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16 Ways To Deep Clean Your Bathroom. Time to deep clean the whole house for the cold weather!

16 Ways To Deep Clean Your Bathroom

Bathroom is one of the least favorite room to conquer but the one that needs utmost. If you don’t stay on top of the dirt, it can get ahead of you, especially in those forgotten nooks and crannies. 101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home. I love to discover tips which make housework easier!

101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home

From time-saving tricks to finding new and ingenious uses for old things, the Internet provides a wealth of information and advice. DIY: All Natural Cleaning Products. I’ve been trying to eliminate all the chemical based cleaning products around the house lately.

DIY: All Natural Cleaning Products

Yes, there are a ton of great “all-natural” options out there today, but a great way to know exactly what’s in your cleaner AND save a few pennies, is to make your own. Here are a few of my favorite super easy “recipes” for your everyday cleaning products. You probably already have most of these ingredients in your pantry. 33 Meticulous Cleaning Tricks For The OCD Person Inside You.

50 MORE USES FOR VINEGAR!!! My last post on vinegar was so greatly viewed that I decided to view some more sites to come up with more uses for vinegar.

50 MORE USES FOR VINEGAR!!!

Compile this list with my previous list of 45 Uses for Vinegar and you now have 95! I am pretty sure that none of them have been repeated, but if 1 or 2 mix between the two, I am sorry! Also, check out my posts 40 Uses for Baking Soda and 20 Uses for Original Blue Dawn. You may not like the smell of vinegar, I mean I know no one who does. So here is a tip to help the smell... Save orange, lemon or lime peels and put them in a glass jar. Clean stainless steel toaster. Over the years my stainless steel toaster has built up a sticky skin that I couldn’t get rid of…until today!!

clean stainless steel toaster

I even tried Goo Gone and that didn’t work. You’re not going to believe what did the trick! How to Clean Oven Glass. I have never found a good solution to removing the cooked-on grime on my oven glass.

How to Clean Oven Glass

However last week after posting about Discoloration on the Oven a reader asked me the dreaded question: “How do I clean oven glass?” So of course I had to find a solution! Because having oven glass that looks like this, is just not acceptable. Natural Homemade ‘drain-o’, or How To Unclog Without Harmful Chemicals. If I were to write a love ballad, it would be all about baking soda.

Natural Homemade ‘drain-o’, or How To Unclog Without Harmful Chemicals

Tub Scrub - Martha Stewart 101's. My Cleaning Process and a $500 Give Away! The Fountain Avenue Kitchen – Orange Vinegar (a “green” cleaner) Household chores will likely be cast off in favor of egg hunts and family get-togethers this weekend, and that’s a good thing.

The Fountain Avenue Kitchen – Orange Vinegar (a “green” cleaner)

Happy Easter! The arrival of spring, however, is known as much for bunnies and daffodils as it is for thorough cleanings. So the timing seemed right to consider an ingredient that can disinfect your counters as effectively as it can dress your salad: vinegar. Basic household items like baking soda, toothpaste, lemons, and vinegar have long been used for purposes beyond the obvious. They offer convenient ways to scour, deodorize, remove stains, and more. For some people, however, the pungent smell of vinegar is off-putting. My initial experiment involved stuffing orange peels into a Mason jar, pouring basic white vinegar overtop, and storing the jar in a cupboard without opening. When I shared this “recipe” in this very space three years ago, I was astounded by the response to my little experiment.

My Favorite Homemade Green Household Cleaners with Free Printables. 18 Ways to Deep Clean Your Home. 33 Meticulous Cleaning Tricks For The OCD Person Inside You. DIY Grout Cleaner « Do It And How. Blog – Clean Your Pillows! ..is usually sexy and almost never about how clean or dirty your pillows actually are.

Blog – Clean Your Pillows!

I’ve investigated the situation and demonstrate the proper way to clean your pillows (watch the video below!) , an often overlooked cleaning task. There’s also a fairly interesting quick test which will let you know when it is time to replace your pillows. If they pass the test – then you can use the cleaning method explained to clean your pillows, quickly and easily! Warning…this may get gross! Your pillow doubles in weight over a span of time from absorbing dust, mold, bacteria, allergens, and dead skin when we sleep on them.

Fold your pillow in half and if it won’t bounce back, get rid of it. If it springs to life when folded over, it’s still good. Go do it now, I’ll wait… Growing Home: Lemon Dustcloths. Uses for vinegar. Unleash the power of white vinegar―an all-purpose cleaner, brightener, herbicide and more.

Uses for vinegar

Just a bit of this multitasker, straight up or mixed with water, can replace many pricier products huddled under your sink. Try these tips to see how vinegar can make your life cheaper and easier. 1. Freshen up the fridge. Tips for Cleaning Tile, Wood and Vinyl Floors. Clean Ceramic-Tile Floors Ceramic-tile floors can be cleaned easily with nothing but warm water, but be sure to sweep or vacuum first to remove any loose soil or grit. Never use a sponge mop to clean ceramic-tile floors. It will pull the dirt right into the grout tracks. This makes the floor more difficult to clean. Calendar. Cleaning File. Top 10 Time-Saving, MacGyver-Style Cleaning Tricks. Kandralla is right: vinegar (acid) and baking soda (base) will not unclog a drain and the mixture does not make a good cleaning solution!

Mixing an acid and a base creates a little bit of salt and mostly water. Never mix chemicals unless you know what you're doing: Some mixtures are toxic. For example, never mix bleach (aka chlorine) with ammonia! Never mix bleach with vinegar or any acid for that matter! Baking soda is sodium hydrogen carbonate (resist the temptation of calling it sodium bicarbonate— it's not!). Vinegar, like run-of-the-mill white vinegar, is a mixture of acetic acid and water.

When you mix baking soda and vinegar you get water, carbon dioxide (creates the bubbles), and sodium acetate. -And, we should point out that the amount of sodium acetate created by mixing vinegar and baking soda does not heat up enough to unclog drains... sorry. Spring Cleaning: Natural Cleaning Tips for the Bathroom. 6 Reasons Why My Cleaning Solutions Are TOTALLY BOSS « Reasons Why.

Or, 6 Reasons Why These Magic Mixes Will Cause You To So Deeply Regret All Those Years and Dollars You Wasted On Commercial Products That You May Need Grief Counseling 1. They are homemade. As Pinterest users can testify, anything DIY is automatically more awesome than the alternative. Which makes you cooler than other people who don’t make their own stuff.

10 Remarkable DIY Cleaning Solutions. Diy home sweet home. Tub And Shower Magic Recipe - Food.com - 434275. The Best Way to Clean Blinds, Part 1. There is a question I get asked a variation of quite frequently, and that is, “What is the best way to clean blinds?” Mini blinds, vertical blinds, faux wooden blinds, shutters, etc. Cream of Tartar — The Cleaner You’ll Swoon Over : Razor Family Farms. October 27, 2008|Comments (156) In my little world, items like cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate) are not simply a super way to stabilize egg whites but also scandalously inexpensive cleaning secrets. Vinegar as Garbage Disposal Deodorizer.