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Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning Tips from IEHA
While motivation to clean often comes easier in the Spring, with sunny days, warmer weather and nature in bloom; the right attitude, tools and know-how truly make the difference.
Flowers
Fresh Ideas For Flowers
Look around your house and yard for inventive ways to accent flowers for your home.
Microfiber
Microfiber Basics
The closest thing you'll find to a miracle cleaning material: microfiber is hot.
Home Repairs
Don't Despair! Repair! Hints For Restoring Commonly Broken Items
Breaking a favorite item is disheartening, especially when you don't know how to fix it. One important tip to remember is that not all adhesives are created equal.
Kitchen Cabinets
10 Care Tips for Hardwood Cabinets
Though found in kitchens and bathrooms, hardwood cabinets are not immune to water. Here's how to care for them.

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Asthma And Allergies
Cleaning with Allergies - Quick Tips
Fall allergy season is here. Use these quick tips to prevent the build-up of allergens in your home and to effectively remove them.
Spring Cleaning
Survey: Love or hate cleaning?
How much do we really like or dislike cleaning?
Window Cleaning
Cleaning windows: Shedding daylight on a dirty subject
How to choose the best squeegee and use it to make window cleaning quick and easy.
Vacuuming
How often should you vacuum?
Vacuuming more often can not only improve your health but also make your carpet last longer.
Laundry
Laundry: Somebody Has to Do It
How to do laundry the right way and reap the benefits.

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Knick-knack
Postpone cleaning — Display ‘em behind glass.
Figurines
Figurine
Cleaning these collectibles or decorative characters should be done carefully.
Cleaning Tips
Hair dryer
As with all electrical appliances, always unplug, and never get the insides wet.
Lint
It’s unavoidable, just like death and taxes. Here’s how to make it bearable.
Needlework
When cleaning this, it pays to be gentle.

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Dust
The Secret Life of Dust
Details the often overlooked subject of dust and its impact on humans and the planet.
Laundry
Talking Dirty Laundry With The Queen of Clean
Strategies and tips for cleaner laundry from the Queen of Clean that includes a complete stain removal guide.
Do I Dust or Vacuum First? 2nd Ed.
Answers to the 100 toughest, most frequently asked questions about housecleaning.
My House Is Killing Me!
A step-by-step approach to identifying, controlling and often eliminating the sources of indoor pollutants and allergens.
House Cleaning Tips
How to Clean Practically Anything
Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.

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Organizing Strategies
How To Organize a Desk
Does your desk look like a robber rifled through it just before a hurricane hit the room? Organize it so that it gets under control and stays that way.
Shower
How To Clean a Shower
If the grime in your shower looks like something that would be more at home in a horror flick than in, well, your home, it’s time to take control.
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.
Leather
How To Clean Leather Seats
Leather seats are expensive. Keep them looking that way with a little cleaning and conditioning.
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.