The Simplest Way to Clean a Wooden Knife Block

The Simplest Way to Clean a Wooden Knife Block

A wooden knife block houses all the knives needed for cooking and enjoying your food. It often holds a knife sharpener as well. Your paring knife, your steak knives, a chef’s knife and more are typically all stored in a wooden knife block. Just as those knives get...
Make an Impact with Deep House Cleaning

Make an Impact with Deep House Cleaning

A home is for people, not for stuff, dust, and dirt. Every once in awhile, you need to take back your home from the encroaching junk. Every once in a while, you need a deep house cleaning. A deep house cleaning is more than just wiping a few things down, making the...
How to Clean With Club Soda

How to Clean With Club Soda

Club soda is an excellent way to clean without the use of harsh chemicals. You’ll love these easy tips for cleaning surfaces and items around your home with club soda. That’s right—the same seltzer you enjoy as a beverage is an excellent tool for cleaning things...
Using Salt For Effective House Cleaning

Using Salt For Effective House Cleaning

Salt is an incredibly versatile substance. Besides flavoring the food we eat, it may also be used as a non-toxic housecleaning agent. You might just be surprised at the number of things you can clean with it.     Remove Stains On Your Clothing Salt is an...
How to Properly Clean & Sanitize Canning Jars

How to Properly Clean & Sanitize Canning Jars

Canning jars house some of the most delicious fresh food items in the country. From jellies and preserves to the freshest of vegetables, spaghetti sauce, juices, soups, and more—it seems that everything canned just tastes better than products purchased in a grocery...
Easiest Cleaning Tips for Salt Shakers — Be Practical!

Easiest Cleaning Tips for Salt Shakers — Be Practical!

Salt shakers and pepper shakers grace the kitchens of just about every home in the country. We use salt and pepper for cooking, seasoning our food while eating, and occasionally for other household purposes. Salt and pepper shakers are two of those kitchen items that...
Finally! What to Do With Those Booooring Upper Cabinets

Finally! What to Do With Those Booooring Upper Cabinets

Upper cabinets in our kitchens sometimes seem as though they serve no real purpose. Located above a refrigerator or exhaust fan over a stove, they aren’t as big as regular cabinets. What can you stash in there? And how often do you perform the home cleaning duty of...
How to Remove Chocolate from Surfaces

How to Remove Chocolate from Surfaces

Chocolate. The word itself evokes images of decadence. Nothing softens a blow, curbs a bad mood, or allows a short indulgence like creamy, rich chocolate. Unfortunately, when chocolate melts—even just a little bit—it poses some ominous problems for us when it comes to...
Dirtiest Places in Your Home

Dirtiest Places in Your Home

Let’s talk about the dirtiest places in your home! It has been estimated that the total mass of all the bacteria in the world is more than the mass of every other living thing combined. Yep, it’s 5 x 1030 bacteria versus the rest of the planet....
6 Sins of DIY House Cleaning

6 Sins of DIY House Cleaning

Cleaning is one of those weird gray areas in life. You have to do it, there are definitely right and wrong ways to do it, but, in most cases, you were never explicitly taught how. You might be committing one of these mistakes and not even know it! We’re putting...