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How To Deep Clean Your Bathroom

How To Deep Clean Your Bathroom

Bathrooms are one of the most important rooms to stay on top of in household cleaning. You might think your living room or bedroom is the most important, but to be honest your bathroom should get far more attention than the room you sleep in. Why? Well, there is far...

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The Dirtiest Areas In Your Home You Don’t Consider

The Dirtiest Areas In Your Home You Don’t Consider

When you spill some food on the carpet, it’s “dirty.” When your shower curtain has mold and mildew building up, it’s “dirty.” It’s really easy to tell the obvious items, spots, and spills, that are dirty in your home. But there are probably other places in your home...

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How To Keep Your Carpets Clean

How To Keep Your Carpets Clean

Your carpet takes a beating daily. Think about it. Every time you take a step in your home you are smashing down your carpet fibers, dragging in whatever dirt and oil is still on your shoes, and sometimes you spill stuff too. Carpet is just one of those modern...

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How To Remove Tea And Coffee Stains From Mugs

How To Remove Tea And Coffee Stains From Mugs

Credit: https://coffeegeek.tv/ The other day I was at my Aunt’s house and I grabbed a coffee mug out of her cupboard. I could see a clear difference in where coffee and tea had sat in the mug. I knew it wasn’t a big deal. I knew it wasn’t unsanitary. But something...

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How To Clean Up After A Flood

How To Clean Up After A Flood

Oh man, a flood. That’s never fun for anybody. Floods are messy business that can put a real damper on anyone’s mood (pun intended). Initially, a flood can cause all sorts of damage to your home, your possessions, and personal belongings. And even weeks later you can...

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What Is Fabric Softener and How To Use It

What Is Fabric Softener and How To Use It

For the longest time growing up, I avoided touching the fabric softener on my mother’s laundry machine. I actually didn’t understand the bottles purpose. I knew from the label it was designed to make fabrics softer, but still I felt like if I poured it in the wrong...

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How to Clean a Grill After A Barbecue

How to Clean a Grill After A Barbecue

Summer time is a great time for having a barbeque with friends and family. Warm weather, good times, good food, right? Well, for that matter, Fall and Spring are great times too. And in some climates, Winter isn’t such a bad a time for a BBQ either. After being used a...

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How To Properly Deal With Mildew

How To Properly Deal With Mildew

Dealing with mildew in your home is fun...said no one ever. You have seen mildew building up at some point in your life. It’s black, slimy, and gross. You don’t have to know exactly what mildew is to know you don’t want it in your home! But... Let’s take a moment to...

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How to Remove Red Wine Stains From Carpet

How to Remove Red Wine Stains From Carpet

Red wine. Is there any substance more spillable on this earth? Seriously, right behind spaghetti sauce and wing sauce, red wine is one of the most dangerous stain producing things ever to exist. It’s bad enough to spill anything on your clothes, especially when out...

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How To Clean Your Dishwasher

How To Clean Your Dishwasher

Cleaning out your dishwasher. It almost seems counter intuitive, doesn’t it? Cleaning a cleaning machine? Shouldn’t it be cleaning itself as it cleans your dishes? Well, yes and no. But mostly no. There are parts of a dishwasher that need your tender love and care to...

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How To Clean Cooking Grease Off Your Walls

How To Clean Cooking Grease Off Your Walls

I don’t like when grease pops and lands right in my eyeball. Who does, right? But I still love cooking up some greasy foods. Even when I’m being “healthy” and frying up some pan seared salmon, popping oil in my pan just can’t be avoided! After you fry basically...

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How To Eliminate Odors Throughout Your Home

How To Eliminate Odors Throughout Your Home

Every home has a smell to it. Most of us can become nose-blind to smells we live with. Maybe you didn’t discover yours did until a visitor pointed it out to you. That would be embarrassing. There are plenty of products on the market designed to help you mask household...

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