It can be all too easy to neglect cleaning your refrigerator; it’s always full and so the task can seem daunting, or you may not even think it necessary. However, since you’re storing food items in it, it should be hygienically clean at all times, which usually involves cleaning it at least once a month depending on its condition.

Below are some tips and guidance for keeping your refrigerator as spotless as possible, so that you don’t have to empty it and deep clean it so…

While a grubby oven certainly looks unpleasant, it can also cause it to work less effectively, taint baked items, and even become a fire hazard. With this in mind, let’s look at some cleaning tips to get your grimy oven clean and working efficiently:

Remove excess dirt while the oven is cool:

Remove all racks and any other items from inside your oven, and scrape off any burnt-on food from the interior; the more you can remove before the next step, the…

There are a number of cheap, readily available and environmentally friendly items that can help you clean even the most stubborn of stains, and while they may not work on more delicate materials such as silks or cottons (seek professional advice for cleaning these), they work wonderfully well on cotton and many other synthetic fabrics:

Take fast action!

All stains are easier to remove if you treat them as soon as possible, and for most stains, soaking them immediately in…

Every home will have dust, it’s impossible to eradicate it completely, but there are some cheap and simple tips you can follow to ensure that it doesn’t dominate your home:

Use a baby wipe to clean your laptop keyboard:

Because you don’t want to use water on your laptop, a baby wipe has just enough moisture without being wet, and can help pick up dust and debris from laptops, remote controls and cell phones for example. Just make sure devices are switched off…

Baking soda has long been heralded as a cleaning miracle, and it remains just as effective for cleaning today, as it did many years ago when shop bought cleaning solutions weren’t so commonplace; best of all, it’s cheap and environmentally friendly.

Below are some ingenious ways to use baking soda to clean around your home:

Soft scrub solution

Simply sprinkle baking soda on your tubs, sinks and tiles and wipe them down with a damp cloth; couldn’t be…