For the Cleaning Freaks Like Me...

I found this on Pinterest and think it is AWESOME...  I especially like the Bounce idea for the baseboards.  If you get a chance click here to visit the link.  Lots of good cleaning tips...

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!

Another Cleaning Tip....

I'm alittle under the weather so this is going to be a short post....  I have really fallen in love with my blender...  I've been putting together some great protein smoothies.. So good....  But clean up is always tedious...   With the downtime I have, I found this great "blender clean up" tip in my Women's Day magazine and have to share it...

Fill the blender with one quarter full warm water, add 1/4 tsp. of liquid dish soap and 4 ice cubes.  Turn blender on high for one minute.  The ice will clean the blades and force the soapy water into all those hard to reach spots...
See, much easier than trying to shove a dish rag or a cleaning pad down there!!!

New Cleaning Goals....

I think I have come up with an idea for tackling my big cleaning projects.  I've been stressing over getting them all done----when I should be looking at it ONE at a time.  I do this to myself all the time.  I look at the BIG PICTURE and think, "I will never get this done by myself."  I just have to stop doing that!!  The "Big Picture" tends to freak everybody out, I think.. I hope I'm not alone in this---LOL!!!

So, this weeks cleaning challenge is my lower cabinets that contain the countless cooking items that I DO NOT use..  Out they must go!!  I have a few new ones that I'm wanting to buy and simply don't have room for them until I clean out what I have.... I'll let you know by Friday how it's looking....

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.