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Make housekeeping easier with tips on cleaning and organizing virtually anything in your home. Candle wax on the carpet? Soap scum in your tub? eHow’s experts are here to help, with cleaning advice alongside tips on everything from ridding your home of cockroaches to getting the kids to help with chores. Learn to care for furniture, clean appliances and remove any sort of stain. eHow can even help you organize a junk closet, clean the stove or, if all else fails, hire a housekeeper or cleaning service.

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How to Care for a Mattress

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Your mattress may be hidden under blankets and sheets, but it still needs special attention from time to time. If well cared for, it will last about 10 years... more »

How to Care for Antique Linens

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Most antique linens were designed to last for generations. With careful cleaning and storing, antique linens can retain their original beauty and usefulness. When you shop for antique linens, look for linens that can be restored. Linens with a ... more »

How to Care for Knives

By CCrock

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Take great care of your cooking knives and they will last, making working in the kitchen effecient and a pleasure... more »

How to Catch a Scorpion in Your Home

By AbbyNormal

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So you have come across a scorpion in your house. Here is an easy way to catch that scorpion without harm to yourself... more »

How to Catch Misleading Food Labels

By straighthealth

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Learning the benefits of eating health foods may convince you to start eating them. But what if the foods you start eating aren't any healthier than the ones you gave up? Misleading statements on food labels can lead to that... more »

How to Categorize Newspaper and Magazine Clippings

By eHow Hobbies, Games & Toys Editor

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Has your stack of unread newspapers turned from a nuisance into a firetrap? Have you vowed to never again dig through a jumble of clippings just to find that certain article, recipe, exercising tip or decorating idea? Put an end to the endless ... more »

How to Check Your Electric Blankets for Safety

By Sheila Wilkinson

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There's nothing more snuggly on a cold winter's night than to get into a preheated bed. An electric blanket can become an old friend over the years, but over 250 fires a year are caused by wear and/or improper use. Use this safety checklist to be ... more »

How to Clean a Bath Tub (And Keep It Clean!)

By danielzrib

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For most of us, cleaning the bath tub is not a task we look forward to. Wouldn't it be nice if it could just stay clean? While rings in your bath tub are inevitable - especially if you have children in the house - there are some steps you can ... more »

How to Clean a Birdcage After a Bird Dies

By ktbug1226

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After my budgie, Turk, died, and I was ready for another one, I had to clean his cage well in case it was a disease that got him. This was hard, because it is a bird's instinct to hide any illness, because in the wild it makes them susceptible to ... more »

How to Clean a Coated Canvas Burberry Handbag

By Becca

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Learn how to properly clean a coated canvas handbag... more »

How to Clean a Hot Tub

By framp882

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Everyone loves to relax in a soothing hot tub, but we all don't like to clean it. Follow these steps to maintain and clean your hot tub... more »

How to clean a microwave oven.

By Momof3infl

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If you've ever spent any ammount of time scrubbing at the stuborn stuck on food after someone in your home forgot to cover their plate in the microwave, this article is for you!.. more »

How to Clean a Pizza Stone

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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It is very easy to clean a pizza stone. Most stones just need to be wiped off between each pizza baking. If you use soap on your stone, you will have to do a deep cleaning to remove the soapy taste from future pizzas... more »

How to Clean a Really Messy Room

By martinhitech

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We've all had one--the room behind closed doors, where no one, not even our best friend, is allowed to look. It's an embarrassment, a point of contention in the family, a black hole, where things go in but nothing comes out. How can you mount ... more »

How to Clean a Room in 10 Minutes

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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No one likes a messy home, but with today's busy schedules it can be hard to find time to give your home a good cleaning on a regular basis. But it's not so hard to find just 10 minutes here and there to give your rooms a quick fix in between ... more »

How to Clean a Toilet with flat Coca Cola.

By amylaine

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Do you have flat Coca Cola and do not want to waste it. Need to stretch the budget? No worries you can clean your toilet with it... more »

How to Clean and Restore Shine to a Fiberglass Tub

By Lisa Smegal

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How to clean and restore shine to a dull and dingy fiberglass bathtub... more »

How to Clean Brass

By Lauren Romano

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This is relatively easy, however, test spot a small little area on the brass item before doing the entire thing... more »

How to Clean Dishes at home

By Nehemiah Gardner

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This is plain easy and simple, all you have to do is squirt a half full of soap on the rag, turn on hot water wet it a tiny bit and start scrubbing the dishes... more »

How to Clean Green

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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The toxins from typical home cleaning products are not only harmful to the planet, but to you and your family as well. Fortunately, there are ways to make your cleaning more eco-friendly and safe. Follow these easy steps to clean green... more »

How to Clean Hard Water Stains off a Waxed Table

By Sharon Potter-Case

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This is a great way to get rid the water stains on your furniture... more »

How to CLEAN METAL MINI BLINDS

By DUSTYMILLS

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ARE YOUR BLINDS COVERED IN DUST & COBWEBS?ARE THE CORDS BROWN FROM DIRTY HANDS? A LITTLE TIME & EFFORT WILL HAVE THEM LOOKING NEW AGAIN... more »

How to clean miniblinds.

By pixiemama

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You need to get the gunk off of those old blinds. There are a few ways to do this and heres how... more »

How to Clean Naturally

By mfdc

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Cleaning Naturally is quite simple. You can try these steps... more »

How to Clean Popcorn Ceilings

By april ort

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Spray on Popcorn ceiling can be a real headache to clean. Since using anything liquid on the surface of the ceiling may cause it to smear or deteriorate, you need to use caution when attempting to clean... more »