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

Clean Your Oven With Baking Soda

Combining baking soda, vinegar, and water into a paste and smearing it onto the inside of your oven is an easy and quick way to clean it out without the hassle. Run the oven for an hour or so and all that grease buildup will be gone. 

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The More You Know

  • If your toilet bowl could use a cleaning but you're out of traditional cleaner, use mouthwash instead.
  • Half an hour before serving time, adorn the table with bowls of lemon halves topped with cloves to ensure a pest-proof party.
  • Garage floors are puddle prone: springtime floods, melting ice from tires, you name it. You can keep that water away from your tools and toys with a dam made of expanding foam.
  • Most cutting boards don’t come with any kind of rubber surface on the bottom to prevent them from sliding on a countertop, but with a couple of rubber bands, you can stabilize your cutting board and keep it from moving around during use.
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