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Hotel Interactive.com offers “Twelve Tips for Healthy Traveling: PURE Solutions discusses how its Allergy Friendly hotel rooms benefit travelers.”

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Easy Tips to Clean and Protect Leather FurnitureBy furnituredesk There are different types of leather and they each have different care and cleaning instructions. The suede or nubick leathers have no pigment and need a special cleaner that does not use any water. This type of furniture generally gets …(Google Alert)

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Tips for Cleaning Wicker and Cane

By Angela Mills(Angela Mills) 

Damp a cleaning sponge or cloth and use the lather to clean the furniture. Leave to dry naturally. · If the furniture is stained, brush it with a solution made of water, salt and lemon juice. Remember not to let the furniture get too … (Google Alert)

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Does Your Home Make The Grade? Improve Your Home’s Indoor Air Quality and Overall Clean Factor

(NAPSI)-Here’s the inside scoop on indoor air quality: It’s a hot topic these days because the levels of air pollutants indoors can be two to five times higher than outdoors. You can improve your indoor air by following a […]

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How Cleaning My Room Changed My Life
NewsBlaze.com introduced me to this great book for kids in an article subtitled, “Story Teaches Lifelong Lesson of Staying Organized”.
The article said,
“Disorganization can negatively impact a child’s success in school and job performance later in life, according to school psychologists Jane Maklary and Leslie Stuebben.  New children’s book How […]

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Here is an excerpt of an article on Nebraska.tv (NTV) that includes some great cleaning related ‘Back to School’ tips offered by Sylvan Learning Center:
“Starting the school year off on the right foot can help minimize students’ stress levels throughout the year.

Get Cleaning.  A dirty, cluttered room is not conducive to studying…

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Faraway Furniture Offers Free Tips on Properly Caring for Wooden …
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
“Many homeowners enjoy outdoor entertaining during the warm season, when garden and patio furniture can become a part of an inviting outdoor living space. Wooden garden furniture that hasn’t been properly maintained can put a damper on those seasonal […]

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The San Francisco Chronicle offered 5 tips for preparing for a garage sale. 
The tips are actually about getting the merchandise ready for the sale, giving them the most ’selling potential’, by cleaning them.
Specifically, the article tells you what to do with:

clothing
wood furniture
stuffed animals
tarnished silver
leather purses and wallets

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Quicken Loans listed five steps for getting your house ready for springtime and summer.  The article entitled, “Spring-cleaning tips for homeowners“, suggested:

Store your off-season items
Organize your garage
General outdoor areas
Washing windows
Furniture and carpet

The second step was written just for me I’m sure!  My garage is an embarrassment.  I have got to get a handle on it […]

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101WaystoSaveMoney.com posted a ‘Dozens of Uses for an old household staple‘ that listed some 40+ uses for WD-40. That got me started thinking…just how many uses are there?  
Well, I went to the source, WD-40.com , and found AN answer - 2000+. Here are a few interesting things YOU’LL find at WD-40.com:

2000+ […]

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