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Here are some great household cleaning tips.  There are many different ways and ideas for cleaning your home. Most of which are known like to using newspapers to clean your windows. But I also have non-traditional ways of cleaning that most people have not thought of or use.

Window washer fluid for your car will work just fine on your home windows and it’s cheaper.

Vegetable shortening is great for getting grease off your hands or out of cloths. This one makes a lot of sense. As a chemist I know the principle of like dissolves like. Shortening is a grease but without impurities. This is why mixing cleaner grease with dirty grease, the two will join and the spot will disappear.

Vinegar is a wondrous liquid. In the laboratory it is known as acetic acid. This acid is very mild but has all the great characteristics of acids that are useful around the house from cutting grease in dishwater to reacting with baking soda to remove carpet stains.

The abrasive ingredients in most toothpaste can be used to clean and polish other items like rings and candle sticks that are made out of metal.

To repair scratches on furniture try rubbing a walnut on it. For dark furniture apply a little appropriate color shoe polish.

For those that have super glue around, make sure you also keep nail polish remover. This is actually acetone, which dissolves super glue.

If your iron has build up or rust from sitting too long, rub emery cloth on the base to bring back the new finish shine.

Yes another use for baking soda. On a damp sponge place a small amount of baking soda and watch those crayon mark on the wall just disappear.

Worcestershire sauce not only tastes good but cleans the bottom of copper pans. The heavier the stain the longer you let it sit on it before washing it off.

These are just a few helpful household-cleaning tips. Just remember keep it simple and it might just work.