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So what songs do you listen to while vacuuming/mopping/doing dishes/or any other kind of cleaning?

One of the best bargains in your local grocery store is plain old white vinegar. You can get a 32 ounce jug of it (half a gallon) for about $1.50 and it has a multitude of uses beyond the edible ones (like pickles and salad dressings). Here are fifteen uses for white vinegar, most of which I use myself. Toilet cleaner Got a toilet bowl that’s difficult to clean? Before you go to bed, dump a cup of vinegar in the bowl, then close the lid. I usually spread the vinegar around the bowl a bit with a brush to...

Many obsessive riflemen “know” a lot of things about the insides of their barrels. They know they must break-in barrels and that any bore only slightly smudged by the passage of bullets will shoot less accurately compared with a barrel as clean as Aunt Josie’s kitchen floor. First, let’s examine “proper” barrel break-in. According to just about everybody, this is accomplished by firing one shot, cleaning the barrel of all powder and copper fouling, firing another shot, cleaning, etc. Advice on how long to continue this tedious routine varies from 10 to 30 rounds. The procedure supposedly smooths the bore,...

I was beginning to google around for the answer to this question, but then I thought "Who knows more about guns than my fellow FReepers?" So, I have a Mossberg 500, and I figured today would be as good a day as any to clean it. Now, in the past I've used something called "Butch's Bore Shine" but I ran out last time and haven't remembered to pick any up. It's hotter than blazes outside and the skies could open up at any minute so I don't want to walk down to the gun store. Can I use WD40 instead?...

......who clean your own homes. How do you clean your baseboards? Crawl around with bucket and sponge or is there some other way? (I'm a "house husband" and am not too good at this. I still don't do windows.)

Health Team 9 Psychologist, Dr. Steve O'Brien says new research suggests being consumed with cleanliness can have implications on physical and mental health. Dr. O'Brien says cleanliness is definitely healthy, but the more obsessed someone is with 'grime fighting,' the more likely the immune system is being weakened. He says a weakened immune system can mean people are more likely to get sick, have more problems with allergies and asthma. He says a weakened immune system can also trigger more problems psychologically like anxiety and depression. Consumed with cleanliness?

A bogus website that claims to rent out wives and deliver them to homes in boxes has been blasted by women's groups across Belgium. A DVD firm sparked the outrage with its new advertising campaign which promotes the website called Rent-a-wife. The 35-second clip shows a man strapping one wife into a box to be collected and going to the door to find the postman with a new delivery - a smiling blonde who waves through the perspex cover of her box. Among the 9,584 models allegedly on offer to the thrill-hungry husband are Erika, the "intellectual one", who has...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians are generally clean but they are not washing their hands enough. In a Global Hygiene Survey, a third of the respondents admitted to taking short cuts by not washing their hands after going to the toilet. Another 34% did not wash their hands before meals. The survey was funded by Reckitt Benckiser Malaysia and Singapore, manufacturers of Dettol, and carried out by the Hygiene Council. It includes nine global experts in the fields of microbiology, virology, infectious disease, immunology and public health. Other countries included in the survey aimed at providing a better picture of current hygiene...

In this photo provided by Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp., Michelle Baxter tackles some of the more than 400 inches of snow that have piled up during the season on the roof of Patrol HQ, at the Steamboat Ski Area in Colorado, Thursday, March 16, 2006. This is the fifth time the resort has reached the 400-inch cumulative snowfall milestone in the past 27 years and the first time since the 1997/98 ski season, according to the resort. (AP Photo/Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp., Larry Pierce)

Members of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Black Caucus have become seemingly desensitized to racial slurs. The Caucus did not even blink when the extreme Left’s new champion, Howard Dean, made prejudiced statements right before their very eyes. From Dean’s comments, it seems he believes that a Black person’s place is to be cleaning toilets at a hotel in which whites stay. According to the Washington Times, On Feb. 11, the day before he was elected party chief, Mr. Dean asked, at a meeting of the DNC Black Caucus, "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people...

MARSHALL, Calif. (AP) - One of California's rarest plants was nearly wiped out of existence when Marin County workers used a backhoe to clear a plugged roadside drain in the species' sole habitat. The Baker's larkspur, a purplish plant that blooms April through May and grows up to 2-feet tall, is found in only one place in the world: near a a drain along the Marshall-Petaluma Road in western Marin County. Last October, heavy rain pushed debris down a hillside into the culvert, backing it up and flooding the road. When county crews came out to clear the roadside drain...

Is it important to clean your guns? Why? How clean is clean? I have asked, and been asked these questions for decades. I am not a gunsmith, but I do have a general knowledge of what makes a gun tick - and what makes it stop ticking. When I wore the uniform of the United States Military, I was taught that my weapon (we never called them guns; there was a punishment for that slip of the tongue) was my best friend. Take care of it, and it will take care of you. I cleaned all mine right by the...

SERVICES RELIEVE AWFUL BURDEN Specialists clean up the mess after bodies are taken away By BILL MURPHY Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle As a spokesman for Enron, Eric Thode was one of thousands of Enron employees left to clean up the mess left by the company's demise. But after being laid off in December, Thode is now cleaning up even more gruesome messes, removing the decomposition and splatter left behind by suicides, murders and unattended deaths. Thode's company, Craig's Biohazard Solutions, is among several in Houston and hundreds nationwide that specialize in cleaning up the gore and blood left after ambulances...

Frustrated by clogged inboxes, e-mail users think spam purveyors ought to face some sort of punishment, according to a survey of nearly 28,000 people. The irritation has reached such a level that more than three out of four people said it was less aggravating to clean a toilet than to wade through the junk messages in their e-mail. Of those, nearly a third said spammers should face stiff fines while one in five said people in the spam trade ought to be deluged with junk mail at their own homes. About one in six said spammers' business licenses ought to...