Cleaning is a necessary evil. You’d like to live in a home that looks and smells nice, but spending endless hours scrubbing and cleaning can be exhausting and a little dreary. Instead of wasting that beautiful Saturday scouring pans or the inside of your oven, try a few of these cleaning hacks instead.
These tips make some of those cleaning jobs just a little easier and more effective — and perhaps with a little less effort!
The Kitchen
Get rid of the greasy film off your kitchen cabinets
Anyone who does a lot of home cooking is familiar with this problem: a greasy film on appliances and cabinets near the stove. While the greasy buildup seems unavoidable, the elbow grease to clean it up is not. The approach to solving this? Fighting oil with oil. Dab a paper towel into some vegetable oil, and then wipe over the greasy film.
Use stove-top liners
These are absolutely genius. Instead of scrubbing away at the flecks of food baked solid onto your stovetop, just replace the liners.
Clean your cutting board
Wood cutting boards are fantastic, but they can be germy. Properly clean the board by coating it with kosher salt and using a lemon half to scrub the board. Lightly rinse, and then dry well.
Clean your dishwasher with a lemon Kool-Aid packet
Empty out your dishwasher and run it using a packet of lemon Kool-Aid. The citrus helps fight stains.
Foil your glass
Need to scrub stuck-on debris from your glass cookware? Try using tin foil! Scrunch the foil into a ball, add a little soap and water, and scrub away. It works like a steel-wool pad.
The Bathroom
Clean up your dirty sinks the natural way
Don’t let dirty sinks get you down. Cut a lemon in half, and pour some baking soda into a small dish. Next, sprinkle the baking soda all over your sink, and then squeeze the fresh lemon juice over the baking soda. Use the other half of the lemon as a “sponge,” and scrub the mess in the sink. Finally, turn on the faucet and rinse the away the residue. You are good to go!
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