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Simple Fridge Cleaning – Bicarbonate of Soda

November 13, 2010 by SimplyBeingMum

Today’s post was originally going to be ‘how to make home-made pizza with the kids’ as this was the Saturday afternoon activity planned at the Wright household!

However my beautiful daughter got a better offer and she took it! Who can blame her?

So Saturday afternoon’s activities changed to Daughter at her friends, Hubby out with Son and I got a chance to go for a run with a friend…

It’s a good job ‘Big Ben’ my large slow cooker made a huge amount of Vegetable Curry last night (from my odds and ends that I hadn’t used up) – so much that, as I am out with the girls and Daughter is staying for dinner at her friends, Hubby and Son can enjoy it again tonight with some rice…

I thought I’d share instead what I did very early this morning…wait for it this is awfully exciting… I cleaned my fridge!

As I had taken part in Food Waste Friday yesterday over at The Frugal Girl, ny fridge was nearly bare and my grocery delivery was arriving at 9am.  So dressed in PJ’s I emptied what was left, milk, condiments, garlic etc… onto the counter and cleaned the entire fridge which took about 10 mins max.

Now I am no expert on chemicals, and I hold no credible or authoritative view on cleaning products etc… but what I do know is if I don’t have to use them I don’t.  Firstly I do rather dislike cleaning (although I do of course do it) and one of the ways I can get satisfaction from it is knowing I have used a  natural product to clean with.

In this case is it bicarbonate of soda – very inexpensive and in a tiny container – double win!

So armed with nothing more than a small pot of bicarb, a damp kitchen sponge and some kitchen roll I wiped thoroughly inside the fridge with a damp sponge sprinkled in bicarb, then rinsed with a washed out sponge, and finally dried with kitchen roll.

How simple is that?

Do you have any Simple Cleaning Tips to share?  Please let me know in the comments below.

 

Filed Under: Simple Cleaning Tips Tagged: bicarbonate of soda, cleaning, cleaning tips

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  1. Shelley says

    November 14, 2010 at 8:22 am

    I don’t know if you have the “miracle cloths” (microfibre cloths) there or not – they’re great for using in place of paper towels and easily clean up with a dab of dish soap and a good rinse (helps keep the cleaning time down).

    Regards,

    Shelley

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      November 14, 2010 at 10:17 am

      Thanks Shelley – I do need to cut down on paper towels, it one of those things when I use them I always think I really should be using reusable! I do have an ‘e-cloth’ – that may be a similar thing. I use that to wipe down all the woodwork etc instead of polishing (it even does glass and leaves no smears!). I’ll grab a couple of microfibre cloths and try this week to use them instead of paper towels – I also like the sound of less cleaning time! Thanks for subscribing and commenting, have a great day – Jo

      Reply
  2. Shelley says

    November 14, 2010 at 8:22 am

    I don’t know if you have the “miracle cloths” (microfibre cloths) there or not – they’re great for using in place of paper towels and easily clean up with a dab of dish soap and a good rinse (helps keep the cleaning time down).

    Regards,

    Shelley

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      November 14, 2010 at 10:17 am

      Thanks Shelley – I do need to cut down on paper towels, it one of those things when I use them I always think I really should be using reusable! I do have an ‘e-cloth’ – that may be a similar thing. I use that to wipe down all the woodwork etc instead of polishing (it even does glass and leaves no smears!). I’ll grab a couple of microfibre cloths and try this week to use them instead of paper towels – I also like the sound of less cleaning time! Thanks for subscribing and commenting, have a great day – Jo

      Reply
  3. Shelley says

    November 14, 2010 at 8:22 am

    I don’t know if you have the “miracle cloths” (microfibre cloths) there or not – they’re great for using in place of paper towels and easily clean up with a dab of dish soap and a good rinse (helps keep the cleaning time down).

    Regards,

    Shelley

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      November 14, 2010 at 10:17 am

      Thanks Shelley – I do need to cut down on paper towels, it one of those things when I use them I always think I really should be using reusable! I do have an ‘e-cloth’ – that may be a similar thing. I use that to wipe down all the woodwork etc instead of polishing (it even does glass and leaves no smears!). I’ll grab a couple of microfibre cloths and try this week to use them instead of paper towels – I also like the sound of less cleaning time! Thanks for subscribing and commenting, have a great day – Jo

      Reply

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