In this episode, spring cleaning hacks!
So this hack is to help you clean in between tight spaces
and as you can see, I can't really stick my hand in there or slide it
because now it's stuck, hang on.
Eww and it's really dusty.
So all you need to do is grab a coat hanger,
wet wipes, and a rubber band.
Bend the coat hanger like this.
Grab my wet wipe, drape it over the coat hanger
and with my rubber band, I just tie it like so.
And then, with this I can just get into the little tight space,
give it a good wipe and eww!
Okay, so you can see how well this works,
that looks nasty.
So for higher spaces, you can actually bend it like this.
I mean, if you're really OCD, this is a great little trick
to make your place a lot cleaner!
When you're cleaning, you might have some sliding doors
or maybe your window seal and it's going to have all these
little small grooves here that is really hard to get to.
So what I'll like to do to get into the narrow grooves
is to actually use a chopstick and some wet wipes
and rubber band.
Wrap your chopstick with the wet wipe like so.
Tie it up with the rubber band.
And then you can get into the grooves and clean away.
There you go, as you can see, it cleans out all the dirt that we usually miss!
Pretty cool right?
So you know how dust tends to collect on high surfaces
and it's really really hard to clean?
So I'm going to teach you a nifty little trick to solve that problem!
All you need to do is place a cloth on top of the high surface like that.
After awhile when it's time to clean,
gently grab the cloth like so, fold it over
because all the dust will be collected on top of this cloth,
wash it and then you can replace it with a new cloth.
And there... that's all there is to it.
And that's all there is to it.
Another way to clean high surfaces that you can't reach
is to use a broom and a towel.
Put my broom in the towel like that.
And then, wrap around the stick of the broom
and just secure the towel onto the pole of the broom.
So now, I've got a nice cleaning cloth where I can go
and reach the very high hard to reach surfaces!
Just make sure you don't open your mouth
or your eyes too big because the dust is probably gonna fall into it
and choke you up.
I don't know but yeah just be careful.
So when you're spring cleaning,
you might find it a little bit difficult to clean underneath the couch
so therefore, there is going to be a lot of dust underneath there.
A really great solution, very very simple
is just to simply lift the couch up like that.
Doesn't take too much strength,
and just start vacuuming away!
And just to bring it back,
that is all you have to do.
It's as simple as that.
So obviously if your couch is up against the wall,
you won't be able to flip it back
but you can move it to the side so
either way, they're usually not that heavy
so good luck with that!
So you know how sometimes you have stickers on the wall
and it's really hard to get off
because it either leaves residue or even worse,
it can even take paint off the wall.
Well, I'm gonna teach you how to take the stickers off the wall without ruining it!
Okay so all you need is a hairdryer and some dental floss.
So you only just need to make it warm.
Take a little bit off the top.
So now, I can get my dental floss and put it behind there
and just kind of saw it back and forth,
just like that, the sticker comes off the wall
without leaving any marks, residue or chipped paint!
So don't be tempted to stop halfway through
when you're bringing the dental floss down the sticker okay
because I've tried this, it still took off the paint.
So go through the sticker completely,
all the way down to the bottom of the sticker.
That way, you will not damage your wall.
This nifty trick is for all of you people out there
that have a lot of chopsticks at home.
As you can see, they're not facing the same way now,
they're all different directions okay.
So a really quick trick to get them all facing the same way is to do this.
So line your chopsticks on a tray like this
and then you gotta grab one chopstick,
put it at the bottom of the chopsticks and push up.
By doing that you'll find that some chopsticks will fall off the tray
and some will stay on the tray.
Flip this around!
And now, they're all facing the same way!
Tada!
So a great way to clean grout is to actually get some
washing powder, some vinegar and plain flour.
Put 2 teaspoons of washing powder,
then vinegar,
same with the flour.
Give it a good stir.
So as you mix it up, it's going to turn into a paste like texture.
Put the paste in between the tiles or on the grout.
Just grab an old toothbrush after that
and give it a good scrub!
And you can see all the dirt is starting to come off there.
My paste is starting to turn into like a dirty kind of colour.
I'm going to wipe that away.
As you can see, there's like a huge difference right?
I mean it's not like pure white obviously but these tiles have probably been here since
probably the 1970s.
I don't know I just anyhow make a... make a number up.
So this hack is to help get scuffs off the wall.
So usually when you use soap and water it's quite hard to get off
and then you end up doing a lot of rubbing
which could end up taking the paint off the wall.
So a simple trick to clean your wall without damaging it
is to actually use turpentine!
Grab a cloth, wet the cloth a little bit,
you just want to likely go over the scuff like this.
You can see that half of it is gone,
half of it is still there.
And then, I'm going to do the other half.
It comes off very easily!
That's all there is to it, really really easy.
So once it's dry, you can see that the wall comes up as good as new.
Some of you may have metal cans that leave rust rings on your bathroom surfaces.
Now to prevent that, I'm going to teach you a nifty little trick.
So all you have to do is apply some clear nail polish
to the base of the can.
So once this is dry,
it's not going to leave anymore rust rings on your bathroom surfaces.
So we all know how irritating it can be to replace duvet covers
so here's a really simple way to do it.
Get your duvet cover,
grab 1 corner, grab the other corner and flip it.
Place it nice and neat on the bed like so.
Just make sure the opening of the cover is at the bottom of the bed.
So then you grab your comforter,
and you want to line up the corners of the comforter to your duvet cover.
So from here you want to roll the duvet from the top down.
just like that, roll roll roll.
I've got my rolled up burrito duvet cover.
Open up the seam of the duvet cover
and then you just kinda want to flip it inside out like that.
Do both sides of the duvet cover.
So now that the corner is inside there, hold that
and then you want to unravel the blanket.
Just keep going until you're done.
It was not very difficult at all,
especially for 1 person to put a king size duvet cover on a king size duvet.
Tada! Beautiful.
Because I'm OCD, now I'll have to make it neat.
Yes, now it's done deal.
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