Carpets, like dogs, often hide under the dining-room table and let out audible whimpers when threatened with bath time. Make your carpets howl like the beasts they are with today’s Groupon: for $60, you get carpet cleaning in two rooms and a hallway from Hydro-Clean Carpet Cleaning (a $120 value). Today’s deal is only valid for residential cleaning within the 55016 zip code.

For more than 28 years, carpet-purifying wizard Jeff Struve has exorcised grime demons from fuzzy foot prairies. Jeff freshens flooring using Green Seal-certified cleaning chemicals, promoting safety for humans and devastation for dirt and other grungy fiber residents who spoil picturesque living-room ficus landscapes. Today’s deal allows home havers to spruce up any two rooms (up to 400 square feet) and a hallway, ideal for beautifying residential vistas prior to fancy dinner parties or casual masked balls.