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Article snippet: Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter. Editor Tim Herrera emails readers once a week with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Monday morning. The holiday season is here! Decadent parties, festive decorations, once-a-year meals and … a whole lot of messes. So this year I’ve invited our resident clean person and friend of SL Jolie Kerr to talk about cleaning up all of those holiday messes. (And if you’re looking to go big with an end-of-year cleanup, here’s how to clean every room in your home.) Tim Herrera: Thanks for chatting with me Jolie, let’s start with an easy one: You’re at a party, and you accidentally spill red wine all over someone’s nice tablecloth. What’s the move? Jolie Kerr: Reach for the table salt! When you have a fresh red wine stain, pouring an anthill-style mound of table salt on the spill will help to pull it out of tablecloths (or furniture or carpets). Let it sit for several minutes until you notice that the salt is saturated with wine, then brush it away. Much of the stain should be gone, and any remaining wine can be treated later using Wine Away. TH: O.K., so the tablecloth will be fine, but what if someone spills wine on what he or she is wearing? JK: The Wine Away will work, but if you don’t have any on hand, flushing the stained part of the clothing with cold running water will at least help to push out a lot of the stain. If you can add some suds to the party, massagi... Link to the full article to read more