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Clean Up Your Life With These 10 Brilliantly Simple Hacks
#1 Vinegar + baking soda = super clean diswasher
When you run your next load of dishes, place a (dishwasher safe!) cup of white vinegar on the top rack and add baking soda to the bottom rack and door. Run the dishwasher (use detergent like normal), and the combination will not only help the dishes get clean, but the dishwasher itself will be clean as well!
#2 Vinegar + baking soda = awesome
It was awesome when you made volcanoes with it as a kid, and it’s also awesome for more practical purposes. The classic acid/base reaction can be used to clean tons of things around your house, plus it’s safe and cheap.
#3 Clean Wooden or Bamboo cutting boards with lemon and salt
Lemons are your friend, too! Sprinkle wooden boards down coarse salt and run with a cut lemon. Rinse without soap and dry.
#4 Lemons for hard water stains
The acid in lemon juice dissolves the calcium that leaves the spotty hard water stains. If it’s a really tough one, you can add salt to the lemon and rub with that.
#5 Ammonia cleans an oven just by being ammonia
Make sure your oven is completely cold before trying this one, okay? Close half a cup of ammonia in a bowl in your oven overnight and the fumes will loosen the gunk so that you can simply wipe it down the next day.
#6 Use foil to clean glass cookware
Just crumple up a piece of foil to remove baked-on crud from glass cookware. The foil will have a surface similar to steel wool, but will be easier on your hands. It’s also a good way to get some use out of foil scraps you can’t reuse.
#7 Chalk for grease stain removal
Before throwing the clothes in the wash, rub grease stains with chalk. The chalk dust will absorb the grease, and then it will all be rinsed away in the wash.
#8 Use Play-Doh to clean up glitter
Simply press onto loose glitter to pick it up. As a bonus, you now have glittery Play-Doh.
#9 Use a squeegee to de-fuzz a carpet
It yanks the hair right out and collects it into easy-to-collect (if kinda gross) clumps.
#10 Clean makeup brushes with baby shampoo
Simply wash, rinse, and blot to see if there’s any makeup remaining. When they’re clean, hang them upside down to dry so water doesn’t collect in the handle
10 Cheap Meal Life Hacks
#1 Cool Ranch Seasoning
Because why should that delicious flavor be limited to tortilla chips?
#2 Saving Avocados
Using lemon slices will help you keep your avocados fresh.
#3 Drip-Free PB&J
Don’t waste any of that tasty jelly, make a peanut butter barrier and fill the center with jam.
#4 Fresh Cake
Keep cakes moist by placing a piece of bread on top overnight.
#5 Ice Cream Sandwich
Don’t waste money buying ice cream sandwiches when you can just make some at home.
#6 Toasted Bread
Up the quality of any sandwich by using your toaster to bring it all together.
#7 Yogurt Replacement
Need to make your food supplies spread further? Yogurt can replace everything and help you save some money.
#8 Lasting Bananas
Wrap the top of your bananas with plastic wrap and get them to last four to five days longer.
#9 Buck Menu Blowout
Get a double cheeseburger and a spicy chicken sandwich from McDonalds and you’ll have a very filling meal for two bucks!
#10 Pizza Omelet
Have a leftover slice of pizza and want to make it go a litter further? Pizza omelet!