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• Pick a Brush Four Out of Five Janitors Recommend

  Maintain a pearly white toilet rim.

• Kitchen Organizers: The Versatile Little Box

  Tip from Carole Pagan

• Exterior House Cleaning

  Your home’s exterior takes a beating from mother nature, but you can intervene. A once-or-twice-yearly cleaning may also reveal a gutter or roof in need of attention.

• For Dummies® — Unclogging a Sink Drain

  With or without chemicals, the right approach clears the blockage so water can drain freely.

• Assailing Aluminum Frames

  Narrow enough to escape frequent notice, aluminum window frames need cleaning, too.

• Dry mopping

  A cousin to dusting as it applies to hard flooring.

• Driveway

  Sweep and spray to remove dirt. Also, the right way to soak out oil stains.

• Lamb's-wool duster

  This professional’s tool could save you money.

• CDs (Compact Discs)

  Handle with care, and they’ll live a long life.

• Wet (soak) mopping

  What to do when damp mopping no longer effectively cleans a vinyl, tile or sealed-stone floor.

• Swiffer Duster

  The Swiffer Duster® traps dust with a fluffy, elongated, fabric-fiber head.

• Swiffer WetJet

  An all-in-one, ready-to-use mopping system.

• Clorox BathWand

  Extend your reach into the very corners of your bathtub with this long-armed tool. No need to use spray-on cleaners, because the pad already contains the cleaning solution.

• The Miracle Cloth

  It dusts...It cleans...It polishes! The original Miracle Cloth® is an all-purpose microfiber cleaning cloth—use it to clean everywhere in your home.

• Mr. Clean MagicReach

  Skip the stepping stool and make your arm longer for mopping floors or cleaning ceilings, shower enclosures and more.

• Swiffer Duster®

  An easy-to-use disposable duster.

• Roto Duster™

  Spinning power duster that uses static electricity to remove dust.

• Libman® Swivel Duster

  A static-charged, swiveling dusting wand.

• Stackable File Box

  Finally a file box that's built to stack! This Stackable File Box includes 2 large compartments for all your filing needs.

• Scrubbee Doo

  Change heads and it's a microfiber flat mop, a string mop, a dust mop — as well as a floor, wall and restroom scrubber, a finish applicator and more.

• Do I Dust or Vacuum First? 2nd Ed.

  Answers to the 100 toughest, most frequently asked questions about housecleaning.

• Garbage Land - On the Secret Trail of Trash

  It turns out there is much more to the story of garbage than the truck that picks it up at your curb.

• My House Is Killing Me!

  A step-by-step approach to identifying, controlling and often eliminating the sources of indoor pollutants and allergens.

• Cleaning & Stain Removal for Dummies

  Time-saving techniques to take on the whole house, plus specific methods for conquering spills and stains.

• Home Comforts

  A comprehensive, classic work on housekeeping.

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