Is cleaning your home the last thing on your to-do list that you want to tackle? Rita Konig, author of Domestic Bliss: Simple Ways to Add Style to Your Life, shares eight easy ways to reward yourself and make housework a little more bearable.

Time-tested tips for making your blues bluer and greens greener, from The New Beauty Secrets by Laura Mercier

Here are 11 travel tips and a checklist of what to pack for your trip, from Katherine Gibson, author of Unclutter Your Life.

Easy, inexpensive home organizing techniques, from Green Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck

Here’s how to be a spot hotshot with powerful, do-it-yourself spot removers made from common household ingredients. From Linda Cobb, “The Queen of Clean” and author of The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal.

Internationally recognized beauty authority Laura Mercier, author of The New Beauty Secrets, shares three insider tricks for maintaining your makeup applicators.

We waste a great deal of money and precious storage space on specialty cleaning solutions when we actually only need a handful of versatile nontoxic products to clean an entire home. From Green This! by Deirdre Imus