Mîdñî†ê®åýñê 06-02-2003, 02:12 PM Everybody needs them, everybody could use them, so why don't you share a few of your own household tips?. If it be for the garden, cleaning, food etc...
Category: (Household) - If you have a problem with crayon not comming off the walls or just about any surface you can use WD40 and it works great. Just spray a little on a dry cloth and wipe the marks off.
Nail polish remover removes tar and grease from white leather shoes.
Category: (Household or used for garden) - Ant Control - Spread some ground cinnamon where you think the ants are coming in to the house.
Maria 06-02-2003, 02:19 PM When I want to clean my microwave, before I use anything else, I try lemon. I put it in a small dish, cut in slices, and heat it. The lemon juice that spills all over will clean the grease very well.
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Nessa 06-03-2003, 08:49 AM go to www.thecleanteam.com they have great products as well as lots of good tips and speed cleaning is the best.
So many people use ground beef when they make Lasagne, my advice - Italian Sausage!
Nessa 06-03-2003, 10:31 AM well as long as we are talking about Lasgana, I make mine with extra sauce and don't pre-cook the noodles.
Bigbri and his family love it and I make a HUGE pan of it about once a month.
Jannie 06-03-2003, 05:40 PM IF you have bleach smell on your hands, lemon juice will take it off immediately, I always keep a bottle of lemon juice for this reason.
OTHER TIPS: FOR QUICK CLEANing.....open the oven door and cram the dishes in.....stuff things in the closets, sweep dust under rugs and wipe everything off real fast, start the ceiling fan and spray an air fresner. (HEHEHEHEH) AND close the junky room and tell people you are "remodeling" if they happen to peak in or that, that is the junk you are accumulating for your next garage sale or the old standby, We just moved in and things are still in boxes!!!!
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Mîdñî†ê®åýñê 06-03-2003, 07:11 PM Oh my *picturing it now Jan* <FONT COLOR=BLUE><FONT SIZE=8>*lol*</FONT></FONT>
VenusScorpio 06-03-2003, 08:52 PM LOL!! Jannie....
Sean, I agree Italian Sausage is a good alternative.
My tips: use Vinegar in your mop water
rid fleas by placing a frisbee or throw away dish
filled with water and dish detergent (dawn, ect)
under a lamp or other light fixture, turn off all other
lights...place both dish and lamp on floor of problem
area.
jordan 06-03-2003, 09:26 PM start the ceiling fan and spray an air fresner.
or, if you don't have a celing fan....what I do is, I turn on the floor fan, and I place a dryer sheet on the back of it, and that gives the room a nice clean smell....
Jannie 06-03-2003, 09:52 PM GOOD IDEA JORDAN..........lol
ALSO another good idea and this is for REAL.....put ice cubes in your indoor plants and the water will be released slowly throughout the day instead of all at once....
Tyger74 06-05-2003, 03:43 AM To cool your home without the high cost of using your a/c, is having a bowl of ice on the table and having your fan blow some cool air in the room.
Polly 06-05-2003, 09:52 AM Nessa, thecleanteam.com must be the same folks who wrote the book, "Speed Cleaning" which I read before I started my cleaning service. They have lots of great cleaning tips.
A product I like a lot is Soft Scrub gel cleanser with bleach. I use it for bathrooms and sinks. It'll get mildew, crayon off of tile floors, brighten stained counters and the outside of refrigerators. Another of my faves is Pine-Sol with lemon. I mix half Pine-Sol with lemon and half water in a spray bottle and use on counters, stove-tops, inside the microwave and on walls and light switches. I also use it to clean tile and linoleum floors. It makes the whole house smell "lemony" and it's a really great degreaser. I like Old English lemon oil to restore wood. It's great for kitchen cabinets and antique pieces that seem dried out. For wood floors, I like Murphy's Oil Soap. I know builders say to use vinegar and water instead, but I like the way Murphy's smells and the sheen it leaves on a wood floor. I also use it to clean grunge off of kitchen cabinets. :)
Nessa 06-05-2003, 12:42 PM Yeppers Polly Jeff Campbell and the clean team.
I LOVE their products and use them (when I do clean) esp. the Sh-mop.
I have an autographed copy of the book Speed Cleaning and have been quoted in their catalog (not the most recent one the one before that).
shame I can't manage to keep up with it now.
What I need is a crew to come in and help me get the entire house totally done at once and then a schedule to follow to keep it up.
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