I asked in an earlier post about how to remove cat hair from my chair. I found out that by putting on a pair of rubber kitchen gloves and rubbing the chair with the gloves that the cat fur came right off.
I tried it with the glove damp and with them dry. It worked much better when they were dry. So I guess I found another tip to share with everyone.
I live in a rented one bedroom condo. My daughter and grandson were living here until today. They moved to Pennsylvania with her fiancée. Having a baby living here resulted in a lot of spots on a light colored carpet. The carpet is fairly new and was just put in a few months before we moved in.
Last night Andi was changing Benton’s diaper and, for the heck of it, she took a clean baby wipe and rubbed at one of the spots on the carpet. We were all surprised when the spot came out. Who would have thought that baby wipes would remove spots from carpeting.
I went to the dollar store today and bought soft cloth baby wipes and got down on the floor and proceeded to clean up other spots on the carpeting. I just can’t believe how well it worked in removing those spots.
I’m definitely going to keep some baby wipes on hand to remove any other spots I see on this carpet.
I have 1 cat and she has one chair that she just loves to lay in. I call it the cat’s chair. It’s nice she has her own place to lay but… she leaves it full of cat fur. My vacuum just won’t pick up all the hairs and I need to find a quick, easy way to clean up all the fur.
If you have any good suggestions, please leave me a comment here. Thanks!
I don’t have any fancy dusting cloths like some people have. I will use and old, beat up kitchen towel usually. Sometimes I will take old softball socks and just put them over my hand to clean. Using an old sock on your hand while dusting will make dusting things like lamps and small items much easier.
Your fingers can get into the small spaces in some things that a bulky towel won’t be able to get into. I keep some old socks and light towels around just for dusting. Just spray some furniture polish onto the sock or towel and start dusting. You’ll be amazed at just how easy it is.
There are a lot of things out there to help you save your back when you’re moving or just rearranging furniture. You can buy or make a wooden dolly, that has casters on it, for moving heavy things.
You can buy plastic coated things that you put under heavy furniture so it will slide easily across carpeting. When the movers came to move my stuff into storage they had some of those with rope attached to them and I was surprised at how easily they slid the heavy dressers out to the truck.
It’s always best to take care of your back when moving or lifting things. I know what it’s like to have a bad back. Surgeries are not a fun thing to have to go through.
Cleaning out closets and storage spaces can be daunting but it really doesn’t have to be that way. The best thing to do is to sort things into a keep, sell and donate piles. Find a place to put the keep items and take the donate pile to an organization who will distribute them to people who need them.
For the sell pile you can either have a yard sale or if that’s not possible you can put an ad in the paper or sell them at an online auction place. You can try Craigslist too.
Once you get all your clutter cleaned out you’ll feel so much better about your space and be able to use your closets for the use they were intended such as hanging clothes in them.
Wicker baskets can be used for all kinds of things. You can put them on an open shelf unit in your bathroom to hold towels, washcloths and toiletries. You can hang a small one on the wall in your living room, kitchen or computer room to hold your car insurance bills, electric bills and such.
Wicker baskets also make a nice decoration on top of your kitchen cabinets if they don’t go all the way up to the ceiling. They are great for putting kids toys away on shelves in their room. I’ve used small ones to put out wrapped candy on the coffee table and different sized ones for fabric flowers on the dining room table.
Large baskets make nice looking trash cans or laundry hampers. Large oval ones can be used as pet beds or even a temporary bed for an infant (of course you have to put some kind of pillow or padding inside first).
Wicker baskets are very versatile. What uses have you come up with for them?
Everyone woman has delicates/unmentionables/under garments that need special care. Below are a few tips to keep them looking pretty.
Your lingerie should always be washed after every wear because perfume, perspiration, and other lotions might stain the fabric.
Always sort your lingerie according to color so the lighter ones don’t get stained from the darker colored ones.
It’s better to wash your lingerie by hand rather than in the washer. But if that’s not possible, then always put your washer on delicate cycle and use cold water and a gentle detergent.
Before putting them in the washer, be sure to attach the hooks and the eyes so that they don’t get caught on anything.
When washing by hand, always use a mild detergent and wash your lingerie only in luke-warm water. This is very important for cotton lingerie because hot water could damage the color and the material. Also do not rub those your lacy things too hard because the lace can tear easily.
Wired and padded lingerie should be washed for a short cycle in washers otherwise the wire may come out or the pads may get destroyed.
Lingerie should never be dried in a dryer because the heat of the dryer could affect its elasticity, cause the under-wire to distort, and fray and shrink the trims. They should always be line dried.
For lingerie made from silk, satin, or synthetic use mild detergent and cold water to soak and rinse them.
If you do use a washer for your lingerie invest in a lingerie bag to keep them all together.
