Clean Freak---Or Not Enough?

     Do you think you clean enough?  I never think I do, and I'm just a little OCD--if you don't know that about me already.  However, in reading my HGTV magazine, I'm glad that I have some of those Lysol wipes upstairs!
     How often do you think you should clean the following items---your romote control?  The kids bath toys---I mean really, they are in bath water, right?  Your kitchen sponge?  How about your lamp shades?  Well here are the answers, I was a little suprised but I'm on it now for sure!!!

   That remote that you touch anywhere from twice to fifty times a day needs to be cleaned atleast once a month.  I would have thought twice a month, but ok...

Those bath toys, every two weeks!!  I would have thought monthly on this one.  But I guess that dirty water does it!!

Once a week!! Just think about what all you use that sponge on......

 

And finally, the lamp shades.  I dust them, but thats about all.  They need the Lysol wipes atleast twice a year. 



So there you  have it.  Are you ready to revisit that cleaning you did a few days ago?  No house is every going to be spotless, but things like this at least make you think when you are cleaning in those areas...


Today's tip:  To clean that kitchen sponge, you have three choices:  Put the sponge in the dishwasher for a full cycle, set on "heated dry"; microwave it on high for a minute (make sure the sponge is wet or it is going to give you something else to clean!); or you can soak it for five minutes in a mix of 3/4 cup bleach and 1 gallon of water... 
From Carolyn Forte, director of Home Appliances and Cleaning Products at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute.