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Flowers
Fresh Ideas For Flowers
Look around your house and yard for inventive ways to accent flowers for your home.
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.
Food Safety
Safe Containers and Wraps for Microwave Cooking
Are plastics melting in your meal?
Hazardous Waste
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.
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.

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Gardening
Good gardening!
How to keep up the summer garden by getting rid of common pests.
Storage
Container Clutter
Storage bins meant to contain clutter can actually become clutter if not chosen and used effectively. Use these tips to prevent container clutter.
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.
Storage
Seasonal Storage
Before you store your out-of-season clothing, there's a few tips you should keep in mind.

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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.
Skunk odor
A tomato-juice bath isn’t as effective as this home remedy, several experts say.
Recycling symbol, plastic
How to “read” plastic containers for recycling.
Fireplace
Fireplace ash
Although a shallow bed of fireplace ash is beneficial, cleaning up excess should be done gently and safely.

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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.
Organizing Strategies
Growing Up Organized: A Mom-to-Mom Guide
Practical how-to, mom-to-mom organizing advice from a professional organizer and mother.
Dust
The Secret Life of Dust
Details the often overlooked subject of dust and its impact on humans and the planet.
Vinegar: Over 400 Uses
Good for our health, our home, and safe for our environment. Over 400 tips, some recipes, a bit of history and a lot of amazing uses for vinegar.

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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.
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.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Home-Made 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.
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.
Bathtub
How To Clean a Bathtub
Whether you shower in it or use it for long, luxurious baths, there’s nothing clean—or relaxing—about a tub full of grime, mold, or mildew.