post your house cleaning tips

[Adam]

Dog is good at hoovering up

[richard]

the dishes wont clean themselves, so i have to manually do them

ive never lived in a house with a dishwasher! goddamn, i want one so bad 

[Queen Victoria]

Cartoon from the early 1970's.

Two female hippies walking down the street.  The first one says, "You know, housework's a drag.  You sweep the floor, you wash the dishes, you wash the clothes.  And six months later you have to do it all over again."

[Queen Victoria]

Try to keep up with things.  It's more discouraging and harder to clean up a lot than a little.

To get rid of spills, soap scum, etc. just wet a towel and let it sit on the stuff or let the foaming cleaner sit on it for a few minutes and it will do most of the work for you.  Ditto for dishes.

Cut down on the magazines you get to those that you really like.  Go through them and tear out what you want to read or re-read.  Toss the rest to minimize clutter.  Ditto for newspapers.  After over 50 years of a daily newspaper in the house, I stopped ours and don't really miss it since I have the internet.

Get as many double duty items as you can.  I mix cakes and the like in one of my pots rather than have a mixing bowl (I do it by hand and this wouldn't work for a mixer.)  I mix the meatloaf in the pan I'm going to cook it in.  Less dishes to wash.



 

[P7PSP]

 

[Queen Victoria]

Being a post whore to reach 3000 posts.  Feel free to ignore.

[Parts]

Burn down the house and start over

[P7PSP]

Burn down the house and start over

Advice from the King Of Clutter. 

[Queen Victoria]

Burn down the house and start over

Knowing hoarders, they'd remove all their precious belongings before they torched it.

Can you imagine what a hoarder would do with Buckingham Palace?

[Charlotte Quin]

Don't move out of home in the first place

["couldbecousin"]

If company's coming over, stash your clutter in that unused oven! 




EDIT: Just remember to get it out before using the oven. If you actually cook, that is. 

["couldbecousin"]

Disguise your mess with lots of folding screens and air-freshening spray!   

[Celticgoddess]

I try to keep everything chemical free. My favourite is cleaning the bathroom using half a lemon. Sprinkle some salt on it if you need something abrasive. Makes everything shiny, not harmful to the environment, and it smells good too. After going so many years not using chemicals, it gives me  headache when I walk into a place that uses them.

*CG - Your resident hippie*

[Osensitive1]

I try to keep everything chemical free. My favourite is cleaning the bathroom using half a lemon. Sprinkle some salt on it if you need something abrasive. Makes everything shiny, not harmful to the environment, and it smells good too. After going so many years not using chemicals, it gives me  headache when I walk into a place that uses them.

*CG - Your resident hippie*

Lol. Like to bleach the hell out of everything. It smells good too.

[Parts]

I try to keep everything chemical free. My favourite is cleaning the bathroom using half a lemon. Sprinkle some salt on it if you need something abrasive. Makes everything shiny, not harmful to the environment, and it smells good too. After going so many years not using chemicals, it gives me  headache when I walk into a place that uses them.

*CG - Your resident hippie*

Lol. Like to bleach the hell out of everything. It smells good too.

You like the chlorine smell too