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• Is There Life After Housework?

  Don't let cleaning take over your schedule.

• Before Guests Arrive: A Checklist

  Here is a short checklist to help make sure you are prepared for company.

• Sweeping Made Easy

  Sweeping can be downright simple if you follow a few basic principles.

• Family Housekeeping: How to Get Your Man to Help

  Is the man of your house a little reluctant to wash dishes? Here are a few tips on picking up his motivation.

• The Lighter Side — Pumping Dirt: Cleaning Your Way to a Sleeker Physique

  Pumping dirt is the new exercise craze combining aerobics, calisthenics, weight lifting, and, yes, housecleaning.

• Wet (soak) mopping

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

• Laminate floor

  These pre-finished surfaces are easily maintained by sweeping or vacuuming, and damp mopping. Avoid going overboard with cleaners and polishes.

• Floor Care: No Wax Floor

  Not so fast with the finishing polish or wax! Do this first.

• Mop, mopping

  A guide to the best tools and techniques for keeping many hard floor surfaces sparkling.

• Damp mopping

  Used where lots of water could damage the floor or the subfloor.

• Bissell Steam Mop Bare Floor Steam Cleaner

  The Bissell Steam Mop Bare Floor Steam Cleaner is a great way for asthmatics who are sensitive to harsh chemicals in floor cleaners to clean their floors. The Bissell Steam Mop Bare Floor Steam Cleaner cleans and sanitizes your floors with only water.

• Windex®

  Ho-hum? Not really. Though this product is almost as old as dirt, it's proof that you don't really need a lot of cleaning supplies - just a few good all-purpose ones.

• Sprinty Mop

  Microfiber mop for replacing string or sponge mops.

• Dyson DC07 All Floors

  The Carpet Professor weighs in on this bagless model with features designed to reduce common vacuuming headaches.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Tele-Pole System

  Don’t get on a ladder if you don't have to — the lightweight Tele-Pole System makes cleaning and maintenance, safe, fast and easy.

• Method® Omop All Purpose Starter Kit

  A non-toxic cleaning kit for all floors.

• Real Simple Microfiber Squeeze Mop

  Wet or dry microfiber mop that traps dirt without chemicals, plus scrapper insert.

• Is There Life After Housework?

  There is life after housework! Reduce housework by 75%

• Is There Life After Housework? 2nd Ed.

  A revolutionary approach to cutting your cleaning time 75%.

• DONE! How to Accomplish Twice as Much in Half the Time - at Home and at the Office

  You know all that you have to do - with multitasker extraordinaire Don Aslett, you can actually get it DONE!

• Speed Cleaning 101

  Cut your cleaning time in half.

• No Time to Clean

  Don Aslett's secrets of saving time spent cleaning.

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