Dear Home-Ec101, I live in an apartment and my mini-blinds are covered with the funk of thousands of tenants. Can you please tell me the best way to clean these? Signed, Dusty Shades Ivy says: I hate mini-blinds. My cats break the ends off of them because they MUST sit in the window and they …
Dear Home Ec 101: I hate vacuuming. It’s just so noisy and hard to haul around and then put back in the closet. I also shed like crazy (I especially did after the birth of my daughter). Do you have any advice on how to keep hair off of the carpet and bathroom floors without …
Dear Home-Ec 101, What’s the best plan of attack if I need to make the house *look* clean for visiting parents or (especially) in-laws, but I don’t necessarily have the time or desire to do it up right? In other words, what spots do I absolutely have to hit to make it look like cleanly, …