5 DIYS To Improve Your Household

Mary Poppins  Knows How It's Done

Hello everyone! I am here again to show you some tricks I have learned throughout my life to improve your household. Feel free to let me know how these DIY tricks work for you if you try them!  Most of these I have learned from my amazing Grandma who in my eyes is better than Mary Poppins when it comes to cleaning and keeping a house looking nice and organized. 

Okay, the first trick I have learned is one to make more space in your closet. How, do you ask? Thread a cap from a soda can through the hook of a hanger to hook another hanger under that one. In my closet I can now hold three times the amount of clothes on each hanger which saves me so much space!

Another trick is one I learned about week ago when my bathroom sink clogged up and my grandma told my dad to pour hot water, baking soda and vinegar down the sink to speed up my drain. It worked really well and we didn’t have to go and buy any product to fix it!

Another one I found online a long time ago was to use the rough scrubbing side of a sponge to easily remove lint, or in my case, dog hair from your couch. My dog, Jake (the brown dog that’s in a picture from my previous post) is always on my couch and at this time of the year, is shedding like crazy! This trick always helps.

Have you ever bought something nice but it had an annoying label that you tried to rip off, but never came off completely? Use a mixture of vegetable oil and baking soda to remove stubborn sticky labels. I promise you, it works every time.

I have a compartment under my bed that used to have a basket full of cords that was literally over flowing and in one giant knot. When my Grandma came to Utah once, she saw the mess and thought of the idea to use toilet paper rolls to keep all your cords separate instead of having a box of tangled cords. This trick makes getting cords so much easier and it now takes no time at all to grab what I need and go.To make things even easier you could always label the toilet rolls to get what you want even faster.

And finally, people in Park City, are you still too lazy to clean your own house? Click HERE for Park City cleaning services! I haven’t ever used them for my house but the website seemed pretty legit if you need that kind of help. Anyway, those are my five DIY tricks to help improve your household. Hope these help and don’t forget to vote on my poll so I know what you guys would like to see in the future. Thanks for taking your time to read this and I’ll be posting again next Saturday!

DIYs That Will Change The Way You Clean

Cute Little Snow White!

Do you think you are an expert at cleaning? Think again! I have come up with seven tips to help you with the next time it is your job to clean up the whole house. I for one am a procrastinator when it comes to cleaning and then I end up with an enormous mess! These messes drive me crazy and I hate cleaning. If you are someone who hates cleaning as much as I do, You are going to LOVE this! Also, I found this cool site with more cleaning tips if you would like to check it out HERE. And lastly, please don't forget to vote on my poll!

When I have to do the dishes I find it completely disgusting when I'm cleaning a dirty plate with what looks like an every dirtier sponge! Want to fix this? Use a paper clip to hold up you sponge while you are not using it to prevent it from stewing in its own filth.

I hate it when the winter season comes along and when it's time to pull out the coats from my mudroom they are covered in filth! Surprisingly enough, my dad came up with this one. Prevent coats from dusting by cutting a hole in an old napkin or cloth and hanging it over the hanger.

Do you ever have a terrible scent coming from your sink as you do the dishes? Throw a half cut lemon into your garbage disposal to eliminate any odors.

If you're a procrastinator like me you probably only dust when you find your parent screaming at you to do it. Anyway, my aunt taught me this trick to dip a sock into a bowl with some vinegar and warm water, and use the sock as a glove while you're dusting. I love this trick and it’s way better than anything else I have ever used!

Cleaning the toilet is the worst job in the entire world. I feel like I’m going to throw up every time I do it and I HATE scrubbing the inside of it! The inside of the bowl always seems like the dirtiest part and I don;t understand why people use brushes to get rid of toilet grime when you can just pop in an alka-seltzer and let it sit for about twenty minutes. Boom! All that disgusting grime is gone once you flush!

Window gunk is disgusting and what I do is dip a Q-Tip into some vinegar to get rid of the small bits that form in the edges and corners of the windows.

 Have an old faucet that seems impossible to make shiny and new again? Rub you faucet with wax paper to get rid of spots and other stains. I think my grandmother taught me this one, but all I know is that it works like a charm!

I know this post might have been kind of disturbing for some but let me know what you think! I hoped this helped, happy cleaning!