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How to Make Your White Clothes Look Brand New

This article will guide you on how to treat your white clothes. Prevent those yellow and grayish discoloration so your white fabrics will always look new.

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Ten Steps to a Clean and Tidy Home Today

A guide to house cleaning for the domestically challeged, with a touch of humour thrown in. House cleaning for dummies.

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Save Money While Doing Laundry

Tips to save money while doing your laundry using alternative products.

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Green Laundry Tips

A few tried examples of household solutions to laundry issues.

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Pet Smells

How to Rid Pet Odors and Eliminate Urine Smells.

Urine odors and stains are unhygienic and very unpleasant. Urine odor is one of the most offensive smells and can often get worse with time especially in hot and damp conditions.

Urine consists of urea, urochrome and uric acid crystals. Some general cleaners remove the water soluble components (urea and urochrome) and leave behind the non-soluble uric acid crystals that retain the odour and stain. Crystals will attach to surfaces and are hard to dislodge. Humidity or dampness will trigger the dormant crystals bringing back the odour.

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Save Money on Electricity

Penny pinching is becoming more popular as Americans strive to find more ways than ever before to cut back on spending.

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Five Household Secrets to Save Cleaning Time

Cutting back the time and labor invested in household chores is only a matter of a few cleaning “shortcuts”. The tips below can help reduce the effort involved in time-consuming cleanup activities.

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Make Money by Spending Less

Rather than searching for ways to get rich, maybe we should look for ways to stop spending so much. Here is an example in the daily activity of cleaning clothes.

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How to Lower Your Bills: Water

How to lower your water bills.

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Bare Bones Living

A year ago this month my husband and I were both laid off. He had working at the company for close to twenty years and I had been there three years, when the door to the business closed. Faced with not just losing one income, but losing all income we had to make some drastic changes to the way we lived in order to be able to make it through it.