I’ve been featuring some homemade cleaner recipes on this blog and I’ve written on quite a few. So here they are again. They’re cheap. They’re safe. And they’re environment-friendly. Plus homemade makes you live out some mad scientist fantasy or just the thought of being your household MacGyver.
Furniture Polish
1 tablespoon of lemon juice or [...]

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Slugs are a gardener’s nightmare. You’ve done your work planting all your new plants or seedlings then you wake up the next day and you see them chewed-off by slugs. Here are some tips on how to slug-proof your garden:

Bring in the cavalry
Slugs and snails have natural enemies like frogs, centipedes, beetles and bird. [...]

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And you though canned goods are built to last. Canned goods need a bit of care to get the most out of them. Canned goods save you time when cooking a quick meal. Here are tips on storing canned goods.

Keep track of expiry dates. Canned goods usually last for two years. Acidic canned foods (tomatoes) [...]

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A while back, I posted a few tips on acquiring your own home theater set-up. I stumbled upon this short video with some quick tips that would help you with your home theater set-up.
Tips covered:

How to find out what cables got to where.
How to attach cables to those hard-to-reach back panels.

Source: ViewDo

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If you don’t know what to cook because of two things - 1) Your fridge and cupboard are nearing empty or 2) they’re both overflowing, here’s a great site to guide you to your next meal - Cooking by Numbers.
The site features a checklist of the common ingredients that can be found in your [...]

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Tea is a healthy drink. And it can be a social drink too, best for afternoon get-togethers. For a quick way to prepare for a large gathering you can prepare tea concentrate. Here’s how to make concentrate good for 40 to 50 cups.

Rapid boil 1 1/2 quarts cold water.
Remove the water from heat and [...]

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Always checking yourself out in the mirror? Well better make sure that your mirror’s spic and span. Plus a sparkling mirror makes any room look real clean too.

A homemade mirror polisher can be made my mixing borax and water. Wipe dry with some old newspaper.
Another homemade glass-cleaning spray solution is 2/3 water to 1/3rubbing [...]

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Let’s round up the parts of a typical desktop: monitor, CPU, keybord, mouse, speakers/headset, UPS, modem, printer, and other peripherals. Put them all together on a workstation desk and voila, you’ve got instant clutter!
What my pet peeves about having all of these stuff is organizing all the gadgets and wire. But here’s one neat [...]

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Here’s a one-shot tip. Instead of using clothespins or draping them over the line to hang your clothes, try using hangers to hang them. This way, you can fit more clothes along the whole length of the line. You’d also find it easier to take clothes down once they’re dry. Just provide ample spacing [...]

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I stumbled upon this home-brewed glass cleaner recipes and I thought I’d share them with you. You might also want to check out this article on window washing.
For light cleaning

4 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 gallon of water

For heavier cleaning

1/2 cup sudsy ammonia
1 pint rubbing alcohol
1 teaspoon dishwashing liquid
+ water to make a gallon

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Uncovered leftovers and no-so-fresh food left in the fridge can cause nasty odors. Here are tips on getting those odors out:

Clear your fridge. Check for any food gone bad then dispose of them.
Clean the inside using a mixture of baking soda and water. Make sure to wipe, rinse and dry. You can also try [...]

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Your bathtub should be one of your comfort nooks where you can just lather up the suds and dip your stress away. But it takes a bit of care too to always keep it that way. Ever had one of those “rings” around the bathtub interior? Those are mostly mineral deposits from hard [...]

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Wow. This is a prototype of a machine that makes dishes out of non-toxic food grade acrylic disks. And, get this, it can recycle the material again and again. It claims that no more hassles of cleaning and washing.

Anyway, my question with it is how does it go about the cleaning? But the guy’s [...]

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Thinking it’s just a foggy day? Think twice. That just might be grime on your window. So better get up from the couch and wash those windows. And here are some tips how:
Left-right, up-down
Here’s a good tip. When drying your windows from the outside, wipe from left to right. When inside go from top [...]

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Now this is absolutely a killer home office set-up I found on Digg. This is Stefan Didak’s home office.
Now my home office rig seems so… so pitiful compared to this rig. It makes me cry.
Anyway, you can view the gallery here and his FAQ (yes he has for this rig!) here.

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