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Holidays are coming and I would really like to be able to have my house sorta clean. Gave up wanting the perfection I use to achieve cleaning the place

Anyone have any tips for speed cleaning or products they use that make the job easier, especially in the bathroom...grrr all the bending just kills ya.

I had to give up my "perfection" ideas to. Let me tell you, it was very difficult at first but it has gotten much better as I have learned what is important in my life. That being said, I still need to have a clean house. I wish I could give you some tips but other then pacing yourself, I really can't be of much help as my daughter comes over and does my cleaning for me.

Some body once posted that they had two of those Swifter mops, one for floors and one for cleaning the tub!! Haven't tried it myself but I was impressed with their ingenuity

A friend of mine tried one of those bathtub cleaning systems...I forget what it's called. Her bf was a heavy equipment operator and always seemed to bring half the worksite home with him--he was always muddy from work. She tried putting the cleaning system in his shower and it didn't work. So she put him in charge of keeping his shower clean and moved the cleaning system to her shower and said it kept her's nice and clean

I bought the clorox version just last week, since most of our floors are hardwood or tile, and it's the kind with the dry pad that you can spray the floor with. I would have never thought to use it for the bathtub but I'm going to try it right now!

Learnt many house cleaning tips from watching a UK T.V programme called 'How Clean Is Your House' with Aggie Mackenzie and Kim Woodburn. Lemon juice is fantastic for cleaning in bathroom- especially if you have limescale around taps/fawcets- just leave a generous amount of the lemon juice around the taps/fawcets for around an hour then come back and rinse off with a damp cloth or with an old toothbrush- it is magic! Can use lemon juice on a shower or around bath too. Sometimes the old fashioned ways of cleaning are the most effective, the cheaper and the ones better for our health. Have multiple chemical sensitivities so have to be careful as to what use to clean around house as some cleaning products can make me pretty ill.

Good luck quitpeekin!

Warmest wishes, love, UK housewife Clarita xoxoxoxo

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Was laughing at what you said Rayne since I can barely manage to do it on the floors let alone walls LOL!!

Clarita you are so right the old fashion methods are so much safer with our systems being so sensitive to things.

I use a lot of baking soda when I clean. Especially for cleaning the tub just before a bath. Then it doesn't matter if you don't manage to rinse it all away...I used to use Comet or Ajax...ouch.

I think there are nearly as many uses for baking soda as there are for duct tape. I also will put it in my laundry instead of vinegar...

It is really good for white teeth also

Rayne, does the baking soda get out odors like vinegar? We have a male cat who likes to spray. Ek!

yes baking soda does take out odors...

I leave the bathtub to hubby I do the walls and the toliets and sinks one day vaccuum another days(usually when i clean the birds cages) change sheets on another day. laundry another day (hubby has to put in my car (we have to go to the laundramat since we moved) and I work everyday 8 to 9 hours and he cooks the meals and I clean the kitchen...I use comet spray or white vinegar baking soda.. depends what i am cleaning or what stain i have to get out....