If you drink as much tea and coffee as I do then you’ll probably notice the inside of your cups look like you’ve actually been drinking mud, even when they’ve just come out of the dishwasher but dont despair this cleaning hack actually works!. And it takes less than a minute to restore your favourite mug back to its former glory. Even better, most people will have this product lying around the house, so you don’t even have to nip to the shops.
While Britain has long been known as a nation of tea drinkers - coffee has also become more popular in recent years - have you noticed what tea and coffee are doing to our cups? If you ask me there’s nothing better than a cup - or three - of really strong coffee to get you going in the morning. After lunch I swap to drinking endless cups of tea - which HAVE to be in my favourite mug - because quite frankly it makes it taste so much better!.
Using my favourite mug over and over is, however, taking its toll on my china. So when I came across a cleaning hack on the internet that I hadn’t heard of before, I decided to give it a try. Using nail polish remover and a cotton wool bud I removed the brown ingrained stain from the inside of my favourite mug in less than a minute!. If you don’t believe me - just take a look at the video. Of course, you’ll need to give it a good wash with soapy water after, but honestly it’s a game changer.
I only had to use a very small amount to achieve the desired effect - so it’s a good money-saving hack too when you consider a bottle only costs around £1. In fact I'll be using it to get rid of sticker marks and other annoying stains around the home. And it’s not just me who is impressed with what nail varnish remover can do, cleaners swear by it and say it can be used for cleaning lots of things around the house.
I’ve also recently learned that you can use a potato to clean your mirror! I haven’t tried it yet but Jimmy and Laura Astuces, the dynamic duo known on Instagram as @jimmy_decom, shared this nifty trick with their followers in a video. In the footage, Laura expertly slices off the end of a spud before taking it to tackle the splash marks on her bathroom mirror. As she wipes away the moisture with a cloth, not only does the mirror appear impeccably streak-free, but there’s an added bonus – when she douses the mirror with a glass of water post-potato treatment, the droplets seemingly bounce off the glass as if it were waterproof. It does however pose the question ‘how did she discover that potatoes are good for cleaning mirrors?’.
