Your First Place: Cleaning Tips

So you've moved into your first apartment, condo, house, or other. Congratulations! After the obligatory house warming party and a week of settling in, it is time to tackle one of life's inevitable truths: You've got to keep your place clean!

Aside for the regular dust bunnies or spills on the dining room table, there are some new territories to explore. Exciting, isn't it? Here is a list of a couple of hot spots along with some cleaning tips.

Garbage Can: The trash receptacle, as it oftentimes prefers to be called, magically swallows all you throw at it. Garbage pails are your friends, and you must treat them well by lining them with bags and emptying them once in a while. Once a day is preferred, but hey, if you prefer to wallow in the smell of rotting banana peels it's really none of my business. But what I'm really getting at is this: you need to actually scrub that thing clean once in a while. Yep, you heard me. Various odors and spills will collect in your garbage bin, awarding your kitchen with the faint aroma of decay and deterioration. So once every few months yank the bag out and take the can to your shower or bathtub-con-shower (read on)