Tressa Devin

Bread is a great surface cleaner because of its porous structure and absorbent properties. “Accidentally spilled butter, sauce or wine on your tablecloth? Bread will soak up the liquid before it has a chance to penetrate the fabric’s fibres. Next time you have a stain to remove, simply grab a piece of the bread to limit the damage,” says professional cleaner Jill Koch.

That’s not all: the gluten in bread acts as a magnet for dirt. “Household cleaning products can be as simple as rolling a ball of bread into an eraser that can easily tackle mysterious stains on walls, cabinets and door frames – just be careful not to rub too hard or you’ll end up with crumbs,” advises Jill.

You’ve probably heard that rice is indispensable when you need to dry something, like a smartphone that accidentally ended up in the washing machine. But there are other rice cleaning hacks, too, like Koch’s advice for cleaning your coffee grinder. “Pour rice in it until the grains completely cover the blades, and turn it on for a minute to get rid of any old roast or spice residue,” says Jill.

And here’s how to use rice for cleaning when you need to wash a bottle and don’t have a bottle brush handy: pour a quarter cup of rice into a container, add a drop of dish soap and a little water (it shouldn’t cover the grains), and then shake the bottle. Done — all that’s left is to rinse it with water.

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Choose clothes made of wrinkle-free fabrics
When choosing new items for your wardrobe, pay attention to those made of linen and soft knitwear, which smooth out on their own after washing, just hang the clothes on a hanger. Cotton items also have good self-smoothing properties.

Hang up your clothes immediately after drying
Do you often leave your clothes in the machine drum after washing? Forget about this habit. The longer wet clothes remain inside the washing machine, the more wrinkled they will be at the end.

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An unpleasant smell is an eternal problem that cannot be avoided in the case of a half-empty or, on the contrary, overfilled refrigerator.

To eliminate foreign odors, you can buy special absorbers – they are sold both on marketplaces and in supermarkets. You can also look for inspiration in folk recipes: put lemon, potato wedges on the shelves or put a glass of baking soda deep in the refrigerator.

You have probably used one of these methods for eliminating unpleasant odors at least once, and it suited you perfectly. However, we recommend trying to put a roll of toilet paper on one of the shelves – the most ordinary, not multi-layered and not flavored.

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And what woman hasn’t experienced such a fiasco: you cook your signature borscht or signature cabbage soup, but then you forget and add too much salt to the soup. You don’t want to “poison” the family with such a dish, so the whole pot, and along with it our efforts, usually get flushed down the toilet.

You probably didn’t know, but even generously oversalted soup can still be saved. This ingenious life hack has long helped experienced housewives not to lose face. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, take note of this clever method and be sure to tell your friends about it.

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In order to avoid foodborne infections, it is important to wash your hands, dishes, and work surfaces thoroughly. But for food, these rules are quite ambiguous. Some products must be washed without fail, while others, on the contrary, should be kept away from running water, no matter how much you want to rinse them.

It is necessary to wash fruits and vegetables:
with edible peel – regardless of where they were grown. It is enough to wash them with cool running water, you do not need to use soap: the porous surfaces of fresh products can absorb its ingredients
with inedible peel: bananas, avocados, grapefruit, lemons, limes, melon. There are often microbes on the peel, which can easily get under the peel if they are cut or peeled. To remove dirt from melon, cucumber or avocado, you can use a vegetable brush

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