Nothing smells fresher than a home freshly cleaned with Clorox or Ajax bleach. However did you know there are other uses for bleach that you may not have thought of that are simple and help you get your money’s worth of the money you spend on bleaching products.
Are you planning to go camping but your cooler smells of mold. Simply use a half of cup of bleach in gallon of warm water to clean and rinse it out. You can use a teaspoon of bleach with warm water to clean a thermos in the same. Just be sure to rinse the thermos with water well afterwards.
Bleach can also be used to remove coffee stains or tea stains from China. However be careful and check with the maker of your China to make sure that this will not bleach out the pattern on your good China.
Bleach is also an excellent sanitizer of cutting boards, especially that wooden board you are always cutting meat on. Be careful using bleach on plastic as it has been known to yellow plastic cutting boards.
Some people also use bleach instead of jet dry in the dishwasher to disinfect their dishes as well as make them shine. Be sure to use liquid bleach and not the powered type or it can leave a film that is very hard to get off on all of your dishes.
Did you know bleach can used to extend the lasting power of cut flower blossoms? All you have to do is add one quarter teaspoon of bleach for every quart of water that is used in your vase. The flowers might last as much as ten days longer.
There are also clever ways to recycle and reuse the bleach bottle. If you cut a bleach bottle diagonally across the bottom you automatically create a handy shovel that can be used to scoop up cat litter or be used as scoops for foods. Big jugs can be used as scoops for fertilizer and outdoor gardenting chores.
Yet another surprising use for a bleach bottle is as a protective guard for young plants against frost, hail and cold weather. Simply cut off the bottom of a bleach jug and then cover your seedlings with it at night.
Another nifty use of an old Clorox jug is to cut a hole in the side of an empty bleach jug and then put your clothes pins in it. You can then hang the holder on your clothesline by stringing the line through the handle.