spring cleaning

10 Tips For Getting Rid Of The Junk In Your Life

10 Tips For Getting Rid Of The Junk In Your Life

Whether you’ve already done your spring cleaning or you’re still avoiding it, your home probably has lots of stuff you don’t need anymore — Junk. Stuff. Crapola. Where to get started separating the keepers from the junk? [More]

How To Not Suck At Spring Cleaning

How To Not Suck At Spring Cleaning

The birds are singing. The flowers are budding. Yup, it’s time for spring cleaning.

After a nasty winter, throw open the windows and let the sun shine in; but that’s just the beginning. [More]

Save Money While Spring Cleaning

Save Money While Spring Cleaning

Perhaps the fresh Spring air has inspired you to strike back against the clutter and filth you might have allowed to accumulate around your living space in the bustle of the last several months. While looking to go on a cleaning rampage and make a fresh start, you can find ways to do the job more cheaply and efficiently. [More]

Kick Off Spring Cleaning By Home-Detailing Your Car

Kick Off Spring Cleaning By Home-Detailing Your Car

Spring is actually here, and do you know what that means? Spring cleaning! Ugh. If you live in a wintery climate, take some time to clean up your vehicle and pretend that all that salt and gravel never happened. Our sister publication Consumer Reports shows you how. After all, who else thoroughly tests kinds of car wax? Exactly. [More]

Baking Soda Is Very Useful

Baking Soda Is Very Useful

Here’s your semi-annual reminder that cleaning things with baking soda is hip. (And don’t forget, you can bake with it, too.) DIY blog Curbly has a nifty list of baking soda ideas, some of which were new to us.

Spring Project: Get Your House Ready For Summer

Spring Project: Get Your House Ready For Summer

  • Change your furnace filters.

    A little house work in the spring means more time for photographing cats in the summer. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER