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Using vinegar
Save money and the environment. Avoid using chemical products to make some cleaning around the house by using at hand products. These tips should work:
- Add a few capfuls of vinegar to the rinse cycle to fluff up wool sweaters and towels. It will keep away the mildew smell, as well.
- To keep the glass shower doors spot free, rub them with a (paper) towel soaked in vinegar.
- To clean copper stuff, fill a spray bottle with hot vinegar. Spray over the piece and sprinkle table salt all over it. Rub the piece with a cloth while doing circular movements until it becomes polished and shining.
Baking Soda
- To get your drain running again pour ½ cup baking soda, then ½ cup vinegar, down a clogged drain. Cover it with a wet cloth. Wait 5 minutes, uncover, and pour steaming-hot water.
- To remove any smell from food storage plastic containers, soak these in warm water and baking soda overnight.
- If you run out of toothpaste, use baking soda and water to make a paste. It will get your teeth clean until you can get a new tube.
- To clean the oven when there is some spilt liquid around after baking, sprinkle over the dirt some baking soda or salt while the oven is still hot. Let cool and then just rub a wet cloth to remove any stain.
- To keep the refrigerator free from bacteria and bad odor, make a mixture of baking soda and hot water to clean it in the inside. |
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Permanent marker on appliances/counter tops (like store receipt BLUE) rubbing alcohol on paper towel.
Blood stains on clothes? Just pour a little hydrogen peroxide on a cloth and proceed to wipe off every drop of blood. |
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To remove old wax from a glass candle holder, put it in the freezer for a few hours. Then take the candle holder out and turn it upside down. The wax will fall out.
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For extra-shiny, streakless glasses, add a little vinegar to the final rinse water. |
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To erase or at least lessen the white scum on fine crystal decanters or glasses, add about 1 cup white vinegar, stopper, and swirl to coat sides. Let stand briefly, swirl again, wash, rinse in hot water, and dry. |
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Quite often you can end up with two glasses stuck inside of one another. There is a very simple solution to this annoying problem. The answer lies in some very simple science. Cold things contract and hot expand. So place ice in the inner glass and dip the outer glass in warm water. They will come apart very easily. |
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If glasses have hard-water stains, rub them with a scouring pad dipped in vinegar. |
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