Category: Cleaning tips and information
Useful Cleaning & Household Tips from Grandma Owen
Move furniture easily by putting foil pie dishes under each leg, now the furniture will slide easily over the carpet. Furniture dents in your carpet? A cube of ice on the dent will lift the carpet pile. Whoops! a smashed glass will leave small shards on the floor, use a piece of white bread to [...]
Read moreGrandma Owen’s housekeeping tips
Here is another collection of useful cleaning tips from yesteryear. Keep salt near you cooker to avoid a grease fire- After a spill, sprinkle your salt, when the oven cools simply brush off and wipe clean with a damp sponge. To rid appliances of yellowing – Mix a half a cup of bleach, one quarter [...]
Read moreCleaning tips from Grandma Owen
This is the first of a series of posts of useful household tips given by my Grandmother, when she was a girl in the twenties, quick ‘spray and wipe’ products were not available, try using some of these old fashioned cleaning tips around your home. Keep Moths Away! Place conkers or bay leaves in your [...]
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