All it takes is a few family meals to turn your once-sparkling stovetop and oven into a frightful mess. The easy solution—reaching for a commercial cleaner—is hardly the green solution, as those products often contain nasty chemicals. If you want to be both clean and green, reach for gentler solutions. Better yet, fashion your own …

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Fall cleaning is just as vital for a clean home as the more renowned spring cleaning. During the winter, you’ll likely be spending more time at home. Fall clean-up readies your living space for holiday parties as well as quiet evenings on the couch with your favorite novel. Some tasks, like furnace regulation, need to …

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Use these 5 tips to keep your house clean this summer. Although the weather’s nice and the sun is shining, summer often presents some unique messes. From grass stains to dollops of melted ice cream, summer can be challenging – unless you know the tricks of the trade. Use these five tips to keep your …

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Rediscover these old-fashioned tricks. Your grandma had more chores and fewer modern cleaning tools than you do, yet she kept a sparkling house with just a few products, elbow grease, and a hefty dose of common sense. Get your household cleaning tasks done like grandma did with these time-tested ways to keep your home clean …

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Make sure to prep your home before the weather changes. You probably give your home a deep clean in the spring, but you should also show it some love at the beginning of fall. Here’s where to start: 1. Perform a pantry audit. First, remove all the cans and boxes from the shelves, and vacuum …

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Follow this routine to make your fixtures sparkle in minutes. One of the busiest spots in your house, the bathroom is also the place almost every guest visits. So if you start sweating whenever someone asks, “Do you mind if I freshen up/use the toilet/secretly judge your cleaning skills?” just relax. These tricks will get …

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Get household cleaning done in record time with these great tricks of the trade. Cleanliness may be a virtue but it doesn’t have to involve intensive labour. These quick shortcuts should help get the job done in no time: 1. Halt dirt at the sourceRule number one: don’t wear shoes in the house and you’ll …

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There’s really only one way to ensure it’s good to go. Many people think microwaving kitchen sponges or throwing them in the dishwasher are the best ways to kill bacteria, make ’em smell better and help them last just a bit longer, but it turns out, not so much. Sponges that were “sanitized” in the …

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If you can’t remember the last time you wiped it down, read this now. Keurigs mean you no longer have to think about wrangling filters, water and ground coffee beans every morning. But many of us are probably guilty of not thinking about cleaning it either — and that thing can get dirty. KDKA-TV of Pittsburgh …

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If you think wiping down countertops and fluffing a few pillows in advance of the guest onslaught will land you on Santa’s “nice” list this holiday season, check that list twice. The extreme cleaners (telephone buttons! vacuum brushes! remote controls!) may make you feel like a slacker. But you can bring your home to sparkling …

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