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Speed Cleaning Your Home

Here are some tips you might find helpful.

• Organize your rooms. It takes far less time to clean if you've removed much of the little stuff that just collects dust and gets in the way.
  
  
• I know, I know. You see all those beautiful rooms in decorating magazines with zillions of stuff all around. You think that's cool. But you can't afford a cleaning service, so who cares?
  
  
• By eliminating clutter, you'll not only relieve yourself of tiresome labor, you'll probably be able to think better and function better in the space.
  
  
• Try to cultivate a "de-cluttering mindset". That will help you stay on top of the situation and not let any area of your home get out of hand.
  
  
• Get yourself a micro-fibre cleaning cloth. It will clean 90 percent of the surfaces in your home: glass, leather, brass, mirrors, marble, oak, laminate, walls - and without any chemicals.
  
  
• Simple Green can replace many of your specialty products because it cleans floors, counters, ovens, laundry, fireplace brick. All you have to do is dilute it appropriately for the surface. 
  
  
• Top Job breaks through nicotine stains and smells.  It can be safely used on painted and stained wood and won't eat up blind strings like beach can do. A great all purpose cleaner. 
  
  
• Don't dust with Pledge and Endust. They actually attract dust. Instead wax wood twice a year with a good paste wax like Howard Citrus Shield.
  
  
• Other good basic cleaners: Pine-Sol, Murphy's Oil Soap, bleach and Old English. Read the labels.
  
  
• Use soft, absorbent diapers for cleaning rags. Or use all-cotton bar towels which you can buy in bundles at your discount club stores.
  
  
• Keep all cleaners together along with your bucket with handle, your gloves, mop and a nonabrasive scrubbing-type brush.
  
  
• To seal surfaces: stone sealer on stone; Scotchguard on fabrics; polyurethane on window sills and shutters.