Cleaning for christmas.

[Disney Ontario]

I want to start room by room cleaning for christmas and need your best known products and tips.
Bathroom- sink- hard water build up around drain
toilet- needs a good cleaning- a miracle kind of cleaner needed
Tvs- mainly the bedroom one- I could dust everyday
What is your favourite christmas smell you like to have in your home.
I need many more helpful hints,

 

[Eeyore's the Best]

I love Cranberry Frost from Bath and Body Works... I can't help you with the cleaning I'm a terrible cleaner so I have a cleaning lady, but she always sprays the Cranberry this time of year when she has been at the house and it always smells so good when I get home from work.

 

[mcvixen]

My suggestion is very similar. I put out Method's Hollyberry hand soap this time of year. It smells so nice and very Christmas-y. Every time someone washes their hands, there's a new hit of scent in the washrooms.

 

[irisesareblue]

I have REALLY hard water and I use the GreenWorks products on my sinks. It works pretty well - the toilet bowl cleaner is good and the bathroom/kitchen cleaner is good as well. It shoul d remove the hard water stains if they are not too bad. If they are really bad, PM me and I have some other products I use but the GreenWorks stuff is usually pretty good.

For room by room cleaning what you should do is by priority and my priority is always on the areas that others see first. For instance, if the entry way is the first place everyone coming to the door sees so clean that first. Once that is done on the entryway, I then work on the next place - usually the living room. Then I move onto the kitchen - - then bedrooms.

The way I clean each room is I use a microfibre cloth on a mop and sweep down the walls and give the light fixtures a swipe (if I really have to, I dust them and then wash them)- I give the curtains a Spritz of Fabreze (or wash them if I can). Then I tidy up the clutter and put away half of the knick knacks on the tables into the closet (usually those non-Christmas related which I switch out for the Christmas stuff). I then throw out or donate anything hanging around that I haven't used or looked at in 6 months (magazines, catalogues, etc.) Then I vacuum the floor and dust the end tables with a clean microfibre cloth (you can buy these at the dollar store or Walmart).

I only deep clean my house like this twice a year but I find I have to keep on top of the clutter and extra paper like magazines and catalogues.

If you do it room by room, be sure to keep the clutter out of the rooms you've cleaned - a de-cluttering once a week should work - go through the public rooms of the house and move the clutter unessential items into their proper place or the garbage bin

And relax - the best places to visit are not rated on whether they are showplaces but whether or not the people who live there show love.

My favorite Christmas smell is from those huge pine cones you can buy at Wal-mart or Michaels - they are cinnamony and smell like Christmas to me!

 

[snickerboo]

I need hard water advice for the toilets! No matter how much I clean mine or with what the hard water stains make them look terrible. Any advice (besides a water softener) for sparkling bowls???

For holiday scents, I like Glade's Apple Cinnamon. It comes in candles, plug-ins, etc. I have plug-ins in my bathrooms right now and it smells so Christmasy. I also find it not too artificial or overpowering.

 

[irisesareblue]

I use a product from the U.S. called "The Works" - can't get it in Canada but it it worth the trip to Wal-mart across the line to get it - I usually buy it 10 at a time - it is easy on septic systems (if you have one).

I love this stuff - it only costs around $2.00 a bottle. I also use the tub and tile cleaner - we have iron in our water so the stains can be phenomenal.

http://www.theworkscleans.com/toiletcleaner.html

 

[snickerboo]

Thanks irisesareblue. I'm going to the US on Friday so I'll look for that!

 

[crazyfordisney2000]

My MIL told me the other day to try vinegar and dish soap. They d/c'd my favorite bathroom cleaner so I though i'd give this a try. Well, I won't be buying bathroom cleaners anymore!!!!! Worked like a charm. I just put about 2 cups vinegar and a couple big squirts of dish soap in a stainless steel bowl, used a rag to wipe. Could not believe the yellow that came out of the grout in the shower!!! Then I soaked the kids bathtub toys in this mixture and voila, clean! Now I do still use toilet bowl cleaner for the toilet, but now use this mixture in the tub, shower, and sinks!