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3 Tricks For Enhancing Your House Experience

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By Dumb HedgehogPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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3 Tricks For Enhancing Your House Experience
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The kitchen is perhaps your favorite place in the house, the space you know best. You could hit the shelf on the green tea box, the clove container, and the oil bottle at night.

At the same time, it is the place where you can find everything you need to remove stains from a material, remove unpleasant odors, and clean various objects and surfaces. When you are in a time crunch and you can't get to the store, you can do some extremely useful tricks at anyone's fingertips.

Wet shoes

If you caught a winter day with sleet and snow or mud, and your boots not only got dirty but got wet, don't despair.

You need to think strategically and use what you have at hand. Heat a little granulated salt in the pan, put it in a sock, and place it inside the shoes. If that's not enough, repeat the operation.

As for the outside, wait for the boots to dry, take a rough brush and effectively clean them, removing dirt. If the skin is still stained, you can rub it with a solution of water and vinegar.

If the stains appear to be deep and difficult to remove, you can use a nail brush, which should be soaked in lukewarm water first. Grease stains are difficult to remove from leather shoes, and if they have been stained, you may not be able to make them look the same as before.

Rusty jewelry

If you have oxidized silver jewelry, it is best to clean it with toothpaste. To remove all traces as efficiently as possible, you can use a toothbrush that you no longer use.

Also, if you have more such silver jewelry and do not have the patience to take each piece separately, you can cover a glass tray, which you use for roasting, with an aluminum foil, laying the dull side of the foil. down.

Place the silver jewelry on the aluminum foil and then pour hot water over it until it is completely covered. Then add two tablespoons of salt and two tablespoons of baking soda. You certainly don't want the granules to scratch your jewelry, so mix until the baking soda is completely dissolved.

The chemical reaction causes the transfer of oxidation marks from the jewelry to the aluminum foil. Thus, you will notice how the oxidation marks disappear from the jewelry in about 5 minutes.

The only downside may be the smell, but don't be fooled by this detail. This is normal and you don't have to worry. Once you're done, rinse the jewelry with tap water and wipe it well with a clean cloth, you can use the one you use for glasses.

Burnt pots and pans

If in the last pancakes made on the stove, the pan has turned black and seems impossible to clean, you may be wrong. The same goes for burnt pots.

Heat a little water with a sachet of baking powder in the pot in question, then leave the solution to act for about 15 minutes. Then all you have to do is rub the stains with an abrasive sponge.

The "treatment" also applies to burnt pots on the outside. If you forgot your food on the fire, don't blame yourself too much. Fill the pot with water and leave it like this for an hour before using a remedy that works wonders in such cases.

You need water, an onion, and a tablespoon of salt. Cut the onion into 6–8 slices, then put it in salted water and cook for about 10 minutes. You will notice that everything that burned and caught on the edges and bottom will come off. At the end, when the water cools down, all you have to do is clean everything with a sponge.

Each of us burns our food on the fire, gets rid of nail polish on the floor, stains a coat with grease. However, it is important to keep calm and find solutions.

In any case, we find remedies around us, it is important to act in time. And don't forget about a panacea: the mixture of vinegar and dishwashing detergent is a universal solution, effective against all types of dirt in the house.

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