General Cleaning Tips

“Tidy room, tidy mind”, this quote is obviously true, right? A clean and well-organized home
make your mind peaceful and you can think properly, work faster and you will not get
irritated because of the mess around your house. Filthy surrounding might stress you out
and your brain can’t process properly. In addition, a clean home will help you control the
spread of infections and bacteria around your place. Therefore, cleaning your home is an
important task.
Is cleaning sounds tiring to you? Well, it is. However, there are tricks and hacks that you may
apply to make your work easy. Believe me, you will enjoy cleaning your home and make it as
a hobby. Being a scientist, chemist, singer, dancer, magician and more while you are cleaning
your home is pretty cool. Well, you're going to experience that while cleaning. You are going
to know it if you continue reading this article.
Ready to know it? Okay, here are some tips, tricks, and hacks that you can do to achieve a
well-organized and clean home.

Put on some lively music

Mess here, mess there, mess everywhere! What a frustrating feeling, seeing all those dirt
around your house. How stressful is it to start your day, right? However, here’s a great
solution for your problem. Do you want to know it? It's just music!
Music keeps you alive and awake. It makes you more productive and it helps you boost your
mood. A lot of research was conducted about music. Most of them have one conclusion,
playing music has a positive effect on a person’s mood. It lessens your stressing feeling. It is
a great way to reduce your stress and you can think properly because it improves mental
clarity. It also, makes you finish your work faster because your productivity level will surely
increase. In choosing the music genre that you are going to play while you are cleaning your
filthy house, I suggest playing pop music that will surely make you sing and dance while
you’re holding your broom, sweeping those mess or wiping your dusty window glasses.
Though, it is still your choice in picking up the music that will make you alive and happily
finish cleaning your castle-like home from corner to corner.
So, what are you waiting for? Try it now! Prepare your playlist and play your favorite music
before you start singing and dancing while cleaning your home.

Prepare an all-purpose cleaner

Wipe those sticky, mucky or dusty surfaces that ruin the beauty of your home. Here’s a trick
to remove those stink! A magical cleaner, it is an all-purpose liquid cleaner that will surely
clean those surfaces in your home. Moreover, it is also cheaper than buying a branded liquid
cleaner. You can use this especially on the table surface, appliances, inside your oven or
refrigerator or your window glasses. Since I already touched your curiosity about this all-
purpose cleaner that I’m talking about, here’s the procedure and materials that you will be
needing so that you will achieve the perfect cleaning liquid that will solve your problem.
To do this magical cleaner all you have to prepare are 5 tablespoons of baking soda, 1.5 liters
of warm water, reusable spray bottle and a rug or sponge. Once you already have those
materials needed to make the all-purpose cleaner, all you have to do is to mix up the baking
soda and warm water in the reusable spray bottle. Tada! You already have your all-purpose
cleaner. Get the sponge now, spray out the film of grease or whatever dirt you will spot in
your home! Try it now, wipe it out!

Make your stainless things shine bright like a diamond

“Shine bright like a diamond” one of the lyrics on the song of the music artist Adele. Your
appliances are like diamonds in your house if it shiny and properly cleaned. Sparkling
appliances or stuff in your home will make it look luxurious. A clean and bright stainless stuff
will add beauty and elegance to your home. However, if countless fingerprints and a layer of
dust are in there, uh-oh those things will look like an artifact that went through an exhibit in
which a lot of people hold it or has been stored in a stock room in a long year, in short, it
looks old and unpleasing to the eye.
In spite of that, there are ways to make it look new, gleam and pleasing to the eye again. I
will tell you a trick. But before that, you must prepare some materials. What you need are
microfiber cloth and rubbing alcohol.
Here’s what you are going to do after you prepared those materials. Pick up the microfiber
cloth or any available soft cloth and pour some rubbing alcohol on it. It is the perfect way to
clean up those numerous fingerprints on your appliances. But if you are not contented with
the result apply cooking oil to have the blinding shine that wants to achieve

Freshen up your couch

After a long stressful and tiring day at work, most of us directly sit and rest on our couch
while watching television or playing music that will relax our body and mind. Moreover, your
visitors, family, friends even your pet mostly sit here when you are having some chitchats or
quality time with each other. So, it is important to be clean and has a good smell so you will
be comfortable sitting and relaxing there. However, because of the sweat, bad smell, stains
from the food you ate, it will make your couch dirty and uncomfortable to sit in.
Don’t worry, there’s a solution for that. What is it? Simple, BAKING SODA! It will help to
remove those unpleasant smells and may put away those stains on the couch.
But, how you going to do this? Well, just a piece of cake. Here’s the instruction:
Firstly, brush up the whole surface of the couch. Then, pour like a pixie dust the baking soda
that will magically clean your throne (couch). Set your timer about 30 minutes before you
remove the baking soda. In removing it, you may use a vacuum cleaner or just brush it up
and you will see what’s the difference after you apply the trick. You will achieve the clean,
fresh and good smell couch. You can now sit and relax perfectly!

Clean up your window blinds

A layer of dust and dirt are stored on the window blinds. You might breathe in those if you
didn’t remove those dust and dirt. It’s kinda hard and tricky in cleaning the blinds. It might
accidentally cut off your fingers while you are cleaning it. Here’s a simple tip that you can do
to have clean blinds. By the use of tongs and sponge, your window blinds will look new and
clean again. You will also prevent from accidentally cutting off your fingers. Just wrap up the
sponge on the tong. This tool will rid off those dust on the blinds.

Microwave cleaning? Piece of cake

Eating is everyone’s hobby. Food is life. A microwave is one of the home appliance used to
cook that tasty food that will satisfy your cravings. But after cooking, baking or heating up
those foods, it will leave you another problem. Different food stains, bad smell, sticky
texture and such. Cleaning those gross things might stress you out. Want some help? Well, I
can give you easy ways and tips to clean up those messes.
But wait, you have to prepare first the things you need for this process. You need a 1/2 cup
of vinegar, 1/2 cup of water, lemon, microwave-safe bowl and a sponge or clean rag.
If you already have those things, mix up the vinegar, lemon, and water in the microwave-
safe bowl. Then place the mixture inside the microwave, set it on high for 5-10 minutes.
When it’s done, let it cool first. When it cools, open it up and pick up the sponge or clean
rag. Wipe out those messes. And look! Say bye-bye to those messes.
Wet the cloth before you dust
Its been a practice for some to dust with dry clothes. Did you know that when you use dry
cloth in wiping out those dust, it will not remove the dust instead it will just push the dirt to
another place while if you use wet cloth it will pick up all those dust? So, lesson learned? Use
wet clothes rather than the dry one.

Cleaning tile floor

Want to have a looking like new floor? Well, it’s easy. You need to exert a lot of effort if
really want to achieve the surrounding that you wish to have. In your house floor has
different dirt. Dust, stains and many more. So that you if you really want to clean it up, I’ll
give you a tip. It’s just simple. All you need to have before you start the cleaning session are
a bucket of water, detergent powder, and a rag or brush. When you already have those
things, start scrubbing and brushing that dirt. But, take note that you always make sure that
you frequently clean the rag you’re using and change the water so that dirt will not just get
back on the floor.

Brighten up those murky laundries

You must properly care your clothes. The way you washed your clothes affects how it looks.
When you didn’t wash it properly, it will look like old and unattractive when you wear it.
However, your problem is already solved! All you need is BAKING SODA! Mixing the baking
soda and with liquid detergent in your washing machine will give you the best result! A
brighter and looking new clothes. Try it out now and be fashionable with those properly
washed clothes!

Clean up your shower head

Having a hard time scrubbing those small holes in your shower head? Well, it’s not a
problem. You can easily solve that one. Here’s the trick. You need to prepare a plastic bag,
water, and vinegar. Mix the equal amount of vinegar and water then pour it on the plastic
bag. After you’ve done the mixture, tie it up on the shower head so that the mixture will
immerse on the shower head’s holes. Wait up for an hour, just let it soak. When time is up,
remove the plastic bag with the mixture and run your shower. You are all set now, you
consumed lesser time and do other chores while waiting for it to finish the whole process.

Stinky garbage no more!

Garbage may cause the stinky smell to the entire house. It is so unpleasant if your house
doesn’t smell good. There are commercial product available for freshening the odor of your
house. Don’t worry about finding high quality with a high-cost product because I will suggest
to you the cheap but will give you the best result. It is just the power of lemon. Just a slice of
lemon and put it anywhere in your house and put some slices of it on your garbage can. Let
the power of lemon make your home smells good and fresh!

Want to know more tips? Here’s the last. DON’T MAKE CLEANING AS A CHORE. Maybe
cleaning is tiring but if you don’t think that you will do a lot of stuff you will surely enjoy it.
Don’t make things complicated. There’s a lot of ways you can do to make your work easy.
So, what are you waiting? Stand up, move and start cleaning!