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Deciding Whether A House Cleaning Service Is Worth It

Deciding Whether A House Cleaning Service Is Worth It

It may seem extravagant to hire someone to clean your house, and some frugal people find it all but unthinkable to farm out such a task. [More]

Make Your Own Green, Cheap Cleaning Products

Make Your Own Green, Cheap Cleaning Products

When McGyver wants to clean his kitchen, he doesn’t need any fancy Clorox or 409. Give him some baking soda, vinegar and lemon juice and he’ll create a clean-up bonanza of the likes the world has never seen. And he’ll catch seven bad guys and utter a catch-phrase quip, all before the commercial break.

House Stuck On The Market? Try Cleaning The Windows

House Stuck On The Market? Try Cleaning The Windows

No amount of interior decorating wizardry will help sell your house if the windows are dirty. “When you’re marketing a house, clean windows are like clean teeth: they’re the first thing people see on the outside and the first thing they see through on the inside,” according to broker Phyllis Jane Young. So how do you make your windows sparkle? You need two things: sudsy water and a squeegee. That’s it!