To take away the yellow-ness from platic bottles, just add small pieces of slitghtly stale potatoes in the bottle along with some water. Leave it for a while and then rinse with clean water.
If the toilet bowl is choked, put in half a cup of salt. Flush after 10-15 minutes. It will clear.
A leather purse or belth will shine like new if rubbed with lemon peel.
To prevent silver and gold-plated jewellery from tarnishing, apply two coats of colourless nail paint on them.
To remove strong odour from an unused bottle, rinse it with clean water first. Then drop a lighted match stick inside and close the lid. Open the lid after 2 minutes and again rinse with clean water. The stron odour will vanish!!
Aluminium foil can also be used in-place of your steel-made cleaning ball for cleaning glass pans, oven grills.
Trying to give a shine to your kitchen sink - use club soda dampened cloth.
Cotton swab can help you clean lot of nooks and crannies - one of them being of your computer keyboard. hydrogen peroxide can be used as disinfectant.
Water droplets on bathroom fittings - heres how to keep yur fixtures sparking clean -
Apply car wax or a rag dipped in any cooking oil (except mustard oil) very sparingly. This will prevent water droplets from setting on the metal . Rub with a soft cloth.
To prevent rust stains,wipe with aluminium foil dipped in cola
Clean the fittings witha solution of one part of vinegar and one part of water, using a soft toothbrush dislodge deposits
Tea and coffee stains on the cloth can be removed by rubbing salt over them. Wash off after a few minutes
An excellent non-chemical method to keep rice, semolina and pulses insect-free is to put some dried pieces of bitter-gourd in the container
Sun-dried orange peels make cockroaches vanish away in a day!!