How To Clean With Baking Soda
When it comes to household versatility, baking soda is king. Here are just some of the many cleaning uses for sodium bicarbonate.
Bathtub
How To Clean a Ring From Your Bathtub
Save hand-washing houseguests the horror of having to stare at a line of dirt and dead skin ringing the bathtub.
How To Clean a Toilet
The gross-out factor of cleaning a toilet cannot be underestimated—but the gross-out factor of not cleaning a toilet is even worse. Better clean the toilet.
Carpet Cleaning
Special Tools for Green Carpet Cleaning
In this video series, experts Allen Rathey, president of The Healthy House Institute (HHI), Professor Liz Goldsmith of Florida State University (FSU) and University of Massachusetts lab scientist Heidi Wilcox, explain how to remove tough spots and stains from carpet using green cleaning methods. Different carpet types, prevention, home-made and retail green products, and specific green cleaners and tools that work are covered in depth.