I would take everything outside, cover with tarps, get rid of anything else I could at the time, and rip up the carpet. I would clean and paint the concrete and put an area rug down for now...I would never, under any circumstances, voluntarily put down wall to wall carpet...it is the filthiest thing in the world and I don't know how people, 99 percent of whom are better housekeepers than I am, can stand it in their houses. Likewise stuffed furniture without slipcovers. Yuck.

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