Get Your Home Ready for Summer

You’ve been ready for summer since January, but what about your house? Here are 20 reminders from our networks to get your home prepped and ready for warm season—inside and out. And don’t forget to download and print out our handysummer checklist!

Give your dryer, energy bill, and the environment a break by hanging laundry to dry outdoors on warm days. If everyone reading this line-dried 1 load of laundry once a week, we'd save 836 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
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Give your dryer, energy bill, and the environment a break by hanging laundry to dry outdoors on warm days. If everyone reading this line-dried one load of laundry once a week, we'd save 836 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year.

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Get Your Home Ready for Summer

You’ve been ready for summer since January, but what about your house? Here are 20 reminders from our networks to get your home prepped and ready for warm season—inside and out. And don’t forget to download and print out our handysummer checklist!