Here is some simple advice for decluttering your drawer, closet, or room. Before you start, label 3 areas or boxes with “Keep”, “Recycle or Toss”, and “Donate”. Every item must fit into one of the 3 categories. Then follow these 4 simple guidelines and you’ll have that space neat and clean in no time.

I found the best way to clean water spots from shower doors. Don’t waste your time trying all the other stuff.

Here’s a really simple way to clean dirty pots and pans. And we like simple, don’t we, readers?

To clean a pot with baked-on mess, fill with water and drop in two or three denture tablets. Leave overnight to soak.  The tablets help loosen stuck-on food so in the morning, the pot will wash clean.  Use this technique for fry pans and crock pots too.

You will find white vinegar in most homes.  But it is not just for cooking.  Here is a small sampling of what you can use white vinegar for:

The kitchen is where we spend so much of our family time together, with meals, homework, etc. Would you believe that the kitchen is the dirtiest room in our home?  This is true according to Phillip Tierno, PhD, director of clinical microbiology and diagnostic immunology at the New York University Langone Medical Center and author of The Secret Life of Germs. “That’s because we deal with dead animal carcasses on our countertops and in the sink.” He goes on to say that the kitchen sponge is “the single dirtiest thing in your kitchen, along with a dishrag.”