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OS Essential Housekeeping Kit
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A small bottle with a little washing up liquid in, a small blob on a cloth will clean any scum from the bath and wash hand basin, the microfibre cloths rung out very well make excellent damp dusters, prevents dust from flying up to settle once you have finished dusting. A slightly damp microfibre cloth on one of those flat floor mops will collect all the dust from a laminate floor......then go over the floor with a dry duster to polish it.
Use the dusting brush on the vacuum down the side of the stairs to pick up any dust on the skirting rather than sending it flying with a duster.
Living in the sunny? Midlands, where the pork pies come from:
saving for a trip to Florida and NYC Spring 2008
Total so far £14.00!!0 -
One I have just found very useful is dental floss for cleaning the taps get's into the nooks and crany's better than a toothbrush!
Baby oil also to shine up the cooker and sink.
A veg brush for cleaning the cooker rails.
My nan would also have a carpet sweeper (the old push me pull me one), saves getting the vac out!:wave:0 -
Cream of tartar to go into the bucket. Mixed to a paste with vinegar it is great for removing burnt on stains on stove tops, burners and for burnt on food on glass dishes. Green pan scrubbers too. I think those metal silvery looking scourers are very good to and you dont really need any special cleaners to use with them and they last long time so are quite OS.Grocery Challenge £139/240 until 31/01
Taking part in Sealed Pot No.819/2011
Only essentials on Ebay/Amazon0 -
nabowla wrote:....
It got me thinking. What would you include in an OS housekeeping kit? White vinegar and bicarb are obvious suggestions, but what else? Any HM cleaning solutions that you can make up in advance and bottle? What about cleaning tools - any old fashioned gadgets that you can't live without? Any OS products that you couldn't live without when doing the laundry and the ironing?
To start things off, I'm going to put vinegar, bicarb and some OS dusting cloths made from an old flannel sheet into the housekeeping kit. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you all put in!
Don't know if you saw the thread started by MSE Sue .. but you might find some more answers there:
Old Style Book - Top 5 Cleaners
HTH
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I think you're going to need a bigger bucket......Apparently, if you lose one sense, others senses are enhanced. That's why those who have no sense of humour have an enlarged sense of self-importance.0
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