Showing posts with label household hints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label household hints. Show all posts

Friday, September 13, 2013

House Dust

This week I had a visitor, a BIG visitor...Ted!




And yes, this is typical of how the week went! Ted is a big bundle of puppy love energy. Between Ted and my dog, Hunter, there were 200 pounds of dog craziness in the house: teasing each other with toys, chasing each other, vying for my attention. Hair flew and dust bunnies grew! 

When Ted left, out came the Dyson, the Shark and furniture polish for an attack on the doggy dust. I emptied the Dyson canister three times, sneezed a lot as I dusted, and did a move-the-furniture-and area-rugs floor washing. Serious dust removal...

The area rug in the front hallway is pretty big and I wrestled around with it to center it and to settle it over the non-skid pad. But there's always that last little piece that wants to be difficult...

Not in the mood to negotiate that little bit hanging out, so yep, got the scissors out and evened things out with a couple of snips! Done deal. 

Since my kitchen floor sparkled, the counter tops needed to as well. A "recipe" for an easy, effective, and inexpensive granite counter top cleaner...

1/4 c. rubbing alcohol  
1/4 t. of Dawn dish washing soap
2 c. water. 
Put in a spray bottle and use as needed. 
Kills the germs and leaves no streaks. 






Thursday, March 14, 2013

Household Hint

Washing windows...a love/hate relationship. I love clean, sparkling, spot-free windows but I hate washing them. Having two dogs in the house doesn't make it easy to keep clean windows, especially when they are at nose level. Lots of doggie nose art around here!

In a recent Heloise column, she gave a "recipe" for a shower door cleaner. If this works on water stains, certainly this should work on dirty dog nose windows. I gave it a try. It worked. Mind you, I had tried Windex and the nose prints smudged. A little bit of elbow grease on a few of the spots and they were gone. Sparkling windows! Until the next time...

Window Cleaner Recipe

Mix: 
1/2 c. vinegar (white or apple cider)
1 pint rubbing alcohol
1 t. dishwashing liquid

Finish with enough water to make a gallon.

Put the mixture into a clearly labeled spray bottle and whatever other containers you have to hold the rest.