What's the best home cleaning tip you've learned?

Resting if I wish. The dust will be there when I am long gone. I also have a fabulous cleaner and I have no problem stocking cleaning equipment and washing the myriad of cleaning cloths I supply

Getting a cleaner, and treating them like royalty so they will not leave…

I fail at this a lot, but tidy as you go. Spend 10 minutes tidying before you go to bed.

What kittylester said.

Newatthis

Marry a man that likes housework!

Or marry a man couldn’t give a fig if it’s done or not!!

Silvershadow

Bar Keepers Friend is the answer for stainless steel sinks. Somebody on here recommended it once, I bought it and it was every bit as good as she said it was. I also bleach the sink out every weekend with a scourer pad.

Yes! I’d forgotten about this, it’s fab!

In a similar vein , don’t put it down, put it away.

That’s reminded me of my household motto Stansgran - A journey upstairs empty handed is a wasted journey. Unfortunately DH refused to accept it!

Never leave a room empty handed.

Marry a man that likes housework!

Dri-Pak sell lots of natural products for cleaning and you can get them on Amazon as well. www.dri-pak.co.uk/our-products/

There are plenty of tips if you go to the tab marked 'Knowledge Base'.
There's a useful one under Bathroom Cleaning Tips/Toilets. If you live in a very hard water area you can get limescale in the toilet bowl which is very hard to remove. They recommend a packet of Citric Acid dissolved in hot water overnight, and it works!

Jaxjacky

Remove glasses.

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What works for me is switching my brain off, putting the radio on, and just getting on with housework first thing in the morning. If it’s not done by 9.30, I leave it until tomorrow because a day spent on housework is my day wasted.

Dylis

Not owning an iron.
Smooth and fold when getting off the line. Put shirts on a hanger and hang straight not the line.
My lovely neighbour showed me how to do this many years ago.

I do own a semi-retired iron but I find that if you pull things into shape while they are still damp, hang them carefully and do what Dylis: wrote, they don't need ironing.

This seems to work particularly well with cotton jersey tee-shirts and polo tops. The shirt tip works well too.

Always spend 10 minutes clearing up before going to bed, then there’s nothing nasty lying around when you get up.

The condenser in my tumble dryer is always full of dog hair. I was going to buy a washing machine hair trapper thinking that they did, indeed trap the hair but they just get the hair off the garments. I suppose it means that there won’t be as much hair in the tumble dryer as it will be better removed in the wash but dies that mean my washing machine filter will need de clogging? She isn’t even a very hairy dog, being a whippet.

Bar Keepers Friend is the answer for stainless steel sinks. Somebody on here recommended it once, I bought it and it was every bit as good as she said it was. I also bleach the sink out every weekend with a scourer pad.

Watch a man do it.

Put things back where they belong when you have finished using them.

Or in Grandma's words, "Have a place for everything, and everything in its place."

This saves time, prevents stress, and makes it unnecessary to run around like a hen with its head off tidying up just before the visitors arrive.

kittylester

Get a cleaner

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BlueBelle

Read a book, play a game, do a jigsaw watch TV 🤣🤣🤣

Exactly my thoughts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My stainless steel sink gets everything down it including unsupervised builders never used anything other than dishwasher. Not a stain to be seen and it must be at least twenty years old. It is scratched though but just taken on a mat finish

butterandjam

loopyloo

Seriously though, what's the best thing with which to clean a stainless steel sink?

If you haven't worked that out by now, it probably doesn't matter.

Not a very nice response to a genuine question? Imo I don’t understand why people respond to threads that they obviously have no interest in .

Butter and Jam.
I live in hope that a new better solution becomes available!

Soda crystals dissolved in hot water cuts grease. I use it to clean brushes. Works a treat.