Archive Category: 'Cleaning'

• Wallpaper Cleaning & Repair Tips: For grease spots apply a paste of cornstarch and water to the stain and allow to dry. Brush or vacuum off the cornstarch after a day, the grease should be gone. If you have a little nic or tear in the wallpaper, you can conceal it by coloring in the damaged area. This won’t work for [...]
• Quick Tips For Mattress Care: Use a mattress cover to protect the mattress and wash at least once a month. You can make your own to fit perfectly, see Perfectly Fitted Mattress Pad. Remove stains by lightly dabbing with liquid dish detergent that has been well diluted in water. For tough stains like blood spots, try blotting with hydrogen peroxide. For [...]
• 10 Tips For Mastering A Messy Home: Living a clutter free and bare-bones minimized possessions lifestyle would be great and easy to manage in single or adult couple homes–but here are 10 practical tips for mess-free family sized living: Regularly Junk Hunt: Practice the 27 Fling Boogie made popular by FlyLady. Race through the house and grab 27 items to throw away. Then [...]
• 10 Easy Household Time Savers: Keep the dishwasher open and fill with dirty dishes as you cook. Have a sink full of hot soapy water to hold the hand wash items so they can soak and be easily cleaned. If you don’t have a dishwasher, wash the dishes by hand while you’re waiting for the meal to cook. No more [...]
• Spring Cleaning: Motivation Tips: Here are a few tips that will help put a little bounce in your step and some fire in your belly while doing the best job you can this Spring… Spring Cleaning: Motivation Tips Start the cleaning when the weather is warm and Spring really is here. I haven’t started Spring cleaning yet because it’s been chilly [...]
• Spring Cleaning Outdoors – Chore Chart: Yesterday’s big list of Spring Cleaning tips was for indoors, but the yard and outside of the house has a bunch of chores that need to be tended to–plus there’s plenty of prep work to be done for the upcoming season (whew!). Here’s a chore chart to help you get organized… Spring Cleaning Outdoors Chore Chart Check & [...]
• Printable Recipe Cards For Homemade Cleaners: Today’s feature is from the David Suzuki Foundation with printable recipe cards for environmentally friendly homemade cleaners (pdf download). There are four recipe cards available: Liquid Laundry Soap (also see Tipnut’s list of 10 laundry detergent recipes) Powdered Laundry Soap Fabric Softener (also see Tipnut’s recipes here) Furniture Polish These recipes were found in Nature Challenge Newsletter for April, 2008. If [...]
• 40 Household Jobs In 5 Minutes or Less: Today’s feature is from Woman’s Day Magazine with 40 Household Jobs In 5 Minutes or Less, I’ve also included another 12 ideas below: You’ve done it, you know you have: looked at a messy room, sighed and walked away. Just thinking about cleaning the house is enough to exhaust, and deter, most of us. Then one [...]
• 27 Ways To Use Citrus Fruit Around The House: Today’s feature is from Re-Nest with 27 Household Uses For Citrus Fruit: A staple in most homes, citrus fruit, including oranges, lemons and limes, makes a beautiful, fragrant display that can piled in a bowl. We also like to use them in a flower arrangement. Peeking out from the bottom of a clear glass container, they [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Clip Sponges & Cloths Used For Dirty Jobs: This tip was sent in from Margie and it’s a great way to keep sponges & cloths used for nasty cleaning jobs separate from your good stuff: Clip Your Cleaning Sponges & Cloths If you are going to use old face cloths, dish cloths, tea towels or sponges as dust rags or for messy cleaning jobs cut [...]
• 5 Easy Steps To Clutter Free Living: Today’s feature tip is from BohemianRevolution with 5 Steps To Declutter Your Home: Getting rid of clutter is wonderful, but sometimes you get overwhelmed, take a break, and end up accumulating more clutter before you can get back to the original clutter. Your cleaning effort suddenly dies of frustration, and the situation is no better than [...]
• How To Clean Like A Maid: Today’s feature tip is from Curbly with great instructions for house cleaning: Clean Like A Maid: The mantra of the company I worked for was top to bottom, left to right. This way you could easily walk into any room and know exactly where to get started. The work was divided into”wet rooms” (bathrooms and kitchens) and [...]
• Tips For Floor Cleaners, Spots & Scuffs: Method #1 – Scuff & Stain Remover Cornstarch or Baking Soda Water Mix cornstarch and water to make a paste, apply paste to wet sponge and scrub out the scuff marks. Method #2 – Remove Wax Buildup Club Soda Drizzle or spray club soda over the floor, leave for a couple minutes then mop clean. Method #3 – Scuff Mark Remover Artgum Eraser Erase [...]
• How To Clean A Cat Litter Box: Here are a list of steps to thoroughly clean the kitty litter box and keep things sanitized. I’ve also included several links at the bottom pointing to some neat ideas to hide the box in some manner. How To Clean A Litter Box Wear rubber gloves used just for cleaning the cat litter. Dump all the used litter into [...]
• 25 Helpful Items To Remove Sticky Adhesive Goo: Things like price stickers and labels, different types of tape (packing, masking, scotch tape) can leave behind a sticky gooey residue that’s a tricky mess to remove. Here’s a list of items that can help make the cleanup job a lot easier. Careful: Please test in an unnoticeable area first to make sure there will [...]
• Deodorizing Musty Books: Today’s feature is from Keeping The Castle with the tip: Deodorizing Musty Books: Place the book in an airtight container. Fill the container with either baking soda or cat litter. Leave the book/s and filler in the container for a few days. This is a great tip that works. I have a big rubbermaid tub filled a [...]
• How To Make The Best Mop In The World: Today’s feature is from Instructables.com with a great homemade mop idea: How To Make The Best Mop In The World: Are your floors in need of a good scrub? Does the smell of your bathroom leave you gasping for air? Are you in need of perhaps the best mop ever made? If you answered yes to [...]
• How To Wash & Care For Fine China Dishes: Hairline Crack Repair: Soak the china in warm milk overnight. Gently hand wash in warm water with mild dish detergent. Grey or Black Cutlery Markings: Dab a damp sponge in baking soda and rub the marks gently. You could also try regular toothpaste. Removing Stains in China: Mix 50/50 table salt and household vinegar. Allow to soak on stain then [...]
• 10 ReaLemon Juice Household Hacks Plus Bonus Recipe: Garden Grit Hand Cleaner: Splash some ReaLemon in your hands and scrub in hot soap and water. Gets the grime off lickety-split. Laundry Booster: Toss in a half cup of ReaLemon (plus laundry detergent) when washing whites. Also a good stain pretreater (for whites), just spritz on some ReaLemon and soak before washing. You could also [...]
• More White Stain Removal Tips For Wood Furniture: If the last tip for removing those pesky white water rings or steam marks from wood tables and furniture was a bit too aggressive for you, try one of the tips below: Mix 50/50 toothpaste and baking soda, rub into mark. Do not use gel toothpaste for this. Rub in a paste of salt and olive oil, [...]
• Dust Mite Busters: If you have perpetual stuffiness or the sniffles when you wake up each morning–it may be a slight allergy or reaction to the dust mites living in your pillows and mattress. Here is a collection of home remedies and tips to try combating the mighty dust mites… Dust Mite Busters Make lavender sachets to place underneath mattresses [...]
• 10 Arm & Hammer Household Tips: Cleaning Silver Make a paste: 3 parts baking soda 1 part water Rub paste on silver with a clean cloth or sponge. Rinse off paste thoroughly then dry pieces. Works on sterling, silver-plate and stainless steel. Microwave Mop-up Wipe down the inside of your microwave with a clean, damp sponge sprinkled with baking soda. Rinse wipe with water. Freshens the place [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Remove Microwave Scorch Marks: Ta da! Here’s the first tip to be published in the Tipnut Mailbag category. For tips that are received by email and published on Tipnut, they’ll be filed here as well as the fitting category (such as Cleaning, etc.). Tips sent in that are published on other websites–they will still be published as Feature Tips with [...]
• Quick Tip: Stinky Luggage: Musty trunks and funky smelling luggage pieces can be freshened up by sprinkling baking soda inside, closing the case and then let sit a day or two. Remove the baking soda with a vacuum. If you don’t use your luggage that much and have it stored away for long periods of time, make little sachets [...]
• Nasty Smell: It’s Like Something Crawled In & Died: Here are a few different tips I’ve collected over the years to clean really, really foul smells. Things like your fridge dying while you’re away on a trip and you come back to rancid food that was sealed inside it for a week. Or if the camper trailer had a long forgotten package of hamburger left in [...]