By CHARLOTTE VOSSEN FOR YOU MAGAZINE

Published: 13:02 GMT, 14 March 2025 | Updated: 15:25 GMT, 14 March 2025

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Spring is in the air and that means one thing: the time has come to start the dreaded spring clean. While the task is rewarding, especially when you’re tackling the areas of your home that have been overlooked, the process can also be quite overwhelming, particularly when you’re overambitious. Our best piece of advice is to not try and get everything done in a single day – and to take one room at a time.

To make the prospect of spring cleaning a little bit easier and a little less stressful, we asked influencer Casey Major-Bunce (aka @majormumhacks) to share five time-saving tips from her new book, The Big Book of Major Mum Hacks.

Casey Major-Bunce

Casey Major-Bunce

Gloves at the ready…

Use a sandwich bag to clean the showerhead

  1. Take a sandwich bag – one that has tie handles – and fill it up to about a one-third full with white vinegar.
  2. Tie the handles carefully around the showerhead and then turn on the tap slowly so the bag fills up. You don’t want the water going at full force or it will come out too quickly and the bag will come off.
  3. Leave the bag filled with water and vinegar tied securely around the showerhead overnight.
  4. Carefully untie the bag the next morning, pour away the mixture and give your showerhead a few minutes to rinse through.
  5. It’s amazing how clean and sparkling the nozzle will now look, and, if you do this regularly it will be as good as new.

Grab a toilet roll to remove black mould from the bath

  1. Put on a pair of rubber gloves and carefully pour some thick bleach directly onto the silicone around your bathtub – you can use an old toothbrush to brush on the bleach if that’s easier.
  2. Take a roll of toilet paper and roll out five or six sheets.
  3. Roll or twist the sheets so that you have a sausage shape, and place over the silicone that you have bleached.
  4. Do this all around your bath or on areas that are covered with the yukky black stuff.
  5. Then apply some more of the bleach on top of the toilet tissue so your toilet roll sausage becomes like the filling in a bleach sandwich.
  6. Leave it for a couple of hours or ideally overnight.
  7. In the morning, pop on your rubber gloves, pull off the toilet roll and give the surface a quick wipe or rinse to reveal clean silicone underneath. Every. Single. Time.

Mix washing-up liquid and white vinegar for the ultimate surface cleaner

  1. Take a sponge, washing-up liquid and some trusty white vinegar.
  2. Squirt equal parts of the washing-up liquid and white vinegar onto the sponge.
  3. Now you are ready to scrub away at all those tricky places in your bathroom without the need to spray, wait and rinse.
  4. This concoction also works for getting mildew off the silicone in a shower seal, meaning you’ll be bathroom beautiful in a fraction of the time and with the minimum of stress.
Use dish soap and white vinegar to clean your bathroom quickly and efficiently

Use dish soap and white vinegar to clean your bathroom quickly and efficiently

Use lemons and baking soda to clean stainless steel 

  1. Take a lemon and cut it in half.
  2. Rub the lemon half on and into the places you want to clean – sharp kitchen knives, saucepans, draining areas, etc.
  3. Sprinkle some baking powder over where you have just rubbed the lemon and watch it bubble up.
  4. Leave for a minute then wipe clean with a damp cloth or rinse under some cold water.
  5. The surfaces should now be gleaming and you’ll be able to see your smiling, satisfied face reflected back at you.

Banish fingerprints from stainless steel with baby oil 

  1. Take some baby oil and a cotton pad or clean cloth.
  2. Pour a little baby oil onto your chosen cloth and pat or dab it on to the stainless steel surface with the incriminating evidence.
  3. Rub around in a circular motion until your surface is now nice and shiny.

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5 cleaning hacks to know before you start a big spring clean, according to a time-saving expert



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