What if I told that I can show you how to make your house to smell amazing with
things you already had at home for very little money. Would you be into it? I thought so!
All right, lets get to it. Stovetop Simmer, a great way to make your whole
house, well at least your main floor, smelling incredible is just to simple boil
up some nice smelly ingredients in a pot with water or you can also do this in
crock-pot and let it simmer all day. The concept is the same, fill your vessel half
way with water, add any combination of nice ingredients. So, here I have
cinnamon, cloves, oranges and vanilla extract. The goal here is you are going to
bring to a boil or you are going to heat your slow cooker on low and you are going
let your slow cooker sit all day and simmer and once this has hit a boil you
will bring it down to simmer and let that go for a couple of hours. If its a pot on
the stove make sure its attended and this, thankfully, can be left unattended.
Joe Fresh, If you've every been to the perfume department in a fancy department
store, you've probably seen little cups with coffee grinds sitting out, or coffee
beans. Then you just give it a quick smell between perfumes and that helps cleanse
your palate. Well, coffee grinds can actually help deodorize any space in your home. Just
put them into a bowl or an open-air container like this. Stick them anywhere that needs deodorizing,
such as your closet, drawers. Leave it there and you'll see the coffee grinds
will start to absorb all of that odor. Change it out fairly regularly. It won't
smell like coffee, but those odors will be gone.
Vanilla Vibes: if you love the vanilla vibe as much as I do. Here is a great way
you can use vanilla extract to help make your fridge smell better. Now, there
are two things you can do. The first one is you can wipe the plastic interior parts
of your fridge down which a little bit of vanilla extract on a paper towel. That
helps neutralize odors and plastic is porous so this really helps. The other
thing you can do is soak a couple of cotton balls in vanilla extract, leave
that in a bowl, just open air in the fridge somewhere and that will help
neutralize the odors as well.
Tobacco TKO. Now this one comes from my mother-in-law, Cindy, who is from
Brampton, Ontario, by way of Blackpool, England. Cindy used to throw crazy parties
in her house back in the '70s and even though their house wasn't a smoking house,
when their friends came over to party, the cigarettes came out. That being said, she
didn't want the house smelling like tobacco the next day. Especially cause she
was raising my future husband and two brothers-in-law in there. So what she
ended up doing was putting bowls all around the house filled with white
vinegar. Now, the house doesn't smell like vinegar but the vinegar absorbed all of
the odors from the tobacco. Now this works not only on tobacco, but any other sort of
not-so-good smell in the house so you can use it while you're cooking, you can put
some near kitty litter. Of course, if you have smokers in the house or any other
strong odor that you don't like, this works like a charm.
Long time fans of Clean My Space know, I love essential oils. And I use them
wherever I can and you can use them to help deodorize and spruce up any space in
your home as well and it's quite simple to do. If you have a nebulizer, you can some
essential oils to that, you can make your own reed diffuser, we have a video on that
which I will link down below, but some easy, simple things you can do that really
require no effort at all. Just take a little cotton ball, put it in a bowl and
add about 15 drops of your favorite essential oil or blend of essential oils
and plant that anywhere in your house. It will just help freshen up the space and
gently disperse that smell.
Here are a couple of other fun things you can do with essential oils around the
house. Every time you change out your furnace filter, drop five or 10 drops of
your favorite essential oil right onto the furnace filter. You can also put a few
drops on your light bulb, that way every time you flick on the light, you'll
disperse a nice, gentle scent.
Baking Soda Braun. If you have even watched one Clean My Space video, you have
probably heard me talk about baking soda because it's great for cleaning but it is
even better for deodorizing. I can't explain the science behind it but I can
tell you, it is a master when it comes to eating up odors. So, what I like to do with
baking soda is simply dump some of it into a container, you can put this anywhere
around the house and it will simply absorb odors. That's why people love putting
baking soda in the fridge. The other thing you can do is put some baking soda in a
sachet like this or sachet, I know this is polarizing but, if you put this in the
sock drawer or a closet, it will really help remove odors. And finally, I love using
baking soda on soft surfaces like carpet and upholstery. Just sprinkle it on there,
leave it for 10, 15, 20 minutes and then vacuum it up. That baking soda will help
lift dirt to the surface but it will also take any odors with it.
I love the smell of coffee and well all of the solutions that we talked about are
great ways to make your home smell nice. The real way to deodorize your home is to
clean the smell at the source. So that means, you've got to clean your house on a
regular basis. Specifically, if you notice that your house is smelly, here's some
things that you can do. Make sure you have a no shoes in the house policy or indoor
shoes only. We talk about this a lot, but shoes track in dirt and dirt smells. Also,
make sure you're vacuuming your soft surfaces, carpets and upholstery on a
regular basis. You also want to empty your garbages because that leads to odors as
well. And make sure that you open your windows. Let that fresh air come in, it
will really make your house smell amazing.
Check out that simmering action. That is one of my absolute favorite scents. It's a
combination of vanilla, cinnamon, citrus - oranges - and cloves. And my house smells
amazing. So now, you know how to make your house smell amazing too. Whether it's
filling your home with some nice simple scents or removing odors all together, my
goal was to help you figure out how to do that without having to lay out any big
bucks. The common question this week, and I'm very curious to see your answers, so
please fill the comments section with them, what are your favorite scent
combinations. I mean, I know a few that I really like. I love rosemary, lemon, and
vanilla. That mixed together is phenomenal. But, I'd love to know what
else is good and exciting and smells wonderful. What really revs you up when it
comes to the scents? Let me know in the comments down below.
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Thanks so much for watching, and we'll see you next time.
Well it's that special time of the week where I get to throw you to two other videos
I think you're going to love. The first one talks all about cleaning with lemons,
a pretty fantastic thing if I may say so myself. The second one is our moving
video, the first video of our moving series. You haven't seen it yet, you need
to check it out because frankly, even if you're not moving,
it's just good stuff to know.
All right guys, see you next week.