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Smart Home and Lifestyle Expert Carley Knobloch Partners with P&G Fabric Care To Ensure You are Getting the Most out of the Hottest Holiday Technology
P&G
Fabric Care (NYSE:PG) is teaming up with Carley Knobloch (home,
tech and lifestyle expert) to ensure you are getting the most from your
high-tech gadgets during this holiday season. As every hostess knows,
more guests mean appliances operating in overdrive with more mouths to
feed and more laundry to do with all the extra sheets, towels and
holiday linens. By sharing easy entertaining and tech tips, Carley
provides the basics of keeping every space in your home, including your
laundry room, running efficiently, no matter how many
guests are staying with you.
Carley Knobloch, Home, Tech & Lifestyle Expert on behalf of P&G Fabric Care (Photo: Business Wire)
Carley's Tips for Making the Season Run Smartly
& Smoothly into the New Year:
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Get Tech Savvy: Carley
states the most important thing is to learn to use the latest
technology properly so you are getting the most out of it. Not only do
you need to be a smart shopper to get the best value at the register,
but in many instances, you need to really educate yourself on how to
use your new high-tech purchases to get lasting value from
them. With technology getting smarter and smarter, she finds people
aren't getting the most from their smart home purchases.
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Stay Energy Efficient: In addition
to your stove, your refrigerator and freezer also get a real workout
over the holidays. While newer refrigerators are much more energy
efficient than older ones, they remain one of the largest energy
consumers in your house, often accounting for as much as 15 percent of
your home's total energy usage. Carley suggests helping your
refrigerator and freezer operate efficiently and economically by
keeping the doors closed as much as possible so the cold air doesn't
escape. However, leaving the door open for a longer period of time
while you take out the items you need is more efficient
than opening and closing it several times.
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Get the most out of your Appliances with HE
Technology: If you're upgrading your washer and dryer or
expcting lots of laundry during the holiday season, going high
efficiency (HE), you'll instantly be amazed by the large capacity that
helps you handle the extra sheets and towels that come with a house
full of family; but you need to do your homework and be sure you are
using a low sudsing HE detergent or you won't see the benefits you
expect (brands like Tide® and Gain® offer
quality HE formulas). Carley stresses that a quality HE detergent will
ensure you get optimal water and energy savings, and you also need to
follow the dosing instructions carefully to ensure you have the right
amount of detergent to get that larger load really clean. Remember, a
bigger load means more dirt!
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Don't Overlook Smaller Appliances:
Carley says to consider your convection toaster as a tiny oven for
cooking meals for two to four, warming up a side or heating up a
midnight snack of leftovers. Fast and efficient convection toaster
ovens use less energy than conventional ovens, and they don't heat up
your kitchen. Slow cookers (crock-pots) are also perfect for busy
families any time of the year. On average, they will cook a whole meal
for about 17 cents worth of electricity. Electric skillets can steam,
fry, saute', stew, bake, or roast a variety of food items - and some
can double as serving dishes.
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Stay Inspired in the Kitchen: It
can be hard to keep holiday meals healthy and delicious with all the
different tastes in a household. There are lots of sites and apps out
there to help you manage recipes, create menus, calendars and arrange
shopping lists, which will also come in handy once the New Year's
resolutions kick in. Pepperplate and Food52 are two Carley recommends.
Before heading to the store, create a mobile shopping list with apps
like GroceryIQ. What's cool about this is that you can e-mail your
list so coordinating with the whole family is easy. Save money at the
store by downloading mobile coupons and extra loyalty offers using an
app like Checkout51.
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Total Control at Your Fingertips:
Grandma's too cold? Lights-out time for the little ones? Carley says
you can control features of your home like heat and power via apps
that work from your smartphone so you never have to move from the
couch. Adjust thermostats simply from your smartphone with apps like
Nest and control lights, power and security with apps that connect
your home controls and communicate with each other like Wink.
About Carley Knobloch: Carley
Knobloch is obsessed with helping people use technology to make life
easier (and more fun). As a Today show contributor and HGTV
host, she explores the world of home control and makes tech simple to
even the least savvy among us. On her blog, CarleyK.com,
she helps busy humans navigate the world of personal technology. She's
appeared on CNN, Ricki Lake, EXTRA, and in the
pages of Real Simple and Bloomberg (News - Alert) BusinessWeek. She taps
and swipes in Los Angeles with her husband, two kids, a springer
spaniel, and myriad tablets.
About Procter & Gamble The
P&G Fabric Care category includes brands such as Tide®,
Downy®, Gain®, and Bounce®. For a
complete list of brands and for more information, visit http://www.pg.com/en_US/brands/global_fabric_home_care.
P&G serves nearly five billion people around the world with its brands.
The Company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality,
leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®,
Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®,
Dawn®, Downy®, Duracell®, Fairy®,
Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head &
Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®,
Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®,
Vicks®, Wella® and Whisper®. The P&G
community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.
Please visit http://www.pg.com for
the latest news and in-depth information about P&G and its brands.
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