Window Cleaner

1 ounce white ammonia

4 ounces of rubbing alcohol

1 drop of laundry soap

then fill the remaining space in the bottle with water

Homemade Cleaning Wipes

• cylindrical or tall square plastic food storage container, 10-cup capacity
• extra-large roll of paper towels
• cleaning agents of your choice (recipes follow)
• electric drill with 1/2-inch drill bit
• electric knife
• liquid measuring cups

Instructions:

In the garage or workshop area, place a small block of wood beneath the plastic food storage container lid. Use electric drill to drill a 1/2-inch diameter hole in the center of the container lid.

For best results, select an extra-large roll of good quality paper towels for this project. Less-expensive towels fray or shred when pulled through the holder; thicker quilted towels have greater cleaning strength and withstand more scrubbing. Even at $1.39 per roll, cost for homemade wipes will be less than 75 cents, not including the storage container.

Without removing the paper towel wrapper, use the electric knife to cut the paper towel roll into two shorter rolls. Be patient! It may take up to two minutes to cut through the towel roll and cardboard tube inside.

Remove the wrapper, and place one short paper towel roll inside plastic food storage container. Save the second roll for a refill later.

Using a liquid measuring cup, gently pour one of the following cleaning solution recipes over the top of the paper towel roll.

Place the lid on the plastic food storage container, and allow paper towels to absorb cleaning solution for 4 hours to overnight.

Open the food storage container. Gently pull the wet cardboard tube from the center of the paper towel roll and discard.

Carefully pull the end of the paper towels from the inside, where the cardboard roll had been. Thread the end of the towels through the hole in the lid, and replace the lid.

Pull gently on the exposed end to separate the cleaning wipe.

Homemade Cleaning Wipes Recipes

You will need between 2 and 4 cups of cleaning solution to fill your homemade cleaning wipes container, depending on the size and absorbency of the paper towel product selected. These cleaning recipes make about three cups of solution; increase or decrease amounts if needed.

General Surface Cleaning Recipe:

• 1 1/2 cups white vinegar
• 1 1/2 cups water

Disinfectant Cleaning:

• 1/4 to 1/2 cup pine cleaning solution such as Pine-Sol brand
• 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 cup water

Window and Glass Cleaning:

• 1/2 cup rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar

Tips:

As you use the wipes, they will begin to dry out, so add more water and/or cleaning solution as necessary. Allow wipes to stand overnight before continuing to use them after adding more solution.

You may vary the strength of the cleaning solutions as necessary for your household, using more cleaning agents for a stronger wipe, less solution and more water for a milder product.

Pan Scrubber

Drizzle baking soda on the roasting pans and casserole dishes that need a good scrubbing, let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes and then give it a nice wash.  Now you have a sparkling clean pan / dish ;)

Lemon as Laundry Brightener

Skip the Bleach!!
Just add 1/4 to 1/2 cup of lemon juice to the wash cycle to brighten up your whites!!

For those of who know me know my husband has bad sticky feet and his socks get just as bad, so I was using bleach alot, almost a gallon a week on the white laundry.  So I have been looking for alternative ways and this worked great for us.

Ps we have a set of front loader machines, and i just add the lemon juice to the spot that calls for bleach.  also the company that were purchased through said that adding the lemon juice would void any of the warranties we had on the machines.  :) yay

For the tub, toilet, and sinks

So this is how I know it works, I've been in my home for 5 years and I have continued to battle my shower, trying anything and everything someone recommends, and yes some helped but it just wouldn't get clean. I've tried scrubbing with straight bleach, wd-40, toilet cleaner, oven cleaner, mouth wash, scrubbing bubbles, ect. I had exhausted every idea except for re-finishing it which was in the $800 range and I didn't want to spend that much until we remodel and replace the whole bathroom. So one night why I was reading some things online I stumbled across this stuff and so I tried it.

IT WORKED TRULY GOT THE SHOWER CLEAN!!

Ok ladies the ingredients of this is probably two things we all have in the cabinet's.

1 cup white vinegar
1 cup blue dawn dish soap
a spray bottle (i used one under the kitchen sink that was almost empty, so i washed it real good and used it**

**yep that's all it takes**

Heat the vinegar in another cup for about 60 - 90 seconds in the microwave  then combine the two ingredients into the spray bottle and spray the surface you want to clean, let it sit for 1 - 2 hours then do a gentle scrub were you sprayed and then rinse it off or wipe it down really good.  wa la clean!   This works great, i've done it on my shower, toilet, sink, cabinets, and the floor.

My shower took two times to get it clean, the 1st time I let it sit for only one hour the 2nd time I let it sit for 2 hours.
1st go around:

2nd go around:

looks great ha :)