How an old pair of stockings can cut your cleaning time in half
Stockings are a wardrobe essential, but when they get a ladder, are either left at the bottom of a drawer or bin.
Australian cleaning expert Shannon Lush has revealed that old pairs of stockings can be a helpful tool that will significantly cut down your cleaning time.
Speaking to New Idea, Shannon shared some easy tricks that will give new purpose to your old pairs of stockings.
The bathroom
Shannon’s first tip for cleaning the bathroom is putting everything that isn’t easy to wash or shouldn’t get wet, into a bucket first.
"Sprinkle your bathroom surfaces with bicarb soda and lightly spray with white vinegar," Shannon said. She suggests that while it is fizzing, you should sweep with a broom covered in stockings.
“A rolled-up pair of pantyhose will allow you to get into any smaller areas, and use the broom and an old towel to dry the floor.”
The loungeroom
Shannon suggests also using stockings to clean the loungeroom.
“Dust ceilings, light fittings and walls with a broom covered with pantyhose,” she said.
“If you spray the head with some lavender spray, it inhibits insects.”
The kitchen
Shannon also has found a way to get super-sparkling taps.
She recommends adding a teaspoon of lavender oil to a one-litre spray bottle of water and applying it to surfaces using a rolled-up pair of stockings to dry.
“Rather than using a toothbrush to get into that nitty gritty bit down the bottom of the tap, wrap the pantyhose leg around the base of the tap and seesaw backwards and forwards just like you are polishing a shoe,” she said. “It takes seconds rather than minutes.”
What are your unique cleaning tricks? Let us know in the comments below.
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