Good Life: Making a clean start

If you've grown addicted to the synthetic perfumes of softening products, replace them with essential oils.

Clean clothes needn't cost the planet.

Sunny summer weather, besides being wonderful, has the added bonus of making a domestic activity such as laundry a bit more bearable. There's nothing like the scent of clean clothes fresh off the line, with one whiff carrying us back to carefree days spent outdoors - even if said clothes just came from a three-foot clothesline strung up in a messy urban storage yard.

Maybe, like me, your rental house also comes with ...