Must-Know Cleaning Hacks from Professional Housekeepers | E-Neighborhood Advisor

 

Spring is still a long way off, but it’s never too early to start thinking about Spring Cleaning. The next best thing to having a housekeeper, according to Glamour, is having her top hacks to keeping your house in tip-top shape. Use salt to soak up wine spills. Spilling red wine isn't a death knell for your area rug—nor does it have to be a distraction to your Netflix binging. There's no need to spend hours scrubbing red wine at all. Sprinkle salt on the spill and go back to Friends reruns as it sucks the stain right out of your rug. Let it sit for a few hours, then vacuum up the salt and wipe away the excess. Line your refrigerator shelves with parchment paper. Save time cleaning spills or sticky leftovers by simply lining your shelves with parchment paper. When things get messy, simply replace the liners with new ones. Stop scrubbing the toilet. If you want to toss your toilet brush in favor of going scrub-free, you'll need to invest in denture cleansing tablets, such as the fizzing ones made by Polident. Just drop one in and let it do the job, then flush. A single tablet will get rid of toilet bowl stains and rust. Let your socks do the cleaning. Microfiber socks can be the key to your clean floors. They capture dirt and dust from floors and don't let them go. Wear them for a couple hours, all the dust in the house sticks to your socks and just toss them in the laundry. Lemon isn't just for flavor. No one wants to spend hours soaking a greasy pan. And with a little lemon, you don't have to. Use the remnants of a cut lemon to clean a pan with greasy, cooked-on grunge, such as a pan you just used to fry bacon. After the pan cools, take a cut lemon and rub it all over the pan. In minutes, the acid in the lemon will have softened the grime so that you can just wipe it away and then wash as usual. Your Flooring Consultant, Matt Capell Email: sales@capellinteriors.com Phone (208) 288-0151 Fax (208) 917-6160 P.S. Here's a joke for you! I want to be a mirror cleaner when I grow up. It's something I could see myself doing.