Hey Kids! Awesome Parties Have Consequences In House Cleaning

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If you wreck a house during a party,someone has to clean it up. House Cleaning has a kind of warped, hoarder-ish perspective on tidying up that will have your kids shoving all their misplaced mess into boxes. But it might encourage children to try to clean up after themselves if all other forms of parenting fail.

After a totally awesome bash, the cutie cleaners in House Cleaning realize they can’t just leave books and CDs scattered throughout the garden of their friend’s home. So, you must dutifully help them sort out the garbage from the decent items before they can move onto another section of the post-party warzone. Plus, they’ll even do a bit of magical yard work when you’re done.

House Cleaning is not a game for anyone over the age of 5 most likely. It is a perpetual loop of cleaning the same locations over and over while cheery jewelry box music chimes in the background. It is cute, simplistic, and completely inoffensive, and might give younger kids the impression that you do need to clean up after yourself in the event you start throwing newspapers into fountains.


Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/257507/teach-kids-awesome-parties-consequences-house-cleaning/#6h884LofQ0uH3Q4y.99

Removing Stains With Salt Solutions

Need to remove a stubborn stain in your carpet?  Maybe the stain is a gravy stain left over from thanksgiving.  For gravy stains one of the best maid services in San Francisco recommends a special approach.  To start, you should spread salt over the stained area, this makes sure that the stain won't spread.  Then, you can proceed to clean the stain as recommended by your carpet manufacturer.  This may include using a detergent to scrub the carpet.  For more helpful tips relating to house cleaning, click the link below.

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House cleaning for the holidays

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The holidays are a time for fun and family, but there’s a lot of prep work to be done around the home before your guests arrive.  Keeping your house clean during this time of year can be a monumental task.  In today’s Angie’s List report, ABC 10′s Mike Hoey explains how a house cleaner can help.

Homeowner Angela Duggan started using a house cleaner a year ago to clean her house on a weekly basis.  For Duggan, it’s been money well spent.

“During the holidays I find that it’s even more important to have a house cleaner,” Duggan said.  “We have a large family.  I love to cook, as I’ve said before, so Thanksgiving to me, I would prefer to be at the grocery store shopping as opposed to scrubbing down my walls.”

“Yes, business definitely increases due to people planning parties and events for the holidays and family guests coming in to stay,” House Cleaner Laura Knox said.  “During the holidays the clients tend to ask for is the more detail cleaning of the kitchens, the bathrooms.  If they are having houseguests they normally ask for a more detailed cleaning of those guest rooms and the common areas for the entertaining.”

Angie’s List says it’s important to communicate your needs and expectations clearly because everyone’s opinion of clean can be different.  Before you hire, ask for an in–home estimate.

“Depending on the size of your home you might pay anywhere from a couple hundred dollars, which is what we see on average on Angie’s List, but we have seen it as much $700, but keep in mind that depends on the actual size of the home,” Angie’s List founder Angie Hicks said. “If you’re considering buying a deal on housecleaning, be sure you ask questions and understand exactly what you are getting so that you can be confident that you’re not going to get an up charge for things after the fact and that the person you are buying the deal from knows exactly the condition of your home.”

Don’t forget to check on insurance and bonding when hiring.  Insurance covers damage by the company, such as bleach stains, and a bond covers an employee’s dishonest criminal conduct, like theft.

Angie’s List says book as early as possible if you need a housecleaning service for the holidays.  Companies will fill up fast during this time of year.

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How Important Is Keeping a Clean House?

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In any home, some cleaning-related tasks spark dread in some members of the household, while others don’t mind them at all. For example, one person might detest emptying the dishwasher, and therefore, complete other chores that he or she likes more, or at least is willing to do.

Do you think it’s fair to be able to pick and choose when it comes to cleaning and home maintenance? What if everyone likes and dislikes the same tasks? How are chores delegated in your household?

In the Op-Ed piece “The Case for Filth,” Stephen Marche suggests a solution to issues like the gender divide that keeps women doing more of the housework than men and even disagreements over what constitutes a household chore: everyone cleaning less. He begins:

In Claire Messud’s novel “The Emperor’s Children,” the ultraliberal Murray Thwaite comes home late, steps in cat vomit and keeps walking: “It still was not, nor could it ever be, his role to clean up cat sick,” Ms. Messud writes. The boomer hypocrite is practically a comic type by this point, but in his domestic disregard, Murray Thwaite is like most other men, liberal or conservative, old or young.

Unlike many other rubrics by which you can establish the balance of power between men and women, there isn’t much evidence of a cohort shift in housework. Younger men are doing roughly the same amount of work around the house as their fathers did. It doesn’t look like they’re going to start doing more, either.

Women today make up 40 percent of America’s sole or primary breadwinners for families with children under 18, a share that has quadrupled since 1960. And yet in America as well as in several other countries in the developed world, men’s time investment in housework has not significantly altered in nearly 30 years.

A recent, large cross-national study on the subject by an Ohio State sociologist found that “women’s housework did not decline significantly and men’s housework did not increase significantly after the mid-1980s in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.” In the United States, men’s participation in housework topped out at 94 minutes at day in 1998, but by 2003 was down to 81 minutes, not much different than the 76 minutes it was in 1985.

Think of all the other changes that men have undertaken in the period between 1980 and 2010. Taking care of kids used to be women’s work, too, but now the man with his kids is an icon of manliness. Foodie snobbism has taken on a macho edge in some circles, to the point where the properly brined Thanksgiving turkey can be a status symbol of masculine achievement.

So why won’t men pick up a broom? Why won’t they organize a closet? Why can’t housework be converted — as the former burdens of food preparation and child rearing seem to have been for some men — into a source of manly pride and joy? Why would housework be the particular place to stall?

At least one thing is becoming clear: The only possible solution to the housework discrepancy is for everyone to do a lot less of it.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/how-important-is-keeping-a-clean-house/?_r=0 

What is the Best Way to Remove Carpet Stains

Many people don't realize that you can clean stubborn carpet stains with common household products.  Water soluble stains like alcoholic beverages, berries, soft drinks, food dyes, sauces, ice cream, jelly, milk, mud, washable ink and wet or latex paint can be cleaned with a solution of 1/4 teaspoon of non-bleach detergent and 32 ounces of water.

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