Remember all those things I said you should buy before No buy Month started? Well here’s 10 things that you can do with those items instead of buying more stuff! (Click on the links below for more detailed instructions and alternatives).
1. Soap Scum in the tub – Mix enough baking soda and lemon juice together to make a paste and rub with a microfiber cloth. (for tough stains, try using epsom or Kosher salt as a scrub)
2.. Pet urine on the rug – Spray the stain down with vinegar or pour ½ cup vinegar into the washing machine with it and wash as usual
3. After Dinner Cleanup – Keep vinegar and Peroxide in separate bottles and use each to spray down your counter tops, cabinet doors, oven and floors.
4. DIY Fruit wash – out of vinegar and a splash of lemon juice. Keep in a spray bottle by the sink.
5. Clean a stainless steel sink – sprinkle baking soda all over the bottom of your sink, then spray with vinegar. When it’s done bubbling, then wipe sink clean with microfiber cloth.
6. DIY Fabric Softener – Pour a ½ cup of white vinegar into the fabric softener dispenser of you washing machine. don’t worry, your clothes won’t smell like pickles!
7. Unclog a shower head – Ether remove the shower head and submerge in a bucket of undiluted vinegar, or
8. DIY Glass Cleaner – Make a 50/50 mix of water and vinegar in a spray bottle and spray glass or a mirror evenly. wipe down with a microfiber cloth, and then rub a crumpled up piece of newspaper over the glass to remove any streaks.
9. Finished Hardwood Floor Cleaner – I use spray straight vinegar on my floors, sometimes diluted with a little water and then rub dry with a microfiber cloth attached to a mop or a Swiffer. (What you’re actually cleaning is the polyurethane coating on top of the wood, not the wood itself.)
10. Clean your toilet bowl – Sprinkle baking soda in the bowl and under the rim, followed by a ½ cup of vinegar. Let it bubble up and settle and then srube the bowl clean with a toilet brush and flush.
** Bonus - Best Product to Multitask With - Use diluted Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap as a body wash, hand wash, mild laundry detergent, dishwashing soap, as an all-purpose cleaner and even as shampoo and toothpaste! For more castile soap ideas, check out this post.
Just by following the above list, you can eliminate buying laundry detergent, fabric softener, bathroom cleaner, window cleaner, hardwood floor cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner, limescale cleaner, body wash, dish washing soap, and shampoo. Saving yourself about $100! Not to mention the fact that you’ll know what ingredients are in your cleaning products.
You’re welcome.
• What are some of the ways that you use vinegar, baking soda, peroxide and lemon to clean your home?