Speaker 1: Episode to Frugal home cleaning Tips. Welcome to the Frugal
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Speaker 1: So first, I'm Jen, I'm Jill. And this has been,
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Speaker 1: safety alright, So if you are interested in saving money
Speaker 1: on home cleaning. If this is something you do want
Speaker 1: to d I y um, then we have a few
Speaker 1: other episodes are last one on d I y cleaning products,
Speaker 1: dues and dotes was all the way back episode forty two,
Speaker 1: and that's where we actually talked about like more of
Speaker 1: the solutions, what can be mixed, what not to mix,
Speaker 1: how different, like what different solutions function to do to
Speaker 1: clean your home. So that's kind of that was more
Speaker 1: like a two oh one. So now two d episodes later,
Speaker 1: we're going back to a one oh one. So forty
Speaker 1: two is definitely a good one to queue up after that,
Speaker 1: and then also doesn't seem like a cleaning episode, but
Speaker 1: episode one seventy two decorating your home on a budget,
Speaker 1: because the more intentional and minimalist you're decorating is the
Speaker 1: less you have to clean. We're all about efficiency here,
Speaker 1: SOO and forty two good ones to queue up after this.
Speaker 1: But let's get into this one. Our first episode comes
Speaker 1: from living on the Cheap, and if you've been around
Speaker 1: long enough, you know that that C word is a
Speaker 1: no go for us. But Jill, this this article is
Speaker 1: a good one. It talks about nine house cleaning tips
Speaker 1: that actually work and are inexpensive. I'm replacing the word
Speaker 1: cheap with inexpensive because we don't use that sword. And
Speaker 1: so we'll go through all nine because I think that
Speaker 1: they are worth it. And the first one is to
Speaker 1: clean often. I agree with this one so much. I
Speaker 1: think it saves so much time in the long run
Speaker 1: to do it often, to have it just be part
Speaker 1: of the routine. They use the example of consider if
Speaker 1: you get a spill on the stove and you why
Speaker 1: it up immediately while it's still a little wet, it's
Speaker 1: easy versus waiting for it to dry and harden and
Speaker 1: get crusty, and then you've got to break out the
Speaker 1: heavy duty cleaner. And when does anybody have time for that?
Speaker 1: I also think about microwaves with this one. If you
Speaker 1: notice that there's a lot of splatter, you just wipe
Speaker 1: it down real quick. Otherwise it ends up being quite
Speaker 1: horrifying in a place you never want to put your
Speaker 1: food into. So just thinking about that with any part
Speaker 1: of our houses where we're in the room and you've
Speaker 1: got supplies nearby, and you just do a quick sweep
Speaker 1: wipe over of whatever it is. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people might have a more routine way of doing this,
Speaker 1: like Monday, it's this, Tuesday it's that, And it's usually
Speaker 1: just very quick, five to ten minute things that just
Speaker 1: kind of creates that peace of mind and not needing
Speaker 1: to constantly do a heavy duty deep clean if we're
Speaker 1: doing it often. And that's an inexpensive way too, because
Speaker 1: then you don't need to invest in like the deep
Speaker 1: cleaners when you're just doing it often with the lower
Speaker 1: level type of cleaners. Yeah, I will. When I'm like
Speaker 1: washing towels, I'll just do a quick spray on the um,
Speaker 1: like my hand towel in the bathroom, I'll just do
Speaker 1: a quick spray on the mirror and the sink and
Speaker 1: wipe all that up with the hand towel that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be cleaning, and then I just throw it
Speaker 1: into the because it was already gonna be dirty, so
Speaker 1: just put some chemicals on it and just do it
Speaker 1: quick clean. And that's the only time that I clean
Speaker 1: my bathroom. And I think I think we often find
Speaker 1: that while there's that barrier, like but I don't want
Speaker 1: to be cleaning right now, I don't have time to clean,
Speaker 1: it actually doesn't take that long, Like you get a
Speaker 1: quick spill of crumbs on the carpet, you whip out
Speaker 1: the vacuum real quick. It's like it took two minutes
Speaker 1: versus the way that that type of mess can build
Speaker 1: and build and build and then it just becomes overwhelming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this also gives you money if you are hiring
Speaker 1: a house cleaner. If you're doing these small things and maintaining,
Speaker 1: then they can maintain the deeper things, and then that
Speaker 1: takes them less time. They spend fewer hours in your
Speaker 1: house and you save money there. So this is good
Speaker 1: whether you're doing it all d I Y, you're doing
Speaker 1: a hybrid. So the second is to purchase purchase good
Speaker 1: quality cleaning supplies. We really really do stand by this
Speaker 1: because there is you know, nothing cheaper than a cheap
Speaker 1: like sponge or glove or plastic bottle. These things can
Speaker 1: be found for pennies, it seems, but they don't last
Speaker 1: and you will replace them. They will sit in landfills.
Speaker 1: But if you can what the author says, they buy
Speaker 1: a lot of their house cleaning tools at hardware or
Speaker 1: janitorial supply eye stores because those things are meant to
Speaker 1: be commercially used for like ten years. Yeah. So if
Speaker 1: you can buy these things to last, um you keep
Speaker 1: products out of landfills and you can, and honestly, it's
Speaker 1: much easier to scrub with something that's like very heavy duty.
Speaker 1: It makes the job easier and so you can get
Speaker 1: more done more quickly. I really like the list that
Speaker 1: they give here. I feel like this is almost like
Speaker 1: a minimalist list of a flat mop, broom, dust pan, windows,
Speaker 1: squeegee tub, sponge, scrubber, cleaning bucket, spray bottles, Lamb's wool dust,
Speaker 1: and several cleaning cloths will do well for most homes.
Speaker 1: And I do feel like that's it, and then the
Speaker 1: cleaning products that you would put into those spray bottles.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you really don't need a lot when we
Speaker 1: can keep it minimal. I feel like that's what allows
Speaker 1: us to clean more often. When we feel as though
Speaker 1: the thing is readily available, we know what we're grabbing
Speaker 1: for versus I don't know, I've got like twenty bottles
Speaker 1: under the sink, and where did the broom? Where's the
Speaker 1: best broom for this? But when you just have the
Speaker 1: more minimal amount of supplies, it can be even easier
Speaker 1: to grab for that know how to tackle a spill
Speaker 1: a stain, or just regular cleaning and wiping and dustin.
Speaker 1: I've definitely wanted to clean and then gone to the
Speaker 1: closet found the thing I wanted to use, and it
Speaker 1: was like all mangled and like you know, destroyed, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I guess I'm not cleaning today, and
Speaker 1: I'll do that multiple times until I get a new one.
Speaker 1: But if it's a good quality, you're not going to
Speaker 1: have that problem. You're going to be able to clean
Speaker 1: more quickly, which then in turn leads to more frequently. Yep.
Speaker 1: The next one, Oh, I love this one. To dispose
Speaker 1: of the disposables. I cannot affirm or stand by this
Speaker 1: more strongly that there's so many reasons for our pockets,
Speaker 1: for the environment, for actually what is good for us
Speaker 1: to be even breathing in while we're cleaning the swiffers,
Speaker 1: the lisol wipes, the things that are once and done
Speaker 1: are expensive and not not great for the environment to
Speaker 1: be throwing away every single use or okay, maybe you'll
Speaker 1: use it two or three times, but still it's not
Speaker 1: made to last. And so finding products that can be washed, reused,
Speaker 1: last for years and years is going to be the
Speaker 1: better way to go, and they give it tip to
Speaker 1: if you happen to have a swiffer and you're in
Speaker 1: love with that, but you don't want to be buying
Speaker 1: the reusable pads constantly. They are the disposable pads. Constantly
Speaker 1: they're saying that you could buy one of those like stretchy,
Speaker 1: super fluffy like Chanel socks that they sell at at
Speaker 1: like bed Bath and Beyond or I don't know, probably
Speaker 1: the Dollar Store, and you could slide that onto the
Speaker 1: swiffer and use that with a vinegar solution and then
Speaker 1: just keep rewashing it. Of course, if you don't have
Speaker 1: that product already, there's plenty of products on the market
Speaker 1: that sell reusable pads that you can wash. That's what
Speaker 1: I have to clean my tile floors. Is it came
Speaker 1: with like three washable pads and it's gonna last me
Speaker 1: for years and and it's fantastic. You can buy the
Speaker 1: different types of pads to go on it, but you're
Speaker 1: not throwing it away. And how much better is that
Speaker 1: for our world and our wallets? Yeah, and it's really
Speaker 1: I mean it should be said like on I think
Speaker 1: cleaning products, especially the brand name in the generic there
Speaker 1: is a stark difference between the two. A lot of
Speaker 1: things you can get away with buying generic and seeing
Speaker 1: no difference, but I think with cleaning products you do
Speaker 1: see a stark difference between the generic and the name brand.
Speaker 1: And so if there are a few name brand things
Speaker 1: that you want to keep on hand, that's fine, find
Speaker 1: your balance, find your radical middle. But if you're like
Speaker 1: constantly buying all these generic disposable things, like that's really
Speaker 1: no better quality than just using what you may like
Speaker 1: see as lesser quality for something you might reuse, and
Speaker 1: you're going to be saving a lot of money. So
Speaker 1: unless you're really committed to the quality of some kind
Speaker 1: of name brand thing, then then try the disposable, because
Speaker 1: I think you won't notice a big difference between the
Speaker 1: disposable and the reusable if you're somebody like me who
Speaker 1: like usually just buys the generic of a brand name.
Speaker 1: So that is something I will disclose that I do
Speaker 1: see a difference between the brand imageneric. But when I
Speaker 1: switched to non disposable, I it was fine between the
Speaker 1: generic and the non disposable. Yeah, fourth by a lightweight
Speaker 1: vacuum cleaner that you can afford. So this we this
Speaker 1: definitely changed our lives. So I was a big swiffer
Speaker 1: person until I bought a Dyson, and now I barely
Speaker 1: use my swiffer because my Dison works so well. So
Speaker 1: that's another thing. When you buy something quality that lasts
Speaker 1: that you use, then you you use those you have
Speaker 1: less need for those disposable things anyways. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: we have a dice in. We got it as a
Speaker 1: referb refurbished on eBay, so that's how we did it.
Speaker 1: But it's a great ti. Yeah, but buying brand new
Speaker 1: is also eight if you cannot find the one you
Speaker 1: want refurbished on eBay. I don't even know if actually
Speaker 1: far as it was refurbished. We did get it on eBay,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember if it was just um like
Speaker 1: a resell from new or refurbished. So I love that
Speaker 1: they're highlighting that it should be lightweight. And I've noticed
Speaker 1: this barrier for myself too, that if your vacuum is
Speaker 1: heavy and cumbersome, you're not as likely to pull it out,
Speaker 1: Versus if it's grabb able, lightweight, you feel like you
Speaker 1: can lift it, it's it's easy to utilize, then you're
Speaker 1: more likely to quick spot, clean and vacuum the crumbs,
Speaker 1: So that's a really important factor when you're looking at
Speaker 1: a vacuum. Yeah, and for these vacuums, I will say
Speaker 1: the two most important things is cleaning the filter because
Speaker 1: when mine stops working, it's because I vacuumed over something
Speaker 1: that has clogged it and I thought it was broken,
Speaker 1: but Travis just you know, undid it clean the filter
Speaker 1: or is great? Um? And when the battery starts to go,
Speaker 1: you can get replacement batteries for like bucks on Amazon
Speaker 1: that work great. They're even more powerful than the actual
Speaker 1: battery that comes with it. So when you buy a
Speaker 1: quality one that can be cleaned and can have the
Speaker 1: battery replaced, you will have it for a long time. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right. Next on this list is edit your cleaning supplies,
Speaker 1: so looking through what you have and what you actually
Speaker 1: need and paring down as much as possible. Usually most
Speaker 1: of us are going to need and all purpose cleaner,
Speaker 1: a window cleaner, making sure that they are constantly refilled,
Speaker 1: but we usually don't need much and again that hails
Speaker 1: back to this concept of not having a ton, having
Speaker 1: it grabb able, more likely to clean often saving time,
Speaker 1: saving money. So keeping that those supplies edited and easily accessible,
Speaker 1: usually stored in a similar place is going to be
Speaker 1: most helpful. So you want to think about a disinfectant
Speaker 1: and a sanitizer. Usually that's going to be in your
Speaker 1: all purpose cleaner, and and then maybe like a window
Speaker 1: cleaner or something. And in the second article we'll get
Speaker 1: into different types of cleaners too for more specific purposes
Speaker 1: and how we can d i Y make those, But
Speaker 1: in general we're not going to need much. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like that it emphasizes limit your cleaning product collection to
Speaker 1: a few key items. Again, list like pay attention to
Speaker 1: that at six swap store bot for d i Y Homemade.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that more in the next one.
Speaker 1: But it just, you know, kind of reiterates like white
Speaker 1: vinegar cleans a lot um. I know it's not like
Speaker 1: all natural, but like a little bit of down dish
Speaker 1: soap in some like in two cups of water makes
Speaker 1: a great all purpose cleaner. I love it does everything.
Speaker 1: It's way better than the actual I got that Grove
Speaker 1: Collaborative thing that the free thing that they send you
Speaker 1: with the I really got it for the glass containers
Speaker 1: because I thought they were very cute. Um, but then
Speaker 1: they send you some they're concentrated cleaner that smells really
Speaker 1: good and I use it and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is okay, but it's not as good as my dawn,
Speaker 1: nice teaspoon of dawn in two cups of water. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so using ammonia vineker. All those things will cover in
Speaker 1: the next article next on here. We all know this,
Speaker 1: but it's worth reiteratings to shop smart for the store
Speaker 1: barot cleaners. So if there are specific types of cleaners
Speaker 1: that you know and love and they work for you, awesome,
Speaker 1: But let's pare down to what we know we're gonna
Speaker 1: want to get versus what we can d I Y.
Speaker 1: And so some of this might be trial and error
Speaker 1: trying out some of the d I Y glass cleaners
Speaker 1: and all purpose cleaners and really narrowing down what do
Speaker 1: you feel as though is worth you buying store bought,
Speaker 1: and then you know, trying to find the best deal
Speaker 1: for that. But I would argue that we don't need
Speaker 1: name brand for every single type of cleaner that's out there.
Speaker 1: We just need to identify what works best for us.
Speaker 1: So for me, for example, I've got some more d
Speaker 1: I Y cleaners for all purpose and glass cleaner. Those
Speaker 1: are generally what work for me. Otherwise, I use vinegar
Speaker 1: and water and sometimes baking soda gets thrown into the mix.
Speaker 1: And the one thing that I will buy, and I'm
Speaker 1: okay with generic as well, although I think what's currently
Speaker 1: in my cabinet is is the name brand, but a
Speaker 1: stainless steel cleaner. So I don't know, there's probably a
Speaker 1: way to d I y that, but I will purchase
Speaker 1: the stainless steel cleaner and I use that, I don't
Speaker 1: know once a month, so it's lasting me a really
Speaker 1: long time. But that's my one thing that i'll buy
Speaker 1: store bought and possibly even name brand, and that's just
Speaker 1: what works for me. That's what I've noticed I feel
Speaker 1: best with makes things look the most shiny, and and
Speaker 1: so you can figure out what's going to be best
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, my one thing is usually a tub
Speaker 1: cleaner because I don't wash my tub a lot. It's
Speaker 1: kind of it's my least favorite thing too, and I'll
Speaker 1: use the same on the toilet and my least favorite
Speaker 1: things to clean, so I will use my heavy duty
Speaker 1: Oh that's true. Barkeepers, that's true. I love Barkeepers. Is
Speaker 1: my go to for the tub, and then I'll also
Speaker 1: use it on my pots and pants. I love barkeepers,
Speaker 1: so yes, that's a that's name brand that is under
Speaker 1: my sink. Yeah, definitely those two things, and then some
Speaker 1: some Lisault wipes, just because I do like to have
Speaker 1: those easily. We've been all so sick lately. Um that
Speaker 1: those are easy too when you're using a lot to
Speaker 1: just have them. Oh, Jean, I'm going to challenge you
Speaker 1: like you challenged me with who I bank with. Okay,
Speaker 1: challenge me. It is just as possible to have an
Speaker 1: all purpose disinfectant with a rag that is dedicated for
Speaker 1: the surfaces that you're wiping down. I keep a rag
Speaker 1: wrapped around my all purpose cleaner, and if I feel
Speaker 1: as though it's getting too dirty, then I throw it
Speaker 1: into the washing machine and grab the next one. But
Speaker 1: keep the rag around the bottle. Just cute little tie
Speaker 1: around the bottle. Whip that out, wipe it down. Then
Speaker 1: you're not throwing it out. Well, for all purpose, I
Speaker 1: will do that, But when we are like specifically when
Speaker 1: we are sick, when we're ill and I need a disinfectant,
Speaker 1: that's when I use the list, not to just for
Speaker 1: general cleaning. Yeah, but you can have an all purpose
Speaker 1: that's also a disinfectant. And if you're sick, then you
Speaker 1: just have a dedicated rag. Just just throw it out there,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll well, we can follow up down with
Speaker 1: the paper towels and the disposable and the disposable wipes down.
Speaker 1: The great eight is to store cleaning products together in cool,
Speaker 1: dark places. This is very easy. You can hopefully somewhere
Speaker 1: where your kids and pets can't get them. That's easy
Speaker 1: enough because that preserves them. And last number nine, we
Speaker 1: all know this. We're not gonna spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time on this, but a minimalist lifestyle will lead to
Speaker 1: minimal cleaning. So the less stuff that you have, the
Speaker 1: less dusting, the less picking up, the less rearranging, the
Speaker 1: less surface area to clean, just the less. And then
Speaker 1: the more exactly, the more money, the more time, the
Speaker 1: more fun, the more Frugal Friends onto the next article. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you if it takes you more than an hour
Speaker 1: to clean your home, I mean you're moving on to
Speaker 1: a second episode of Frugal Friends, And I mean we
Speaker 1: love you, but like I mean what, we want you
Speaker 1: to live your life too in real life. So let
Speaker 1: it make you. Let it take you an hour to
Speaker 1: clean your home and spend an hour with us, and
Speaker 1: then another hour with the people in your life, and
Speaker 1: then be done what we really want for you put
Speaker 1: us away. So the next article we are moving into
Speaker 1: d I Y cleaners, so homemade cleaners, and this is
Speaker 1: from Good Housekeeping. I like all the tests that they do,
Speaker 1: so I hopefully this is an accurate, good, well tested article.
Speaker 1: It says it is. Obviously I can't verify um, but
Speaker 1: it's eight homemade cleaners that actually work according to our
Speaker 1: cleaning expert. So I guess, Laurence Smith mcdonna, you don't
Speaker 1: steer me wrong here. So let's get into the The
Speaker 1: first one is scented all purpose cleaner, So this is
Speaker 1: not my all purpose cleaner that I use, which is
Speaker 1: not natural. It's a teaspoon of dawn with two cups
Speaker 1: of water in a spray bottle. That's my go to.
Speaker 1: This one is one part white vinegar, one part water,
Speaker 1: and then they put in a lemon run in some
Speaker 1: rosemary sprigs because they fancy, and that is there all
Speaker 1: purpose cleaner. But they do caution, don't use acidic cleaners
Speaker 1: on granite. Um lemon rind will start to etch the
Speaker 1: stone and to proceed cautiously on stainless steel. Uh So
Speaker 1: some people, some manufacturers recommend against using vinegar on their
Speaker 1: appliance surfaces. So that's if you're doing granite stainless steel
Speaker 1: you may want to stick with. With my dawn cleaner,
Speaker 1: I didn't come up with it. It was a some
Speaker 1: cleaning YouTube channel something maker. But yeah, the next one
Speaker 1: is just a kitchen cleaner and deodorizer, which baking soda
Speaker 1: is fantastic for. I mean, I'm sure many of you
Speaker 1: already have just an open container of baking soda in
Speaker 1: your fridge to soak up any of those odors, so
Speaker 1: this is that idea. But it can also be a
Speaker 1: helpful cleaner when mixed with a little bit of warm water.
Speaker 1: So really, if they're talking ratios, they're saying four tablespoons
Speaker 1: baking soda to one quart of warm water. But some
Speaker 1: times you're just gonna want to put the baking soda
Speaker 1: on the spot that you want to clean and deodorize
Speaker 1: and then wipe it up with the warm water. So
Speaker 1: that would be good for shining stainless steel or appliances.
Speaker 1: You can also utilize some of the baking soda solution
Speaker 1: straight from the box on the garbage disposal or just
Speaker 1: to remove odor. So we did this one time with
Speaker 1: our We got a couch on Facebook marketplace. And because
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone remembers, but back during the
Speaker 1: intensive COVID days, everything was on back order, including furniture,
Speaker 1: and we had just moved and we weren't going to
Speaker 1: get a brand new couch for like three or four months,
Speaker 1: and thankfully we were able to find one used, but
Speaker 1: it was from a previous pet owner and you could
Speaker 1: tell the exact spot that the dog enjoyed sitting. It
Speaker 1: was a clean couch, but some of the smell of
Speaker 1: the dog was still in this on section and so
Speaker 1: we just put baking soda on it, let it sit overnight,
Speaker 1: and vacuumed it up and the smell was gone. You
Speaker 1: can do this in your car too, if you get
Speaker 1: a used car and there's some some odors that are unidentifiable,
Speaker 1: put baking soda everywhere and then vacuum it up. It
Speaker 1: should take the stank with it. Yeah, we do this
Speaker 1: um on our mattress. If I um pulling it off
Speaker 1: and I see any like stains or anything, some baking soda,
Speaker 1: I can't remember how I put anything else on there
Speaker 1: with it. Um but yeah, baking soda probably maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a little hydrogen peroxide possibly, but yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I do those together, I can't remember. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it works great. You just leave it in there while
Speaker 1: you're washing the sheets, before you put the mattress pad
Speaker 1: and the sheets back on. You just um clean that up,
Speaker 1: vacuum it up, and any rings stains are gone. It's
Speaker 1: it's great. We have a Emory foam mattress, so we
Speaker 1: use that on that. Three is a d i Y
Speaker 1: glass cleaner. Uh. So you'll need two cups of water,
Speaker 1: half cup of white or cider vinegar, a quarter cup
Speaker 1: of rubbing alcohol concentration, and then optional one to two
Speaker 1: drops of orange essential oil because they fancy. I don't
Speaker 1: put essential oils in my cleaning products because I'm not fancy.
Speaker 1: This is a good one. Yeah, this is a good one.
Speaker 1: I don't so I don't clean my windows or glass
Speaker 1: with with newspaper. Have you ever done that, Jill, No,
Speaker 1: I feel like the ink would come off. People love it,
Speaker 1: so I also feel that way, and I've seen it happen.
Speaker 1: It doesn't. But that's another suggestion. If you have any
Speaker 1: old newspaper on hand. Maybe you're looking for a way
Speaker 1: to reuse it. This could be an option for that
Speaker 1: and would definitely come off on my hands though at
Speaker 1: least yeah, you'd have to use gloves again. I use
Speaker 1: my hand towel um because I don't use bleach, so
Speaker 1: I don't worry about the hand towel like color staining,
Speaker 1: So I just use hand towel. Shout out to my
Speaker 1: mother in law when the Sirianni cleans my windows like
Speaker 1: exterior and interior, every visit she comes down, So that
Speaker 1: means my windows get cleaned once a year and it's perfect,
Speaker 1: and she she loves you or she judges you. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't really care the motives because I benefit and
Speaker 1: then and that right might be both, you know, But
Speaker 1: it's just not a priority to me to clean the
Speaker 1: exterior of my windows. But every time she does it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh wow, I didn't realize how little I
Speaker 1: could see. I thought I had great sight out spying
Speaker 1: on my neighbors, but I can see him even better
Speaker 1: after she visits. I know, Linda, bless her. She does
Speaker 1: everything out of love. I do clean my mirrors. That
Speaker 1: does happen on the interior of my home pretty regularly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, a good squeegee and some vinegar that that
Speaker 1: works wonders too. Yeah. I mean, it's more important to
Speaker 1: see yourself than to see your neighbors, but both are important.
Speaker 1: I would argue. I would argue that my neighbors are
Speaker 1: up to some cool stuff. So cool quote unquote, UM
Speaker 1: four is one that because I have so much brass,
Speaker 1: it's homemade brass cleaner. And if you have so much brass,
Speaker 1: because with your essential as, if that's where you keep
Speaker 1: your essential oils next to and your lemon rinds and
Speaker 1: your rosemary, then just get some white vinegar or lemon juice,
Speaker 1: some kind of acid, and some table salt and you
Speaker 1: can start rubbing it all over your brass. Just brighten it,
Speaker 1: shine it right up, um, as long as it's non lacquered,
Speaker 1: tarnished brass. There's a video that's happening here too that
Speaker 1: I'm seeing them put actually catchup. They're putting ketchup and salt.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's like the the acidic as vinegar and ketchup.
Speaker 1: It just looks so funny to be putting catch up
Speaker 1: onto a cleaning rag. But there you got too much ketchup.
Speaker 1: You need to get rid of your catchup, and you've
Speaker 1: got too much brass, you go. You don't need to
Speaker 1: buy fancy products to clean your fancy brass. But also, thankfully,
Speaker 1: tarnished brass is in style. So just let that brass
Speaker 1: get tarnished and call it your style and move on
Speaker 1: with your life. Is my style, Dirt is my style.
Speaker 1: Trash it's my styles. Target is not a personal style,
Speaker 1: but trash definitely is a lifestyle choice. All right. Number five,
Speaker 1: we got some natural heavy duty scrub. What you need
Speaker 1: is half of a lemon and half a cup of
Speaker 1: some borax powder. Also, borax keeps cockroaches away, I've learned,
Speaker 1: and it's like non toxic, which is excellent. So you
Speaker 1: could just like pour that behind your washing machine and
Speaker 1: I don't know, near your windows. Borax seems like such
Speaker 1: a toxic thing, but it's it is. Um It's not
Speaker 1: safe for marble and granite, but it's safe for almost
Speaker 1: everything else. So get yourself some borax if you don't
Speaker 1: already have some from your child's slime phase um or
Speaker 1: if you're looking for what to do with it now
Speaker 1: that your child no longer makes slime. This is what
Speaker 1: you do with that extra borax. So so you you
Speaker 1: slice a lemon in half, you dip that into the
Speaker 1: borax powder, and then you can use this on rust stains,
Speaker 1: on porcelain or enamel, sinks and tubs. They're no match
Speaker 1: for this heavy duty homemade cleaner, yes borax. And then
Speaker 1: I mean you can't eat the lemon after that, like
Speaker 1: don't don't, don't eat it, just clean with it. But
Speaker 1: you could use the other half of the lemon make
Speaker 1: yourself a well something with tonic. Yeah. See that's why
Speaker 1: I don't put food in my cleaning products. Um, because
Speaker 1: you don't eat cleaning products. But most of these, like baking, soda, vinegar, lemon,
Speaker 1: it cleans your insides probably too. Don't eat cleaning packs
Speaker 1: or drink them. Just a fun fact of the fun
Speaker 1: visory of the day. And mandatorially evacuate if you're called
Speaker 1: to your two wisdom words for the day, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna mandatory evacuate your lis alt wipes. Thank you, coming
Speaker 1: for you when I'm allowed to return to my home,
Speaker 1: I'm coming for you, Okay, thank you. Uh six is
Speaker 1: a d I Y grease cleaner. So if you your stovetop,
Speaker 1: if you do any cooking at home, which you should.
Speaker 1: It's great. You'll need a half cup of Sudsi ammonia,
Speaker 1: which I don't know what that is. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that is either. There's a link to click on.
Speaker 1: I'll click on it. You keep talking, Okay, you click
Speaker 1: and this is oh, good housekeeping, scant one gallon of water. Also,
Speaker 1: don't know what a scant. I think that means like
Speaker 1: a little less, like a little less than one gallon
Speaker 1: of water. Oh, and it says right here sudsy ammonia
Speaker 1: contains detergent. Yeah. So the link goes to Amazon for
Speaker 1: a Parsons Ammonia All purpose cleaner lemon so I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess it's it's ammonia mixed with stuff.
Speaker 1: If you don't have said zy ammonia, get yourself a
Speaker 1: teaspooned down. That's what it's saying. Saying Don is the
Speaker 1: next best thing to nature is really pretty amazing. That's
Speaker 1: another name brand. Yeah, I might be grabbing for Don
Speaker 1: Don over generic forever. They don't pay us to say that.
Speaker 1: I think we've said that before, like this before. They
Speaker 1: clean your greasy ducks, and they also clean everything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: greasy ducks, greasy stovetops, just like give it up for
Speaker 1: don Also, really you can mix it with water and
Speaker 1: it's like a relatively non toxic pest aside for your garden.
Speaker 1: I mean, look it up. Don't take my word for it.
Speaker 1: My father in law taught me that, uh it is
Speaker 1: a relatively non toxic pesticide. So and he he owns
Speaker 1: a farm. He's a farm he's a real life farmer.
Speaker 1: I trust him. Seven last resort clothing stain remover. I
Speaker 1: don't like how they say last resort, but let's don't
Speaker 1: love that either. It's might ruin your clothing. So either
Speaker 1: not a stream because it includes bleach. A one gallon
Speaker 1: of hot water. So this is a solid gallon, not
Speaker 1: a not a scant gallon, but not solid in the
Speaker 1: fact that it is not liquid, a liquid gallon of
Speaker 1: hot water. And this is only for white clothing. I
Speaker 1: do need to highlight that, Like that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: This is only for your whing that has stained that's
Speaker 1: not responding to other treatments. So this is a really
Speaker 1: specific scenario you found yourself in. Yeah, uh so into
Speaker 1: your one gallon of hot water, you put one cup
Speaker 1: of powdered dishwasher detergent and one cup of regular liquid
Speaker 1: chlorine bleach, not ultra or concentrate. So this doesn't I mean,
Speaker 1: this is very d I y, but this is not natural. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you soak your white garments or whatever color you desire,
Speaker 1: just know you're soaking them in bleach for fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty minutes in a stainless steel, plastic or nameable not aluminum.
Speaker 1: Don't make that mistake. This is too much. This is
Speaker 1: too much dirts my personal style. I will wear that
Speaker 1: dirty white shirt and call it creams cream. So this
Speaker 1: is your a lot of stuff. That's a lot of specifics,
Speaker 1: a lot of stainless steel, it's a lot of soaking.
Speaker 1: That's that's too much, okay, number Yeah. It's going to
Speaker 1: save your clothes, then save you money on buying clothes.
Speaker 1: Try it. Yeah. For those of you who are like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't use any of these products on my marble
Speaker 1: or granite countertops, thanks so much. What do I do?
Speaker 1: Here's what you do. Two drops of mild dishwashing liquid.
Speaker 1: Guess what that links to? Our girl Dawn like dawn
Speaker 1: dish soap. Mild dishwashing liquid. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it links.
Speaker 1: It goes straight to Dawn. We all know our girl, Dawn,
Speaker 1: she's got our backs. You would do two drops of
Speaker 1: that with two cups warm water and purpose how you
Speaker 1: clean your marble your granite because you don't want to
Speaker 1: use acid for multiple reasons, did not and do not
Speaker 1: have anything marble. But and I used a teaspoon of
Speaker 1: dawn so that still works. But but yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I use. And it says you can buff with
Speaker 1: a soft cloth. Do not let them marble, air dry
Speaker 1: um net re use acid on your marble. Wow. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so maybe next time, just you know, buy courts or
Speaker 1: something that is Yeah, that's and you know what else
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what else stands up to acid?
Speaker 1: It stands up to really anything. Oh, it's our it's
Speaker 1: our guy, it's our guy. The bill of the week.
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Speaker 1: Frequent bill is my grocery bill, and it's quite big.
Speaker 1: So it's actually a bill that I have decided not
Speaker 1: to budget and not to restrict and not to worry
Speaker 1: too much about. I'm registered dietitians, so food is really
Speaker 1: important to me. I'm a big foodie. Whenever I get
Speaker 1: together with friends, we often have a pollack, bring a
Speaker 1: lot of food together. And so I've decided to let
Speaker 1: go of the guilt that you used to come with
Speaker 1: spending a lot of money on food, and now I've
Speaker 1: decided to look at that bill from a grateful lens,
Speaker 1: being grateful that I have the resources to be able
Speaker 1: to pay for this, looking at it more from like
Speaker 1: a value space spending perspective, and being happy that food
Speaker 1: is in my life in that way, and not worrying
Speaker 1: too much about it. So I thought i'd share that
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Speaker 1: and it's so this is a thing that I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of people should do with their grocery budget,
Speaker 1: because there is so much uh shame around having a
Speaker 1: large grocery budget when you're trying to save money. But
Speaker 1: if you're saying no to so many other things, that
Speaker 1: affords you the opportunity to say yes to this, Especially
Speaker 1: people who are in fitness or like Acacias the dietitian like,
Speaker 1: or care about certain being organic and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: If that's what you care about, you say yes to
Speaker 1: the grocery built and you say know to other things.
Speaker 1: That's what values based spending is. It's not just saying
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Speaker 1: for it and now it's time for which is quite
Speaker 1: I mean quite something given the circumstances we're in. Although
Speaker 1: I don't think lightning comes with hurricanes, right right, Jenn,
Speaker 1: There is lightning. Yeah, there is lightning. So there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a two part. We'll talk about the we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the second part after the show. But I really
Speaker 1: want to know, um, what your hurricane snack of choices,
Speaker 1: which is a big thing in hurricanes. I know you
Speaker 1: haven't been in Florida for too long. Hurricane snacks, specifically
Speaker 1: eating them before the hurricane comes. It's a big thing.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that later. We'll have like a
Speaker 1: hurricane education. I know I've already kind of educated you
Speaker 1: on the important things, which I'm glad now that I'm
Speaker 1: in it. You're going to educate me on the unimportant
Speaker 1: things that are. But first, very important, let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about um. This is a really fun one that Goldie
Speaker 1: came up with. So you have a guest coming over
Speaker 1: in thirty minutes and you only have thirty minutes to
Speaker 1: clean your home? What order do you go in? What
Speaker 1: do you prioritize? I do love this question. Oh my gosh, okay, uh,
Speaker 1: toilet first. I don't know who you are the life
Speaker 1: that you live. If toilet isn't first, like, gotta check that,
Speaker 1: macgon to make sure. I don't know who you are
Speaker 1: looking at my answer right now, you know who I am.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the toilets not first, but for me,
Speaker 1: I am belining. I mean so in my mind with
Speaker 1: this scenario, I'm assuming I just got home from something
Speaker 1: and I've got thirty Usually what happens is I've got
Speaker 1: five minutes. So maybe that's the pressure that I feel
Speaker 1: like i'm under. Thirty minutes does sound like quite a
Speaker 1: lot to me, but it's still gonna be a toilet first.
Speaker 1: I'm belining it, and I'm making sure that that bathroom
Speaker 1: is in ship shape order for someone to use it
Speaker 1: and me not to lose friendship. So we're doing a
Speaker 1: quick swipe of that. We are wiping down on the
Speaker 1: counters in the bathroom, and we're making sure that the
Speaker 1: hand towel is not drenched, because that's gross, like going
Speaker 1: into someone else's bathroom and what like drying your hands
Speaker 1: on a very damp towel makes you wonder what happened
Speaker 1: before I got here and what has been wiped on
Speaker 1: this towel. This is just me, so like you know,
Speaker 1: do onto others as you would have done to you.
Speaker 1: There's that concept, so so making sure that that hand
Speaker 1: towels and I'm just like all about the bathroom, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe judge me. And then from there, okay, the living
Speaker 1: area that we're going to be in, So that's rearranging
Speaker 1: the pillows and possibly doing a quick vacuum. I've got
Speaker 1: a little handheld vacuum that's grabb able of the couch
Speaker 1: and wiping down the coffee table, and then gosh, if
Speaker 1: I've got more time than that, you don't have any
Speaker 1: more time. Chill, You're done. He went first in my
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. It's basically just damage control. It is. It
Speaker 1: is damage control, and Jill doesn't get to come over
Speaker 1: to my house anymore. Now after this, you're you're fine.
Speaker 1: I'm not. Nothing I said was like attacking you. And
Speaker 1: my experience at your house like my experience, there's great
Speaker 1: love coming over. This new house is definitely different than
Speaker 1: our old house because you could get away with a
Speaker 1: lot more because everything is newer. Everything at this old
Speaker 1: house is still older and just looks even when it's clean,
Speaker 1: it looks dirty. So if I have somebody coming over
Speaker 1: in thirty minutes, first I'm picking up all the toys
Speaker 1: off the floor and all the random things that are
Speaker 1: on the floor that aren't toys but the three year
Speaker 1: old has put on the floor. So everything's coming off
Speaker 1: the floor and it's getting put away somewhere in its area.
Speaker 1: And then I'm wiping counters because I was probably cutting
Speaker 1: strawberries right on the counter because it's I don't care
Speaker 1: about that counter yet, UM, So counters are getting wiped.
Speaker 1: So if after the damage control I have time, as
Speaker 1: a bonus, I will vacuum um because there for sure
Speaker 1: crumbs on the floor from the pap patrol cookies. Um.
Speaker 1: And then it was a bonus, I'll switch out the
Speaker 1: hand towel in the guest bathroom and use that the
Speaker 1: old one to to clean the guess vanity, the mirror
Speaker 1: and around the toilet and in the toilet and then
Speaker 1: put a fresh hand towel out. And that is what
Speaker 1: I will do if I have thirty minutes, but I
Speaker 1: may not get to the toilet. Your toilet is first.
Speaker 1: I'm may not get to the toilet. I respect that
Speaker 1: you have a child, so the damage control is a
Speaker 1: little different than it looks like for me. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to think about not tripping people with toys,
Speaker 1: So I I agree with that. I support you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh it's a yeah. It gets on Sunday evenings,
Speaker 1: So it gets like crazy on the weekends. And then
Speaker 1: it's Sunday evenings, we make him clean everything. We just
Speaker 1: put him to work and we make him clean every
Speaker 1: child kai. Yeah, and for the week and then it
Speaker 1: kind of builds up again to the same intensity on
Speaker 1: Friday where we will clean again in prep for the weekend. Wow,
Speaker 1: he's going to hate the weekends. He should he should
Speaker 1: be to go back to daycare. He should be blessed.
Speaker 1: Uh so what I want him to feel? Um, thanks
Speaker 1: guys so much for listen sing to our live hurricane
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Speaker 1: Eric Sirianni. Alright, Jill Hurricane Snacks. I know you're not
Speaker 1: a big like. I don't think this is going to
Speaker 1: be as interesting as I wanted to be for you.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I dis Yeah, especially on the snack front.
Speaker 1: I mean, you make great snacks. I enjoy your snacks,
Speaker 1: but you don't indulge in snacks the way I want
Speaker 1: you to, so, so tell me about your hurricane snack game.
Speaker 1: You are going to hate this. Here's how I pray
Speaker 1: upt knowing that we might lose power. I made a
Speaker 1: whole jug of smoothie vegetable and fruit and coconut water smoothie,
Speaker 1: and I've got a whole jug of it so I
Speaker 1: don't have to go without. I am not surprised, um
Speaker 1: and beyond and on the behalf of everyone in Florida,
Speaker 1: even people that aren't from here. And I don't group
Speaker 1: us all together very often. Um, people, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna say? Say it? Speak on behalf of everyone else. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, because because hurricanes are the place where you
Speaker 1: snag and you feel no shame. You snack without shame
Speaker 1: during your hurricane. Okay, Okay, I've got a lot to learn.
Speaker 1: So your first trip in a hurricane prep is always
Speaker 1: to you. You hit home, depot and public X, depending
Speaker 1: on where you live, in what order. They are the
Speaker 1: same priority. Because you're gonna need some kind of plywood
Speaker 1: for your windows, and you're gonna need water to drink.
Speaker 1: Your third stop, once the boards, once the boards are
Speaker 1: on your window and the waters in your fridge. You
Speaker 1: go back out to Total Wine or ABC, depending on
Speaker 1: where you live, wherever's closer to you. Uh, that's where
Speaker 1: you head next. Um and hopefully at Publix. You stocked
Speaker 1: up on your snacks. Um, well, you will be proud
Speaker 1: of me for this. We did get a wine shipment recently.
Speaker 1: There were running a great deal. So I have a
Speaker 1: whole tub, an actual like tote of wine effect. We
Speaker 1: do have that good for you, good for you? Um,
Speaker 1: but tell me about antiotics. What's your okay? So we
Speaker 1: relied on my mother to provide the snacks. So we've
Speaker 1: got extra pot patrol cookies. We already had the paw
Speaker 1: patrol cookies. We have extras. She brought in Swiss cake rolls,
Speaker 1: brought in a little because she brought in specialty ship
Speaker 1: man she did. Um gosh what else we she got
Speaker 1: dried fruit. I made a five layer dip like a
Speaker 1: Mexican five layered dip. We got stocked up on all
Speaker 1: the water. She brought the sweet tea. Um, nobody in
Speaker 1: the house drinks right now, so there's no alcohol. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we got all that we've been I got some leftover
Speaker 1: ice cream, some popsicles. Gotta hit those before the power
Speaker 1: grows out. Yeah. Um. And then once things start to defrong,
Speaker 1: defrosting in the freezer, then you just start, um, you
Speaker 1: start throwing things on a grill mostly and veggies. So um,
Speaker 1: that's snacks. That's the hurricane meal plan. It's not buried
Speaker 1: like a normal meal plan. It's all together like this
Speaker 1: is the meal plan. It's one big meal. It's the
Speaker 1: order that you have to go in. You have to
Speaker 1: go more than the order of freezer stuff on the
Speaker 1: grill when the flowers out, snacks for when the powers out.
Speaker 1: But then you said you eat all the snacks before
Speaker 1: the hurricane, and that is a that's kind of like
Speaker 1: a like a staple of being a Floridian is that
Speaker 1: you buy all the snacks in prep and most of
Speaker 1: them are eaten before the hurricane starts because you're part
Speaker 1: of you your board eating and your stress eating. Similar
Speaker 1: to snowstorms in the North. This all sounds quite similar,
Speaker 1: and to be fair, we got hurricanes to the prep
Speaker 1: is a little bit different, but we did get hurricanes
Speaker 1: in the North. You still don't know how to do
Speaker 1: a hr apparently not I know and yet I still
Speaker 1: need to learn so much. It's a good thing we
Speaker 1: have this podcast together. Yeah, uh and yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's really all I can teach you. I've already taught
Speaker 1: you about evacuation zones and that those are important. I
Speaker 1: thought I wasn't going to have to leave. I thought
Speaker 1: that this wasn't going to be real. Yeah, you had
Speaker 1: to teach me that. No, if they tell you to evacuate,
Speaker 1: you will evacuate. And that did Sundays. Yeah, and we left.
Speaker 1: And now we're in a location that apparently is going
Speaker 1: to get more pummeled than our home. But you know,
Speaker 1: you win some, you'll lose some. It's fine. You can't
Speaker 1: really escape a hurricane once it's coming. All you can
Speaker 1: do is eat snacks. And I wish that you had
Speaker 1: taught me this lesson before I was in Orlando unable
Speaker 1: to leave. But here we are. There. There is one
Speaker 1: coffee shop open right now this morning. Um. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to name names, because why not. People will be
Speaker 1: divided on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Um.
Speaker 1: I think they're fighting the good fight, for the real people,
Speaker 1: for the real soldiers, all the people that are still
Speaker 1: out there right now, um, are you know I mean
Speaker 1: shout out also to our first responders who are already responded.
Speaker 1: But I will end this by saying, you'll also be
Speaker 1: proud of me. I brought my vitamins with me. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna be able to make a smoothie,
Speaker 1: but I did realize this thing has value to me,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be very sad if it either
Speaker 1: gets ripped away by the waters or looted either one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I am bringing my vitemics like you
Speaker 1: have one thing to bring with you and laptop vitamins.
Speaker 1: Husband made it in the car, so i think I'm
Speaker 1: prepared for her. And I'm glad that's that was it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that was it for you. Um, and again
Speaker 1: not shocked that you made the gallon of smoothie, brought
Speaker 1: the vitam mix and we're done here. I think we're
Speaker 1: done here.