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Car
Car Care Secrets
What's the secret to better car care? Mary Findley offers tips for keeping your vehicle looking its best.
Organizing Strategies
Organize Your Car!
Quick tips from Vicki Norris will make your auto a mobile showcase for tidiness.
Asthma And Allergies
Don't Sneeze and Drive
Ban sniffling and sneezing behind the wheel. Make your car an allergen-free zone!
Home Exterior
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.
Washing Walls
Washing Flat Paint or Enamel?
Attack a wall with the right approach.

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Car
Road Trip!
Whether you’re taking a driving vacation or just spending a lot of time driving around to all of the kids’ summer activities, the family car starts to feel like home. It also can get just as dirty and disorganized as any busy home!
Laundry
Laundry: Somebody Has to Do It
How to do laundry the right way and reap the benefits.
Garage Organizing
Fitting the Car in the Garage
Many consumers are discovering a whole new place to park their cars – in their garage! There is now some high tech assistance in the form of a handy laser-beam equipped parking assistant.
Carpet Cleaning
How often should you have your carpets professionally cleaned?
Can you get the same results by doing it yourself?
Pest Control
Creepy-Crawlies
As temperatures get cooler, insects and other pests start looking for someplace warm and dry.

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Car Wash
Automotive exterior
Vehicle paint is another durable, yet easily scratched surface.
Automobile
Automotive interior
These tips will keep the ride pleasant for many years.
Chrome
Chrome
Clean gently — it's very easy to wear this surface down.
Pressure washers
They’re great outdoor cleaning tools, but they can cause severe injury or damage if misused.
Fiberglass
Fiberglass
A durable surface that must be delicately cleaned to prevent scratches.

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House Cleaning Tips
How to Clean Practically Anything
Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.
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.
Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning
This book tackles the tough jobs: washing windows, walls and ceilings; sealing, waxing and stripping floors; cleaning carpets; and lots more — like a pro.
Laundry
Talking Dirty Laundry With The Queen of Clean
Strategies and tips for cleaner laundry from the Queen of Clean that includes a complete stain removal guide.
Speed Cleaning 101
Cut your cleaning time in half.

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Leather
How To Clean Leather Seats
Leather seats are expensive. Keep them looking that way with a little cleaning and conditioning.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Prevention, Preparation, and Resources
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.
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.
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.
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.