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Location: Oklahoma | What are some of your favorite cleaning products for the house? Or do you make your own? I work nights and try to get the horses done during the day and I lose all time to clean house I cant afford a housekeeper would love one! So what do you all do to keep up with everything? bad thing is I have no excuse! Just have husband and dogs! and the barn I can keep clean no problem and horse trailer! |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I do water, vinegar and dish soap for the bathroom shower.
Floors--was using vinegar and dish soap but not impressed. I have NO IDEA how to clean fakewood floors.
We usually end up doing a mass cleaning like 1x every 2 weeks but if we had a weekly/daily task I know it would be easier. |
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  Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | I really like simply green. Works really well for just about everything. |
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 Warrior Mom
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| I use scrubbing bubbles fantastic on everything. My floors I use bona hardwood cleaner. |
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 John Deere Green
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Location: ~Kansas~ | I have always used store bought products.. I'm going to try and start making my own and that is one of my top goals for 2017.. clean weekly so it isn't horrible when I do clean :)
I have found lots of ideas on pinterest on how to make homemade cleaning supplies |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| Norwex cleaning rags - best.thing.ever.
https://norwex.biz/en_US/shop/product-detail/70193
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I have not heard of these, do the window rags work good? I have huge windows throughout my whole house have yet to find easy way to keep them streak free when cleaning. |
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Location: Arkansas | rodeomom3 - 2016-12-15 6:33 AM I have not heard of these, do the window rags work good? I have huge windows throughout my whole house have yet to find easy way to keep them streak free when cleaning.
Windex and use newspaper instead of a rag or cloth. Works amazing! |
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Location: Wisconsin |  Norwex |
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Veteran
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| I just started making my own. For a great all purpose cleaner use orange or grapefruit skin soaked in vinegar for 2 weeks. Strain the juice.
A good carpet cleaner for spots I use baking soda & vinegar. Sprinkle baking soda & soak w vinegar until it bubbles let dry then vacuum up.
This is also great for ring around the tub and oven cleaner.
I'm trying to get away from the chemical cleaners & go more natural most of the ones you buy are so expensive! Check out the website home talk they have great cleaning/decorating tips. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 682
Location: Northwest | H2O at Home. Love love love their products. Makes life much simpler. |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 564
Location: Texas | Scrubbing bubbles & a magic eraser for the shower. |
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Veteran
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Location: Wisconsin | Norwex cleaning paste. LOVE IT. |
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 I Want a "MAN"
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Location: MD | 409 and Lysol with bleach  |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| rodeomom3 - 2016-12-15 6:33 AM
I have not heard of these, do the window rags work good? I have huge windows throughout my whole house have yet to find easy way to keep them streak free when cleaning.
I prefer newspapers and Windex - or white vinegar and water for the windows. |
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Warrior Mom
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| I also like to use Murphys oil soap to wipe down kitchen cabinets.. I clean houses on the side and I wipe down kitchen cabinets with it, everyone loves the smell |
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 The Vaccinator
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | These are not cleaning products -- they are tools that I absolutely love and have made cleaning quicker and easier:
- Dyson hand vac (with extension I use to clean base boards and overhead stuff)
- Shark Navigator vacuum -- very light; sits in its own charger base - works great on carpet, tile and hardwood -- it's so light and easy to grab and zip around staying ahead of dirt, hay, and fluffs of cat hair.....
I think Shark makes a hand vacuum, too. I use the hand vac for so many things -- blinds (with the brush attachment) and have used it to suck up spilled flour and sugar. Very handy tool.
On the product side, I use mostly all natural things since chemicals rile up my asthma. |
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 Star Padded Honey
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Location: NW MT | Delta Cowgirl - 2016-12-15 4:35 PM These are not cleaning products -- they are tools that I absolutely love and have made cleaning quicker and easier: - Dyson hand vac (with extension I use to clean base boards and overhead stuff) - Shark Navigator vacuum -- very light; sits in its own charger base - works great on carpet, tile and hardwood -- it's so light and easy to grab and zip around staying ahead of dirt, hay, and fluffs of cat hair..... I think Shark makes a hand vacuum, too. I use the hand vac for so many things -- blinds (with the brush attachment) and have used it to suck up spilled flour and sugar. Very handy tool. On the product side, I use mostly all natural things since chemicals rile up my asthma.
I love my Shark vac & also the steam floor cleaner!
For cleaning products - my very favorite is Doterra's OnGuard - comes as a concentrate & does a great job, plus smells good. If you have a MAJOR deal - as in need big time disenfectant, I like Conklin's Sanox. At the strongest dilution, it can kill HIV. I also love it for disenfecting stalls when we go other places. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I use Young Living's Theives cleaner for everything, but every week wash the shower with Comet cleaner as our water builds up bad on the walls. Theives cleaner is by far the best I've ever used and it can be used on anything. |
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 Firecracker Dog Lover
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| Mr. Clean Magic eraser is the BOMB for the shower/tub and ktichen sinks. I like Simple Green for everything too. I like Mrs. Meyers cleaning products as well. I have a neighbor who swears by baking soda for everything so I am going to try it in my toilet and see what I think. |
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 Chasin my Dream
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Location: Alberta | rodeomom3 - 2016-12-15 5:33 AM I have not heard of these, do the window rags work good? I have huge windows throughout my whole house have yet to find easy way to keep them streak free when cleaning.
All Norwex cloths are AWESOME and they do work, don't need to use cleaners. |
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Location: Iowa/Missouri | I mainly use Theives Household cleaner for everything. Or use it and baking soda when I really need to get a good scrub going. Am looking into making other cleaning products using my essential oils. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I also use the Norwex clothes and Thieves household cleaner when needed. I'm a Norwex junkie and use the cloths and their floor mop. I only have to use chemicals on our shower. I do our windows with the Norwex window towels.
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| Love, love, LOVE my Norwex products.
I can scrub and scrub my glass top stove with a regular dish rag and it still looks like crap...wipe it down with my Envirocloth and it looks wonderful.
The floor mop is awesome - comes with 2 pads for dry and wet that you can wash and reuse again and again. The way it's designed makes it easy to clean baseboards while you're cleaning the floor, and you can use it on walls too!
And their Envirowand is awesome for knocking down cobwebs in corners and cleaning hard to reach spots - think ceiling fan blades and the tops of doorway trim.
I also have their dusting mitts. It's literally a mitten you put on. I just wander around the house and swipe things off as I walk by. It works best if you have 2 so you can rub them together and make some static.
I know I sound like a crazy lady, but I was super skeptical when I first tried them out. I've been pleasantly surprised. The only improvement they could make would be to have the rags and mop work on their own, without needing me to do it!  |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| k.maddocks24 - 2016-12-19 11:13 AM
Love, love, LOVE my Norwex products.
I can scrub and scrub my glass top stove with a regular dish rag and it still looks like crap...wipe it down with my Envirocloth and it looks wonderful.
The floor mop is awesome - comes with 2 pads for dry and wet that you can wash and reuse again and again. The way it's designed makes it easy to clean baseboards while you're cleaning the floor, and you can use it on walls too!
And their Envirowand is awesome for knocking down cobwebs in corners and cleaning hard to reach spots - think ceiling fan blades and the tops of doorway trim.
I also have their dusting mitts. It's literally a mitten you put on. I just wander around the house and swipe things off as I walk by. It works best if you have 2 so you can rub them together and make some static.
I know I sound like a crazy lady, but I was super skeptical when I first tried them out. I've been pleasantly surprised. The only improvement they could make would be to have the rags and mop work on their own, without needing me to do it!
I agree 100%. I too, was very skeptical as they are pricey but oh my gosh, they work like nothing I have ever seen.
I am the same way with my glass-top stove, nothing gets it streak-free but my Norwex rags.
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Location: The South | What's the best product for mold/mildew in the shower? The grout line in our shower is driving me nuts. In college I used Tilex mold & mildew spray and it worked great. Spray and come back later and spots were gone. I guess they changed the formula, it doesn't do anything now. |
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| LindsayJordan84 - 2016-12-20 9:50 AM
What's the best product for mold/mildew in the shower? The grout line in our shower is driving me nuts. In college I used Tilex mold & mildew spray and it worked great. Spray and come back later and spots were gone. I guess they changed the formula, it doesn't do anything now.
I've had good luck with a bleach/water solution. Spray it on, leave it for an hour or so, then rinse. |
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John Deere Green
Posts: 12272
Location: ~Kansas~ | ditto on Norwex I love their products |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1118
Location: The South | Griz - 2016-12-20 11:26 AM
LindsayJordan84 - 2016-12-20 9:50 AM
What's the best product for mold/mildew in the shower? The grout line in our shower is driving me nuts. In college I used Tilex mold & mildew spray and it worked great. Spray and come back later and spots were gone. I guess they changed the formula, it doesn't do anything now.
I've had good luck with a bleach/water solution. Spray it on, leave it for an hour or so, then rinse.
Thank you! |
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