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SMART Ideas!
by Alice Osborne
Cleaning Made Easy!
Sweep your bathtub clean! Instead of just putting away that dirty broom after sweeping, sprinkle some cleaner in your bathtub. After sweeping—clean away. While saving your back, you end up with a clean tub in half the time (like using a large scrubber), and have a clean broom to use again. Smart, huh?
3-in-1 Cleanup
Clean your dishes, porcelain sink and dish rag at the same time by adding 1/4 cup of bleach to a sink full of hot water. After rinsing your dishes extra well, leave the water and rag in the sink. In about an hour, your sink is sparkling clean and you have a germ free rag. Don’t forget to wear rubber gloves. Smart, huh?
Sticky Lids?
Honey and syrup bottles and other sticky substances can get sticky on the lips of the bottles and if not used frequently, the caps can stick and become very hard to open. We’ve discovered that if you clean the lip and cap of the bottle and then spray the lip with nonstick kitchen spray, the bottle will open easily next time you want to use it. Smart, huh?
For Sticker Residue...
To clean off the sticky residue from labels and stickers, use a bit of cooking oil on a paper towel, rub over the sticky area and then either wipe clean or wash off. Smart, huh?
(If YOU have a smart idea, won't you share it? Life is so much easier and we accomplish so much more when we pool our resources. And after all, we're all in this together. So email patty@dvo.com or alice@dvo.com with YOUR Smart Ideas!)
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