I owe this tip to the Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman who visited last spring.  He annoyed the crap out of us and ust would not go away, but I did get one good idea out of it  See, the cleaning product they use in their super-duper $2000 carpet shampooers has a fabric softener in it, which makes your carpet feel really soft and smell really good.  He made a big deal about this while he did our “free” cleaning demonstration.

We already have a carpet shampooer/steam cleaner, and wouldn’t spend crazy money on a carpet cleaner anyway, but the whole fabric softener thing is a great idea.  So now we add a capful of fabric softener — whatever you use on your laundry is fine — whenever we shampoo the floors.  It makes the room smell great, instead of smelling slightly musty, which is what the carpet cleaner usually does. And the carpet dries soft, instead of knd of crusty which, again, is how it usually is when we shampoo it.

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