SESSION Cleaning Tips from the Experts at Merry Maids Back-To-SchoolTips (NAPSA)—Get ready for the new school year with these backto-school tips from the cleaning experts at Merry Maids: * Organize your children’s toys. Put away half of your kids’ toys and switch them around every few months. They’ll have plenty to play with, and their ‘ a > WES When the kids head back to school, you have an opportunity to get the houseclean. rooms will stay cleaner. Label boxes, baskets and plastic tubs— anything that toys can be stored in—to teach kids how to sort toys and keep them offthefloor. Install hooks on doors. Put hooks and pegs on the backs of room doors and on the insides of closet doors for quick-and-easy hang-ups when the kids get home from school. Make a schedule. Set aside a regular period of time each week for the family to straighten up the house. This not only teaches kids good habits, but also gives the family a project to do together, as well as “catch up” time from everyone’s busy schedules. * Remove magic marker and pencil marks. With all of the art projects your kids have created, magic marker stains and pencil markings arelikely to be all over household surfaces. Use hairspray to remove the magic marker ink. To remove pencil markings, use an art-gum eraser or a slice of fresh rye bread. Get rid of household odors. To get rid of odors that have crept into your home, get to the source. For example, rid your kids’ closets of old, smelly sneakers. Clean these areas with an allpurpose cleaner, such as Murphy Oil Soap, to ensure that the odor does not return. Founded in 1979, Merry Maids provides customized residential cleaning services through more than 850 franchises and branches in the United States and 1,400 franchises worldwide. For more information on residential cleaning, call 1-800-MERRYMAIDSor visit www.merrymaids.com.
