It's important, after all, to fool your friends and family into thinking your house is this clean all the time. These cleanups won't get your house deep-down clean, but they'll probably fool your mother-in-law, as long as she doesn't open the closet.

Whenever I go on a cleaning binge, I learn anew how expensive supplies are. (One grocery bill was 50% cleaning supplies!)

I come from a family of enthusiastic eaters. So it's no real surprise that the Thanksgiving dinner table looks like a turkey graveyard after we're done. Here's how to set things right again. (Extra tip: Look for mashed potatoes in the drapes. You'd be surprised.)