Genius DIY Cleaning Hacks for Lazy People

November 3, 2020January 29, 2021 happymomhacksLeave a comment

Do you dread cleaning the house too? It can feel overwhelming to think of cleaning your bathrooms, kitchen, and the rest of your house. But don’t worry it can be quick and easy with these genius DIY cleaning hacks for your home.

I’ve been searching out the best deep cleaning hacks that take as little effort as possible. Wait till you see them you’ll wonder why you didn’t know about these cleaning tips before.

Start making cleaning chores easier and stop dreading cleaning your home. Bonus – It will give you more time to do the things you love and your house will be clean!

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Lazy People’s Favorite DIY Cleaning Hacks

23 Amazing Cleaning Hacks, Tips & Tricks for Bathrooms, Kitchens and your whole house. You won't believe you didn't know these before! Make cleaning easier so you can get it done faster. #cleaninghacks #cleaningtips #householdhacks #diycleaningtips #householdtips

Are you ready to start making cleaning easy? Let’s get started with these genius DIY cleaning hacks for your home.

Cleaning Hacks for Bathrooms

Shower Door

Get the scum and grime off your shower doors by using a cooktop cleaner. Weird I know but it works. Wet your shower door then put some cooktop cleaner on a rag, sponge, or paper towel. Wipe the rag over the doors to remove all the grim.

If you have a lot of grim try using a scrub brush too. When done remove any excess cleaner with a paper towel. Or if it’s inside the shower you can spray it down with water.

Shower Head

Remover calcium build up from your shower head with vinegar. Fill a bag with vinegar and attach it to your shower head with a rubber band. Make sure the vinegar is touching the shower head.

Let the vinegar sit overnight. Then in the morning wipe it down with a cleaning cloth. That’s It!

Cleaning the Grout

To clean the smaller areas of grout between your tiles use an old toothbrush. Make a cleaner by mixing baking soda and water to get a paste consistency.

Next, dip your toothbrush into the baking soda mixture and rub it over your grout. When you’re done wipe down the tiles with a wet cloth or spray it down with water in your shower.

TIP: If you have an electric toothbrush it will work even better to get the grim out.

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Smell Pretty

Help your bathroom smell good by adding essential oils to the inside of your toilet paper roll. Before you put on a new roll add a couple of drops of your favorite essential oil to the inside of the cardboard core.

Bathroom Faucet

Get rid of the mineral build up and water spots by rubbing a half a lemon on your bathroom faucet.

Hard Water Toilet Bowl

If you have hard water stains in your toilet bowl get it out using white vinegar. To make it easier add the white vinegar to an empty spray bottle. I buy both these items at Dollar Tree and it’s really cheap.

Then spray the toilet bowl and leave it for an hour or overnight if it’s really bad. When done scrub it down with a toilet brush.

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Toilet Brush Tip

Dry your toilet brush with this easy cleaning tip.

After you clean the toilet dry your brush by hanging it over the toilet and putting the toilet seat down on the brush handle.

Cleaning Hacks for Kitchen

Clean Your Garbage Disposal

Clean the bits of food and grim in your garbage disposal by adding ice to your disposal and running it. The ice chunks will help clean off all the blades.

Stinky Sink

Lemons are a great cleaning hack for your garbage disposal.

Get rid of the smell in your garbage disposal by adding cut up oranges or lemons and running the disposal.

Related Article – 25 Clever Kitchen Organization Hacks

Clean Your Dishwasher

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Did you know you needed to clean your dishwasher? You do and it’s actually really easy. You can clean it by running a cycle with vinegar or baking soda to sanitize and remove odor.

Plus don’t forget to remove your filter and rinse off the grim under the sink. See specific steps in our cleaning guide for dishwashers.

Microwave Hack

Microwave Cleaning Hack with lemon to loosen up the stuck on food for no scrub cleaning. #lemon #cleaninghack #cleaningtip

Is there splattered and stuck-on food in your microwave? A quick scrub-free way of getting all the food off is by steaming the microwave. Cut up a lemon and add it to a glass measuring cup with 1/2 cup of water.

Microwave the lemon water on high until it boils then leave the door shut for 15 minutes. After that open the microwave and easily wipe it down.

You can also clean a microwave with Vinegar or Baking soda.

Oven Baked-on Food

Does your oven have baked-on food on the racks? Stop up your sink and place your oven racks in the sink. Then add warm water and dryer sheets for an hour or so. Then easily wipe off the baked-on food.

Smelly Garbage Can

Get all the corners & sides of your garbage can clean with a toilet brush. Not the one you use for your toilets though. Dip the brush in a little water and dish soap to clean. When your done rinse out your garbage can with a hose outside.

To keep the can clean put newspaper at the bottom of your kitchen garbage can. That way if there are any leaks from your garbage bag the newspaper will catch it.

Clean Your Blender

To remove all the food stuck on the blades and nooks in your blender fill it up with warm water and a drop of dish soap. Then run your blender to clean. When you’re done thoroughly rinse your blender out.

You can also add ice to your blender and run it to help get any residue left off of the blades.

Cleaning Your Kitchen Tip

Start cleaning your kitchen with the counters and higher areas of your kitchen. Then end with your floors so that you get any crumbs that fall as you clean the counters and dishes.

Cutting Board

Clean your wooden cutting boards by sprinkling sea salt and rubbing it with half a lemon. It will help get rid of any stains or smells.

Cleaning Tips for Your Home

Washing Machines

Easy Steps to Clean a Front Loading Washing Machine

Is there a smell or mold build up in your washing machine? Don’t worry you can clean your front loading washing machine in a couple of easy steps.

You’ll need white vinegar, baking soda, bleach, and a rag to help you run three cycles of your washing machine. You’ll add one to each cycle and let it run that’s it.

Follow our cleaning guide with all the steps to clean your washing machine.

Ceiling Fans

Get the dust off your fan with this quick cleaning trick.

Have you noticed how much dust can collect on your ceiling fans? Don’t let all that dust fall on your head.

Instead, use a pillowcase on each blade to pull off the dust and collect it into the case. Then shake out the bag in the garbage and throw your pillowcase in the washing machine.

Base Boards

Get all the dust and pet hair off your baseboards by using dryer sheets. The dust will cling to the dryer sheet as you wipe it along the baseboard.

Blinds

Clean your blinds by rubber banding a microfiber cloth or dust cloth to kitchen tongs. Run the kitchen tongs along your blinds to collect all the dust.

Cleaning Toys

Clean Legos and small toys using your dishwasher.

A super simple way to clean smaller plastic toys is by running them through the dishwasher. Add small toys like Legos to a mesh laundry bag and place it on the top rack of the dishwasher.

Then run the dishwasher using low heat if you have softer plastic toys or a regular cycle for harder toys like Legos.

Lamp Shades

Get rid of dust on your lamps with this cleaning hack using a lint roller.

Isn’t it amazing how much dust can collect on your lampshades? Easily remove the dust by rolling a lint roller over your lampshades.

Pet Hair

Remove fur from your couch with a plastic cleaning glove. Lightly wet a plastic glove and wipe your hand over the couch. The pet hair will cling to the plastic glove.

Cleaning Schedule

What has helped me the most with cleaning my house is a simple cleaning schedule. The free printable is a realistic cleaning checklist that makes you feel less stressed about all the cleaning tasks and more focused. Plus you’ll really love checking things off the list when you’re done.

Download my free Cleaning Schedule for Busy Moms and stop feeling overwhelmed today.

Did you find some genius cleaning hacks for your kitchen bathroom and whole house? I hope these DIY cleaning hacks will help to make cleaning your home easier and less stressful. When you know it will be quick it’s so much easier to talk yourself into cleaning.

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The Best Ways to Clean a Smelly Dishwasher

October 12, 2020November 3, 2020 happymomhacksLeave a comment

Have you noticed your dishwasher is starting to smell? If you’re like me you didn’t even realize you had to clean your dishwasher. How could the dishwasher smell when its job is to clean? It may seem silly but don’t worry it’s super easy to fix! I’ll teach you the best ways to clean a smelly dishwasher in 4 Easy Steps.

With some simple cleaning hacks, all you need is a few minutes each month to get your dishwasher and filter clean. It’s kind of like cleaning your washing machine with both building up residue and deposits from the cleaning that can leave you with odors.

These quick and simple steps will help keep your dishwasher in good condition and get your dishes cleaner. Plus no more smell!

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How to Clean a Smelly Dishwasher

Best Ways to Clean a Smelly Dishwasher with Vinegar & Baking Soda. Learn how to clean a dishwasher in quick easy steps from cleaning your filter to disinfecting the whole dishwasher. You won't believe how easy it is to do! #cleaning #cleaningtips #dishwasher #vinegar #bakingsoda #dishwashercleaning #cleaninghacks

Did You Know You Needed to Clean Your Filter?

I did not even realize I had a filter to be cleaned in my dishwasher until I started researching cleaning my own washer. But it’s super easy to do once you know it’s there.

The filter collects any food particles or grim left from your plates, silverware, and glasses. If you don’t clean it the grim can circulate in your dishwasher and produce a smell.

To locate your filter look at the bottom of your dishwasher below the spray arm. You can also look in your owners manual to find it.

How to Clean the Filter in a Dishwasher. Simple cleaning hack to get all the grim off your filter. #dishwasher #cleaning #cleaninghack

Remove the filter and rinse it under hot water. This should get anything off but if you have hard stuck on food use a small brush and dish soap to gently clean.

How Often Do I Clean It – About once a month.

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Wipe Down Inside of Dishwasher

How to wipe down and clean the inside of your dishwasher. Quick cleaning hack to get all the grim out. #cleaninghack #cleaningtip #dishwasher #cleandishwasher

To get all the grim in the corners, walls, and bottom of the dishwasher use a microfiber cloth to wipe it down. Pull out your bottom rack and really get in there to remove all the grim. I would do this once a week if possible to keep any build up from starting in your dishwasher.

If there is any hard to clean areas with stuck on grim it will get loosened up when you disinfect the dishwasher. After the disinfectant in your next step, you can wipe down the inside again to finish off your cleaning.

How Often Do I Clean It – Once a Week

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Disinfect your Dishwasher

Now to get the smell out of your dishwasher and really get it clean you will need to disinfect it. We have three easy ways to do this.

Tip: Make sure to empty your dishwasher before disinfecting.

Dishwasher Cleaning Pods

You can purchase dishwasher cleaning pods from Affresh or Finish. You put these pods where you would put dish soap and run through a dishwasher cycle. They will work to penetrate and remove odor-causing residue. The pods will also help with any lime or mineral build-up.

The cleaning pods are the simplest way to disinfect your dishwasher.

For more natural cleaning products use one of the following ways to clean your dishwasher

Clean Your Dishwasher with Vinegar

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To clean your dishwasher with vinegar simply add 2 cups of distilled white vinegar to a dishwasher safe cup or glass measuring cup. Then place the cup on the top rack of the dishwasher.

Run the dishwasher on your normal cycle or hot if you would like more steam. Make sure your dishwasher is empty when you do this.

The vinegar will absorb all the odor & grimy build-up. If anything had been left before on the bottom of your dishwasher it should now all wipe down easily with your cleaning cloth.

Clean Your Dishwasher with Baking Soda

If you need a little more abrasion to clean your dishwasher try baking soda. Simply sprinkle 1 cup of baking soda on the bottom or your dishwasher. Then run your empty dishwasher on the hot cycle.

To fight really tough grim or smells you may need to do this cycle twice.

How Often Do I Disinfect It – Once a Month

Clean Stainless Steel Dishwasher

Cleaning your stainless steel dishwasher. Get all those fingerprint marks off your dishwasher with this easy cleaning hack. #cleaningtips #cleaninghack #dishwasher #stainlesssteel

The last step is wiping down the outside of your dishwasher. You can use a microfiber cleaning cloth with water to clean the button for your machine and the top inside of the door.

If you have a stainless steel dishwasher I would suggest cleaning the outside with a stainless steel cleaner to remove fingerprints and smudges.

I really like these stainless steel wipes that I can pull out quickly and wipe down my dishwasher whenever needed. Especially with the kids constantly touching it ):

Need More Cleaning Hacks for Home?

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Are you inspired to get more cleaning done? Tackle your Microwave and Washing Machine next. The cleaning steps are just as easy and quick to do.

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Are you surprised how easy it is to clean a smelly dishwasher? A few minutes a couple of times a month and you’ll have a clean dishwasher.

Let me know if it works for you!

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