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Caring for Bedsheets

Mattress Advisor, in an online article from May 2021, shared results of a survey from over 1,000 people about their bed-cleaning habits. I found the results both disturbing and disgusting. First, the average person changes their sheets approximately every 24 days. Second, survey participants stated it could take up to 35 days before they considered their unwashed sheets gross. After reading that second statistic, I stopped reading the article; I couldn’t stomach the thought of learning more. …

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Last Minute Gift: A Cleaner World Gift Card

Every year, I struggle with what to purchase my sister-in-law for Christmas. Do you have someone like that in your family? That person that has everything they want, and if they discover something new, they just go out and purchase it? That’s my sister-in-law, but …

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Tidy Cups

Laundry-Related Gift Ideas

Once upon a time, utilitarian gifts would have offended me. Not anymore. These days I’m all about convenient, timesaving, useful products, and I’ve discovered three laundry-related items I decided I cannot live without. Front Load Washer Door Prop – I often complain about the mildew …

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guests

Preparing for Out-of-Town Guests

Matt’s sister has a wonderful setup for guests. When they built their house a few years ago, they chose to put in two master bedroom suites on the main floor. The second suite is near the back of the house, close to the garage, so …

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holiday entertaining

5 Tips for Successful Holiday Entertaining

My husband said to me a few weeks ago that he would like to invite his team over to our house for a holiday celebration. Instantly I was full of questions. When? How many? What kind of celebration? Dinner or hors d'oeuvres? Just staff or …

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What If I Don’t Have a Closet?

When Matt and I first got married, we lived in a 341 square foot, one bedroom garage apartment. What it lacked in space, it made up for in charm. That’s how I choose to look back at it, but at the time, I was keenly …

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Cleaning Neckties

I’ve mentioned before that Gray wears a tie to school once a week. Now that he’s in high school, he’s graduated to the better-quality tie, so we had to purchase new ties at the beginning of the school year. After his first day of wearing …

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Forsyth County Home Delivery Service

Once upon a time, having your clothes dry cleaned or professionally laundered meant you had to get into your car, drive to the store while fighting traffic, and wait in line to drop off your clothes, and then you had to repeat the process when picking up your clean clothes. Not anymore. Not only does A Cleaner World offer Home Pick Up & Deliver Service in Guilford County, we now offer it in Forsyth County as well! Consider yourself lucky if you live in Winston-Salem, Kernersville, Lewisville, Clemmons, Advance, Bermuda Run, and Pfafftown. …

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How to Keep Laundry Under Control

If I skip even one day of doing laundry, I end up regretting it the next day. For a family of three, we seem to produce a lot of dirty clothing. On a typical day, I dirty a set of running clothes, a set of …

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Summer Clothes

Storing Summer Clothes

There are important steps to follow as you place your summer clothing into storage until warm weather returns. A Cleaner World shares tips so that your summer clothes will look great next summer. …

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Band uniform care

Caring for Band Uniforms

Once again, I am this year’s middle school cross country coach. Over the summer we met every Monday morning at 7:30 to train for an hour; still at 7:30 a.m. in July it can be warm, and at one practice I had one kid nearly …

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2021 Cover the City Project

Eight years ago, Amanda Anderson brought a group of friends together to help a homeless man in High Point. That single act of kindness led to a non-profit organization that focuses on providing blankets for the homeless population in both shelters and for those that live out in the elements during winter months. With the mission to cover cities literally and physically with warmth and love, Cover the City Project is well on their way to doing just that. They have chapter locations in North Carolina, New York, and Ohio and have collected approximately 45,000 blankets since inception. This year they would like to collect 10,000 blankets, and that’s where we come in. …

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baby clothes

Caring for Baby Clothes

Sometimes I feel like Gray provides an endless supply of dirty clothes, but the truth is that he produced many more dirty items as a baby than as a teenager. At least now he knows about napkins, toilet paper, washing his hands, and how to …

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What are Antique, Retro, and Vintage Garments?

My son has taken to labeling things by group, but he gets the group completely wrong. For instance, he recently started calling me “Boomer”, which is way off base; I belong to Gen X. My parents are actually Boomers. My dad will be giving him …

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silk blouse

Caring for Silk

Silk fabric is strong, lustrous, luxurious, expensive, and comes from worms. That’s right; silk is made from a fiber created by the Bombyx mori, also known as the Chinese or Mulberry silkworm. Silk fabric has been around a long time, dating back to China during …

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