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Please help me remove old pet stains from what was a new carpet. The renter kept a small dog in the bedroom.

I bought a glass cleaner made to scrape the paint off, I guess, saw it at walmart. Much wider than a razor blade, works great on my cook top

I use Windex on my ceramic stove top and it looks like new! If you have some baked on spill on your stove top, just spray with Windex and let it sit a few minutes and viola it's like new! Also works just as well on stainless steel. Also stainless steel refridgeraters.

I just skipped the article and went right to the comments. Better advice here.

When I feel like cleaning I use a washclothe with some soapsy sudsy water with a couple of squirts of bleach to kill the germs. Other than that. I have a saying that goes like this. Apology: Although you find our house a mess. Come in sit down converse. Some days it doesn't look like this, some days its even worse.

Next time you cut a fresh pineapple, rub the inside of the peelings, sprinkled with salt, on your copper pots. Removes tarnish in a flash!

Place a cup/bowl water in microwave to a boil. Let sit for a few minutes. The steam cuts loose any dried on food and wipes right out. No chemicals used.

Better not look in my refrigerator after this last holiday weekend. Even the cats won't eat the leftovers. I really dislike cleaning of any kind. I guess I will have to use ALL of the cleaning tips to get things back in order.

putting all the food inside the ref. must be oraganize and clean so that all the food inside is good...

Bar keepers is the best thing to use on copper bottom pans. Wet pan and sprinkle on bar keepers and scrub it a little. Will shine like new.

I have a vinyl floor in my kitchen and when it was new, the kitchen store sold us a bottle of floor cleaner made by the floor manufacturer. I wanted to take care of my new floor, so I continued to buy it, even though it cost 20-some dollars a bottle and reeked so badly of ammonia that I could barely breathe when using it. One time I needed to wash the floor in the wintertime, and I couldn't bear the thought of gagging from the fumes and it was too cold to open a window, so I grabbed the bottle of Murphy's Oil Soap that I use to clean my kitchen cabinets and poured some of that into a bucket of water. It worked MUCH better than that nasty floor cleaner, plus it's nontoxic...and cheap! I like to use Swiffers, too, but if you like to use the old bucket-and-mop method, the Murphy's works great.

shop vac. I have three kids, two dogs, and a husband...so I follow their trail with my shop vac. crumbs, pizza crusts, legos, socks, hair, weird bits of sticky goo...shop vac. And to remember things when I go shopping, etc., I just whisper them like a secret to whoever's closest...this ensures that my youngest will blurt it out in the middle of the store. Never fails.

I like baking soda the entire bottom of the pan

If you dont like to scrub your pans when done frying, throw some baking soda on the entire bottom of the pan, add an inch of water over the baking soda and put it on the stove on high and let it boil. Burnt on caked on guk will lift right off whith hardly any scrubbing at all. It is a miracle and really works even on burnt on stuff.

Wet the bath tub, spray solution of water and dish detergent ($ store brand is fine!) and leave it for minute. Use sponge to wipe off all soap scums, dirt... Rinse well. You can feel the smooth surface of the yub with your finer! No sweat.

I save the plastic bread clips that come on a loaf of bread (not the wire ones) and use them to scrape around the edge between the counter and sink that can get kind of gooky. Also works on any small crevice in the kitchen. It's free and when you're done scraping, you can throw it out!

I think going through things and purging stuff a little more often helps. If I am bringing things into the house, i am sure to donate some things, too, so we never "stockpile" all that stuff. We simply end up replacing old stuff with new stuff and never really accumulate more than we need. We joke that we would actually use a garage, if we had one, for cars, whereas our neighbors use theirs for storage of everything else and park their cars in their driveways. (Even the neighbors commented on that to us). I have a mental limit in my mind as to what can come in and can't. If we don't use it or really don't need it, OUT with it. My husband and I do not "max out" our storage spaces in the house. We typically have room for things that might come into the house by not keeping things jam packed and crowded in the house in the first place. That drives us both crazy. We also make careful decor choices, not throwing everything in the house that we like in haphazard fashion just because "we like it"; I don't want a thousand trinkets for a table display, and we can't stand cluttered coffee tables and end tables with trinkets and knick knacks that we just end up knocking off anyway or that are in the way. Also, big items are easier to deal with when it comes to displaying and cleaning, rather than having a thousand tiny things collecting dust. We live in a small house, and I want the space to feel intimate and cozy, not cluttered and crowded. That definitely helps when it comes to cleaning.

Non stick cookware holds odors but it you wash throughly with hot sudsy water and rinse but use cold water at the end of the rinse it elimates most of the smells.

To get hardwater sediments off of your showerheads or faucets just put vinegar in a baggy and wrap around faucets or showerhead and let on for about 5 hours it removes all of the sediment. I usually put on at night and remove in the morning.

I recently switched to vinegar, water and a couple tablespoons dish soap to clean with. I still use my lysol spray on furniture, curtains, area rugs.... But I can tell you that I love it! Cheaper than all the chemical cleaners and in my opinion smells better! I swear by Murphy's oil soap for all my wood. And lysol, again my opinion, works longer than febreeze.