| Spring Clean Your Way to a Healthy Home
Though spring cleaning is primarily about ridding a home of a season's worth of clutter, it should also be about making a home healthier for the months to come.
To improve the quality of your sleep and health, and get the most life out of your mattress, have your mattress professionally cleaned at least once a year.
Before you go shopping for back to school clothes, take some time to clean out the kids closets of last year's clothes that don't fit. Sort and donate to a local charity.
Summertime humidity brings out the spiders. Spiders need & thrive in warm, moist climates in order to live. Be sure to check basements & garages, in and around plants, and behind doors.
Clean the tracks on sliding patio doors and spray them with
WD-40 to get out all the accumulated gunk.
Have your furnace inspected and maintained now, before you need it.
Indoors, start with your medicine cabinet. Toss out any expired medicines or cosmetics. Check your local health regulations for instructions on disposing of medication -- don't just flush them or toss them -- they'll seep into the groundwater.
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Back to School Trivia
What year was the first school bus introduced?
Email us your answer and be entered in a drawing for a pair of Indians tickets
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| Dine to Make a Difference
Jo Ann's Professional Touch and Bob Evans are teaming up for an August 18th fundraiser for the
Cleaning for a Reason Foundation
Stop by the Bob Evans restaurant on Howe Ave., Cuyahoga Falls from 6am to 10pm that day and 15% of sales for that day will be donated to Cleaning for a Reason. You must bring the attached flyer in order for donation to be received.
Since 2007, Jo Ann's Professional Touch has proudly donated over 1000 free cleaning services to women in our community who have cancer.
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Back to School
Where did the summer go? Seems like just yesterday it was June. I don't know about you, but the older I get, the faster time flies.
Since there is about 2 weeks before school starts up, we thought we would share some tips (like start slowing down now when your in a school zone, so you don't get an unfriendly, high priced reminder) from the American Pediatric Association.
Backpacks
- Choose a backpack with wide, padded shoulder straps and a padded back.
- Pack light. Organize the backpack to use all of its compartments. Pack heavier items closest to the center of the back. The backpack should never weigh more than 10 to 20 percent of your child's body weight.
- Always use both shoulder straps. Slinging a backpack over one shoulder can strain muscles.
- If your school allows, consider a rolling backpack. This type of backpack may be a good choice for students who must tote a heavy load. Remember that rolling backpacks still must be carried up stairs, and they may be difficult to roll in snow.
Bullying
- Help your child learn how to respond by teaching your child how to:
1. Look the bully in the eye. 2. Stand tall and stay calm in a difficult situation. 3. Walk away. - Teach your child how to say in a firm voice.
1. "I don't like what you are doing." 2. "Please do NOT talk to me like that." 3. "Why would you say that?" - Teach your child when and how to ask for help.
- Encourage your child to make friends with other children.
- Support activities that interest your child.
- Alert school officials to the problems and work with them on solutions.
- Make sure an adult who knows about the bullying can watch out for your child's safety and well-being when you cannot be there.
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Make Up for Lost Time
Take a walk around the house and garden, keeping an eye out for any bug infestations, bee and wasp nests or -- yikes --termites and carpenter ants. Catching a problem early will save you money and headaches. Check the gutters, too, for any debris. As summer comes to a close, give your lawnmower a thorough cleaning. Prop it on its side and drain any remaining gas and oil into an approved receptacle. Hose down the undercarriage to remove stuck-on clippings. Let the mower dry completely before putting it away for storage. If you or someone in your family suffers from allergies, keep the windows closed and the air conditioning on. A cool house keeps humidity low, which in turn slows down the growth of mold and mildew. Another way to cut down on airborne allergens is to vacuum and wipe out vents and registers around the house. |
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Going Green
Open the cabinet below the kitchen sink in the average household, and you're likely to find a bucket of sprays, soaps and disinfectants to subdue any germ that dare enter the home. They meld together in a fragrant bouquet of pine, lemon zest and fresh cotton, an olfactory signal that our floors, sinks and toilets are sanitized. But recent scientific evidence has uncovered a dirty side to many of these cleaners. Yes, even the liquid, solid and flaked potions we use to keep things spick-and-span at home have not escaped the harsh scrutiny of environmentally conscious researchers, advocates and consumers. With additional news from the Environmental Protection Agency that indoor air may be more polluted than outdoor air, eco- and people-friendly household cleansers have started filling up shelves in grocery stores [source: EPA]. As of April 2008, sales of "natural cleaning products" leapt 23 percent over the previous year [source: Conis]. One of the trickiest aspects of evaluating the greenness of this newer strain of cleaners is the lack of federal oversight. Manufacturers have no legal obligation to list the ingredients in their entirety since doing so might reveal trade secrets [source: Thompson]. With more than 80,000 chemical compounds cleared for commercial purposes in the United States, the EPA only requires manufacturers to warn of toxicity. That means your all-natural X Brand cleanser may be slipping in some harmful chemical cousins under the radar. Companies cannot legally mislead consumers about the contents of their products, but there isn't a regulatory agency that defines what meets green standards [source: Conis]. Instead, they can voluntary submit their products for review by the EPA's Design for Environment, Green Seal or other eco-labeling organizations for a stamp of approval. |
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