How to: Clean and Organize a Velvet Jewelry Box

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been looking at your dusty, pet fur-covered jewelry box with disdain for a while now.  The reason for the disdain; not knowing how to clean velvet.  That’s right; velvet.  A lot of jewelry boxes are lined with velvet and are a bit trickier to clean than typical cloth surfaces.  Paper towels shred and leave lint behind, a lint roller can’t clean the grooves usually reserved for rings, and feather dusters are completely useless against embedded dust and hair.  The following steps will help guide you through cleaning a velvet jewelry box.

How To: Clean Up a Broken Flourescent Bulb

Even if you're not the greenest person in the world, most of us have at least one Compact Fluorescent Light, or CFL, in our house.  Because they last longer than standard bulbs and consume less energy, CFL bulbs are appealing to budget and environmentally conscious consumers.  But what do you do if one breaks?

Within the plastic tubing of CFL bulbs resides a small amount of mercury.  This highly toxic substance  cannot be disposed of haphazardly; specific steps must be taken to prevent exposing this toxic substance to the environment.  Follow the jump below to find out what the Environmental Protection Agency recommends you do if you break a CFL bulb: 

How To: Organize a Closet

If you’re anything like most Americans, your closet is a room in your house with various piles of clothes, shoes, and accessories strewn about in no discernible order. It may take you anywhere from five to thirty minutes to locate an article of clothing, yet the thought of organizing this mess overwhelms you instantly. If this sounds familiar you’ve come to the right place; the following six steps will guide you through the closet organization process and make at least one part of your life a little more organized.