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By the time spring arrives, our house and the appliances in it will be covered in dust and the house premises will be littered with dry leaves. Cleaning the house and its premises can cost you dearly unless you find cheap ways of cleaning. The following are some of the inexpensive ways of cleaning your house.
Use cheap cleaning materials that are easily available at your home. Vinegar and baking soda are very good cleaning agents and there will surely be some left- over of them in your home. Instead of buying costly and environmentally harmful chemicals for cleaning, use them which are cheap and environment friendly. A piece of sponge, old rags and old toothbrushes can serve as other cheap cleaning tools.
Don’t use costly machines which need continuous replacements. Some cleaners like the Swiffer are good cleaners but their parts need continuous replacement. Instead of these machines, use your old mop and broom to clean your house. If you are keen on using a vacuum cleaner, use one which doesn’t have a replaceable dust bag.
Most homeowners forget to clean their windows and electrical appliances while they clean their home. Power consumption will be more if electrical appliances are covered in dust and less light will enter the rooms if the windows aren’t clean. So, to save on power consumption, think of cleaning all your home appliances and window glasses as part of your spring cleaning.
The inevitability of our insatiable resource driven economy is the growing scarcity of resources that we use every day. One of those, which we are literally burning through at an alarming rate, is gasoline. This growing scarcity leads to a great deal of pain at the pump. However, I have devised a few tips for easing the hit your wallet takes from gasoline.
Carpooling can be a great way of saving money on gas. It can be easy to get coworkers in on it by getting everyone to figure up how long their commute is and how often they get gas. This will minimize the time you drive, among other benefits. There are also services, like Car2go or Zipcar which helps find carpools. Additionally, you could try taking the bus.
Good driving practices, such as going easy on the gas or brake can also be a way of saving money on gas. This makes it much easier on your engine as harsh starts and stops can burn additional gas.
Planning all of your errands in one trip can be a great way of saving both time and gas. This leaves you with more gas, more money, and more time!
Garage sales are a popular way of getting rid of useless household items while earning a few hundred dollars, depending on the items for sale. They’re also a good way of teaching children the basics of finances while enforcing a few lessons for the parents as well.
In most garage sales, profits can be as high as 500 dollars or as low as 12 dollars. In most cases, selling off old toys and books will net a family around 50 to 100 dollars. This isn’t a bad amount for a few days of selling old junk, but compared to brand new items, this amount is sorely lacking. Kids can therefore be taught that for a person to earn a decent amount of money, he first needs to sell something that’s worth selling in the first place.
It’s not unusually to sell items that were only used once or twice before being stashed away in the attic or garage. A dress that’s two sizes too small, a punch bowl that was given as last- minute gift, a special vacuum cleaner that ended up being more trouble that it was worth. Garage sales are a good way of gathering all of these useless junk as a way to tell the kids that not everything in the world is actually worth owning.
This can be a good realization for the parents that they might actually be spending too much on items that aren’t worth anything. Sure, it can feel great buying stuff just because they have the money to do so, but at the end of the day, these items become reminders of a consumerist society that encourages spending on poor quality items.
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