How to Clean Stuff. 10 Money Saving and Eco-Friendly Cleaning Tips That Cost Less Than $1.00. Susan Branch Blog. If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet her with, “who could have done this?
We have no enemies.” ♥ Phyllis Diller It started with the sugar spoon at breakfast, I noticed how tarnished it looked. We had company coming to stay with us, and really, all the silverware looked bad . . . it made me remember, just the other day, a girlfriend told me about this method she has of cleaning silver that she says definitely works, and gave me her recipe for it. I’d heard of doing it like this before; I never really thought it would work, so I never tried it. I did what my friend suggested: I lined the sink with aluminum foil, the bottom and up on all sides. Then I poured a half-cup of ordinary table salt and a half-cup of baking soda into the sink; filled it with really hot water, and dropped in the silverware. You can see, if you look close, that I also dropped my wand in there. So, how did it work? Then I polished my wand the old-fashioned way. Surprising Cleaning New Uses - Real Simple. Magic Homemade Jewelry Cleaner.
Many uses for baking soda. - StumbleUpon. While doing research for this article, we were amazed at the number of uses for baking soda.
When one looks back in history, before we had such a huge array of different cleaning products, baking soda was one of the items most frequently used. It worked great, it was economical and best of all it was safe to use. In fact, Grandma had hundreds of uses for baking soda,we have collected some of the most popular ones. They are time tested and they work. If you have additional tips involving uses for baking soda, add them at "Submit A Tip," and we add them to this list. 1. 2. 3. Hard Water Stains? Dishwasher detergent that works!
**Updated** Since moving to an area that has particularly hard water, and with the mandated formula change to all dishwasher detergents, my dishes are an absolute mess.
They are clean, I promise. But they don't look very clean, they look cloudy. My glass, my Tupperware even some of my metal items are all cloudy. It has been driving me nuts. After seeing someone else make homemade laundry detergent (more on that tomorrow), I started thinking...perhaps I could come up with a homemade dishwasher detergent that would help with my problem of cloudy dishes.
Wanna see how well it works? Amazing huh? After making it, found a cute jar to put it in and then cut some brown vinyl letters so everyone would know what was in the jar. And then, because I am super lazy and didn't want to have remember my recipe, I cut brown vinyl for the back of the jar with my recipe! And just like magic, my dishes are now clean!! Home Made Dishwasher Detergent I love my sparkly clean dishes!!
Wood Butter – The perfect thing for your wood bowls and utensils. — Recipes - A Denver Colorado Food Blog - Sharing food through recipes and photography. DIY Design Community « Keywords: olive_oil, olive, cleaning, money. Nutritionists will continue to tout olive oil for its high content of healthful, monounsaturated fats, like oleic acid, and polyphenols.
The fruit oil practically propelled the entire Western world in antiquity, and is mentioned in nearly every sacred text this side of the Tigris and Euphrates. As a cooking fat, it’s high up on the heart-smart list…which works out, ‘cause it tastes darn good. (As a tip, Consumer Reports has rated Goya brand extra virgin olive oil [from Spain] as the best general purpose olive oil, and as their best buy. I whole-healthy-heartedly concur.) Photo: howstuffworks.com Olive oil also has plenty of uses around your home, outside of the sauté pan.