Surely more than once you have been held back in your plans because you were missing something at home that you thought you had. Maybe you were out of dishwasher detergent, you didn’t have silver cleaner, your mattress got stained with blood, or you have mold on the walls and need to get rid of it without having to call professionals.
How about we give you some practical home tricks? Below are some that can be very useful for everyday life. Wanna take a look?
Practical tricks for cleaning silver
If you have silver products and you thought you had that silver cleaner but you don’t, don’t worry. In fact, you don’t have to put it off for another day, you can make a homemade remedy instead.
If you mix baking soda with hot water until a paste forms, you can apply it to the silver items you have. You can do this with a toothbrush or a cloth to scrub well. Then you just have to rinse with water and dry with another clean cloth.
If it’s very dirty, what you can do is even put those items in a basin or bowl with water and baking soda and let it sit for a while to clean. Then you just have to rub a little before rinsing it.
Practical tricks for cleaning a bloodstained mattress
If your mattress has been stained with blood (from a wound, menstruation, etc.) by accident, know that it’s not the end of the world, nor something that has to stay there. One of the most practical and easy ways to remove the blood is by using hydrogen peroxide.
When you apply it directly to the stain, it will start to disappear. So you should scrub a little and repeat until it’s completely gone.
Then you just have to let it dry and it will look good as new.
If the stain has been there for a while, then maybe just that won’t remove it, but if you make a little paste and let it act, you can gradually diminish it in several applications until there’s no trace of blood left.
Practical tricks for removing mold from walls
The appearance of mold on walls can happen for different reasons. But perhaps the most important thing is to remove it so you don’t have health problems (and then you can search for the causes).
Well, one of the practical tricks you can use is to mix equal parts water and white vinegar. Put it in a spray bottle and, as the name suggests, spray this on the moldy wall. Let it sit for a few minutes and then scrub with a brush or sponge to remove the mold.
Then you should rinse the wall with clean water.
Now, it may happen that, no matter how much you scrub, the mold won’t go away. If this happens, you can try another mixture, but we advise you to have the space ventilated (open windows). The mixture is bleach with water, and it’s applied in the same way as the previous one.
The alternative to dishwasher detergent when you don’t have any
If when you go to put the dishwasher on you realize you don’t have dishwashing detergent, you don’t have to wait and go out to buy some. In fact, you can substitute it by mixing baking soda and salt. You can also add a little dish soap for extra cleaning.
In fact, this combination is one of the most effective practical tricks for cleaning and disinfecting dishes and also the dishwasher.
Practical tricks for eliminating shoe odor
With everyday use, as well as each person’s body odor, it can happen that your shoes smell a lot (to the point where you have to take them out to the balcony or window to avoid the smell).
However, this can be eliminated by sprinkling some baking soda and leaving it overnight. The baking soda will absorb that odor.
Another option is to use fabric bags with baking soda to keep them disinfected and fresh all the time.
The safest way to clean the microwave
Over time, the microwave gets dirty and sometimes it’s not easy to clean. But here we leave you one of the practical tricks that will be very useful to you. Simply put a container with water and lemon slices in the microwave. If it’s very, very dirty, you can then use a mixture of white vinegar and water.
In both cases, you should heat the mixture for a few minutes, until you see the steam starting to condense on the walls.
Right at that moment, you can use a clean cloth to clean the interior and remove the grease and residues left from using it.
Do you know more practical home tricks? Let us know in the comments.
via: MiMub in Spanish
