Simple home cleaning tips
These simple recipes and rules will make your life easier, and at the same time save your energy, time and, which is especially nice, money.
Nobody wants to spend a whole weekend cleaning the apartment, but dust accumulates with fatal inevitability, stains form on the sofa, and it can be scary to look into the microwave at the end of the working week. How to facilitate the process of an unequal, and sometimes quite painful struggle for cleanliness, without using any super-expensive and not always useful chemicals, Woman’s Day told the head of the training for housekeepers and maids Alla Novikova.
Household chores are not a reason for sadness
1. Have you planted a greasy stain on the upholstery of the sofa or on the wallpaper? Sprinkle the area with salt and crushed chalk and let the powder sit for a couple of minutes to absorb the grease. Then gently wipe the affected area with a soft, damp cloth.
2. Do you want to freshen up the old upholstery of the armchairs or get rid of the unpleasant smell of the sofa? Pour vodka into a spray bottle, treat the surface and let dry. It will help one hundred percent.
3. If your baby or kitten suddenly vomits on a chair, sofa or rug, make a thick paste of water and baking soda and apply it to the problem area and leave to dry completely. Then go over the former spot with a vacuum cleaner – not even a smell remains.
4. To quickly pick up your four-legged friend’s fur from the sofa, run a rubber window squeegee over the surface of the sofa. The same goes for carpet.
5. Another option for getting rid of wool is the sticky side of the tape. With Velcro, you can also clean the fabric lampshade.
6. Leather furniture will be saved by shoe cream: treat the upholstery with cream in color and let it dry – all scuffs will disappear. But this method is only suitable for dark colors: you cannot save white and beige furniture with cream.
7. A mixture of 2 parts water and 1 part vinegar can help remove stubborn stains from carpet. Soak a cloth with this liquid, place it on the stain and iron it with an iron, preferably with steam. If the stain persists, repeat the procedure.
Dishwashers need washing too
8. Washing the glassware will lighten the piece of foil: crumple it up, add a little detergent, and rub the glasses and glasses vigorously inside and out.
9. A burnt pot will be brought back to life by vinegar: add it to the input at the rate of a 1,5 liter glass and put the filled saucepan on low heat.
10. When the water boils, turn off the stove and add two tablespoons of baking soda to the boiling solution. Let stand, after that all burnt food can be easily washed off even with a soft sponge.
11. To quickly and easily clean the microwave, heat up a glass container with water and lemon wedges in it. The water must be brought to a boil and held in this mode for a couple of minutes. Then turn off the microwave and wait another minute before opening the door. Ready! Take out the dishes with water and gently wipe off the steamed dirt with a sponge.
12. With the oven, we do it even easier: before cooking fatty foods, drip deodorized vegetable oil on a cotton swab and wipe the walls inside the oven. After frying, all greasy splashes can be removed without any problems with a simple wipe.
13. An onion that has been cut in half will help to clean the grill grate: take a half and slide it over the grate. But keep in mind that this method is only suitable for fresh dirt.
14. Dishwashers also need washing. Place a small cup of vinegar in the top compartment of the dishwasher, add baking soda to the bottom and press the On button. The dishwasher will be like new.
15. To quickly clean the coffee maker, pour mixed equal parts of vinegar and water inside. Turn on the brewing cycle, turn off halfway through cooking and repeat this process again. When you’re done boiling the vinegar, run 2 cycles with clean water.
16. Love making cocktails but don’t feel like cleaning your blender? There is a way to make this process easier too: pour warm water inside the blender, drip a little detergent and turn on the blender for a few seconds. Drain the soapy water, rinse, done!
17. To sanitize a kitchen sponge, microwave it for 2 minutes, this will kill 99% of germs.
18. To remove plaque from the surface of the tub, cut the grapefruit in half and add fine salt to the half to be cleaned. Can be added to the bath itself. Wipe dirty areas with grapefruit and salt and enjoy the cleanliness and aroma.
19. Is there a blockage? Throw 4 tablets of “Alka-Seltzer” into the hole of the sink, then pour a glass of vinegar there. After 10 minutes, rinse with boiling water.
20. In order not to spend money on expensive and not always effective toilet bowl cleaners, and at the same time to save time on cleaning the toilet, put a plastic jar filled with vinegar inside the tank, having previously made two or three small holes in the lid. Each time you fill the cistern, a little vinegar from the jar will flow into the cistern, which will keep your toilet clean.
And finally, one more universal tip on how to get rid of lipstick stains. It is always difficult to wipe them off, the main difficulty is that the lipstick is smeared. Spray hairspray on stains, wait 10 minutes and rinse, easy and simple!