With Christmas and New Years Day nearly here I'm sure you have family & friends coming & going for visits, which means more cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. Here's an easy, effective and VERY CHEAP way to keep it all clean...vinegar! This bottle pictured here costs about $.75 at my local grocery story (Kroger) and I buy it weekly. Here are a few tips to clean the microwave, sink, coffee maker & washing clean and you can do these weekly, monthly or as often as needed....
- Microwave: Pour 1/2 cup of vinegar & water in a microwave-safe bowl and cook for about 5 minutes. When the water boils it will produce the steam needed to help loosen the "junk" from the inside of the microwave. Then wipe down with a clean, damp paper towel.
- Kitchen sink/garbage disposal: after cleaning the microwave, pour the hot vinegar/water into the garbage disposal where you have already poured 1 TBSP of baking soda. The hot vinegar/water will cause the soda to bubble up and then I run hot water and the disposal for about 15 seconds. TIP: during the week I will run hot water and add a few drops of dish soap and run the disposal to keep it clean and smelling fresh.
- Coffee maker: pour 1 cup of vinegar into the water-reservoir and run it through one cycle. Pour that vinegar out and refill the water-reservoir with fresh water and run that through two times.
- Washing machine: I have a front-loading machine and I pour 1 cup of vinegar in to the pull-out drawer where I normally pour the detergent. I run a regular washing cycle (make sure the washer is empty) on the hottest temperature cycle.
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