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The Ultimate House Cleaning Calendar - Manage Your Life on Shine. From 2,001 Amazing Cleaning Secrets Here's the scoop on what to clean and how often. Wanting to keep a clean home doesn't mean you have time to polish your silver every week. We spoke with cleaning experts who have both feet solidly planted in the real world and asked how often specific cleaning tasks really need to be done. Here's the scoop on what to clean and how often: Put things away when you finish using them. Dust-mop hardwood floors to prevent scratching from dirt. Wipe or vacuum baseboards and blinds. Polish wood furniture. Wash windows inside and out. Move heavy furniture to clean behind and underneath. Homemade Laundry Detergent – Simple, Easy, Fast, & Effective. Kitchen Cleaning Help. Read these 21 Kitchen Cleaning Help Tips tips to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser.

Each tip is approved by our Editors and created by expert writers so great we call them Gurus. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Cooking tips and hundreds of other topics. Old Toothbrushes Come in Handy Save those old toothbrushes. When you go to clean the kitchen sink stopper, you can use your old toothbrush to get in all of the little holes. This makes cleaning the sink stopper much easier, not to mention that it does a much better job than your wash cloth. Microwave Cleanup Cooking tips: clean up time! Cleanup Greasy Dishes To cut grease and odor on dishes when doing kitchen cleaning, add a tablespoon of vinegar to your hot soapy water. Cleaning your oven Kitchen cleaning help: To remove grease from inside your oven when doing kitchen cleaning, put a small pan of ammonia in the oven in the evening, and then close the oven door. It happens. A Pantry Problem Solver.

Top WD-40 Uses for Moms : Heart at Home. When I had four children under five years old (1979), I found that WD-40 removed crayons marks from wall! It was a thrilling discovery! A post on a message board gave 45 uses for WD-40. Some look suspicious, so I looked it up on Snopes (site to expose urban legends–the pace to go to check out the outrageous email everyone sends you). Sure enough about 20 of the 45 uses were not recommended by WD-40 (like keeping flies off cows). We all know WD-40 lubricates hinges . I’m listing unique WD-40 for moms. Top Household Uses for WD-40 Removes crayon from walls, plastics, shoes, toys, chalkboards, glass, tv screen, compressed wood furniture, screen doors, plastic tables, rock walls, placemats,Removes permanent ink from most items.Removes VELCRO® stickers.Frees stuck LEGO® blocks.Removes silly putty from carpet (be sure to test WD-40 on low visibility area of carpet before using).Removes grease splatters from walls. About the Author Homeschool mom to 11, Marmee to 14 and author.