15 Simple Tricks That Help You Clean Faster. You Already Wish You Had Known Them Before

Research shows that adults spend 7 – 19 hours per week cleaning their houses. Of course the figures vary depending on age, social status, kind of house and cleaning methods applied. Anyway, this is the time we all wish we could spend doing something else. Let us advise you how can you make your cleaning easier.

An old sock could be a perfect tool to do it once you put it on your hand. Trust me, there is no better way to do it!

Make a ball of the foil, pour washing-up liquid all over it and wash it!

To make brass surfaces shine, apply some ketchup and spread it evenly with a sponge with round moves. Then use a cloth to clean it. Finally wash it. In more difficult cases add some salt.

The dirt and dust often accumulates in window edges and cracks. This mixture handles that very well. Apply it and let it sit there for 5 – 10 minutes. Then, using a toothbrush, rub it well. Finally remove everything with a cloth.

Cleaning the toilet will be much easier if you do the following: soak the towels in vinegar, lay the inside of the toilet with them and let them sit there for a few hours. Finally take them out.

Apply with a sponge, rub in, leave for a moment and rinse with warm water

Use rubber gloves to remove animal hair from soft furniture.

Interestingly, it also works ac carpet-cleaning agent.

To cover minor scratches on wooden furniture, polish them with walnuts or Brazil nuts as they contain natural oils. Then polish the surface with soft dry cloth.

Alcohol is a perfect agent to polish surfaces of stainless steel and such devices as microwave ovens, kettles or toasters. You only need a few drops (of vodka for example) and a soft cloth.

Drawers equipped with trays, boxes and other organising gadgets are always much easier to clean. You won’t have to spend so long and in the first place there will be no need to do it so often.

It is a good place for items that you want to have at hand.

Towels and other items stored in drawers should be arranged vertically and in rows. This is the simplest way to let you find things more easily.

Those had better be kept in sets or else you will have to spend hours looking for the matching bit.

Though designed for documents, it also works very well storing toilet paper. It looks so much better now!