Hints and Tips for Household Cleaning Reviews

I thought i would share a little story with you regarding my obsession with cleaning. Every week regardless of how im feeling I will ensure that the house is cleaned from top to bottom and I am only satisfied when the house smells of bleach and the rest of the family have passed out from breathing cleaning fluid. I used to watch How ...  Read the complete review

Ok I have to admit that I am a royal pain in the backside. Ask my husband he will tell you that although I am obviously fab (lol) I am certainly a nightmare to live with. It is the subject of quite a lot of our arguments and yet to me it is addictive and I cannot help myself. What I hear you ask is the problem the answer my friends is I AM ...  Read the complete review

I love a clean house there is something calming about a de cluttered lemony smelling home. I would however love the cleaning fairies to do it whist I sleep unfourtenally it falls to me and on rare occasions my husband has a mad moment when the mess gets so bad t hat he actually notices it!! So as we cannot afford a ...  Read the complete review

l cant stand housework,l wish l was a domestic goddess ,but l just want to spend my valuable time doing so many other things.As it has to be done, l make it as organzied as l can to get it out of the way,so heres my hints and tips l do,to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. l used to work for a cleaning contractor many ...  Read the complete review

I'm far from a domestic goddess, more of a lick and a promise kind of girl when it comes to household chores. However I have do I have a secret weapon when it comes to removing stains from clothing. Having just put it to the test again this morning, I thought I'd share with anyone who hasn't yet discovered this natural and completely free stain ...  Read the complete review

My wife is an absolute cleaning machine and if it was possible I'm sure she would clean all day long but due to the fact that she looks after our 19 month old son it is not always possible. Due to her cleanliness I myself have become quite domesticated (when I have to) here are some of the cleaning tips I have learnt from ...  Read the complete review

Green Cleaning - the way forward! I began "green" cleaning just over a year ago after my son was diagnosed with multiple chemical sensitivity. The consultant told us that as well as altering his diet to avoid unwanted chemicals, we should also change our cleaning methods. So I did as I was told and invested in a green cleaning ...  Read the complete review

Here is a list of my household cleaning tips amassed over years of hard work and toil. I hope you find some of them of interest, and help to you. 1...Use BAKING SODA to:- a) Clean a microwave oven. Apply some soda to a damp sponge, scour and rinse off. b) Deodorize a carpet. Sprinkle soda lightly over a carpet, leave for about ...  Read the complete review

I clean on a regular basis and although I hate it, I still try to make sure I do a reasonably good job, whilst getting to the nitty gritty details of a room every month rather than every week. My first tip would be to use a hoover/vacuum cleaner instead of a brush and pan. A brush and pan is not hygienic as you are actually just pushing around the ...  Read the complete review

If I could I would subscribe to Quentin Crisp's assertion that the dust doesn't get any thicker after four years. Unfortunately, eventually I have to do something about it! Here are some of my tips for household cleaning. Properly applied they can cut your cleaning time in half. ~~~*~~~~ Warning! Before you read on, ...  Read the complete review

I found this recipe for homemade furniture polish online, tried it, and have been using it ever since! It's really easy to make and it leaves my furniture sparkling! I use it on all my wood surfaces and it brings everything up to a lovely clean shine. It smells great, and as you can add any kind of essential oil you want, the smell can ...  Read the complete review

My number one tip would be to pay someone to do it but at the moment our budget does not stretch to getting a cleaner in so I'm pretty much stuck with the lion share of the work, this is not due to any out dated notion of it being womans work rather the fact that my boyfriend works away from home a lot and so I'm the one making most of the mess, ...  Read the complete review

Cleaning tips. As consumers we spend a lot of money each year on cleaning products, hoping to make household chores easier. Most of us hate cleaning, but it has to be done. Here are some cheap and easy ways to clean, without using chemicals. I find cleaning products have a strong smell that can take your ...  Read the complete review

Here I have a few household tips for you as we all need to save money and help the environment: Broken Glass Use a wet cotton ball or an ear-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily. No More Mosquitoes Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away. ...  Read the complete review

I don't know about you, but I am always on the look out for different ideas, on how to get my housework done quickly. I love it when my home is sparkling clean, I just hate what I have to do to get it that way. I am going to share some of my tips with you. 1. Microwave I have found that the quickest and easiest way ...  Read the complete review

I have a slight obsession with cleaning and one place in the house i like to make sure is clean is the loo. My insistance with a clean loo began when i was pregnant with my second and developed a craving for cleaning products. I liked to know that i was killing germs and would buy all sorts of loo cleaning products. Its not everyone's favourite ...  Read the complete review

Thank you so much for this tip. Works like a dream. As with writer, I have tried for years to obtain smear free windows and at last an easy solution which cost me nothing as I used just a small amount of washing up liquid in the water!

While in town with my cousin for lunch we got chatting about the dampness she has in her sons bedroom, an elderly neighbour had told her to try baking soda, as this would get rid of the problem and keep it from returning, so she decided she was going to give it a try. (not sure yet, if it has worked) I had heard before that Baking ...  Read the complete review

Here's a tip that will save you time and money ... use colour catcher with your washing and wash whites and colours together without worrying about the colours running! A Colour Catcher sheet will catch any running dyes and keep your washing the colour it should be! I used have to constantly replace my husbands white work shirts after a washing mistake but not I don't need to worry. I also don't have any half loads so I'm not wasting energy and the work at 30degrees so its better all round! Its a brilliant product for anyone who does their washing I wish it was invented sooner saving me more money on all those white shirts!!

Being a bit of a skinflint (lol) and trying to make 2008 a "save as much money as possible" year I have been searching on the internet for ideas to save money. I am registered on a money-saving website but that will wait for a separate review lol. This is my own recipe (tweaked from one I saw online!) for fabric ...  Read the complete review