After taking down Christmas and before pulling back out your “normal” items from where you hid them in your excitement to decorate for the holidays the day after Thanksgiving, give all your surfaces a good cleaning.
There’s no need to go out and buy fancy cleaners to do the job, just follow my easy directions and concoct your own product.
For wooden kitchen cabinets, fill an empty cleaned out gallon milk jug with:
1. 2 T olive oil
2. 1/2 cup white vinegar
3. 2 squirts dawn dishwashing liquid
4. the rest of gallon, fill with water leaving a couple of inches for shaking
Shake well. Fill a spray bottle. Spray directly onto surface. For heavy build-up above and around the stove, use a plastic scrubber, wipe off, reapply, and wipe off again. No rinsing is necessary. The olive oil nourishes the wood while the vinegar cuts the grease. For all other kitchen surfaces, eliminate the olive oil. Be sure to label your squirt bottles! I also like to infuse my water overnight with fresh herbs like mint and rosemary by pouring boiling water into a heat proof container like a large pyrex measuring cup. I then add the other ingredients the next morning after straining the now aromatic water.
Your kitchen will smell like a garden in the middle of the winter!
Are you ready to take that small extra step for an extra clean kitchen?
Cleanliness is next to godliness and a place for everything and everything in it’s place!