10 Cleaning Hacks

Cleaning hacks are a need especially cleaning hacks for the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. These genius life hacks simplify your life and they are also deep cleaning hacks everyone should know.

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   Unclog your sink with baking soda and vinegar

A lot of dirt goes down the sink. Some sinkholes have filters, and some don’t, hence, a lot of people tend to lose their rings to the sink. Over time, the sink gets clogged by dirt and particles that have accumulated and are too big to go down the pipe. When the sink gets clogged, water does not drain as fast as it should, at times, it will not drain at all. Get rid of this frustrating situation with a simple mix of baking soda and vinegar. Pour some good old vinegar down the sink and follow through with baking soda. This will unclog your sink easily.

2. Clean your blender, just blend.

Cleaning a blender is by far the hardest thing to do. This is one of the best cleaning hacks for the kitchen. It’s hard to get work the sponge with your hands beneath and beyond the blades, into every nook and corner of the blender. This will leave you with a cut or an aching arm. However, there is an easy way out. Clean the blender the way you use it. put water and dish soap in the blender and just blend and rinse thoroughly, thank me later.

3. Lemon for your stinky garbage

The garbage will stink badly but you can’t throw it out yet because there’s a lot more to be thrown in it before you take it out. The smell can spoil the atmosphere and just make you sick to your stomach. Fear no more, you can get rid of the awful garbage smell by masking it with lemon. Cut slices of lemon and run them down the sides of the garbage can or dustbin. This will mask any foul smell and give the are a better a more appealing scent.

4. Use vinegar to remove hard water spots

Over time, the corners of the taps tend to form a white cast that seems uncleanable. It makes the hardware look old and as though it were ‘decaying’ in hardware life. You may have scrubbed until you can scrub no more, or given up on crisp décor, however, do not give up just yet. You can get rid of hard water spots with vinegar. Clean regularly and the spots will dissolve away with time.

5. Salt for fabric stains

Fabric stains cause you to condemn nice clothes. It is also a painful thing to accept. You can get rid of these tough stains with the help of salt. Put some salt on a stain, let it sit and rinse. The stain will come out gradually.

6. Baking soda for cleaner laundry

A lot of people look forward to new laundry because your clothes come out looking good as new. However, after a while, clothes tend to become dull and lose their brightness. This makes certain clothing items less appealing to owners because washing and rewashing is no longer enough. You can get brighter and cleaner laundry by adding baking soda to the water as you wash.

7. Clean your couch with baking soda

After a few years, your couch would become very dirty, especially non-leather couches. They tend to soak up dirt and sweat and most people just do not know how to deeply clean them. Its an effort to vacuum the dirt, but a vacuum cleaner is not a staple in every household. However, for those who own vacuum cleaner, the remedy is simple. Dust off any surface dirt on the couch and sprinkle enough baking soda on it. Let it sit for fifteen minutes and then vacuum the baking soda with a vacuum cleaner.

8. Clean the burnt pot with water, vinegar and baking soda

Burnt pots will no longer be condemned once you try this hack. Every African home knows the burnt pot that was hidden below the sink for the fear of punishment, or the inability to use it again. Only if you know that those pots could be redeemed with water vinegar and baking soda. To savour your burnt pot, fill the pot with water, add a cup of white vinegar and bring it to a boil. Take it off the stove, add two tablespoons of baking soda and set aside to cool for a few minutes. Once the pot is cool wipe off the mixture and voila!

9. A tea bag or baking soda will deodorize your shoes

Smelly shoes are a nightmare because they stink up the whole place. Washing them sometimes makes the smell worse when it is not properly dried. Smelly shoes infect your feet, giving you what is called, stinky feet. Smelly shoes and feet can weaken your self-esteem, cause anxiety, bullying, depression and generally damage your health emotionally and mentally. You can take care of smelly shoes by putting baking soda in it. Also, a tea bag will soak up the moisture and leave a nice scent in your shoes.

10. Clean your stainless steel with rubbing alcohol.

You must be tired of having fingerprints on your and marks on your stainless-steel appliances. Cleaning it with a cloth just seems to smudge the stains. You can get rid of it with a fibre cloth and rubbing alcohol. Dip the cloth in a bit of the alcohol and wipe the prints away.