The Home Know-It-All posted a great fall cleaning checklist. I guess now that it's all spelled out for me, I can no longer make excuses to get moving! In the House • Clean carpets, doormats, and rugs. Replace sisal or other summer rugs with winter ones. • Clean and...
Are you having trouble getting your kids to take out the trash or clean their rooms? The answer may be just a download away. Available for free on a limited time from the Apple App Store, the "Neat Bed" app is the brainchild of KnackMaster, Inc., who released it as...
We understand target marketing, but even this seems a little extreme. Clorox -- that well-known cleaning company who's name calls to mind the word "bleach" -- has just released a suite of cleaning products designed for Hispanics. "Clorox Fraganzia," as it is called,...
This week my town started to pick up yard refuse again. (Bless them.) All winter big broken branches from last fall's snowstorm and our winter windstorms have been cluttering up the yard. Add to that the usual spring cleanup stuff. Barrels and big paper bags full of...
At CES last week LG debuted its new HOM-BOT, the latest in robotic vacuuming. The HOM-BOT features enhanced navigation technology that relies on cameras and sensors to effectively map a room and avoid potential obstacles. An upper camera focuses on the ceiling, taking...
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, The Maid Brigade -- a Green Clean Certified cleaning service -- has posted some interesting information on a possible link between household cleaning products and breast cancer. According to the short video on their website,...
The Burlington Free Press -- Vermont's biggest paper -- ran a story today about the residents of Wilmington, Vermont, arguably the hardest hit town during Tropical Storm Irene. During the storm the Deerfield River, which runs through town, swelled and overflowed,...
My phobia of cleaning solutions has been a reoccurring topic on this blog. Just last week we were talking about the new standards for EcoLogo-worthy hard surface cleaners and how they're forcing manufacturers who want to earn the label to drop certain chemicals and...
EcoLogo, a third-party eco-labeling program, recently revised its standards for hard surface cleaners. Products within this category seeking to attain the EcoLogo label now must conform to the new standards, which severely limit asthmagens or chemicals known to...
If there's one thing that bugs me about living in a dog-friendly city, it's all the negligent dog owners. You know who you are. A dog dropping blog is not glamorous, I know. But it needs to be addressed. When I go over to a house that has dogs, I am loathe to step...
