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Get ready for fall with these home cleaning tips

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Autumn Home Cleaning Tips Get ready for the colder months with these cleaning tips. When you think of a deep clean, namely a spring cleaning, you may consider it as a rare annual event. A thorough home clean where you pull everything apart, get into those nooks and crannies, and hope it will last a year or so. Right? Sorry to burst your bubble, but one spring cleaning a year simply isn’t enough! Between having guests visit, leaving doors open, pets and kids running in from the backyard, and cooking up a storm, a deep home clean is something you should do AT LEAST twice per year. Spring cleaning may be the standard “time to clean” by which most homes go, but we’re thinking an additional yearly cleaning for the fall is a good routine. In the spring, we’re preparing our houses for the arrival of warmer weather and all the fun that comes with it. As fall is upon us, it may be time to hit the reset button for the cooler weather about to come If you can’t bring yourself to ...

Hilarious Quotes on How We Feel About Cleaning

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15 Hilarious Quotes That Sum Up Exactly How You Feel About Cleaning Let's just say, you'd rather be doing anything else. If you are like us, you have a love-hate relationship with cleaning and organizing your home.   It’s nice to have a tidy and neat house, but that does require a lot of time and effort.   Well it turns out that a few people have the same feelings.   Here are a few quotes that will make you feel the same way.  

Want a Bigger Room? Use a Carpet or Area Rug to Create a Larger Effect

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How to Use Carpet to Make Your Space Look Larger   Most of us have at least one small room or area in our home that we wish was larger. Even when you can’t physically enlarge the space, there are ways to achieve the feeling of a larger space through the use of properly selected decor elements. Carpet is one of those elements. Whether you have wall to wall broadloom or an area rug lay over another type of flooring, choosing the right carpet can help your space to feel bigger. Here are some tips for making that happen. Tips for Broadloom Installing wall-to-wall broadloom in a room can help to make space feel bigger by providing continuity. Changing floor surfaces provide visual stops and starts for the eye. By contrast, having a carpet extend from wall to wall means there is nothing to stop the eye, thereby giving the impression that space is larger than it is. Tips for Area Rug The key to using an area rug to help your room look larger is to use the corre...

20 Genius 100-Year-Old Life Hacks That Still Work Today

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20 Genius 100-Year-Old Life Hacks That Still Work Today There's a reason your grandma always had baking soda on hand. New isn’t always better. Case in point: All of these tricks that have lasted the test of time, because (you guessed it) they really do work. Prepare for your clothes to be fresher, your grocery bills to be lower, and your life to be simpler in no time. Clean with baking soda. Use this ingredient to freshen up things all over your home. It's a gentle abrasive and a natural deodorizer, making it ideal for whitening grout, refreshing a stinky fridge, de-greasing dishes, and more. Dust fans with a pillowcase. Stretch the entire case over the blade and wipe the dust inside as you pull it back. This will prevent particles from raining down on you the next time you tackle this chore Use meat as an accent. Even though it's easy to meal plan around a protein, when ...