To keep my bathroom clean all the time, on Mondays I clean the shower while I'm on it. On Tuesdays I wash the sink after brushin my teeth in the morning. On Wednesday I clean the mirrow after brushing teeth. On Thursday I spray the toiolet with a cleaning solution while I'm taking a shower, then I just clean it with a brush and wipe it with paper towells. On friday I wipe the floor (pine sol and paper towells) after my morning shower. So I have a clean shower the whole week and it only takes me less than 5 minutes every day to keep it clean.

Have a tiff with your spouse. Being mad makes me clean things way quicker.

Pick up a roll of plastic table cover at a warehouse club. This roll of white plastic is 40" wide by 300' long and costs around $15, but is a true lifesaver for cleanup! Use it whenever you are doing messy projects on your table, on your counter or even on the floor. Have a visiting little one who likes to drop dinner on the dining room rug? Slip some under the high chair! Moving or getting new furniture or having workmen in for something? Roll some plastic out on top of your carpet to keep dirty shoes from soiling the carpets. Also makes a great make-shift cobbler's apron for painting and other messy tasks! Just cut a piece long enough to cover you front and back, cut a slit in the middle for your head and tie around the waist with a piece of yarn or rope.

The best cleaning solution is to prevent having to clean in the first place!

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I get alot of cleaning done with Clorox wipes. I shop at BJ's and they sell a 3 pack which includes the lemon scented, the original and the orange degreaser ones. I keep the orange in the kitchen, the yellow in the bathroom and green stay in my room, which is conveniently near my living room and daughters room. That way they are always close by. And if I have to use the bathroom I'll pull out a wipe and clean the dust off the baseboard, wipe the pedastale for the sink and wipe the wainscoating and chair rail while I'm doing my business!

To clean dead bugs off your car's windsheild ( in Florida, it's Love Bugs) use extra fine XXXX steel wool and any liquid. It will not affect the glass but will remove the hardened bugs quite easily.

when i take out the trash around the house i always bring a tall kitchen bag for collection, grocery bags for lining the wastebasket (stored in an empty pop-up tissue box) and my trusty little air freshener, the Concentrated Fragrance Spray from White Barn Candle stores. After removing the full garbage bag from the wastebasket, i put it in the tall kitchen garbage bag, spray one puff of Sweet Pea or Gardenia into the empty basket, and replace the bag with a clean one from the tissue box. When i'm done, the filled kitchen bag gets sent to the outside cans. Every room is garbage-free and has a great smell that lasts hours!

when im cleaning , i normaly makke a lis tof thing that HAVE to be done and things that i can do in a few minuites. . whe mobing furniture. . clean under and around them first and make shure nothing is on top of a shelf when you move it . .oh say glass ;]

When I clean I always work in a circular pattern. it seems to get things done quickly.

Pay someone to do it :-)

To remove tree or plant sap from your hands rub vegetable oil on the sappy areas and it will come right off. This is much gentler on your skin than trying to rub and scrub the sap away with harsh cleansers.

I use olive oil to shine my stainless steel appliances. I think it works faster and better than the stainless steel polishes that I've tried. Since using it I've had fewer finger smudges on the doors of my fridge and fewer water spots on the front of my dishwasher. You only need a very little bit on a paper towel and remember to rub with the grain of the stainless steel to polish.

For cigarette burns on those plastic type bathroom sink: Buff with toothpaste

For the bedroom I pile everything on the bed and zoom around the room with the vacuum. It's amazing how clean the place looks when the floor's cleared - it's a great energizer. Then it's a speed folding frenzy!

When I lose a sock in the laundry, I keep the singles in a bag. Then when I need to dust, I slip them on as mittens and get in all the nooks and crannies, then throw them in the laundry again!

I use Shaklee's Basic H on EVERYTHING. It is non-toxic, organic, biodegradable, and VERY inexpensive. 2-4 drops in 16oz of water will just about clean anything and everything from your windows, kitchens, bathrooms, laundry stains, and much more. It is even safe for all surfaces (granite, wood, stainless steel, etc.) and the kids can help and you don't have to worry what chemicals they are exposed to.

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It's easier to clean a clean bathroom. If you get in the habit of cleaning your bathrooms weekly, it takes less time and even the space behind the toilet doesn't have the chance to become a scary mess. Also, you can clean an entire bathroom during the commercial breaks of your favorite TV show. Break the job down into smaller tasks, like cleaning the mirrors, scrubbing the toilet, wiping out the sink, etc. and assign each task to one commercial break. Have your bucket and supplies ready to go and at the end of a one-hour program, your bathroom will be clean!

When painting and freshening up the outside of my fiance's house to sell, I grabbed a Clorox wipe to take some dirt off of a white gutter. WOW! I ended up cleaning all the gutters and they looked like new.

While making phone calls in the morning, I put an older pair of white socks on and walk around the house cleaning/dusting the baseboards and molding with my feet.

I've never seen a spoon rest that actually works for any size/shape spoon/utensil. When I am cooking something that will require frequent stirring I place a folded papertowel on the counter next to the stove to use as a spoon rest. When I am finished, I use the papertowel to wipe up any splatters on the stove. No dirty spoon rest or counter to clean up and the stove is cleaned in just a second.

Toss a dryer sheet in to the bottom of your dirty clothes hamper. If you can't get to your laudry right away, at least it does not smell like dirty laundry!

Use liquid dish detergent to remove oily stains from laundry. I keep a bottle in the laundry room and apply it directly to greasy spots on clothes.

My mother-in-law told me about this. Use baking soda to scour delicate surfaces, I use it to clean light colored formica counter tops and sinks, to take marks off of walls, and to cleean any kind of gunk from glassware. I use it along with salt and enough water to make it slushy to clean out thermoses and pitchers--then just shake and rinse.. Add a litle bleach to remove stains from counter tops.