The Independent-News, Volume 100, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 April 1974 — Page 26

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homemaker may still find herself breathlessly running to catch up. The modern homemaker can save time and energy by organizing herself like an executive. Here are some suggestions: 1. Make more time for yourself. Train your friends to telephone you only at certain hours. A good gimmick at your phone side is an egg timer; set yourself a time limit for routine chats and disengage yourself tactfully. 2. Improve morale by wearing something attractive when you do home chores. Jeans and a fresh shirt, leotards or a fresh-as-a-daisy shift with your hair tucked into a bright scarf. 3. Make it easy to find what you need. Have a well-organ-ized cleaning closet. Instead of piling cleaners haphazardly on a shelf, put them on a lazy susan that revolves and brings you the cleaner you need at the touch of a finger. 4. Save steps. When you’re going to clean a room or do a major chore, put everything you’re going to need—sponges, cloths, cleaners — in a handy tote basket. Tuck a paper bag in the basket for litter. 5. Be miserly with floor wax. If you have wood floor surfaces that require a buffing wax, apply in a thin coat. Depending on traffic, two or three

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wax applications a year with frequent in-between buffings should keep a floor in shine. Learn the patch technique. Where traffic is extra heavy and dulls the shine, apply a patch of wax; buffing will soon make it blend with the rest of the floor. 6. Know the right product for every surface. Resilient floors need a different wax from wood floors; light colors do better with special finishes; homes with small, active children need floor finishes that hold up well under traffic. 7. Know your surfaces. Save all tags and labels and file them in separate envelopes: FLOOR COVERING, FURNITURE, APPLIANCES, CLOTHING. Knowing the fiber content of a rug helps in knowing how to remove spots, serial numbers of appliances can save time and anguish in replacing parts or servicing. 8. A giant straw hamper can help. For instant tidiness where there are small children who strew toys, rubbers, mittens and games around the house, have a giant straw hamper into which everything is put at tidying up time, and husbands and small fry who can’t find their possessions where they left them can reclaim them from the hamper. Better still, provide each child with his own straw or plastic ham-

per and train children to tidy up at the end of playtime by putting toys and games into the individual hampers w’hich can be brightly decorated and lettered with the small owner’s name. 9. Avoid the “I just ran out of sugar, soap, shampoo, peanut butter or whatever” syndrome by putting a blackboard or large pad of paper inside a closet door. When you open or use the last one or two of anything you habitually need in your household, list it on your master shopping list and cross out or erase when you’ve refilled. 10. Keep track of your family’s social obligations on a large calendar mounted on a convenient wall. Note your children’s parties, dentist dates, your own social obligations so you can tell at a glance where all of you are supposed to be. 11. Make a list of non-rou-tine chores — the “spectaculars” — like shampooing a rug or washing down the walls or removing built-up wax and do them at a one-a-month speed. You’ll be surprised how they melt away when you attack them on a one-at-a-time basis instead of trying to do them all at once. Everything you need to know about floors Flooring can be divided into three categories: natural, resilient and hard. Each is cared for in a different way. Wood and cork are referred to as natural flooring. Both are porous and absorptive and should be given a protective coating called a sealer. It provides resistance to wear and spills that floors receive. The most frequently used sealers are varnish, shellac, lacquer or penetrating sealer. Linoleum, vinyl, asphalt tile and rubber tile are all types of resilient flooring. They don’t require sealers. Some resilient floor coverings on the market are called “no-wax" floors. However, tests have shown that the added protection of a floor wax maintains the shine far longer. Marble, terrazzo, ceramic tile, terracotta, slate, bluestone, brick and concrete are examples of hard flooring. Before using any floor care products on these floors a sealer—never a varnish or lacquer—should first be applied. A few key questions There are several questions to consider about your family’s habits and activities before purchasing floor-care products. If the flooring is old

how bad a condition is it in? Where are the traffic patterns in the house and what kind of soiling will the floors receive? What is the color of the flooring? Is electrical floor care equipment available? How much time can you devote to floor care? When you have the answers it will be easier to choose products to meet your particular needs. Your nose knows The most important thing to learn from floor-care product labels is w’hether the product is solvent-base or water-base. If the label doesn’t give you a clue you can distinguish by the odor. Solvent-base waxes will have the smell of a dry cleaning fiuid. Solvent-base products are recommended for the care of wood and cork floors. They can also be used on resilient flooring, with the exception of asphalt and rubber tile, especially when an electric polisher is available. Solvent-base products are either pastes or liquids, require buffing or are self-pol-ishing. They contain rich natural waxes plus a solvent, usually naphtha. The solvent acts as a cleaning agent to loosen soil and to soften and remove the previous coat of solventbase wax as the new coat is applied. There is no wax build-up problem and the floors should never need to be stripped. The only cleaning necessary between wax applications is dusting or vacuuming. Water-base floor products are those in which water is the carrier for the tiny particles of wax and/or polymers that provide the shine and protective film for floors. Many water-base products have special features that make them particularly effective in certain household situations. Some are formulated to withstand the stress of heavy traffic or detergent washings; some clean as they polish ; others provide good trans^3 KNOWING THE RIGHT PRODUCTS to do the job maket horn* care easier, footer, twice at efficient.