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

Sanitize Your Cutting Board With Lemon and Salt

Lemon and salt both have natural cleansing powers. Wood is permeable, and it's risky to only clean a wooden cutting board with water. If you use the lemon and salt method, it will kill all bacteria and the salt will exfoliate your cutting board.

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The More You Know

  • Anybody who eats boiled eggs knows the frustration of having one crack. Throwing a little vinegar into the boiling water will keep the egg whites from seeping out.
  • Run hot water down the drain for a minute, and then sprinkle 1 cup of baking soda down the drain. Slowly pour 1 cup of vinegar down the drain. Flush one more time with hot or boiling water.
  • 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.
  • Store small extension cords neatly with this simple office supply hack: Attach a paperclip to a small rubber band. Then wrap the rubber band around the bundled cord and clasp the paperclip onto the rubber band again.
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