If you are rearranging furniture or moving it so you can clean the floor, put old socks—the heavier, the better—on the furniture legs. Or cut off the bottom halves from clean milk or juice cartons and place the legs in them. The thick socks or the smooth, waxy carton bottoms will protect the floor from scratches—just make sure there’s no grit under them—and they make the furniture a lot easier to move.

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