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Hands down best tips article, and best comments, I've ever seen. My kids are definitely getting this one. I'll add this:

Nothing Improves in Storage.
It yellows, wrinkles, gets filthy, breaks, gets lost, becomes dated, mysteriously loses parts, and steals space.

Yes, there is a remote chance you'll need it some day, but it's almost certain someone else needs it right now. Give it away or sell it now.

An unfortunate lack of a kitchen exhaust fan in my house has led to the best feature in my backyard: a little table and electric outlet so I can bring my electric skillet out and cook all sorts of spicy, pungent, or greasy-steam emitting foods and not smell dinner in the house for days. And cooking outside is such a pleasure.

And thank you for this generous give-away.
:-)

1. Light fixtures -- tops of bulbs, shades that aren't completely vertical, you get the idea.
2. The silverware drawer. ZOMG the crud that builds up in there. . . .
3. The edges of wall-to-wall carpeting. Unbelievably yucky once you start looking at them.
And a final thought -- maybe it really isn't worth the time to add spots like these to one's usual cleaning routine, especially if you feel like you're skimping if you don't include them. "Clean" is relative. :-)