My favorite household hint

Dried out baby wipes work almost as good as the swiffer brand wipes. With swiffer wipes you get 16 for about 3 dollars, with the baby wipes it is 80 for about a dollar.

I just got my all time favorite hint was given to me a few days ago here on the Lot. I have to go through all the responses to find the person and thank her tons... To keep ants at bay and off your counters and out of your house, use cinnamon at the source of the ants. It doesn't have to be the freshest in your cupboard it will still work. I thought it was crazy but at the time my kitchen counters were covered with ants. I thought what the heck and grabbed the cinnamon. In less than 20 minutes the ants were TOTALLY gone! I mistakenly wiped up the cinnamon and the ants came back like cats after a fish monger. I grabbed the cinnamon again, used it right at the entry spot and I haven't had an ant since. Plus the kitchen smells wonderful from the spice. (I don't use too much in the way of air fresheners since I have the double whammy of allergies and asthma.)

When it comes to cleaning the toilet, I just use lysol wipes and the toilet brush. I used to like the spray bleach cleaner that walmart used to have but I havent' seen it in awhile. I do like that I can take a dryer sheet and put it over a vent to have the whole room smelling fresh, and vinegar is a great stain remover and de-odorizer. For my face (not a household hint but a housewife hint) I use dove soap to keep it clean. I don't actually use it anymore but when I had bad breakout I used it as a mask and it went away by next day.

Those are some great ideas everyone has. I never thought about the turtle wax idea. Brilliant. If you want to make your own clorox wipes, gently soak a roll of paper towels in clorox water and store them in a wipes container. You really have to be careful not to get them too moist or they will fall apart (unless you use really strong paper towels such as brawny).