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• Pure Personality

  How differing personality types affect your home and your family: an interview with Hannah Keeley.

• Your Housecleaning Style

  Are you a clean freak or a more easy-going type? Customize your cleaning habits to your personality and self-expectations.

• Milder Alternatives

  Recipes for homemade cleaners from Hannah Keeley.

• Motivational Rituals

  Small acts to maximize the pleasure you take in your clean home.

• Five a Day

  An easy step to clear out the clutter.

• Comforter

  Care is fairly easy for inexpensive comforters. Protect expensive down comforters with a duvet cover.

• Smoke alarm

  Since the introduction of smoke detectors 40 years ago, deaths from residential fires have been cut in half. Here’s how to ensure maximum protection from your alarms.

• Fire alarm

  Professionally monitored systems are most often found in commercial settings.

• Personal protective equipment

  It sounds like a big term, but it’s not. Personal safety is easy and inexpensive to ensure.

• Floods

  How to stay safe both during and after a disaster.

• Elfa Canvas Closet

  A portable extra closet for your bedroom, RV, or dorm.

• Dyson DC14 All Floors

  The Carpet Professor checks out this brother model to the DC07.

• Slide-Lok Slat-Wall

  Slat-Wall looks just like wooden siding, complete with a “natural” wood grain. But its grooves firmly hold steel baskets and hooks that neatly provide a place for everything.

• FilterStream DustTamer Deluxe D4200

  A lambswool duster and vacuum combined.

• LitterMaid Automatic Litter Box LM950

  A litter box designed to do its own scooping; to keep your house smelling fresh even while you are away.

• DoItYourself.com®

  A wealth of information for Do It Yourself (DIY) home improvement.

• Home Essential Center

  Always know where to find your essentials (keys, batteries, flashlights, candles, matches, etc.) with this gorgeous wooden storage & photo unit.

• Expandable Wood Dresser Drawer Dividers

  Separate and organize your clothing with easy-to-install dividers that fit dresser depths of 12 to 16 inches.

• Closet Organizers for Kids

  Organize the closets in the kids' rooms.

• AstroTurf® Door Mats

  This one item will stop 80% of the dirt that comes into your home through the doors. That cuts cleaning time — you don’t need to clean up dirt that isn’t there.

• Hannah's Art of Home: Managing Your Home Around Your Personality

  Learn how to de-clutter, clean, decorate and organize your home according to your personality style — Starry-Eyed Dreamer, Master Mind, Creative Spirit or Mother Hen.

• Organize Your Office In No Time

  An organized office and more productive day is just a book away.

• Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way!

  Streamline your life systems, from laundry to work, to parenting and more.

• Haley's Cleaning Hints

  Over 1,000 clever, inexpensive solutions help readers clean, deodorize, unclutter and organize their homes.

• Organize Your Garage In No Time

  Provides step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow to-do lists to help you get your garage organized and keep it that way.

• Organize Your Garage

  Smart storage ideas can help keep your garage neat and organized.

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