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

Eliminate Stains With Shaving Cream

Shaving cream has a lot of the same properties as other cleaning products. It's an aerosol soap with baking soda, essentially. It can clean stains and remove weird smells from upholstery in no time.

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The More You Know

  • While using a clothes iron to straighten hair is an old trick, using a hair straightener on collars and that space between buttons also works
  • When you're working on the roof, wrap rubber bands around tools to help them stay put. The rubber will grip on roofs with up to a 6/12 slope.
  • If you forget to bring that butter up to room temp in advance, it’s OK. You can soften butter quickly. The easiest way is to cut butter into cubes and let it sit on the counter for about 20 minutes.
  • 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.
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