10 Easy Household Tips For Cleaning

There are certain tips that you can follow to have a neat and clean home. These are basically household tips that can help you have a clean home. Certain things like indentations of furniture or stands on the carpet can look really bad. Even if you try to brush the carpet so as to remove the shape of the heavy weight furniture, it will not go easily. In this case, you can place some ice cubes to lift out the indentations from the carpet.

Similarly, if you keep losing out the bobby pins every week, then you can store them on a magnetic stand. Decorate the magnetic stand with colours and paper to make it look like a nice wall decor item. If your old towel stinks of water, then you can wash it in vinegar and water solution to get rid of the stink.

If you have cockroaches in your kitchen, then sprinkle cocoa as it kills them. Similarly, if grease settles on your bathroom floor, wash with acid or scrub it out with detergent powder.

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Here are some useful household tips and tricks that you can apply in day-to-day cleaning. Take a look.

Household Tips and Tricks For Every Day Cleaning:

Baking Soda

Baking Soda

You can use baking soda for a lot of household chores. From removing stains and stink from clothes to cleaning the bathroom, you can use baking soda every day. It can also be used to clean the stained utensils and get rid of cockroaches as well. Moreover, sprinkle baking soda around the kitchen bin to prevent the stinking smell in the kitchen.

White Vinegar

White Vinegar

To get rid of musty smell from clothes, wash them with white vinegar. You can also use it to clean white clothes and remove strong smell of fish or garlic from utensils.

Hang Chalks

Hang Chalks

To prevent molds and moisture in the closet, hang few white chalks inside the cabinet. It is the natural dehumidifier.

Salt

Salt

Sprinkle salt wherever you see ants and cockroaches. It will kill them and prevent them from coming back again. You can also sprinkle salt in your garden and patios to kill pests. However, make sure you do not sprinkle on the plant or else it will die.

Wax or Butter Paper

Wax or Butter Paper

Cover the wooden kitchen cupboards with wax or butter paper to prevent the grease and dirt from settling on it. Replace every few months to keep the furniture clean.

Lemon

Lemon

The natural bleaching agent can be used for cleaning purposes. It helps remove stinking odour from utensils and also reduces sweat smell from clothes. You can also mix lemon with salt to clean the chopping board in the kitchen and keep it bacteria-free.

Eggs

Eggs

If you want to know whether the egg is fresh or not, just dip them in a glass of water. Fresh egg will lie in the bottom whereas the old egg will float on the surface of the water.

Ice Cubes

Ice Cubes

If you have removed the centre-table from the carpet to another room, you will see the indentations on the place where it was placed since a long time. Place some ice cubes to remove them.

Marshmallows

Marshmallows

To keep powder in the container soft and moist-free, add some marshmallows inside the air-tight container.

Plastic Covers

Plastic Covers

To store cut foods like lemon or green leafy vegetables for a day, you can wrap it in a plastic cover and store inside the fridge. It will not spread stink and will also keep the food fresh.

Story first published: Monday, April 7, 2014, 17:45 [IST]
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