Cleaning Tips and Household Helpers
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Tips for Cleaning Household Helpers to make your life easier! Tips from the 1800's, 1900's and 2000's! Monday- Mend, laundry, tidy up the house. Do your hand
washables.
Tuesday- Mop, wash, sweep and vacuum your floors and stairs. Wednesday- Do your ironing and go to the dry cleaners. Thursday- Clean all the bedrooms. Friday- Clean the living room, bath room and do any other special cleaning project you may have. Saturday- Clean the kitchen well and wipe down the refrigerator. Do your groceries and baking. Sunday- You have a day off! I have adapted it to fit modern needs. Carpet Cleaning Tips Vacuum your carpet at least once a week, even if it doesn't look like it needs it. The dust, and dirt, gets ground into the carpet and will slash the fibers. Have your carpets professionally cleaned at least once a year (every 4 months is preferable) Hire someone or do it yourself. Always try to remove carpet
stains
as soon as possible. You have a better chance Got ink on your nice carpet?
Don't panic. Blot up the ink with a cloth or blotter. Did puppy have an accident?
Sponge the area with a solution of 1/2 cup of white Chewing gum stuck on carpet? Rub
the area with ice cubes till gum is ice cold. Nail Polish spill?
Use nail polish remover, but apply withan eye dropper. Kids leave a red lollipop to melt
on
your carpet? Or a popsicle? Remove the food item, then sponge
with
warm water. If this doesn't work, take a teaspoon of very mild
detergent (like ivory snow or dreft) and mix in a 1/2 pint of
water.
Sponge this
on with lukewarm water. Cigarette burns: Clip the ends
of the blackened tufts. Rub the spot with water and a soapless cleaner.
How to Clean
a Room Listen to
your
favorite music-Never clean with the TV on Here is another Cleaning Schedule 1. Dust bric-a-brac and clean
metals. Place them all 2. Dust wood furniture and vacuum
clean overstuffed furniture. Remove the smaller 3. Clean rugs with a vacuum
cleaner. 4. Remove draperies and blinds
and clean them on a flat surface with a vacuum cleaner. 6. Dust wood trim, doors and baseboards. This is the least amount you should have. More is always better Bathroom
Bedrooms
Dining Room
Kitchen
Do you have discolored
wooden bread boards or rolling pins? Cleaning Vases Do you have a white film on the inside of your vases? Fill the vase with vinegar and let set for a couple of hours
f you have bottles of perfume
or
cologne which you do not care for, don't throw them out. Try
putting some in your bath water. The ratio of water to perfume will
make for
a nice smelling bath!
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How to Clean an Iron? Try using an Emery Cloth if the Plate has rust on the bottom. More Iron Cleaning Tips If the iron has a waxy residue on the plate: Set the iron on the highest setting . Get a Newspaper or Brown Paper bag, and run the iron back and forth on the paper . Stop when the waxy residue is gone. Dip a rag or paper towel into ammonia and rub on the plate. Then, get a clean paper towel or clean rag, and dip in cold. Rub this cloth over the plate, to remove and ammonia residue. < If the Iron Plate has a starch build up: A cleaner such as Lysol Kitchen Cleaner Spray or Simple Green Kitchen Cleaner should do the trick. Most any brand will work, as long as it is not a powdered cleaner, or dishwashing liquid. The cleaning of the soleplate will take some of the teflon coating off. To help make the iron glide more smoothly on cloth, 1st iron a few pieces of wax paper. Never, Ever immerse an iron or any electrical appliance in water!! Dustless Duster These dusters work great and protect your furniture! You will need 1 pint of very hot water and 1/4 cup of lemon oil. Stir the oil into the hot water. Take 4 or 5 pieces of cheesecloth and soak with the oil and water mixture. Squeeze the excess water out and hang on line to dry. The cloths will last longer if you hem them. (If you wash the cloths, you will need to treat them with the oil and water mixture again) Oops, did you drop
a glass on your
kitchen floor? Did it break? An easy way to clean up the shards
is to take a damp piece of absorbant cotton. This will help you from
getting cut. furniture and draperies To clean and preserve the color of ivory: Place the article in a basin of cold water . Allow to set for 24 hours. Remove from water and lay the item on a clean, dry towel. Do not wipe! Air Dry only. If any water remains , plea blow the water out. If any water is remaining, the ivory color will become destroyed. Be careful! sponge does not become saturated. The sponge should be damp, not soaking. Gently wipe off the dirt and rust. DO NOT WIPE DRY...Let the frames dry themselves. Another
method
to clean gilt frames: Carefully dust the frame. Make a mixture of 1
ounce of baking soda and 3 egg whites. Beat well. Wash the frames
with this mix. Ammonia Clean Up For quick and easy cleanups, get a spray bottle and fill 1/2 with water and 1/2 with ammonia. Why pay a fortune for other cleaners, when this works just as well (and kills germs) I use this for cleaning counters, and wiping down appliances. Spray on, wipe off! Also good for cleaning wastebaskets and garbage cans. Have Kids? Do you
have crayon
marks on your walls? I do, and it sure doesn't look pretty! Try
taking a damp cloth and sprinkle some baking soda on it. Gently rub
the crayon marks away. Pencil Marks can be removed by using an artgum
eraser.(You can get Artgum at your art supply store.
Cleaning Pots and Pans Do you have pans and pots with stubborn burnt on food? Sprinkle baking soda and add a little water. Let sit for about 1/2 hour. Now, wash with dishwashing liquid. Makes it much easier to clean! Cleaning Copper Bottom Cookware Do you use RevereWare Cookware? Or cookware with copper bottoms? I do, and try this easy copper cleaner solution! Rub the copper with Worcestershire Sauce, let set for a minute and rinse off! You can also try rubbing with catsup, but I like the sauce method better Back to Household Hints GLASS CARE A simple glass cleaner is baking soda and water! To prevent windows from steaming: Clean the glass ccasionally with a cloth moistened with glycerin. Wipe it so only a trace of the glycerin is left on the surface. Use on the inside of a window . little lemon juice (can be from a bottle) Dry with paper towels and make it shine by rubbing with a newspaper! If you have any scratches on the glass top, try rubbing in some toothepaste and this should remove the scratches. Oven Cleaning To remove grease from inside ovens and broilers, put small pan of ammonia in oven at night and close the oven door. In the morning, remove the pan of ammonia. The grease inside the oven will wipe off easily! Need a good toilet bowl cleaner? Inexpensive, too? Try this! Get a a bucket or pail and add 2 quarts of water, 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide and 1 tablespoon of household ammonia. Mix well. Pour this entire mixture into the toilet and put the toilet lid down. Let the solution set for 30 minutes. Open the lid, scrub with brush and flush! Easy and makes your toilet bowl sparkle! A small bedroom with appear
larger
if you
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