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Know anyone who's moving & needs to clean their carpets? Suggest an extraction cleaner & go dutch. The grocery store models aren't great but it's better than can cleaner.
Do you have access to a wet/dry shop vac? Mix HOT water with just enough laundry detergent to get suds. (Test colorfastness of a hidden area.) Use a rinsed-out spray bottle. Spray a small area, scrub lightly with a knuckle brush and draw it out with just the vacuum hose. Let sit while you do another section, go back to the first, repeat, etc. Use plain water the last time. Lots of words for a simple procedure but you get the idea. This may set stains that don't come out but it'll still look much better.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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