Spray some non-stick cooking oil on your shovel to prevent snow from sticking to it.
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Showing posts with label cleaning hacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cleaning hacks. Show all posts
Monday, 2 March 2015
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Wash your Toothbrush Holder
There are somethings in our homes that we forget to clean and our toothbrush holders are one of them. The average holder has 2 million cells of bacteria on it. So toss it in your dishwasher at least once a week to clean it. If you don't have a dishwasher soak it in some hot water and antibacterial dish soap to clean it.
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Monday, 26 January 2015
Sunday, 25 January 2015
How to Clean Ugg Boots
Start by lightly brushing on water to the boot.
Dip the brush into bowl of vinegar and brush it on to the boot.
Scrub it in a little, then repeat the first step of brushing on water. After that, wipe it and scrub it down with a wet towel. Place something in the boots to keep them upright while they dry like a pool noodle or rolled up towels. Let them fully dry and you're done.
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Monday, 19 January 2015
How to Clean Your Mattress
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Clean a Keyboard w/ Rubbing Alcohol and Q-tips
Dip a Q-Tip in some rubbing alcohol and clean your keyboard.
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Sunday, 18 January 2015
How to Clean Brass
1. Ketchup. Perhaps the least effective of the lot, but isn't there something fun about using ketchup to clean things? Just dip a cleaning cloth in some ketchup and polish your brass with this. Or for more stubborn cases you can coat the object in the ketchup and leave it to react a bit. Be sure to rinse and dry your object most carefully after this method and the others listed here.
2. Vinegar, salt, and flour. Add 1 teaspoon of salt to a cup of distilled white vinegar. Add enough flour to make a paste that will adhere to your object. Cover the object in this and leave on for an hour or so. Rinse, wash and dry thoroughly.
3. Vinegar and baking soda. Make a paste of vinegar and baking soda, and using a soft clean towel, polish the brass with this. This may be more effective in resistant cases. Once again be sure to rinse, wash and dry your item after cleaning.
4. Lemon and baking soda. Sprinkle a lemon quarter with baking soda and use this to polish the brass surface.
5. Salt. You can use salt as a substitute for part or all of the homemade brass cleaner 3 and 4. Do exercise caution with this, as it will be much more abrasive then the baking soda and may scratch surfaces.
If your Car Lock is Covered in Ice Melt it with Hand Sanitizer
If your Car Lock is Covered in Ice Melt it with Hand Sanitizer.
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Clean Wine Stains from Carpet w/ Salt
Dilute the stain with a bit of white wine. This may seem counterintuitive (in fact, it should), but pouring on a bit of white wine will help dilute the color.
If you don't have white wine lying around, you can skip this step. It's not imperative, just helpful for color purposes.
Dampen a sponge and blot the stain. Using cool water on your sponge, dab at the stain gently. This will soak up the top layer and some color, but not press the stain into the carpet fibers (if you do it lightly enough).It bears repeating: BLOT. Don't rub, scrub, massage, press, or any other verb that involves force. Just blot. Lightly. You don't want the stain to soak in anymore than it already is.
Pour salt over the stain. You want to pour enough salt to soak into the stain and then a layer on top of that. When you think it's enough salt, pour on a little more, for good measure.You can leave it as is right now or you can cover it with a few paper towels and place a heavy weight on top. Use your discretion and whatever you have available.
Let it set for up to 8 hours. Some people will tell you it'll be ready in 10 minutes.[2] Others will tell you to continue on with your party (giving the culprit a sippy cup) and worry about it in the morning.[3] Whatever school of thought you adhere to, all you need right now is to have blind faith in the salt gods. It's basically magic.The salt draws out the liquid (like how when you eat a french fry you want a Coke) and absorbs the stain; that's why pouring on white wine was okay, too
Throw away the excess salt and vacuum up the carpet. TADA! And you thought salt was just to constrict your blood vessels. Your carpet should be virtually good as new. To remove the salty residue, just dampen with cool water and vacuum again to restore its natural texture.
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Clean Wine Stains from Carpets w/ Baking Soda
Blot the stain as much as possible. The less red wine you have to deal with in the end, the better. But don't rub it in! Lightly press against the stain with a paper towel or cloth, transferring as much from the carpet to your quicker-picker-upper as you can.
Pour some cold water onto the stain. This dilutes the stain, allowing more of it to rise from your carpeting. Continue blotting (with a new cloth) until you've obtained what you could.
Make a paste of one part baking soda to three parts water.[1] Mix it up well and apply it to the stain. Be sure to get all around the edges and apply generously. Leave it to dry.
Once it's dry, vacuum it up. The stain should be gone! If there's any residue left (which should be very minimal at best), reapply some cold water or a carpet cleaner, let dry, and vacuum once more. The carpeting should return to its normal texture and appearance.
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Clean Wine Stains from Carpets w/ Dish Soap and Peroxide
Make a solution of dish soap and hydrogen peroxide. The amount you need will depend on the size of your stain. Once it's made, test it somewhere else to see that it doesn't affect the color. If it doesn't, proceed.
Blot the stain with the solution. Again, don't rub -- blot. And always use a clean rag or section of the rag; if you don't, you risk spreading the stain.
Spray the stain with a mixture of cold water and a few drops of dish soap. If you have a spray bottle, this is ideal. Then, again with a clean cloth, blot once more.
Blot with fresh, room temperature water. Even if the stain is gone, you don't want a soapy, sticky residue from the cleaning solution. Use a clean rag!
Cover the stain with a clean cloth. Set a heavyweight (or weights) on the cloth to force whatever's left of the stain or solution to transfer to the cloth. Leave it for several hours.Once the stain is completely gone, vacuum the carpet to return it to its normal look.
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Get Wine Stains out of Carpets w/ Dish Soap and Vinegar
Blot up as much of the red wine as possible from the carpet using a paper towel or rag. Do not rub it, blot it. Rubbing it will force it deeper into your carpet, ensuring that it becomes permanent.
Work from the outside in, preventing the stain from getting any larger than it already is.
If for some reason you have access to salt and no paper towels or cloth, pour salt over the stain to prevent it from setting. You can vacuum it up later. The stain will still be there, it'll just stay lifted
Make a cleaning solution. Mix 1 tablespoon (15 g) of dishwashing liquid, 1 tablespoon of white vinegar (15 g), and 2 cups (16 oz) of warm water in a bowl. Mix it well, combining the three ingredients together.
Blot the stain with the mixture using a clean rag. Follow with a dry rag, working as you go. Alternate between dabbing on the vinegar solution and drying it up.
Blot the area with cold water. Use a different, clean rag. You want to remove any residue from the previous mixture. Then, blot to dry.
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Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Use the Rack from a Toaster over to Dry Wine Glasses
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Use the rack from a toaster oven to air dry your wine glasses, so there's no leftover residue.
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Great Stain Remover for Clothing
- Stain treater for clothes: 2 parts hydrogen peroxide to 1 part dish soap
- Add a few tsp. of baking soda for extra deodorizing/scrubbing power, especially for pit stains and grease stains
- Use a higher ratio of peroxide (3 or 4 parts peroxide to 1 part Dawn) for places you’d want less sudsing (like my examples above with the mattress & carpet, which are harder to rinse)
- Mix it up as needed in smaller quantities, so the chemical reaction is fresh and most effective at fighting stains.
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Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Clean Dishwasher w/ Vinegar
Run an empty dishwasher with vinegar:
It’s the same concept as running a vinegar load in your washing machine. You simply toss a cup of white vinegar into the bottom of an empty dishwasher and run a normal cycle. It cleans out old food particles to keep your dishwasher smelling fresh.
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Clean Oil Painting with Half a Bagel
Gently rub the bagel over the painting to absorb the dirt and grime. Remove the left over crumbs with a clean paint brush.
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