Create a Cleaning Caddy

Spend half an hour equipping a basket, box  or bucket full of homemade cleaning products (or the ingredients to make them) and rags for keeping your home fresh and sparkling.  Choose a container with a handle, and line the base with oilcloth. Establish a place it can live (the laundry, a bathroom or even the linen cupboard) and stock it with a good selection of homemade rags and cloths.  Cut up old towels and sheets, put in a couple of old stockings and don't forget the onion or orange bags to use as gentle scourers. Then add rubber gloves, wads of folded newspaper and all the necessary brushes (remember nail brushes and old toothbrushes make fast work of cleaning the bathroom and cost next to nothing) and you are good to go!