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"The Green Year" suggests for fresh smelling carpets, use baking soda rather than harsh chemical treatments. Just lightly dust, let sit for at least 20 minutes and then vacuum.

Since moving to the Ozarks, I feel a sense of freedom from that clunky thing we all usually have to drag around several times a week - the vacuum. A person once told me that anyone who puts carpets in their homes in the rural south is crazy. I believe them. Between the red clay, the dogs (and the critters they sometimes drag in on them), I already would have ripped our carpets and burned them. But luckily, we got that advice before we built the cabin. If you can, ditch the carpets all together and go with a high performance laminate or environmentally friendly bamboo flooring. Free yourself of the vacuum!