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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.
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.
Water Damage
$2 Dollar Hose Causes $1000s in Damage
Water is the lifeblood of civilization - a necessity for life and health of man, animal, and plants. However, water also has the power to wreak havoc as a silent thief, stealing peace of mind and ruining property.
Essential Oils
Essential Oils: A Cleaning Essential?
Decide whether cleaning with essential oils is a good fit for your home.
Organizing Strategies
Multitasking: Getting More Done, Saving Time
Ever wonder how some people get organized, schedule chores, and get several tasks done at once?

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Houseplants
Thumbs-up to Indoor Plants
Get your “grow” on with houseplants.
Entertaining Guests
Outdoor entertaining
How to decorate your patio and clean up your grill for a perfect outdoor party.
Carpet Cleaning
How often should you have your carpets professionally cleaned?
Can you get the same results by doing it yourself?
Spring Cleaning
What do you intend to clean this spring?
What modern homes need in a good spring cleaning.
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.

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Silk houseplants
Plastics clean easily. Check for colorfastness before cleaning fabric plants with water.
Houseplants
Dusting and rinsing are the answers.
Laundry
Hosiery
Protect stockings from laundry snags. Here’s how.
Oriental rug
This is another easy-does-it job. When in doubt, seek professional help.
Nylons
Protect stockings from laundry snags. Here’s how.

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Houseplants For Dummies
Cultivate your green thumb.
Composting
Composting for Dummies
Step-by-step guide to turning household waste, yard clippings, and more into free, nutrient-filled compost and mulch.
Dust
The Secret Life of Dust
Details the often overlooked subject of dust and its impact on humans and the planet.
Haley's Cleaning Hints
Over 1,000 clever, inexpensive solutions help readers clean, deodorize, unclutter and organize their homes.
House Cleaning Tips
How to Clean Practically Anything
Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.

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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.
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.
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.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Using Green Cleaners
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.