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25 Ways to clean with vinegar
This mom Laura told me about this great list of uses for vinegar she found!
1. Deoderize your sink with baking soda and 1 cup of hot vinegar. Let sit for 5 minutes and rinse with hot water.
2. Deoderize the garbage disposal by making ice cubes out of vinegar and putting them in it with cold water.
3. Clean countertops
4. Clean the fridge with half water and half vinegar
5. Remove soap build-up odors from dishwasher. Once a month pour 1 cup of vinegar into an empty dishwasher and run the machine through a cycle.
6. Bust oven grease. Pour vinegar on tough spots and let sit for 15 minutes and wipe away with sponge.
7. To get rid of cloudy glasses, wrap a vinegar towel around the glass and let it sit. Remove and rinse with hot water.
8. Get rid of lime deposits in tea kettles. Fill kettle with vinegar and let it boil.
9. Remove stains in coffee cups: Create a paste using equal parts vinegar and salt and scrub before rinsing.
10. Treat Tupperware stains by wiping the containers with a vinegar saturated towel.
11. Remove stains on aluminum pots by boiling 1 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of water.
12. Deter ant infestations by spraying outside doorways and windowsills.
13. Clean can openers by scrubbing wheel of opener with vinegar using a toothbrush.
14. Remove stickers and labels by covering sticker with vinegar soaked cloth. Let it sit overnight and it should slide off in the am.
15. Shine porcelain sinks by scrubbing with vinegar.
16. Clean grout and let sit a few minutes and buff with toothbrush.
17. Clean the shower door
18. Clean a grimy showerhead. Fill a ziplock bag with 1/2 cup baking soda and 1 cup vinegar and tie it around showerhead. Let it sit an hour until bubbling stops and remove and rinse.
19. Make a toilet sparkle by letting vinegar sit overnight and then scrubbing.
20. Polish linoleum floors with 1 cup of vinegar to every gallon of water.
21. Clean paintbrushes
22. Clean grills by spraying vinegar on a ball of tin foil and then scrub
23. Disinfect wood cutting boards by wiping them down with vinegar.
24. Clean the microwave. Fill bowl with 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup vinegar. Heat it on full power for 3-4 minutes until it comes to a boil. Remove and wipe down walls.
25. Polish patent leather items by rubbing with vinegar and buffing with dry cloth.
2. Deoderize the garbage disposal by making ice cubes out of vinegar and putting them in it with cold water.
3. Clean countertops
4. Clean the fridge with half water and half vinegar
5. Remove soap build-up odors from dishwasher. Once a month pour 1 cup of vinegar into an empty dishwasher and run the machine through a cycle.
6. Bust oven grease. Pour vinegar on tough spots and let sit for 15 minutes and wipe away with sponge.
7. To get rid of cloudy glasses, wrap a vinegar towel around the glass and let it sit. Remove and rinse with hot water.
8. Get rid of lime deposits in tea kettles. Fill kettle with vinegar and let it boil.
9. Remove stains in coffee cups: Create a paste using equal parts vinegar and salt and scrub before rinsing.
10. Treat Tupperware stains by wiping the containers with a vinegar saturated towel.
11. Remove stains on aluminum pots by boiling 1 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of water.
12. Deter ant infestations by spraying outside doorways and windowsills.
13. Clean can openers by scrubbing wheel of opener with vinegar using a toothbrush.
14. Remove stickers and labels by covering sticker with vinegar soaked cloth. Let it sit overnight and it should slide off in the am.
15. Shine porcelain sinks by scrubbing with vinegar.
16. Clean grout and let sit a few minutes and buff with toothbrush.
17. Clean the shower door
18. Clean a grimy showerhead. Fill a ziplock bag with 1/2 cup baking soda and 1 cup vinegar and tie it around showerhead. Let it sit an hour until bubbling stops and remove and rinse.
19. Make a toilet sparkle by letting vinegar sit overnight and then scrubbing.
20. Polish linoleum floors with 1 cup of vinegar to every gallon of water.
21. Clean paintbrushes
22. Clean grills by spraying vinegar on a ball of tin foil and then scrub
23. Disinfect wood cutting boards by wiping them down with vinegar.
24. Clean the microwave. Fill bowl with 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup vinegar. Heat it on full power for 3-4 minutes until it comes to a boil. Remove and wipe down walls.
25. Polish patent leather items by rubbing with vinegar and buffing with dry cloth.
Amazing Whites Brightener!
This mom Lisa told me about how amazing this cleaner is at getting whites super clean and bright. You soak your whites in the tub with Biz overnight and then run them through a wash cycle in your machine and they turn out amazing.
Amazing Tile Cleaner!
Okay, this product is amazing at cleaning grout!! I had tried everything and this made my grout look like I just did it!!The negative is that it is not a green product, but for a once a year cleaning I think it is a great thing.
How to Help Sticking Drawer Runners
Rub the runners on the drawer with a candle or bar of soap so the glide more easily.
Go Green When You Can!
I Found these great go green ideas in this months Good Housekeeping Magazine and thought there were some that are so easy that I never even thought of them.
Some Websites To Use If Your Looking For Companies That Are Good To The Environment
1. Switch to energy star light bulbs
2. Plant trees around your house so your air conditioner is shaded which can save about
$250.00 a year on heating and cooling. Try the south and west sides.
3. Install dimmer switches which can save $37.00 a year
4. Replace old shower heads with new ones that save up to $45.00 a month
5. Wrap an insulation blanket around your water heater and lower its running cost as much as
9 percent
6. Run a full dishwasher as much as possible
7. Roll up old magazines and put them in your knee high boots to keep their shape
8. Use empty paper-towel rolls and flatten them. Then put sharp knifes in them to protect the blade
9. Use old shower curtains as lining for carrying flowers, mulch or paint home.
10. Put foam packing peanuts in the bases of potted plants to help drainage
11. Upgrade two toilets made before 1992 to low-flow ones and save $200.oo a year.
2. Plant trees around your house so your air conditioner is shaded which can save about
$250.00 a year on heating and cooling. Try the south and west sides.
3. Install dimmer switches which can save $37.00 a year
4. Replace old shower heads with new ones that save up to $45.00 a month
5. Wrap an insulation blanket around your water heater and lower its running cost as much as
9 percent
6. Run a full dishwasher as much as possible
7. Roll up old magazines and put them in your knee high boots to keep their shape
8. Use empty paper-towel rolls and flatten them. Then put sharp knifes in them to protect the blade
9. Use old shower curtains as lining for carrying flowers, mulch or paint home.
10. Put foam packing peanuts in the bases of potted plants to help drainage
11. Upgrade two toilets made before 1992 to low-flow ones and save $200.oo a year.
Some Websites To Use If Your Looking For Companies That Are Good To The Environment
Electric Product Environmental Assessment Tool
They can give you info on specific products your looking for
Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
They rank the 500 largest companies based on policies for toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change.
How To Store Your Food In Bags Correctly
1. Make sure to get the air out before you seal the bag
2. Match the size of the bag as closely as possible to the food item size. Too much space between food and the seal can speed freezer burn and deterioration.
3. Double Bag smelly foods so the smell does not spread
4. Do not keep deli meats more than 3-5 days after you open them even if stored in a bag.
Removing Lipstick From A Purse Lining
You can usually use liquid dish soap from most cotton or polyester handbag linings.
For other materials you should take it to a dry cleaner. If you do use the dish soap,
dilute a capful with equal amounts of warm water. Apply the mixture with a q-tip in
a circular motion to the stain. Keep changing out the q-tip for a clean one, so you don't
put the stain back on.
Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe
This mom Lori told me about this recipe for Laundry Soap.
1 bar of Fels Naptha soap or any bar soap that does not contain lotion
1/2 cup Arm and Hammer Washing Soda
1/2 cup Borax
Grate the bar soap, (she uses a Pampered Chef shredder to grate the soap),
add washing soda and Borax.After grating the soap you put everything in a food processor, the soap curls are broken down into granules and all of the ingredients are mixed together. Store in airtight container.Use 1 tablespoon per load of laundry. This soap works well with HE machines. For white loads she still adds bleach to the soap. She also notes you can adjust the amount of soap you used based on your own family and laundry cleaning results. She uses 1/4 cup and makes a larger batch.
Legos That Fall Apart During Assembly
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great tip from this mom Pam is for lego building. Whenever we had a
large set, we would find that certain pieces kept breaking off and then
it made it difficult to get other pieces on. We decided to start crazy
gluing some more difficult pieces together. This worked great. We did
it for airplane wings or flap type pieces. Great little tip that
really helped make it less frustrating.
Doing Laundry
and fold it then put the basket in his room and he puts it away. This ended the stacks of laundry baskets in my room waiting to be sorted. It has been great for my kids. If they
do not put all of it away, it gets taken back downstairs with the basket collection and they don't have clean stuff. Even my five year old daughter puts it away pretty well!
Keeping Video Area Clean
My kids have a Wii and we all love it. They play only on the weekends unless they are
having a special friend over for some reason. The rule here is if they leave the controls
and games out on the floor or anywhere other then the basket area they lose whatever I found. This has helped a lot because I took two games and all the remotes for a whole weekend because they were left out. They still had the video time, but there were no controllers left.
Sending A Lunch To School That Stays Warm!
This mom Lori told me that she has been struggling with lunches and finding things her boys
will eat. She has done soup in a thermos and goulash. She tried chicken nuggets but they were
not warm when he took them out for lunch. She decided to try wrapping them in foil before
putting them in the thermos and it worked! She has done mini bagel dogs and that worked as
well.
will eat. She has done soup in a thermos and goulash. She tried chicken nuggets but they were
not warm when he took them out for lunch. She decided to try wrapping them in foil before
putting them in the thermos and it worked! She has done mini bagel dogs and that worked as
well.
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