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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 Prevent a Spider Bite

By dlowe

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Spider bites are never a pleasant experience, and in some cases can have significant medical consequences. Prevention of exposure will reduce the liklihood of suffering a bite... more »

How to Prevent And Get Rid Of Mildew In Your Home

By Sush56

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Mildew can grow anywhere in your home, if the condition is right. There are steps that can be taken to prevent mildew from growing in your home. Follow these easy steps to prevent and remove mildew... more »

How to Prevent Damage to Wood Floors

By Christine Sostarich

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Genuine wood flooring is a huge investment. If you are thinking of installing wood flooring or have wood floors that you want to keep beautiful follow these simple steps... more »

How to Prevent Mold From Growing in Homes

By joshcrank

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Mold is a common household allergen that can grow unnoticed in hard-to-reach or rarely visited places in a home. To people with severe mold allergies, this can be very dangerous. To prevent mold from growing in your home, always follow these ... more »

How to Prevent Mold from Taking Over Your Home

By writesource

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Mold can be very damaging to your home if it's not controlled. Mold is practically everywhere. So unfortunately, there's no way to eliminate it completely. Mold reproduces by creating tiny spores. These spores travel through the air and will grow ... more »

How to prevent red wine to permanently stain when spilled

By Chrystallenia

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Red Wine, excellent to consume, a nuisance when spilled. When it does, stain is not easy to remove. near to impossible . This can be resolved so easily with one simple but quick action.Step 1 .As soon as it is spilled on tablecloth or silk blouse ... more »

How to prevent splinters

By dasbootjoe

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Will be able to prevent getting splinters.. more »

How to Prevent Toilet Bowl Stains Naturally

By Limowreck

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Tired of disgusting marks inside your toilet bowl? Prevent them naturally!.. more »

How to Prevent Your Cake From Cracking

By Amanda Smith

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Who has not slaved away mixing and preparing a cake, only to open the oven door and find your cake has cracked? This can be prevented by following a few tips... more »

How to Properly clean and organize a bathroom.

By Kevin and Nichole Mclain

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A descriptive overview on how to clean and organize your bathroom. besides the livingroom, the bathroom is where the family spends the most time... more »

How to Protect Fruit and Vegetables from Bumps and Bruises

By vmarge2001

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Bubble wrap provides cushioning for breakable or fragile items. Let bubble wrap cushion and protect your fruit and vegetables from bruising... more »

How to Protect Your Child From Lead Poisoning

By Sarah Wilson, CCRP

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In 2007, Toys R Us recalled more than 27,000 wooden toys that contained excessive lead in the ink on the outer package. With products constantly imported into the USA, children remain at risk for lead poisoning. Here are things you can do to ... more »

How to Purge a Clothes Closet

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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So you searched your closet for a favorite sweater, only to find mismatched legwarmers, a concert T-shirt from 1978 and a pair of pants two sizes too small. This can only mean one thing: it's time to purge your clothes closet. By following a few ... more »

How to Put a Clothespin Together

By SeventhSibling

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The wooden pincher clothespins sometimes separate when placing or removing the pin from the clothesline. Don’t toss the clothespin; there’s a simple way to reassemble it, and without damaging your fingernails. Read on to learn how to put a ... more »

How to Quick Clean your home in 19 minutes or less!

By Susan Golis

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My husband is notorious when it comes to inviting guest to the house and omitting in telling me. I use to get stressed out. I guess you might say I learned the hard way. Now I ask him every morning; What are you doing today? He will then ... more »

How to quick clean your house for surprise guests

By Lizardo

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Unexpected guest?!?!!!! In just 20 minutes clean your house to look as if the maid service had just left... more »

How to Quickly and Easily Clean Egg Yolk Off the Kitchen Floor

By FabHelper

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Egg slipped off the counter while baking or making breakfast this morning? Don't panic, there's an easy way to clean that up... more »

How to quickly clean a microwave

By Sprice

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A microwave can quickly become very dirty but can take quite a long time to scrape away all the bits and pieces of stuck on food. With a simple cleaning solution, cleaning your microwave can be done in a snap... more »

How to quickly clean windows

By pigs4fun

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Do you hate cleaning those windows. This cheap easy method ensures that the neighbors will envy that you have a clear view over their smudged windows!.. more »

How to quickly clean your bathroom for unexpected company.

By Joke

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Has someone just popped over unannounced, and then needed to use your bathroom? Then you will really appreciate the quick bathroom clean-up... more »

How to Quickly Separate a Dozen Eggs

By Bobbi Holmes

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There are many reasons we might need to separate the yolk from the white of an egg. Some people use little kitchen gadgets designed especially for this task, and others break the egg and pour the yolk from half shell to half shell, until all the ... more »

How to REALLY CLEAN YOUR BAR-B-QUE

By DUSTYMILLS

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Is your bar-b-que beginning to show the effects of all-summer cooking where the grease is really starting to build up and the whole unit just feels sticky? Has the flame on your gas grill dramatically been reduced until it's taking alot longer to ... more »

How to Really Save Money on Groceries

By JSwindell

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Between soaring gas prices and having just a few hours a week to do any effective grocery shopping, you want to make the best of it!.. more »

How to Reattach a Loose Zipper

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Everyone has had a zipper fall off at one point or another. It is one of those tiny nuisances that happens from time to time. If you follow these simple steps, you will not have to get rid of your favorite pair of pants just because of something ... more »

How to Recycle an old mop for cleaning wood floors

By MojaveDesert

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I learned this very simple trick while I was in Basic training... more »