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- Apply broadleaf herbicide to lawns
- Before frost, pot up herbs to grow indoors through the winter
- Bring plants indoors before the 1st frost
- Check gauges on home fire extinguishers to ensure a full charge. Replace if necessary
- Clean all walls, ceilings & floors
- Clean gutters after leaves have fallen. Make sure downspouts are in good repair
- Color Hair
- Crystal on sale
- Daylight savings time ends (Fall back in the fall)
- Detach hoses in case of freezing temperatures. Remove all paints, caulks and liquid materials from garage or garden sheds
- Dig gladiolus corms & dahlia & canna roots for winter storage
- Dining furniture on sale
- Fishing equipment on sale
- Glassware on sale
- Halloween
- Harvest apples & store at 34°
- Harvest pumpkin, winter squash, & gourds as vines die from frost
- Harvest seed from cleome, poppies, zinnia, marigold, & other flowers to scatter next spring
- Houses on sale
- Inspect plants for pests or disease
- Inspect weather-stripping around doors and windows and repair or replace if necessary.
- Organize household business records, throw away superseded ones
- Plant deciduous trees & shrubs
- Plant tulip, daffodil, & other spring-flowering bulbs before 1st freeze
- Set thermostats and automatic sprinklers for winter
- Silver on sale
- Stock up now on next summer's patio furniture
- Take cuttings of coleus & geraniums to grow indoors for the winter
- Turn mattresses
- Wash windows, storm windows & screens
- When setting clocks back to Standard Time, change batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
- Winter wear (winter coats, gloves, scarves) on sale
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