Quick Tip: How to Remove Beer Stains

Okay, so you found a bottle of beer in the fridge. It's a super hot day and you're so thirsty. You got the beer, opened the bottle up and poof! It accidentally spilled on your vintage carpet. You know your wife's gonna get furious about this. What do? Well, here's a quick cleaning tip for you.

If the beer spilled on the carpet, grab that botanical smelling shampoo in your bathroom. Brush the carpet until the beer stain disappears. If the stain is being stubborn, try a stain removal product. Older stains may improve if you dab them with methylated spirits.

Beer stains on upholstery can be cleaned using warm water. Older stains, however, should be cleaned with a 1:5 solution of clear vinegar and water. Make sure not to get the fabric too wet. After removing the stain, dab with a dry cloth or kitchen paper to dry.

If you got beer spills on your clothes wash them as usual in as hot a setting as the fabric can take, using a biological detergent. Older stains should be soaked first in washing soda and warm water.

House Cleaning: Safe Cleaning Tips for Your Home

Here's are simple and safe house cleaning tips to help make your home a healthy place to live in:

1. Dilute your cleaning supplies according to instructions and use only what's needed to get the job done.
2. Clean with windows and doors open so you don't trap air pollution inside your home.
3. Cleaning chemicals may harm or penetrate skin and eyes - check warning labels.
4. Children are more vulnerable to toxic chemicals. If they like to help, let them clean with soap and water, not toxic cleaners.
5. If your family is generally healthy, there's no need to use potentially toxic "antibacterial" products, according to the American Medical Association. Wash your hands with plain soap and water.
6. Never Mix Bleach with Ammonia, Vinegar, or Other Acid.  These combinations can produce deadly gases.
7. Label claims aren't always true. Cleaning supplies certified by Green Seal or EcoLogo meet green standards.
8. Experiment with non-toxic options like vinegar and baking soda.
9. Avoid using these cleaners especially on smoggy days, when the ingredients can react with ozone to produce cancer-causing formaldehyde.
10. Avoid air fresheners, use a baking soda and water paste to clean the oven and tackle toilet stains, and use a mechanical snake to unclog the drain.

House Cleaning: Clearing Out Your Garage

More often than not, people's garages act more as storage sheds than as actual rooms to a home. After years of treating it like a storage space, there will soon be no room for a person to go into our garage, much less a car. However, this does not mean that you deprive it with a serious home cleaning. Sooner or later, you'll have to clear it out to give way for new stuff, or perhaps, you'd need an extra room for an additional household. So, before your garage transform into a useless room of mess, you should consider doing these:


1. Remove the car from the garage.

2. Organize each of the things that are in the garage by putting them in large containers.

3. Categorize them according to their classification just like plastics, tin cans, paints, papers, old furniture, and so on.

4. After putting them all on a side, start cleaning the ceiling followed by the wall and then the floor.

5. Carry the stuff that you have organized to a cleaned area or cleaned part of the garage.

6. But before putting the stuff on the cleaned area, we need to check carefully if we still need them or not.

7. If we find some old furniture that we think is no longer needed, then remove them out of the garage.

8. Put all the tools on their right place.

9. Remove tin cans and throw them away on the garbage bag.

10. Once you finish transferring all the clean items on the clean side of the garage, clean the other side of the garage until you're done.

Do-it-Yourself Home Cleaning Products

Below are some DIY home cleaning products that you can use to clean your appliances and other furniture at home.

Diluted White Vinegar

Mildly acidic white vinegar dissolves dirt, soap scum and hard water deposits from smooth surfaces, yet it is gentle enough to use in solution to clean hardwood flooring. White vinegar is a natural deodorizer, absorbing odors instead of covering them up. With no coloring agents, white vinegar won’t stain grout on tiled surfaces. Because it cuts detergent residue, white vinegar also makes a great fabric softener substitute for families with sensitive skin.

Undiluted White Vinegar

Used straight from the jug, undiluted white vinegar makes quick work of tougher cleaning problems involving hard water deposits or soap scum. Use it to clean the inside of the toilet bowl. Before you begin, dump a bucket of water into the toilet to force water out of the bowl and allow access to the sides. Pour undiluted white vinegar around the bowl and scrub with a toilet brush to remove stains and odor. Use a pumice stone to remove any remaining hard water rings.

Baking Soda

Baking soda’s mild abrasive action and natural deodorizing properties make it a powerful replacement for harsh commercial scouring powders. Sprinkle baking soda onto a damp sponge to tackle grimy bathtub rings, scour vanity units or remove food deposits from the kitchen sink.