Best Cleaning Tips and Tricks

You shared your tried-and-true solutions for quickly and efficiently doing away with the dirt (and the dust and the mildew and the muck) — leaving you time to enjoy other things

Dasha Wright

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Cleaning with a Handheld Vacuum

I use a cordless, bagless, handheld vacuum cleaner for everything from kitchen crumbs to dust bunnies. Then I just empty the canister into the trash.

This answer to "What's your best cleaning tip?" comes from Real Simple reader JULIE TRESP, Rockville, Maryland.

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