Hay fever season has arrived, and if you're already reaching for the antihistamines, you're not alone. Millions of people suffer from seasonal allergies, and for most of them, the instinct is to blame the outside world — the park, the commute, your neighbor's overgrown yard.
But pollen doesn't clock off when you shut the front door. It hitches a ride on your clothes, settles into soft furnishings, and hides in the kind of clutter most of us have been ignoring since January. Once it's inside, it recirculates every time you move through a room, disturb a pile of clothes, or run a duster over a shelf.
