30 Must Read Cleaning Tips

1. Sanitizing sponges

You can be a sponge in the microwave for two minutes and you'll kill 99% of bacteria

2. Cabinet gunk

Do you know how much gunk accumulates on your cabinets? You can easily get it off using a mixture of baking soda and vegetable oil. Mot works best if you use an old toothbrush to scrub.

3. Small toys in a laundry bag

Put your children's small toys in a laundry bag and put them in the washer.

4. Cookie sheet grim

Just about everyone's cookie sheets begin to look like this over time. It's so simple to clean and requires no scrubbing! All you need is hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. You get it into a paste and let it sit for a hour or so. Wallah!

5. Clean fan blades with a pillow case

Put the pillow case over the blade and then wipe the blade, putting all of the dust inside the pillow case.

6.Clean between the oven glass
Somehow over time grim gets between the oven glass. The first thing you'll want to do is take out the oven drawer. Next you're going to want to make a cleaning contraption probably out of a hanger. Bend it to where you can strap a cleaning wipe on. You'll find a slot

7. Removing sticky labels

Put everything you want the label to come off of in a sink of warm water. Add a scoop of oxyclean and wait thirty minutes. In thirty minutes, the labels will be floating!

8. Use salt to clean your iron

Put salt down on your iron board. Then, heat up the iron and iron the salt. The dirt will stick to the salt & your iron will be clean!

9. Squeegee hair picker upper

Use a squeegee to wipe hair off of the carpet.

10. Rubber gloves remove pet hair

If you dampen a rubber glove you will easily be able to wipe pet hair off of furniture

11. Shop vac cleaning tip

Use a squeeze bottle cap on the end of a shop vac hose to clean your car, keyboard, etc.

12. Cleaning pillows

Did you know the yellowing on your pillow is from sweat? I know gross. We'll you put your pillow in the washer! You can add bleach or even your own laundry whitener.

13. Garbage disposal cleaning

Get an ice tray and fill most of the holes with water but leave a little room. In the rest of the room you're gonna put vinegar. Then, you'll take a little piece of the lemon rind in each one. Freeze & then put down your garbage disposal to keep it clean and fresh.

14. Getting rid of hard water

All you need for this is vinegar. Soak some paper towels in vinegars and lay them over the spot where the hard water residue is. After 20 minutes take them off, spray with vinegar, & scrub with an old tooth brush.

15. Cleaning the air conditioner

Clean the conditioning vent on the outside with a water hose on the highest pressure. It can make a big difference. It could help cool the house better.

16. Grout cleaner

You'll mix 3/4 C if baking soda and 1/4 C of bleach. You'll mix into a thick paste and apply it to sit for around 10 minutes. Then scrub it with an old tooth brush & taddah!

17. Rid of mildew stink

To get rid of mildew stink on clothes or towels you need to put them in the washer. Add a cup of vinegar & NO detergent. Wash in hot water. If they still have an odor, wash again with 1/2 C of baking soda. again, NO detergent & wash with hot water. Then, dry them 😊

18. DIY Hydrogen peroxide

Put a spray bottle nozzle on a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and use it to clean windows, tubs, & toilets.

19. Cleaning your stove burners

This is a very easy method that requires no scrubbing! Take a ziplock bag and put 1/4 C of ammonia in it. Then put the stove burner in the ziplock bag. You don't want to soak it you want to seal it with the ammonia. Leave it for 12 hours and wipe the burner clean.

20. Fix scratches on wood

Take 1/2 cup of vinegar and 3/4 cup of olive oil. Dip your rag in the mixture and go over all the wood and use most of the mixture. Your furniture will be like new!

21. Oil stains on driveway

There's a product called Pour-N-Restore. You pour it on the oil stain on your driveway and it comes out a liquid and turns into a powder. When it becomes a powder just sweep it up and you're good to go!

22. Removing white stains on wood

You're going to take two white linen clothes and put them over the spot. You want there to be a good layer of cloth. Then you'll spray it with water to dampen it. You'll get your iron out and set it on medium/steam and iron over the cloth for about 15 seconds.

23. Cleaning a microfiber couch

You'll want a white sponge and white bristle brush for this so you don't transfer the color. You'll need isopropyl alcohol. You'll put that on the stain and take the sponge and scrub the spot. You'll see it coming off. After it drys take the bristle brush and refluff

24. Non-stick grill

Cut an onion in half and rub it on the heated grill. After that, burgers, chicken, etc. won't stick!

25. Cleaning cloudy glassware

When you're washing your dishes in the dishwasher just add a cup of vinegar to the bottom if the dishwasher and run the cycle!(you'll still want to use detergent)

26. Removing hard water stains!

Easy! All you need is a lemon! Cut the lemon in half & scrub a half off it on the spots with hard water stains. Then rinse off & their gone!

27. Getting rust spots off of knives

First, you need to soak your knives in lemon juice for a few minutes and then scrub them with the scratchy part if a sponge 😊

28. Cleaning makeup brushes
This could be the culprit of why your breaking out but I have a simple solution.
Take baby shampoo and put a quarter size amount in a tiny cup of water. swirl your brush around in there. Rinse with lukewarm water & squeeze out excess liquid. Let it dry overnight on towel.

29. Shower cleaning wand

Pick up a dish wand, vinegar, dish soap, and a suction thing for the shower. You'll fill the wand with half vinegar and half soap. It makes it easy to clean the shower and you can hang it up in there. Spend 30 seconds in the shower touching it up and making cleaning easier.

30. No streak window cleaning

Spray your windows down with a vinegar, water, and dish soap mixture. Use a white cloth to clean the windows. And lastly, buff and dry the window with wadded up newspaper.