Cleaning and Home Repairs Tips

Soap Scum on the Shower Liner

Instead of throwing out your shower liner when soap scum builds up, just toss it in the washer! Add just a little laundry detergent and flip on the delicate cycle. Hang it back up on the clips and let your sparkling clean liner drip dry.

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Rent a Husband

Tip for the day girls, rent ´em. Just don´t marry ´em Girl! Ok ok, just a little joke. Rent-A-Husband is a nation-wide business which allows gals like ourselves to hire dependable and honest repairmen to help fix and repair household appliances, etc.

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All Purpose Cleaner

We single gals work hard for our dollars! Are we about to spend it on lots of cleaning fluids for windows and counters? Hah! I´ve hunted down the cheapest and most effective recipe (you heard me right) for wiping up household grease and grime. Here goes: Mix: 1/2 cup of sudsy amonia 1 pint of rubbing alcohol 1 tablespoon of hand dishwashing liquid (if you use more than 1 tablespoon, streaking may result) Add enough water to make 1 gallon. It works!

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Drippy Faucet

If a dripping faucet is cutting into your beauty sleep, here´s a quick and temporary fix. Tie a long piece of dental floss to the rim of the faucet and let the string run down to the drain. The water drops will run along the floss and slide down the drain without that annoying plop plop!

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Save Money on Dishwasher Soap

Do you add dishwasher soap to the open and closable soap compartments of your dishwasher? You might be using more soap than is necessary! Any soap from the open container just gets washed away in the pre-soak cycle. If you rinse off your plates before loading and if you run the cycle often, you might want to switch to only putting soap in the closed compartment. That´s the soap that is used for actually washing the dishes!

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Kill Germs

Save money on those expensive antibacterial kitchen cleaners. Just pour a little bleach and lots of water in a spray bottle and spray it on your countertops. Wait about five minutes, then wipe off with a clean sponge. You just saved about $2.50! Sounds like a down payment on that pair of shoes I spied yesterday!

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Quick Clean Purse

Buy a purse made of a fabric you can throw in the washing machine. This way you never need to work very hard to keep your purse clean, looking good and it will outlast almost every other purse you buy.

Just think, when you take out your wallet and other essentials you just need to fish out the assorted oddities like elastic bands, paper clips and other things which should not go into your washing machine. All that detrious at the bottom of your purse gets cleaned out in the wash. You don't have to poke your fingers down into the corner of your purse trying to clean it all out. It is also perfect if you ever have a plastic package of coffee cream, butter or vinegar burst inside your purse. The clean up could not be easier!

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An Old Fashioned Doorstop

Invest in an old fashioned doorstop, wedge it in the bathroom door to keep it open. Unless you still have the key to unlock it from outside, you don't want to find yourself needing to pee and locked out on a nice day when the window was open and the door slammed closed (and locked itself). It sounds silly but it can happen to you!

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Be a Home Repair Diva

Don't be afraid of DIY home repairs. Pick up a book as a guide, keep basic supplies and tools under your kitchen sink (or somewhere that works for you) and you can fix a lot of little things, yourself! It saves money, makes you feel accomplished and it's one more thing you can do to be independent and self reliant.

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