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How to scrub dull cup?
A glass becomes blackening when using it for a long time and it is difficult to scrub it. In such cases you should rub it with a squeezed salted lemon and wash it in warm water. Then you should dry the glass. Cover it with a towel not to leave tracks. The glass will be shining.

How to scrub an uneven surface of a table-glass?
The mixture of salt and vinegar, drifted on toothbrush, scrubs well a table-glass with patterns. You can also use dense soda mixed with toothpaste. Scrubbed table-glass should drain itself. At the same time it is desirable not to snuggle up to some surface. Drain the scrubbed table-glasses on a tray.

1. Scrub with a toothbrush, covered by the mixture of salt and vinegar
2. You can also use dense soda or toothpaste.

How to scrub deep vessel, to the bottom of which hand can't reach?

1. Pounded eggshell.
2. Cleanser.
3. Hot water.
4. Shake well.

A smell at the plastic container
It is enough to store greens in it and the smell will disappear.

Plastic containers have different applications. But as you use it, container begins to change color and smell appears. Depending on that what you put in it, it is very difficult to remove the smell.

When the cleansers cannot help, it can easily be done by greens. In the given case we mean leaves of daikon, turnip or cabbage. You should pound it, pour it in a container and set aside for 12 hours. This method is comfortable, because you use only unsuitable parts of vegetables.

Pans, pots and kettle

Unwashed pot from the oil
It is difficult to wash pots and pans from oil. It is not desirable to recommend you cleansers as it is used in such a quantity that you can't help thinking about ecological consequences.

We advise you the method of using water, which have been used for boiling rice. Having collected such water, you should pour it in soiled with oil pot and scrub it with a sponge. You will be surprised with the result.

You can't wash a pot for cooking tempura from oil
The pot remains rather sticky after pouring oil out. Sometimes you can't even wash up properly a pot with cleanser.

We recommend the method, with the help of which you will wash the pot completely without using cleanser.

You should dissolve flour in such a way that it would be equal to water after washing rice by consistence. Put the pot with dissolved flour on the heat and bring to a boil. Simmer for 2-3 min. then wash it with water again and oil will disappear.

1. Flour
2. Dissolve in such a way that it equals water that have been used for washing rice.
3. Simmer for 2-3 minutes.

How to prevent aluminum pan from blackening?
An aluminum pan begins to blacken during the process of using it. It can be changed with the help of vinegar. But we want to recommend you the method that won't the new pans let blackening. You should fill the pan with water that have been used for washing rice, and bring it to a boil. The pan will serve for a long time and not blackening.

Descale a kettle
If a kettle has become dirty outside, we wash it. But we forget sometimes about inside part of a kettle. And you won't be able to sponge it. There is a secret. You should pour brine in it and add some vinegar and set aside for the night. The kettle will be cleaned to the morning.

Protect a pot from the rust
A heavy iron pot becomes rusty easily. To avoid becoming rusty after cooking, the pot is heat up and rubbed down with oil. But you can also protect the pot from the rust by rubbing it with a bag, filled with weak tea. The leaves of weak tea can be used for washing fat dishes. We recommend storing it in sewed sacks that it would be in the way.

1. Rub with sacks filled with the leaves of weak tea.
2. It protects from becoming rusty.

Windows, floor and walls

Spilled oil and milk
If you have casually spilled oil or milk, have broken an egg. Then our advice will help you clean everything without soiling a floor cloth.

Sprinkle densely flour on spilled oil and salt thickly broken egg. Put a vinyl package on a hand and squeeze it by pressing your hand. When it becomes soft, clean the floor with it. You can just sponge milk up. In every case you should clean it with a wet floor cloth first and then with a dry one.

1. Clean it with the help of flour or salt, depending on a spilled substance.
2. Sponge milk up.

The floor has grown dim
The floor near the gas-stove and a sink usually soils with a sparks of oil and food bits. You may vacuum every day but the floor remains dulled all the same. In order to return former shine to the floor, you should use water, in which rice have been washed. Fat containing in rice sawdust will remove dirtiness from the floor and add lustre to it. After that you should rub the floor over with a dry cloth.

How to get rid of cockroaches
Balls with boric acid are the best weapons against cockroaches ever known. It is easily prepared and is rather effective. But boric acid is very poisonous. It is dangerous using it especially in houses where there are children and pets. In order to get rid of cockroaches, put red pepper, bay leaf and a sack with herbs in a kitchen cabinet. If you find cockroaches' excrements, take it away immediately. The thing is that there is a pheromone in it, which is a signal for cockroaches gathering.

1. Red pepper.
2. Bay leaf.
3. A sack with herbs.

It is difficult to rub the flex that regulates lighting
As against living rooms, on the kitchen, bulbs, lampshades and all that connected with lighting are soiled with oil and dust. The light becomes worse because of this. Therefore it is necessary to rub it oftener and not to wait until spring-clean. But if you can take the bulbs and lampshades off and rub it, then the situation with rubbing the flex that regulates lighting is more difficult. It is necessary to wrap the flex into cotton fabric, soaked in cleanser. Take off fabric in some time and rub the flex. The flex, soiled until brown color, becomes white.

1. Wrap with cotton fabric, soaked in cleanser.

How to cope with a lampshade made of cloth, which cannot be washed with water?
Lampshades made of cloth and paper cannot be washed with water. That's why we have to come to nothing more then cleaning dust from it. In such cases the flour balls are very convenient. Knead 1 cup flour in ¼ cup water and roll up balls. Cover the lampshade with it and it will be cleaned.

1. It is enough to cover the soiled places with flour balls.

Distillation of the cleanser while cleaning windows
Windows on the kitchen, especially those ones that are situated near the gas-stove, are soiled the sparks of oil and with the dust. Usually this soil can be cleaned by rubbing it down with a cloth, soaked in hot water and squeezed. If it is ancient dirt then it is necessary to soak it out by plastering a polyethylene pellicle.

First of all to stop the trickling down cleanser you should place towels under the window. Then splash the cleanser on the window and plaster a polyethylene pellicle on it. When dirt is soaked out, take off a pellicle and clean the window with water. Ground glass or other glasses with uneven surface are convenient to clean with a toothbrush.

We recommend cleaning windows in overcast day, not in a fine weather.

1. Splash the cleanser on the window and plaster a polyethylene pellicle on it.
2. Place towel under the window.

To have a clean kitchen
The dirt is harder cleaning when it amasses. Therefore it is better to be accustomed to cleaning dirt and dust at once. It is good to keep different floor clothes handy. Cut useless stuff into flaps and keep it not far from the gas-stove.

1. Useless stuff.
2. Put it into a box and keep it not far from the gas-stove.
3. Use cotton sticks for cleaning in narrow places.

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