Which work better? While alcohol-based gels remove more germs, plain soap and water are fine for everyday washing. But neither works unless you do it right. The biggest mistakes: With soap, it’s speed washing – it takes 15 seconds of lathering to reduced bacterial count by 90 percent, 30 seconds to get 99.9 percent – [...]

1.Take a snapshot of each of your rooms at its tip-top, shiny best. The photo will motivate you to keep it that way. 2.To avoid time-consuming back tracking, look at every room as if it were a clock with the doorway at 6. Dust the room in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction until your [...]