Stingy Livelihood Suggestion 3: Clean-up on the cheap

Posted by Faizan Shiwani / at 5:05 AM / /

Whenever I go to the grocery store to buy a few things to clean my home, I have noticed that there are more and extra new kinds of cleaners and dusters; just fundamentally a lot of things that I have never desired in the past to get my residence fresh.

I reflect that it is important to prove everybody that they do not need Swiffers or Shamwows to clean their homes.

So here are a few ideas to save you some money on the clean-up aisle and in your residence when it comes time to wash up:

1) Disposable towels can be wasteful. While I think it is crucial to ALWAYS use a fresh tablecloth to wash up in the kitchen, it is not necessary to have three rolls of paper towels to clean. Reusable towels are a good alternative to paper towels. You can clean up with them and fling them in the wash with your bath towels. This will in addition help decrease some rubbish that comes from your house.

2) Lysol or any other condensed antiseptic cleaner is your close friend when it comes time to clean the kitchen. Before I discovered this tip, I ca not inform you how many bottles of pre-bottled Lysol or Formula 409 I used up cleaning up around the house (specially in the kitchen). One day while I was getting ready to mop up the flooring, I discovered that you can in addition use Lysol to wash counters. So, I put the recommended amount in a spray bottle and fill the rest of the bottle up with water. One bottle of condensed cleaner can last our residence 3 months (and thats also using it to wash the floors).

3) Swiffer dusters are nice, but a wet duster can do the same duty. If you have lots of knick knacks in your residence and have to walk around and clean them each single week, then maybe a Swiffer duster will save you some time, however if you do not, a wet cloth could be the inexpensive option that you are looking for.

4) Plastic bags from the retailers can be a good alternative to purchasing trash bags. Okay, unless you have totally started using reusable grocery bags, then I am sure someplace around your residence you have some of those plastic grocery bags. I keep all of mine and make use of them as trash bags. This keeps us from having to buy trash bags. While you are probably thinking that they are just too tiny to be used as waste bags in the kitchen trash, imagine about it this way: How often have you strolled past your kitchen waste that you probably should have taken out yesterday? When you use smaller bags, you need to take the waste out more often and so, there is less stink to cope with.

Now these ideas may not be meant for you or you can single out and choose which ones sound like something that you may give a endeavor.