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Remediation
Protect Yourself When Removing Mold
What to wear when removing mold from your home.
Donations
Warm Hands, Warm Hearts – Helping Those Affected by Superstorm Sandy
ACI and AAFCS have launched "Warm Hands, Warm Hearts," an effort to gather gloves, mittens and hand soap for those affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Winterizing
Organize to Survive the Cold
If you live where the winter is harsh, it's all the more important to be prepared.
House Cleaning Tips
Tips to Cut Your House Cleaning Time in Half
16 tips to save time.
Gutters
Gutter Thinking
Home improvement expert Danny Lipford reveals a quick trick to protect your hands while cleaning the roof gutters.

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Spring Cleaning
What do you intend to clean this spring?
What modern homes need in a good spring cleaning.
Spring Cleaning
Survey: Love or hate cleaning?
How much do we really like or dislike cleaning?
Disinfecting
Q & A: To Disinfect or Not Disinfect?
Q: I purchased an all-purpose cleaner at a janitorial supply store that doesn't require rinsing, but I noticed that it makes no claims about killing germs. Do I need to use a germ-killing cleaner for regular cleaning of the kitchen and bathroom in my home? Or do I only need that occasionally? - Carolyn E.
Organizing Strategies
One Drawer at a Time
Unlike chaos, order doesn’t spread without some effort. But with organization, a small effort can have a big impact, especially in your kitchen.
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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Personal protective equipment
It sounds like a big term, but it’s not. Personal safety is easy and inexpensive to ensure.
Rubber Gloves
Rubber gloves
Some jobs require greater hand protection than others.
Latex gloves
These indispensable tools help guard against infection and chemical exposure.
Protective gloves
We use this term often in describing how to perform various cleaning tasks safely. Here’s what it means.
Safety
Eye protection
Certain tasks put eyes at risk and personal protection equipment is needed.

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The Ultimate Guide to Shopping & Caring for Clothing
Book on the buying and proper care of clothing.
Organizing Strategies
The Personal Organizing Workbook
Teaches the fundamentals of managing time and clutter with tips, quizzes, and checklists to help you create a personalized organization system.
The Secret Life of Germs
A book that looks into the microscopic world of diseases and how to prevent them.
Green Living
Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips
Whether you're a renter, a landlord, or a homeowner, Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips will help you keep your home a clean and healthy place to live.
Housekeeping
DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House
Collection of stories which take a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our personal spaces clean and uncluttered.

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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.
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.
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.
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 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.