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As we move into a new year, many of us are thinking about those pesky little cleaning projects we've been putting off: that grody grout in the bathroom, another go at Aunt Lucy's antique tablecloth, or that glaring nail polish stain on the bedroom rug (you know who you are!). For all the commercial products on the market for these issues, there are lots of DIY options, but if you're not sure what works or not...let the talented and determined folks at Hometalk help you out with these five sneaky cleaning tips.

Yes, that is bright blue nail polish. Melissa uses bug spray, a rag rug, and determined dabbing, followed by a spin in the washer, to get it out. Get the details in her nailpolish stain removal tutorial.

Anna M had, like many of us, a dirty oven window. When she cleaned it, though, it was still dirty! What's doing, oven door? It turns out that material gets trapped between the panes of the glass, which seems inaccessible...until you read her tip for cleaning inside your oven door to get it sparkling.

Do you have vintage linen or lace that's not fit for public consumption thanks to stains? Nervous about cleaning them? Have a go with oxygen cleaners that didn't work? Don't panic: linen dealers have secrets, and Betsy extracted them for her tutorial on cleaning stubborn stains out of vintage linen.

Grout is like a filth magnet, and it's a pain to clean. Jessi has a great homemade recipe for a grout scrub that leaves your tile sparkling. Or you could, you know, call a San Diego tile contractor and have the whole thing redone if you're tired of what you've got.

Meanwhile, Luis has a tutorial on how to clean your washing machine. You'd think the darn thing would clean itself, with all the washing going on, but it doesn't -- and no one wants a moldy, mildewy washing machine. So spend a few bucks and get yours back up to snuff.

Katie Marks writes for Networx.com.

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A little dab of this and that from your kitchen cupboard will provide you with the best window cleaner!

Around Earth Day 1990, many newspapers offered recipes for non-toxic cleaning with the basics we all have in our kitchen cupboards, and the recipe was just plain vinegar and water with the option of drying the windows with old newspapers.

People by the thousands tried this but ended up swearing off cleaning with homemade recipes because the formula left streaks on their windows. Unfortunately, the commercial products they had used for so many years had left a wax buildup and vinegar alone wouldnt do the job of removing the residue.

The good news though: Adding a dab of dish soap to the vinegar and water will remove the buildup.

THE BEST WINDOW CLEANER Make a great all-purpose window cleaner by combining 1/4 cup vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon liquid soap or detergent, and 2 cups of water in a spray bottle. Shake to blend and spray on your windows!

Here are 9 other great uses for vinegar in the home!

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If the world needed a reminder of the sheer amount of stuff swirling around the planet, it received a spectacular one in mid-November. The European Space Agencys 1.2-ton GOCE satellite, which had studied the earths gravitational field, ran out of fuel in low orbit, reentered the earths atmosphere, burned up into a fiery mess, and dumped debris across the southern Atlantic just south of the Falkland Islands. The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committeea global space agency consortium that tracks space junkactivated surveillance facilities around the world to monitor the destruction of the bird.

Since the Soviets kicked off the Space Age by launching Sputnik1 in 1957, mankind has sent more than 7,100 spacecraft of some sort aloft. Along the way, an expanding miasma of refusemalfunctioning satellites, rocket motor effluents, metal fragments, equipment lost on space walks, and even tiny flecks of painthas spread in orbit. Computer simulations by NASA portray what looks like a cloud of fruit flies swarming around an appleonly these fruit flies travel at 17,000miles per hour. And at that speed even a particle can do serious damage to satellites or spacecrafta scenario dramatized in Alfonso Cuarns sci-fi thriller Gravity.

The space refuse problem is most troublesome in low orbits of about 500miles above the earths surface. There are 21,000 pieces of wreckage the size of grapefruit or biggerand that number grows to 500,000 if you include fragments the size of BB pellets and dust specks, according to NASA data. Some of this detritus is burned off during reentry to earth. But depending on the trajectory, other pieces can stay in orbit for decades, even centuries. Former astronaut Michael Bloomfield remembers watching debris burning up in the atmosphere below him during one U.S. shuttle mission. That gets your attention, he says. So did the time a fragment slammed into the window, leaving a pit mark.

Even so, engineers disagree about how urgent the risk really isand whether governments should spend billions on solutions that are years away from being ready. Thats practical, but maybe not the noblest way to look at the problem. The expense must be weighed against some kind of moral pressure to leave at least the final frontier unwrecked, if only to prove we can. That said, removing the refuse may be even more complicated than getting all that junk up there in the first place. Engineering hurdles aside, theres no international consensus or legal framework to organize and pay for a multidecade cleanup effort.

You might call it the tragedy of the space commons, a 21st century twist on American ecologist Garrett Hardins theory, advanced in the late 1960s, that shared resources like grazing lands and fishing zones can be depleted by individuals, acting independently and rationally, to the greater detriment of a larger group.

Coming to an international agreement about global warming has been tough enough. Its hard to imagine a power like Russia or China signing off on a plan by U.S. or European space agencies to operate the kind of orbiting trash collectors backed by some scientists and companies interested in government contracts. The really hard part is trying to convince other countries that your garbage truck in space will be used for the peaceful purposes statedand not to mess with other peoples satellites, says Dave Baiocchi, an engineering professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

There are three broad and evolving strategies to cope with space debris. One solution starts at blastoff: Theres been progress by commercial companies and space agencies to adopt smarter launch and design standards (limiting the use of explosive bolts, for example, normally used to separate rocket stages) to reduce the amount of space debris entering low earth orbits.

Governments are also investing in systems that can locate the junk. Raytheon (RTN) and Lockheed Martin (LMT) are in the hunt for a multibillion-dollar U.S. Air Force contract expected to be announced later this year that will fund a massive radar system to track stuff. Known as the space fence, it will be based in the Pacific or Australia and promises to give the U.S. the ability to identify more and smaller pieces of space debris with much greater accuracy than current systems.

In November the U.S. and Australia signed an agreement to move an advanced Space Surveillance Telescope developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from its current mountaintop position in New Mexico to Australia to better find debris in the higher geosynchronous orbits about 22,000 miles above the earths surface.

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