Best Cleaning Tips and Tricks

You shared your tried-and-true solutions for quickly and efficiently doing away with the dirt (and the dust and the mildew and the muck) — leaving you time to enjoy other things

Mark Weiss

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Clean China with Baking-Soda Paste

I make a paste of baking soda and water to clean discolored teacups and teapots. It's gentle enough for most fine china, and it's easy on the hands and the wallet.

This answer to "What's your best cleaning tip?" comes from Real Simple reader WENDY WIEBE, Vancouver, British Columbia

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