Spring Cleaning Hacks You'll Wish You'd Found Out Years Ago

Clean Your Garbage Disposal With Citruses

The natural fresh scents of lemons and limes are useful in cleaning the weird smell out of your garbage disposal. Toss a few slices of each down the drain and give the disposal a run and you're done. A rule of thumb: you should never toss anything down the garbage disposal that you woulnd't eat. That means eggshells are a no go.

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The More You Know

  • If you have all matching clothes hangers in your closet and sometimes you get one of the really cheap, plastic ones when you need an anti-slip hanger. One solution is to wrap pipe cleaners around the clothes hanger.
  • Did you know that Americans overpay 2.5 billion dollars a year? Believe it or not, the source for a lot of it comes from stores wrongfully overcharging for purchases.
  • Help keep your home office space organized by using PVC pipe to hide cords. Just wrangle all those computer, mouse, monitor and phone cords and hide them in some PVC pipe.
  • Run the sink water until the bowl is about half full. Then pull the stopper and turn on the disposer to flush it out.
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