Book Review and Giveaway: Make Your Place

For a natural drain cleaner, I pour baking soda down the drain, followed by white vinegar, let it sit for a while. Then I pour a kettle of boiling water down the drain. Voila’, clean drain!

Take a large spray bottle add 1 cup white vinegar, 1/4 cup lemon juice & top with water, I use it to clean & disinfect in the kitchen & bathroom. 

To remove berry stains, ones from flower stalks, etc. I heat a pan of water to a rolling boil – take the garment outdoors; spread it on grass and pour hot water on it from a height of about four feet – and the stain comes right out!

Our favorite use for vinegar – is a weed killer.  Within a couple days, the weeds are ALL gone.

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When I wash sheets and towels, I put in some ammonia.  Ammonia cuts the grease and really gets the linens cleaner and smelling fresher.  No more funky smelling sheets and towels!  I use the cheap stuff, and my preference is lemon-scented, but it really doesn’t matter – just cleaning ammonia.  I use about 3/4 cup for each load.  I also use it every time I wash linens because it’s very humid here in Florida.  But, you may need to only use it once in a while.  It’s a very cheap way to get a lot more life out of your sheets and towels.

Pine Sol used straight and a brush My husband clothes are almost always covered in oil/grease. I’ve tried everything, the few products that did work would end up costing me a small fortune with all the stains on his clothes. I scrub the pine sol on to the stains. It doesn’t remove all the stains completely but it doesn’t do a bad job. You might have to rewash the load to remove smell completely depending on how much you had to use.

I use plain table salt to remove blood stains. Works every time!

If you live near an airport and get a jet fuel film on windows, dip a rag in the window wash you put in your car and you will have the cleanest windows ever, and really cheap.

use a cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar to blast away a  stopped up toilet, works everytime

I just need hydrogen peroxide, isopropyl alcohol, baking soda, and vinegar. I’ve cleaned nearly every surface in my house today and there was no need to change cleaners, make sure the kids aren’t in them or do more than change out the hot water. I use fresh lemons (on the rind) to scrub toilet seats and bath tubs to make it smell good.

Tea tree oil sometimes makes it into my scrubbing bucket for my own bathroom.

Put 1/4 cup baking soda in your washer – cleans and brightens the clothes, doubles the strenght of bleach and if you have sensitive skin it will help soothe.  Works great on cloth diapers and help sooth diaper rash!

If you need to get a blood stain out of a shirt or other clothing item you should spit on it before you wash it.  It sounds kind of gross but the amylase in your own saliva can break down the protein faster and more completely than anything else.  If possible have whoever did the bleeding do the spitting, but anyone’s is better than none.  Also, if you have a really delicate garment that can’t be washed and needs dry cleaning you can remove the odors from it by liberally dousing it in vodka.  The cheapest kind you can find with a high proof will do – it removes odors and doesn’t leave water marks so you can hand the garment inside out and spritz it a few times with a spray bottle and it works wonders.

Not only is vinegar good to clean with, it also helps arthritis.  My Grandmother told me to heat up a coffee cup full of water, add a teaspoon of vinegar and a little honey for taste.  Drink this every morning and your arthritis pains will fade away.  I have artritis in my hands and this works wonders for me.

i found out that u can use ketchup on brass to clean it

I use white vinegar as fabric softner

Forget to remove the pen or marker from your dryer and now there are stains? Make a paste of baking soda and vinegar and let it sit in the dryer for one day. The next day use your “elbow grease” by taking a toothbush and scrubbing at the areas coated with the baking soda-vinegar paste.  All or most of the stains should be gone.

1 day i noticed i had run at of [comet cleanser, and soft scrub].i use both,of course the last 1 to use my cleaning products didn’t tell me we were out..  i’m left with both empty bottles.so 1 thought well maybe ,i’ll try alittle shampoo,since it does clean our hair well.i used just  alittle bit of shampoo on a sponge,wow was the tub and shower were sparkling clean.

I pour baking soda that I have replaced in my refrigerator down my kitchen drains along with a cup of white vinegar. let set for an hour then rinse with hot water. 

Microfiber cloths…all you need to clean mirrors is spritzing plain water and wiping with a micro fiber cloth. It’s good to have one to dry and one will get a bit damp.

Ive done a little salt mixed with baking soda down the drain followed by a cup of vinegar.  It cleans and deodorizes.

 Vinegar will shine up your faucets and a slice of onion will help draw out the poison of a fresh sting to avoid swelling and redness

I use vinegar for most things because it’s non-toxic…combined with baking soda, it can clean slow drains. 

Did you know that mustard will remove strong odors from your plastic storage containers?  Just wipe down the inside of the container with mustard and then wash with your regular detergent.  It’s amazing!

Homemade glass cleaner:  2 cups water , ½ cup white vinegar and ¼ cup rubbing alcohol 
Mix ingredients together and store in a spray bottle. Spray on paper towel or cloth first and then wipe glass and/or mirrors.

I use icecubes and sliced lemons to fresh and clean my disposal.

I use a paste of baking soda and water that is pretty thick in my kitchen. It takes grease off of about anything and gets my flat top stove sparkling clean. Just remember to rinse. 

I forgot to say that they taught us this at a restaurant where we had 8-10 coffee pots a night!

Dryer sheets to freshen shoes!

Egg shells and Coffee Grounds to clean my Garbage disposal. And a Half a Lemon to make iit smell Amazing!

Great book idea…use lemon, baking soda and vinegar together for those tough jobs like the toilet…the combo is great antibacterial bc of lemon but oomph from baking soda and vinegar for cleaning power…thx

I add white distilled vinegar to my dishes to keep soap residue from sticking, and it makes them sparkle!

I store all my silver jewelry in zip lock bags to slow down any tarnishing

To alleviate coughs-roast lemons until they crack open. Mix their juice with brown sugar and fresh pineapple juice and drink it. The pineapple juice adds its powerful digestive enzymes to those of the lemon to help disintergrate mucus in the throat.

Vinegar and newspaper to clean windows.

I use vinegar to clean hard water stains, glass and metal surface.

every so often my dishwasher gets “filmy” so i put  a cup of white vinegar in on the bottom of the washer when i do a cycle, or sometimes alone and this seems to clear the cloudy residue.

Clean hard to reach crevices in vases, coffeepots, etc. with nontoxic denture tabs. The smoker’s version is usually the strongest — just drop one in per directions and swish around a few hours (or overnight) later. Sparkling clean!

I rub a piece of wax paper on the shower rod to help the curtain hooks slide easier!

I’ve worked In a few public places where coffee was always sold. There were times when the carafes would get coffee build up. Especially If they had set on a warm burner and were almost empty. Once the carafe cooled, we used a mixture of Ice cubes and salt and then shook It around Inside to remove the coffee build up. Worked really well and saved the places money from having to buy new carafes.

My best tip is using aspirin in place of bleach, throw a couple of tablets of aspirin in your washer when washing whites. Doing this you will need to stain treat grass stains, etc. but the aspirin will brighten and whiten your clothes, even those nasty yellow underarm stain areas.  

Although it is difficult to find, Clorox sells a “Premium Bleach”. It’s more expensive but, well worth it. I’ve used it on some of my more delicate fabrics that were stained and it worked great. It removed the stain yet, leaves the fabric soft with no bleach-after-effects.

Cheap lighter fluid to cut sticky glue and residues…

MY cleaning trick for my husbands dirty,construction,work clothes ar using amonia-1 cup perload+1/2 cup detergent-cuts all greaseand dirt!!!!!!!!!!works like magic!!!!

For greasy broiler pans and oven racks, I put them in a garbage bag along with a cup ammonia and let soak over night.  Take out of the bag, and rinse to dislodge the residue, than wash as usual.  No scrubbing needed.

Ants will not cross cinnamon.  Direct the ants to the ant traps by putting down a line of cinnamon and they’ll stay between the entry point and the trap.

I pour a 1/4 c of bleach in a stainless steel sink, to get in nice and clean again.  I also pour about a cap of bleach into the air conditioner pipe, to keep it from getting stopped up with mold.  FINALLY, to clean kitchen counters, pour a little lemon juice on the counter top, then sprinkle some baking soda.  Let the baking soda sit a few minutes and use a rag to clean the counter tops.  Works like a charm!

To get rid of perspiration stains on clothes, I mix two crushed aspirin tablets and 1/2 cup of water in a bowl. Soak for 2-3 hours, then wash as usual.

my best recipe for pretty thourough housecleaning is (minimum one roll) papertowels, one big,full bottle of all purpose spray, and 1 7 yr old. you will be absolutely amazed at the results.

I use hydrogen peroxide with lemon oil in a spray bottle as an all purpose disinfectant cleaner.