Favorite Household Tips

Amy Chea – Use hairspray to remove gum or pen off clothes
Judy Finch – Do a little every day
Sheri Mueller – Clean as you go
Stacey Robins – Run a load of glasses in dishwasher with small cup of vinegar – gets hard water off    (don’t put any metal items or silverware though)
Chiara West – Keep it clean enough to be healthy, but dirty enough to be happyJ
Winifred Durrant – Pick as you go, turn off lights
Amanda Boswell – Have your kids do it
Pam Romero – Don’t get discouraged even though the cleaning never ends
Shari Wroblewski – Share the load with kids and husband. Clean after kids are in bed
Diana Bouge – Vinegar works on almost anything
Melanie Bennett – Keep things picked up

Jana Chase – Lemon juice cleans almost anything

Cacci Karcich – Colgate toothpaste takes crayon, marker, pen and pencil off the walls

Rochelle Augustine – Homemade window washing solution

Regina Griffin – Work together with family

Susan Standefer – Lavender sachets

Katie Rasmussen – Duct tape

Sharon Adams – Start with the hardest room. I usually start in the kitchen

Joyce Purcell – White vinegar in the dish washer removes mineral spots

Marilyn Elison – Use a squeegee on shower door and walls

Janice Pace – Love your family more than the house

Maria E. Norman – Use natural light and open the windows

Cindy Knudsen – Scrub shower with SOS pad and lime away

De Ann McCoard – Teach your kids to clean

Kathy Keske – Vinegar cleans anything and its green

Alicia Kanamu – Use iron and towel to lift up wax off floor, carpet

Julie Norman – Pick up and put things away every night before you go to bed, it makes starting the next day a lot easier when you wake up to an organized house.

 Loraine Fitzsimmons – I have learned there is more to life than cleaning

Jill Boone – Rubbing alcohol is an awesome fabric cleaner

Rachelle Bailey – Dawn takes out grease out of laundry (ring around collar)

Kristen Fraedrich – Never throw away paper towels you use to dry your clean hands!  Throw it on the counter and use it later to clean up spills.

Melanie Allen – Doing dishes together right after the meal, with parents and children
Tammie Anderson – Bathrooms must always be clean; soft scrub – keep up on dishes
Tonja Roberts – Lime-a-way; Magic Erasers

Julie Cook – “When momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy”

Aliece Boone – Everyone clean up your own messes

LaRue Corbett – Clean as you go

JoLin Cook – Alcohol gets a lot of stains out of carpet and upholstery

Sam McCoard – Keep clean what you have

Kathy Howard – Keep Laundry done
Amberly Kariuki – Never go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink
Chris Halladay – No fume Easy Off Oven Cleaner to clean plastic tubs & shower walls
Jennifer Barnes – Do something every day so you don’t have to do all of it at once.
Tiffany Gonzales – Keeping Up is easier than Catching Up!
Michele Garvin – CRL gets rust, hard water rings around toilets and scum off of shower; white vinegar gets stains out of carpet. http://www.flylady.com/ (ideas to help you organize your cleaning)

Megan Marshall – Cleaning schedule – house is usually clean after a quick nightly pickup

Jessica Parker – Never put anything down, always put it where it belongs

Kathy Phillips – (Old-fashioned home remedy) drink dill pickle juice for leg cram