Kelly R need help to clarify doubt about: : What is your favorite cleaning tip or tool for your household?
Please, no PR from someone in sales, just share your favorite tip to making our lives easier or more successful in home maintenance.
Try this:
Answer by justme
My Swifter Dry Mop. I use it on my hardwood floors but I also use it on my walls and ceilings to clean off dust and cobwebs. The long handle makes it easy to use.
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Vacuum’s! Just imagine life without them. Picking up each little speck piece by piece…vacuum’s make it much easier for us. :o)
I love my Swiffer mop,Febreeze and use old socks for dusting.
household rubber gloves playtex living and marigold rubber gloves x
My favorite tool is the micro fiber cloth. I form them into what I call “Duster Bunnies” or “Boo Boo Bunnies” and give them as gifts. They work well in every cleaning situation. They grab onto dirt and soil and hold on. Spay glass with cleaning solution such as 2 drops of “Basic H” in 16 oz of water. Drying with micro fiber cloth leaves a streak free shine. Spray them with the Basic H solution until they are cool but not wet. Dust with them and they will attract 420 times their damp weight in dust. The dusted area will stay dust free longer than expected. These cloths are even great as scrubbers. They work as well as magic erasers. For the most cost effective micro fiber clothes look in the automotive section.
*Dr Bronner’s All In One Liquid Hemp Miracle [or whatever the entire name of the dang thing is]-in Peppermint. Shampoo your rugs and de-flea your dogs, wash your hair[which I don’t recommend since it does clean but tends to tangle]/hands/body/face and it WILL also clear up your complexion[seriously], i’ve never found anything better for laundry stains, give yourself a facial, use as deodorant,wash dishes & the kitchen floor. I can’t even remember all I’ve used DB [successfully] for. It’s all natural, renewable resourses, condensed for super value, smells so nice and you can often bring your empty to a coop or health food store to refill-no extra plastic.
No, I don’t work for the label. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean.
**Also, I like a hair blowdryer for dusting-good w/lampshades & like that.
***But I really like to have a box of static guard dryer sheets. I don’t know if the brand or price matter. Maybe but I use the cheap ones so…meh? Great for dusting. Run one over your over-clingly clothes-if you’ve got a pocket stick it in there afterwards. It helps keep the garment static free just sitting there. And if you do happen to get sticky again you’ve got a handy & discreet solution [-and I SWEAR that I got this from several sources-] that should REPEL BEES. You think? Supposedly. Stash a couple in your dresser drawers with your clothing. Maintainance for venetian blinds. A bunch of stuff I won’t say since I feel ridiculous now. Why do I care?
Ack!
xxxzoe
Baking Soda – it’s not just for baking!
I use this for cleaning greasy areas in the kitchen and grill. Sprinkle directly onto the grease then rub with a damp sponge. Rinse and everything sparkles.
Black heel marks on floors – dry b.soda and damp sponge cleans them right up.
Freshen clothes in the wash – put some into you washing machine with a load of clothes – helps take out odors (I did this the other day with clothes we had on at a bonfire – they smell really bad of the smoke – now they are ready to wear and fresh).
put 1 cup baking soda down your drain, pour in 1/2 cup vinegar, let it bubble then pour in a large pot of boiling water. Cleans out the pipes and no icky smells.
We love cooking in our household and we use ingredients that are so very hard to clean! So if you have a gas cooker what we do now is to cover it with foil underneath so that all you have to do is pull away the foil when your done and just wipe underneathe rather than having stubborn cooking stains all over your cooker!
I love my stick vacuum! Well, loved. My dog at the filter, and I haven’t been able to find a replacement one, and I *could* order one off the internet, but it irks me that the shipping actually costs more than the filter!
Wipe down one bathroom a day with one of those clorox wipes – Sink/faucet, toilet, floor = bathroom ALWAYS clean!
Get rid of junk/clutter.
Get rid of excess towelage! This absolutely changed my life ! Each family member has two towels of the same color. They each get one per week. Each week I pick them all up, and wash them, and replace them with the fresh ones I washed last week. This is SOOOOOO much better than facing a mountain of towels every few weeks.
I also like the swifter, it’s really fast to use, and practical. One of my favorite cleaning tips is going “wholesale”. Instead of cleaning one room at a time, I first go through all the house putting things in their places, then dust the whole house and then vacuum the whole house. For me keeping things in their places is the best tip. Even if the house is not that clean it gives a neat look.
To get odors out of a microwave, I like stick half of lemon with lemon juice into a microwave safe container for two minutes on high. The heat and the acid in the lemon help get the stains out and the smell is nice and fresh.
To get candle tarts out of the tart holders I like to put the whole thing in the freezer. Wait about a day or two and it pops out easily on its own.
To get rid of ants I use dish soap in my mop water. Since it rains in Florida so much, we get ants often, but whenever I mop the floor with dish soap they don’t come back for months!
Hope this helped. : )
I found a cool bin @ Target in my town. It has three bin in it stacked up, and it is on wheels. I had a really messy art table, so with help from my mom we cleaned out the art table into 2 of the bin and we got rid of the art table.
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