When it comes to cleaning everyone loves learning new, simple ways to get the same old things done. It can be fun and interesting to discover what nifty and quick solutions people have come up with to solve common problems. This video, from YouTube channel List25, highlights 25 tricks for dealing with difficulties you are likely to encounter when tidying and cleaning things up.
The rest of this article goes over a few of the best and most interesting tips, but the video covers many more. Clean surfaces with dryer sheets, not only do they pick up dust particles, they also prevent dust build up in the future. To clean a shower head, pour distilled white vinegar in a plastic bag and secure it on.
Leave this on overnight and simply wipe the head clean the next day. If you have dirty pans, place a little water in them and a cup of white vinegar. Heat it on the stove until warm, then remove it and add 2 tablespoons of baking soda.
The grimy crust should easily scrub right off. Blenders are basically self-cleaning when you fill them with soapy warm water and blend it up. Grapefruits work wonders at cleaning a scummy shower. Cut one in half, sprinkle some salt on it and all over the wet shower, scrub and rinse clean. Re-fresh a sponge and kill 99.9% of germs it may be harboring by microwaving it for a few minutes.
Don’t have a Brillo pad? Ball up a piece of tinfoil, drizzle on some dish soap, and scrub away. To clean up shards of glass all you need is a piece of bread. Press it over the spot where any pieces may be and it will pick up all the bits.
Make leather furniture look brand new again with shoe polish, it reconditions and makes unsightly scuffs or markings disappear. If your carpet has pet hairs sticking to it use a rubber squeegee to get it out.
One of the hardest objects in a house clean are ceiling fan blades. Throw a pillow case over each blade to trap all the dust that settles and accumulates on them. When you pull it off the dust won’t fly all over because it’s trapped in the pillow case.
When grease and oil splatters all over the stove top clean it up with a few drops of vegetable oil on a paper towel. Simply wipe it off and you’re done. If you need to clean hard to reach places dip an old sock in some water and white vinegar. Stick the sock on your hand and wipe away, it will dust and clean cracks, crevices, and even in-between blinds.
This may come as a surprise, but every so often you have to clean the dishwasher. In the top rack place a bowl filled with white vinegar and run it on the hottest cycle. Afterwards sprinkle baking soda all over the bottom and run it on another hot cycle.
This last trick is amazing and works on everything from walls to clothes. To clear up a grease stain cover it with chalk and wipe it clean with a damp towel after a minute or so. The chalk picks up the stain, leaving a grease free surface behind.
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