Comments on: What Are the Necessary Cleaning Supplies?

By: sarah.

sarah. — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:18:42 +0000

I really like Spray Way for glass & mirrors. My kids like it because it foams up.

By: Mary Williams

Mary Williams — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:12:30 +0000

I have to say that I use toothpicks to clean my sons sippy cups. They reach into those little cracks and crevices that you can’t get to with a regular dish cloth! (but don’t opt for the cheapest ones, they will break the second you try to clean with them)

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:56:50 +0000

Also love Kirkland Powdered Laundry Detergent at Costco that you buy in buckets. It’s industrial strength, wonderfully cleans ALL of your clothes in COLD water, thus saving you money, even the whites (I have a front loader and small amount of bleach in the dispenser for the disinfecting agent for the underwear and towels in the white loads), a little goes a long way, so a bucket last a long time and you can reuse the bucket!

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:47:43 +0000

Have bought a turbi-twist microfiber hair drying towel and found out a regular terrycloth towel worked better. in fact, I used the turbi-twist as a pattern for one out of a old terry towel

Bought a sham-wow and it didn’t soak up the water and wring out like it did for the man on TV.

I love fabulouso, too. But also like plain old sudsy ammonia for the floors: pour it out and use a swiffer mop with a old wash rag with a scotchgard non abrasive cleaner pad (you know, the dark green ones) sewn on the wash rag and take each corner of the rag and poke it in the holes of the swiffer mop, mop the floor with it starting at one end of the kitchen to the other end and then toss the rag in the wash.

I love my Oreck and it is worth ever cent! I now don’t procrastinate to vacuum my floors. I did like my Phantom Thunder and my Hoover Wind Tunnel, because they were bagless, but as you get older, they are so heavy to push around. It’s so nice to be able to pick up my Oreck with one finger. Yes, you really can!

I’d never get a Dyson. Not after I was in the line at a Best Buy and a woman in front of me was complaining to the repair man that the rotating brush was STILL not touching the floor after the repair and I figured something that cost somewhere about $500 should be able to at least work like it should. It convinced me then and there: NO Dyson.

Also please read the ingredients on anti-bacterial wipes and hand soaps. If it has TRICLOSAN as the active anti-baterial agent in it, I wouldn’t use it. My hubby is well versed in chemistry and he says that when triclosan is exposed to ultraviolet light (the sun emits ultraviolet light waves) it turns the triclosan into dioxin, which is a poison. I don’t know if the dry residue of the treated surface would still be affected, but I’d steer clear of that ingredient in wipes and hand soaps.

By: Chandra

Chandra — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:56:54 +0000

I have used both Shaklee and Melaleuca in the past and would reccommend either! I am looking at trying these new Norwex products, they are totally chem free and all my friends swear by them. A google search will provide you with info!

By: Karilee

Karilee — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:34:36 +0000

I just found your two blogs and love them! Thanks for being so real and giving us such great information! I am bookmarking both of them!

Karilee

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:34:49 +0000

I clean homes and these are a couple of my faves:

MicroFiber clothes
MicroFiber mops and removeable heads
Sparkle Glass Cleaner…I use it on EVERYTHING!
Oreck Vac

By: Joyce

Joyce — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:52 +0000

Hi Stephanie, Thanks for the nice comment about our kids cleaning tools. The page you linked to has moved. You can still reach it through the left navigation on the home page though. We like your blog. Thanks again!

By: Classic Mama

Classic Mama — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:47:43 +0000

I love, love. love Basic H from Shacklee. I can say this because I don’t sell it. It cleans everything and it’s so inexpensive. It’s a concentrate. I bought a bottle 6 months ago and have enough to last the next 2 years. It’s amazing.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:07:03 +0000

I love my sponges with the scrubbies, but hate the germs. ….but you can microwave them and it kills all the bacteria. Get them wet, then microwave on regular power. (high) I do mine for 3 minutes. As a bonus – the steam causes all the splashes in the microwave to loosen and you can wipe right off.

Read about it here —-> http://www.webmd.com/news/20070124/microwave-kills-germs-sponges