The perfect wedding gown, prom dress and tuxedo are sometimes hard to find. But once you do, their effects reach far beyond the special occasion for which they were bought. Wedding gowns, most especially, become cherished family heirlooms. Storing these precious items properly will make them last for a long time.

Storing expensive clothing should always be done right. It shouldn’t be so difficult to do either. Here are very simple tips to help you store your memorable items of clothing.

Tips on Storing Gowns and Tuxedos

• Ball gowns, wedding dresses and tuxedos, make sure to always have them dry cleaned first. Then hang them in a suit bag or place them in an airtight container. As an added precaution, place some moth crystals or moth balls inside the bag or the container.
• When storing clothes in boxes, make sure to wrap the clothes first in white, acid-free tissue paper. On the other hand, acid-free cardboard boxes are also available, but you have to replace them every five years.
• Never store valuable clothing in plastic bags. Over time, a plastic bag will break down and its chemical composition will ruin your precious clothes.
• Always store your clothes in a cool, dry place. A damp basement, a hot attic or a humid closet will surely cause mildew and turn your clothes yellowish.
• Keep all your gowns and tuxedos away from sunlight and any artificial lighting.

Expensive gowns and tuxedos have sure seen one of the happiest moments of your life. Recitals, Prom, Wedding. Keep your clothes safe and make it last a long time. Keep in mind these tips. They’re not that hard to do!

I was sorting my freshly laundered clothes the other day. My son was in the room with me, playing with his cars. We kept to ourselves, doing our own things until my son came to me with two pieces of clothing and said, “What’s this?”

He was holding two of my lingerie in his hands.

My son is almost four years old – that age when toddlers ask so many questions. And I mean SO MANY. So I composed my self, and said, “Those are mommy-daddy clothes”. There. I didn’t need to explain so much. Off the hook.

I then realized that I haven’t tackled lingerie in this blog yet. Well, how to clean them. So here are some tips in cleaning those delicate “mommy-daddy clothes”.

Walls provide a backdrop for the rooms in our home. Often, we tend to forget about our walls, that is, until really huge marks caused by crayons, ballpoint pens and other markers appear courtesy of our children.

Don’t despair. Cleaning walls isn’t really that hard. Here are some tips and tricks to help you keep your walls clean, shiny and new.

• To remove dirty fingerprints on the wall, a pencil eraser is an effective tool.
• Dirt marks on wallpaper can be removed by rubbing a soft India rubber or a small piece of stale bread over it.
• Ceramic-tiled walls will freshen up by brushing white shoe polish into the cracks of the tiles. Remove the excess polish streaks with a damp absorbent cloth.
• Moss that have accumulated on walls can be removed by pouring hot water over it and wiping with a cloth or scouring with a brush or scouring pad.
• Oil-paint walls can be cleaned with soapy water.

Make every inch of your home squeaky clean. Don’t ignore the walls!

There’s something to be said about clean golf balls. They fly farther and faster. This is the reason why you will see scrubbing devices all around golf courses. These scrubbing stations help cleaning used golf balls easier.

At the end of the day, however, you can still get stuck with muddy, worn and stained golf balls. To the obsessive compulsive, stained golf balls are a no-no. Some brands of golf balls do not come cheap. In fact, they can be expensive. So learning how to clean golf balls is very important. Every golfer should know how to care for their gear.

Different Ways of Cleaning Golf Balls

• Soak golf balls in a cleaning product that contains Oxalic acid. But if you can’t find one, Oxalic comes in powder form and you can put half teaspoon of it in one gallon of water. Soak the golf balls in this simple mixture.
• You can also apply undiluted bleach or ammonia or white vinegar to the golf balls. Just choose one, okay? Do not ever, ever mix these three. Poisonous gas can be produced.
• If you have some denture cleaning tablets in your medicine cabinet, throw a couple of them in one gallon of water. Soak the golf balls in this mixture.

Remember, clean golf balls fly faster and farther. Step your game up and make it a habit of cleaning used golf balls.

A friend and I were talking the other day, just catching up. Well, for one thing she’s now married so majority of our chat was about her life as a newlywed – like settling at home, her husband’s habits (definitely doesn’t include looking for the best hgh releasers), dealing with the in-laws (somehow the dynamics change when you get married) and everyday living.

One of the topics that came up was how she can make their bathroom more accessible, comfortable and convenient. Well it does help they have a relatively large bathroom, enabling them to have ample amount of storage space and bring in other stuff into the room.

But what exactly does a bathroom need in order to be accessible? Here’s a quick list.

These are just a few of the things essential to a bathroom. Make it convenient and comfortable. Because you know, sometimes the only alone time a person can have is in the bathroom. LOL.

Everyone surely has electronic devices at home – television, laptop or desktop computers, mobile phones, digital cameras. The world today revolves around electronics. Cool, helpful and most of the time expensive electronics.

Personally, I think of electronic devices as “investments”. My computer helps me with the work I do online. My mobile phone helps me keep in touch with family and friends. My gaming consoles help keep my family entertained. I am pretty sure that you are somehow attached to your devices be it your computer, your cellphone or whatever. To make sure that your hard earned money spent on these items would not be for naught, proper care must be given to your electronic devices. Everything starts with having the right cleaning materials.

The Things You Need for Cleaning Electronic Devices

Microfiber cloth is a very soft material that is suitable for cleaning delicate items. I use this a lot when dusting my TV and monitor. These cloths are synthetic, made of “polyesters, polyamides (nylon), and or a conjugation of polyester and polyamide”¹. This is best used for dusting surfaces. The soft material makes sure that your devices won’t get scratched.

Having a can of compressed air helps a lot when dusting hard to reach places. But be careful, sometimes it can blow too hard and may damage some parts of your device.

I have seen some people use a soft paintbrush to dust keyboards. I tried it and it seems effective enough. Although most of the time, for a quick fix, I just turn my keyboard upside down and tap lightly. LOL. But having a soft paintbrush can make the dusting a little bit easier.

So there. Three materials to help you keep your electronic devices healthy and dust-free. Hope this helps!

¹Microfiber on Wikipedia

Leather jackets of great quality are, no doubt, expensive. I am sure that you do not want to waste your hard-earned money by ruining your leather. This is why proper cleaning, caring and storing your leather jackets is important.

If you just got your first leather jacket, or if you have ruined one too many of your leather jackets, lucky you. Today, I will be sharing how you can properly clean and store your leather jacket, so it will last you a long time.

Caring for Leather Jackets

• Using gentle strokes, dust and remove particles from your leather jacket with a very fine, soft bristled brush.
• Prepare three pieces of soft cloth.
• Get the first cloth and moisten it with some leather conditioner. With small circular strokes, apply the conditioner onto your jacket. If the cloth is drying, add some more leather conditioner.
• Get the second clean cloth. Again, with soft, circular strokes, buff the surface of the leather jacket.
• Now the third cloth will be used to polish the metal buckles and snaps of your leather jacket.
• To store your leather jacket, use a padded hanger, so you can be sure that the hanger won’t damage the sensitive material. Place the jacket inside a breathable fabric clothes bag and hang it in a dark, cool, closet.

See, it’s not that hard. Taking proper care of your leather jackets is easy as pie. No complicated materials, unknown cleaning solutions and extreme methods needed. Just a soft bristled brush, some leather conditioner and soft cloths will do the job of caring for your leather jacket just fine.

Uhm, now this post reminds me, there is one really cute Nascar jacket that I found online. Gotta have it. It’s just so adorable.

And there’s a toddler version of it, too. Sweet.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed today’s tip! Having a great leather jacket is luxurious. Don’t let your money go to waste by ruining a good leather jacket. The tips I mentioned will help you a great deal.

I like floor tiles. They’re so much easier to clean than marble floors. In fact, we’ve gone from marble floors to tiles. In my parents’ old house we had marble floors. Yeah it’s fun to use (and ride on) the floor polisher, but OMG all the work. LOL.

But tiles, they’re so easy to clean. Low maintenance, at least as what I have personally experienced. And they come in different colors and designs, too.

So here are a few tile cleaning tips you might wanna try sometime.

How to Keep Floor Tiles Clean

• Get a lemon and cut it lengthwise. Rub the stained bathroom or kitchen tiles with the lemon and leave it for 15 minutes. Rinse well with water.
• For bathroom tiles that already have hard-water coats, use a fine sandpaper. Afterwards, clean it with a soapy sponge and rinse.
• Bathroom tiles can also be cleaned with a solution of salt and washing soda. Sprinkle some salt on the cracks between tiles and use a stiff brush to clean out the dirt and grime. Rinse the tiles with cold water.
• Rust stains on tiles can be removed with vinegar.
• You also try mixing four tablespoons of liquid ammonia with four and a half liters of water. This solution can be used to wash bathroom tiles.

Keep your floor tiles, bathroom tiles and kitchen tiles clean. A clean and organized home is a joy to come home to.

Do you have other ways to keep your tiles clean? Share it with the community by commenting on this post or by emailing me at blog@mommymakeitbetter.com. I would be so happy to hear from you.

Reading is, in my personal opinion, a very underrated hobby. These days, everything is digital. Books are now being set aside for e-Books. Buying paperbacks and hardbound books seem somewhat ages ago with the rise of electronic reading devices, specifically the Kindle.

I have nothing against e-books and e-book readers. It is just that, as someone who loves to read and collect books, there is something to be said about touching the book itself, savoring the smell of freshly opened book, the smell of ink on paper. There is something about turning each page as the plot thickens, each page more exciting than the last.

If you are like me, who loves collecting books, I am sure that you have once thought about how you can clean and maintain your book collection properly. You know what, regularly cleaning your books will help make them last longer.

In this post, I would like to share with you some book cleaning tips so you can enjoy your Amazon books for a long time.

Proper Book Cleaning and Maintenance

• Soiled edges of books can be cleaned using a very fine sandpaper or a soft pencil eraser.
• Instead of using a soft cloth when dusting your books, consider using a soft brush.
• Protect valuable books and manuscripts from being infested by insects and termites, always keep a few pieces of sandalwood inside your bookcase.
• A few dried leaves of Neem inside a page of a book can help keep away insects and silverfish.

I do hope you find these tips very helpful. Remember, your books are not just investments. They reflect your passion for knowledge and enriching your imagination. Do keep your books clean and well-maintained!

What about you? Do you have other tried and tested ways of maintaining and cleaning books? Share it with the community by commenting on this post or by emailing me at blog@mommymakeitbetter.com. I would be so happy to hear from you.

I like venetian blinds. I happen to find them very easy to clean. For some, venetian blinds may not be as stylish, because the usual blinds don’t always mix well with a room’s interior design. Sure, that may be the case, but venetian blinds are very convenient not to mention very easy to clean.

In this post, I would like to show you some homemaking tips on how to clean venetian blinds. Don’t worry, they’re very easy but very effective.

Tips on Cleaning Venetian Blinds

• Rub wax or paraffin on the cords of venetian blinds to make them last much longer.
• Wear old socks on your hands to facilitate the cleaning of each slat of the venetian blind.
• When you are wearing old socks on your hands, use one hand to wash the venetial blind and the other hand to dry.

What about you? Do you have other tried and tested ways of cleaning venetian blinds? Share it with the community by commenting on this post or by emailing me at blog@mommymakeitbetter.com. I would be so happy to hear from you.