Keep a Spray Bottle of Water and Vinegar in Your Bathroom
We’ve learned that vinegar is often the best way to get rid of smells in our home. Now, here’s our next tip: You can get a spray bottle at the dollar store and fill it with water and white distilled vinegar. Keep it in your toilet. You can use it whenever you want; every couple of days, just spray down the shower walls, bathtub, and showerhead.
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Spray some water on yourself after you shower. As soon as you start doing it, it will become second nature and keep smelly things away. Afterward, you can thank us.
Slap Some Dryer Sheets Onto Your Fan
This one might work better in the summer, but it’s straightforward and can do excellent things. You can stick dryer sheets on almost any fan to make the room smell better. Of course, this won’t work with a Dyson fan, but it should work with almost any bladed fan, box fan or not.
Simple as it may seem, it works, and it works even better in the summer, when smells of unpleasant things tend to be stronger than in the winter or fall.
Reduce Bathroom Smells by Spraying Your Toilet Brush With Lemon
You can use a homemade lemon-scented cleaner almost anywhere, but it’s particularly effective on toilet brush holders, an area not many people consider using one. There are many guides on the internet that explain how to make your own. Most of them say to make a cleaner by mixing lemon juice, water, and a little natural dish soap. After that, you can put it in a spray bottle.
If you clean the toilet brush holder with the spray bottle, your bathroom will have a surprisingly long-lasting, lemon-like scent. This will also eliminate any harmful germs.
Coffee-Scented Candles Are Easy and Cheap to Make
There’s nothing better than a house that smells like coffee. It turns out to be really simple to make your own candles that smell like coffee at home. Just put a tea light that smells like vanilla in a cup or bowl that is full of coffee beans. Now, all you have to do is light the candle. Its heat should roast the coffee beans enough to make your house smell like fresh vanilla coffee.
If you don’t want to use a vanilla-scented tea light, you can use any candle. However, the vanilla smell pairs really well with the coffee beans.
Get Rid of That Musty Basement Smell
It’s not an accident that most basements have a strong smell. Mold has a tendency to thrive in these environments. You can get rid of the mold, though, and your basement will smell just as lovely as the rest of your house. This requires some effort, but it is worthwhile because mold will be unable to conceal itself once the task is completed.
Spray bleach on the walls, and place baking soda on the ground next to them. This will get rid of any mold spores in your basement for good.
Make Your Own Air Freshener for Cheap
Want to use air fresheners that come in a spray bottle but don’t want to spend money on them? This hack caters to your needs. All you need are some beads and a spray bottle. Add some Gain beads to your spray bottle, then fill it up with warm water. After that, give it a thorough shake and wait about 10 minutes. When you mix it all together, you get something that is pretty much Febreze.
It doesn’t matter if you spray it around your house or on your pillows. In case you run out of Febreze and don’t want to spend money on going to the store, this is a useful tip.
Hang Potpourri Bags in Your Closet
It turns out that potpourris work really well in your closet, too. I thought they were only useful for making your home smell better. To make them, you can use essential oils or other natural ingredients. All you have to do is put them in a small bag and hang it in your closet with your clothes. Every time you open your closet door, it will smell nice.
Tea bags work, but the smell is stronger, which some people don’t like. There are many how-to guides for making potpourri online.
Use This to Clean Your Washer – Your Nose Will Thank You
A lot of the time, smelly things come from washers. You don’t have to use hot water every time you wash your clothes, and it wastes a lot of energy to do so. Instead, you can clean your machine with baking soda and vinegar every once in a while. Just put them both in the washer and set it to hot. This should eliminate any odor and germs causing the problem.
For those worried, this hack won’t change the look of your next load of laundry.
Stop Wasting Money on New Ones – You Can Reuse Plug-In Air Fresheners
Plug-in air fresheners can be great, but they’re not cheap, and they waste a lot of power. When they run out of air freshener, you should just throw them away, plastic and all. But not many people know that they’re simple to use again. In Fabuloso or similar software, you can refill and reuse plug-ins.
You won’t have to buy new air fresheners as often, and you’ll also reduce waste because you can use the plug-ins again and again until they break or stop working.