How do you clean?

I have one cleaning hint to give you that makes cleaning a whole lot easier. Lots of my friends and family have thanked me for this one! When I start to clean, I fill a little bucket of warm water and add a couple of squirts of liquid automatic dishwasher detergent. This is good for cleaning porcelain, glass, windows, front of the TV and all kinds of things. What's so great about it is that you don't have to rinse like you would have to with other cleaning products (to get the soap or residue off.) My ex husband used to smoke and it was really hard to get that off of everything, doing this made it a breeze. Even works well on car windows and headlights. I use an old washcloth (dipped into it and then wrung out) to apply it, and then an old piece of cotton towling to wipe it dry. Even when you do windows on the outside, you don't have to scrub (and you probably know how hard it is to get the grime off the outside of a window!) Generally speaking, anything that you would be able to put water on would be safe to use this on. It's cheap too. I bought a bottle of the automatic dishwasher detergent probably a year ago, or so, and since it's only a couple of squirts, it lasts forever. I never buy windex or specialty cleaning mixes anymore, this works far better than any of them that I've bought.

One of THE BEST cleaning products out there (in my opinion) is the Mr. Clean Eraser. It comes in regular and xtra strength. There are other brands like scotch brite which I've tried and they seem to work just as well. You can use them on almost anything! They work great (and fast) on things like kithcen appliances(the top of refridg) EVERYTHING walls floors Even the interior of your car the wheels Shoes!! U can also use baking soda for MANY other cleaning jobs. I try to stick with the safe and natural. White vinagar is another great product with many different cleaning uses.

I don't use the clorox wipes, but I do use the spray. I use that or 409 and paper towels. I invested in a good bagless vaccum and that helps a lot. To dust (which I don't do often enough) I use the Swiffer dusters, they work great. I hate to mop and we only have 4 very small tiled areas in our apartment so I bought some of the spray mopping solution and use that with some paper towles to "mop" the floor. If you get stains on your carpet use the resolve high traffic that come with a brush. That stuff works miracles. One of our cats spilled ink othe carpet smonths ago and I had given up getting it out and then I tried the resolve and it came out with no effot. I have alos used it to get kool aid and bubble gum snowball stains out of the carpet.

I try to do some cleaning each day. Usually picking up around the house and doing some dishes. I'm far from being a neat freak though.

Flylady advocates using whatever you have for cleaning, say a shampoo you bought but didn't like on your hair. She says soap is soap. I like certain things for their smell, like a toilet bowl cleaner that adds a nice smell to the bathroom if I leave it soaking for a while. I am a fan of cleaning wipes, particularly in the kitchen and bathroom, because they make it so easy. I heard a tip that I haven't tried yet but might since I still have a decent amount of baby wipes on hand from when my son wore diapers. It said to put bathroom cleaner in the packet and then use that for cleaning the bathroom. This is economical if you already have the baby wipes or they are cheaper than the wipes made for bathroom. I think I will try. Good luck to you. I am also struggling with this.

Keep the house picked up and put back to "beginning" level every night before bedtime. Every day do a little deep cleaning. Once a week do house cleaning. Toilets get Lysol Toilet bowl cleaner, Sinks and tubs get Dow Bathroom cleaner and Soft scrub for the tough spots. Mirrors get Windex. Wood and wood furniture gets Endust. Kitchen counters get Soft Scrub. Appliances get Windex. Floors get a combination of Ammonia and a squirt of dish soap in a bucket of water. If that's not available, dump some Windex into the water. Tough spots on the carpet get Oxyclean, otherwise they just get vacuumed. Rags are used for all these jobs so they can be washed in hot water afterwards.

things like sprinkling baking soda are quite new to me. Would try these out I have been doing all my work through maids who do all the washing and cleaning basically using sponge only.the other daily jobs include dusting of products and sweeping of the floor and then wiping it off with wet cloth.

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I don't do it, my mom does. When I do, I make it fast, so I can get back to doing whatever I want!