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Since I’ve been focusing a lot on cleaning lately, I thought I’d leave a few Works For Me Wednesday cleaning tips for the kitchen.
Tip #1 – After you use your kitchen sponge, throw it in the dishwasher with your dishes. The soap and scalding hot water will clean it better, kill the germs, and help it last longer. It works! (Do this with your bottle brushes, too!)
Tip #2 – Make your own version of Clorox anywhere spray – it’s cheaper! Hospitals and home health agencies use a ten percent bleach solution to clean and kill germs. If you do the math on the Clorox anywhere spray (and I did) it’s main ingredient content is one-tenth of the same main ingredient content in regular bleach. Hmm.
Tip #3 – To remove stubborn grease from cooking (on vent-a-hoods, dishes, whatever)… straight soap works better than soapy water every time! It doesn’t take much. Saves time and elbow grease.
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Thanks for the tips!
Hmm! Who knew- great tips!
Thanks! great tips!
I usually microwave my sponge to clean it. This way it moistens the walls of the microwave for a final before-bed wipedown.
Thanks for the chlorox anywhere tip, that’s a great one.
What great tips! I’ll have to try them out! BTW – I like what you’ve done with the place! (you blog
Oops, I’m silly, I meant “your” blog!
LOL! Thanks! I like that I can add more than one text widget to the side. But I miss my customizable header image.
Oh well, a good trade off, I suppose. And the colors are so ME!
Nice tips, they’re sort of like the tips in that new martha stewart book. ever heard of it?
Thanks for the tips! I use a seperate sponge for the dishes and counter wipe ups. I use a total of four sponges two in cool colors; a blue and a green and two in hot colors; a pink and a yellow. This helps me tell which “team” is up as I put one set in the dishwasher when I do a load and rotate the other set out. Sounds involved – but this way – there’s no thinking involved (god forbid I should have to think).
I just want to add a bit of caution to your bleach tip (I think it’s a great idea). The previous occupants of our house used bleach on everything and the only problem is that both bathrooms are now losing their tiles. It seems that the bleach dries out the grout and gets under the tiles. Years ago, I had those small white tiles on my counter (in another kitchen). I cleaned them with bleach all the time but after a year or so, the same thing happened.
Great blog. Wish you…
joy!
shirley Buxton
http://www.writenow.wordpress.com
Thank you, all.
No, I haven’t read the Martha Stewart book. I’m not anti-Martha, but I just don’t get a lot of time for that kind of reading.
About the tile, I don’t have tile in my house, so I don’t really have that issue, but it does make sense. I know my mother-in-law was talking about needing to treat her new grout to seal it and protect it, seems like it needs to be taken care of properly.
The good thing about a bleach solution is that it is effective enough to kill germs, but not as strong as straight bleach. It’s safe enough to use on wiping down the high chair, etc, and it doesn’t bleach color out of most things, either.
Great ideas.Iuse a bleach solution (50%), but from reading here I think it’s too strong.I like that it disinfects but I sometimes get it on my clothes when spraying. I have too many tops with bleach spots.
Thanks for sharing!
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